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Post by dex on Feb 24, 2015 12:11:04 GMT -6
I played the decurion at LVO, make sure you throw in plenty of hard hitters otherwise you will be the toughest wet noodle in history. But they are really hard to kill even when just walking into a tau gunline.
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Post by Nick P on May 27, 2015 10:45:51 GMT -6
Ok so now that I've gotten some stuff painted: - Overlord
- Tomb Spyder
- Destroyer Lord
- 3 Wraiths
- Triarch Stalker
And I've got more models in the pipeline (picking up some immortals, a ghost ark, and 3 more wraiths at wanderers this weekend), its time to really decide what the heck I'm going to use as my Decurion formations.
I'm pretty set on the main formation, the Reclamation Legion:
- Overlord, warscythe, phylactery, nightmare shroud, phase shifter
- 9 Immortals, Tesla
- 10 Warriors, ghost ark
- 10 Warriors, ghost ark
- 4 tomb blades, gauss, ignores cover
- 4 tomb blades, gauss, ignores cover
And pretty dead set on using the Canoptek Swarm, because 3++/4+ RP T5 W2 wraiths are just disgustingly tough: - Tomb Syder (naked)
- 6 Wraiths, whip coils
- 3 scarab bases
But torn on whether to include as my second formation either the Judicator Battalion or the Destroyer Cult.
Judicator battalion would include 2 stalkers, so I'd be giving every unit within 6" of one of them (and they can be 4" apart in a squadron and roughly 3" wide so quick math...every unit within a 22" stretch of the board) +1BS. The more I look at the praetorians too, the more I think they'd be great little shock assault units - jump troops, T5, 3+ armor, 4+ RP, S5 AP2 shooting within 12" and then decent in combat vs non-dedicated combat units as well.
But then the Destroyer cult would just look so cool, and give me the ability to use the Destroyer Lord that I painted. 9 destroyers are pretty mobile, have S5 AP2 guns with Gauss so 6's auto wound/auto glance, and with jet packs can jump-shoot-jump like crisis suits but are way WAY more survivable. And, in this formation, everything rerolls all to hit and to wounds...
But then there's also the option of just taking a second Canoptek Swarm, and doubling down on super killy super survivable Wraiths.
What do you guys think? I've basically got the beginnings of any/all of these formations, and will likely end up building them all just so I have the options...but what should I paint to field first?
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