New League - New Army

Personally, I am torn between Space Marines and Orks, but I am leaning heavily towards Orks.

My Ork army would consist of:
-- A couple big squads of shoota boys, a squad or 2 of "Trukk Boys" for Troops.
-- A Squad or 2 of Lootas
-- A couple 3 Strong Squads of Kans with Rokkits
-- Whos knows what else, but perhaps a Squad of Bikes, a Dread or 2, and maybe some Tankbustas.
-- I have no ideas about HQ yet. I have Warboss with Klaw, Warboss on Bike with Klaw, 1 Big Mek with Shokk, Big Mek with Force Field and Burna.

Its main weakness is Hvy Vehicle (AV 14) killing. The Lootas and Kans can kill most of the lighter stuff but Raiders and Russ's would be annoying.

My Space marines would be pretty basic. Tactic Squads in Razorbacks & the Hvy Weapon sitting out, Scouts with Snipers, and Drop podding Dreads. Nothing fancy....unless you call the Shooty Elite Marines fancy.

I will probably go with the Orks.....seeing as how guard (my last army) was rather shooty.....

hah I will be playing my guard with evil grey knight attache's. I'll be like an evil alternate reality twin to Robyn's army, well, except we both have facial hair.... hmmm

NIDS NIDS NIDS!!!!

Imperial Guard - and none of that mech =I=censor=I=. Mens and tanks arty and that's all.

Now, since I've never played before, it's probably a =I=censor=I= list and I'll get beat down every game, but I'm cool with that.

I'll be sticking with the new Imperial Guard. I'll be playing that mech =I=censor=I=, apparently.

Pfft. Effectiveness. Who needs that?

Yah, I guess. Because no other guard list could be effective or competitive. Maybe we could see some stats on it?


@Robyn
If you do decide to do guard Robyn, I'd reconsider the heavy weapons squad. I honestly don't think they'll be as effective as you want. The idea of giving them the "bring it down" order is cool but being only toughness three and having three models in the squad is a recipe for disaster. I for one would fire anything I had at them str 6 or higher even if they were in cover. A multilaser has a good chance of killing at least on team instantly, then you have a moral check for sure, or easily wiped out.
Haven't used them myself, but those are my initial impressions of them.

Go with the Daemons Robin there are enough imp. wuss players out there right now....

The armoured sentinals are also good at other things. Remember the last time we played?

oh yes when is the next legue starting?

I'll still be the only real man man enough to use girls. :p

I'll be sticking with Guards, only my second league so wanna see how they do again. I've been adding more tanks to my collection and wanna check'em out, too.

Randy - There was a post about the next league in the thunderdome.

RE: Heavy Weapon Teams - I've been playing with 3-5 heavy weapon teams/game for a while now and I'm not dissapointed by them. Sure they're a target, but they usually make more than their points worth in kills, and often survive longer than you'd think due to range, cover, and other targets. Though they do dissappear when things get close. Also since they're comparatively cheap for their firepower, loosing one isn't that big of a blow.

I think I may play ultramarines for the 9th straight league. I might try to get more than 3 games in this league ohhh. I should have a new unit or two for the army though. and once the new wolf dex comes out I think I may actually start working on a new army.

Robyn= daemons aren't that bad in recon, they are lucky in that all the unnamed Heralds are two wounds, and have 3+and above saves. I actually find mono-god lists are pretty sweet. I'm thinking of going for a Khorne-nurgle duo list as my secondary, especially if we have a purely guard league this time

No worries Paz, I promise to beat you down without guardsmen, It's either CSM or Orks for me... the decision would be easy since I plan to play as many apoc control games as I possibly can this league, however with my recent ork buying frenzy I find I'm pretty even with 7000+pts of chaos and 6500+pts of orcs tough call really.

Well, I too have been giving a lot of thought on the next league myself, and was originally torn between my Tau and my Marines... Though... I no longer have my marines (Ebayed) so my decision is clear as to what I am going with, lol

So... Am I the only tau player partaking? hehe

I hope to be involved with the league this time around, so long as there is a tad bit of flexibility (damn shift work). I will be bringing my Eldar. It may be nice to pit them against something other than CSM.

Well, i dont know if ill actually be able to play in this upcoming league or not. I plan on starting a new army, but the chances that i will have enough stuff to be able to play are not good. I am waffling between marines and guard. I want to do a mech list either way.

In favor of the marines, not many people seem to be playing them, and i know that i would enjoy them, because i really liked my chaos for a long time. The toughness and flexability is really nice as well, and their tanks are pretty cool. On the downside, i have already played a power armor army, and im afraid that marines would be the same, only more bland without all the options of chaos. This is a big factor that makes me want to steer clear of marines.

On the guard side, the big one would be that i have never played a guard army, or any army even close to them (my only other experience being a little with eldar). I am also excited about the prospect of making the army traitor guard, which would allow me to do allot of converting, which i generally enjoy. They also have bar none the coolest tanks out there. I think the enclosed medusa siege mortar is perhaps my favorite tank model in the game! The also seem to be a very effective mech list, and the idea the big guns dropping pie plates everywhere makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside. On the downside, the guard seem to be the flavor of the month, although anyone who knows me will remember that i have been talking about a tank list since the rules for armored company came out a few years back. The other downside is the cost. If i go with a traitor guard list, its going to be expensive, as i would like to go with the forge world models. That would be all my troops, as well as the medusa's, and perhaps some other stuff.

So sorry to bore you all with my long winded contemplations. If you have any thoughts id always listen to input. If people would actually read them i might post up some lists to see what people think about effectiveness.

System Commander wrote:If I was motivated, I'd build a medusa just for the fun, but I dont want to pony up the cash for the FW one. 4 missiles, easy enough.

Medusa or Manticore?