Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Skies of Blood (hopefully yours)

So lets see. I want to see how I can get a use out of Storm Ravens. Lets see what I can come up with...
We want two Ravens for the army, 1 just sucks
We need Hard units to go inside of them, people keep throwing 5 man assault squads in there. Cool looking... but not worth spending 200 pts for a transport. I have an idea.

A storm raven has only two guns that I care for, the assault cannons and TL multimelta besides that its a Land raider with Armor 12 but can move twice the distance. This usualy means one less turn of being shot at to be in charging range. This is cool as now my opponent can only take one turn to kill the thing and kill the griblies inside, makes the entire game function off of one turn for you opponent.
I like how the Duel raider list functions so I'll work off of that template.

So lets see... we need termies, ravens, and dreads
1 Storm Raven w TL Multimelta and TL Ass cannon 200pts

5 Thunder hammer Storm Sheild Terminators 225pts
1 Furioso Dread with Frag Cannon and melta arm 125pts
total 550pts

1 Storm Raven w TL Multimelta and TL Ass cannon 200pts
5 Thunder hammer Storm Sheild Terminators 225pts
1 Dread with multi melta and Heavy Flamer 115pts
total 540pts

Total of Totals is 1090!!!
Goodness... thats alot! Well maybe I can get it to work. Lets keep it for now. what do we have to work with... 910pts

We need to get troops but fortunatly they can keep up. Razorbacks can move 18" and then move twelve and fire. I think Heavy Flamerbacks can work and it keeps the cost down.
5 Assault Marines w melta gun and Razorback with twinlinked Heavy Flamers 130pts
Nice, take 4 for 520pts

Now to keep the opponent in place three MM/HF speeders help alot at 180 pts for the three of them.
We are at 1790, 210pts left to spend. Even with a librarian as an HQ we only have 110pts, That cant even get us another Flamerback squad. I hate to say it but the Dreads are weighing us down (hehe). That frees up 240pts. and a elite spot for a speeder to be switched for a techmarine ^_^


5 Assault Marines w flamer and Razorback with Las/Plas 125pts
Lets take two, I like the addition of AP2 in the list.

Now for the last 200pts I will add a librarian to each Thunderhammer unit. You can give them whatever powers you want but I like Unleash Rage and Sanguine Sword.

This leaves you with the following.

Librarian w Unleash Rage and Sanguine Sword 100pts

Librarian w Unleash Rage and Sanguine Sword 100pts

1 Techmarine w Jumpack and Combi-Melta 60pts

1 Storm Raven w TL Multimelta and TL Ass cannon 200pts
5 Thunder hammer Storm Sheild Terminators 225pts

1 Storm Raven w TL Multimelta and TL Ass cannon 200pts
5 Thunder hammer Storm Sheild Terminators 225pts

1 MM/HF Speeder 60pts

1 MM/HF Speeder 60pts

5 Assault Marines w melta gun and Razorback with twinlinked Heavy Flamers 130pts

5 Assault Marines w melta gun and Razorback with twinlinked Heavy Flamers 130pts
 
5 Assault Marines w melta gun and Razorback with twinlinked Heavy Flamers 130pts

5 Assault Marines w melta gun and Razorback with twinlinked Heavy Flamers 130pts

5 Assault Marines w flamer and Razorback with Las/Plas 125pts

5 Assault Marines w flamer and Razorback with Las/Plas 125pts

Final Total: 2000pts
It plays exactly like it looks, Ravens fly up and drop off Termies while Razorbacks drive up behind and then just toast everything. This my attempt at a StormRaven list, enjoy it.
I dont think its that competitive, Its a rock, paper, scissor list just like the Vulkan variant. It plays faster though giving about a turn less for the opponent to act.Its a gimmick list, a one trick pony and I hate these kinds of lists. But if I had to suggest something

There... got that out of my system. Back to my normal stuff I go, but lets see what insight you guys have to say about this.

2 comments:

  1. I like the list - I actually think at 2k thats a pretty decent go at it.

    The speeders are priced at MM only - so need 30 more points!

    What I think helps this list is that you actually have a solid core of x6 RAS w/ x3 speeders - 10 AV in the list w/ x10 TH as well when they get out. Dropping the dreads was a good choice I think - having the x2 lasplas razors in there will help a lot - and give you that extra T1/T2 suppresion fire.

    Definatly one of the better lists I've seen out there.

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