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| Author: | Ilushia [ Tue Jun 06, 2006 11:11 am ] |
| Post subject: | Air Army! |
So... This one's been kicking around in my head a while. And I'm kindof currious as to what people think of it. I'm sure it's not very practical, but almost any scenario I can think of under the current rules makes it fantastically lethal... Space Marine Air Army Total Points: 2700 Landing Craft (350) Landing Craft (350) Thunderhawk (200) Thunderhawk (200) Thunderhawk (200) Thunderhawk (200) Thunderhawk (200) Thunderhawk (200) Thunderhawk (200) Thunderhawk (200) Thunderhawk (200) Thunderhawk (200) It's tournament legal... And you can do things like take a Thunderhawk, put it on orders to ground-attack, have it land at the end of the attack and shoot the enemy up, then air-assault with a Landing Craft to break the enemy formation. Then potentially follow up by bringing in an extra THawk to finish off the now (likely) broken formation. Almost any kind of scenario I could come up with this list performs FAR better then it deserves to. Anyone else have any comments on it? |
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| Author: | J0k3r [ Tue Jun 06, 2006 12:17 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Air Army! |
Aside from how much the miniatures would cost?  I would be worried about about an all blitz brigade flakwaggon happy ork army, thats 160 AA attacks for 3000 points. You could easily carpet the table with them. Now if you bought a cruiser and planetfell the lot... shudders... |
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| Author: | The_Real_Chris [ Tue Jun 06, 2006 1:07 pm ] |
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Yes the landing craft plus cruiser plus thawks covers everything  Michael refused to play it despite me having the models
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| Author: | Ilushia [ Tue Jun 06, 2006 1:23 pm ] |
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Hehe. I just thought it was an amusing and frightening army. The idea of a huge number of war-engines which are tough to kill and can drop in virtually anywhere they want to is REALLY scary. I could see Orks being able to seriously hinder the list... But I can't see how you'd stop it really unless you tailor-made your list to kill air assets to the extreme. And even then it'd be hard! Drop one THawk for the Strike Cruiser as has been suggested and you could dump THawks all over the field... I could just imagine the chaos. "This landing craft engages enemies here. I live through your shots, these two Thunderhawks provide assisting fire... Oh, you lost the fight... And you can't get far enough away to avoid wipe-out. Well, there goes your BTS goal!" It'd be very very scary. I'd kinda like to see it in play, in a sick and bizarre sort of way. |
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| Author: | Evil and Chaos [ Tue Jun 06, 2006 1:31 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Air Army! |
That's one hell of a scary looking list... but I'm not sure it'd be a game of Epic so much as a game of Whack-a-Mole with dice.
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| Author: | Chroma [ Tue Jun 06, 2006 2:11 pm ] |
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That army *might* just stop the Murder of Monoliths army... *laugh* ?If they don't take any Pylons... ? |
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| Author: | Ilushia [ Tue Jun 06, 2006 2:16 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Air Army! |
I can imagine that 'I don't teleport anything'. 'I choose to ground attack. But have no targets... So nothing happens'. With nothing going on for the first 2 turns then turn 3 is total chaos
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| Author: | Dwarf Supreme [ Tue Jun 06, 2006 3:09 pm ] | ||
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You mean you don't already own at least 10 T'hawks, like me?
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| Author: | J0k3r [ Tue Jun 06, 2006 3:43 pm ] |
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lol, I had a load of thunderbricks the first time I collected epic, then threw the lot out 8 years ago. Along with a half chapter of ultra marines. Yes, occasionally i still do wake up in cold sweats about it.... 
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| Author: | dafrca [ Tue Jun 06, 2006 3:45 pm ] |
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That is both a silly and interesting list.  Would love to see how it played out. dafrca |
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| Author: | yme-loc [ Tue Jun 06, 2006 4:34 pm ] |
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Its been discussed a few times at recent tournaments in the UK (or at least the 15 thunderhawk list at 3000pts has been), General consensus is that it would be very effective (As most tournament armies are designed to be able to face a multitute of different armies and circustances, they tend not to be completely focused on Flak) - Dont think it would get much for sporting play though. |
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| Author: | dafrca [ Tue Jun 06, 2006 8:05 pm ] |
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I always found the idea of "Sporting Play" in any tournament to be funny. The majority of people spend months thinking how to best design an army to destroy all the others and then we play like there is some "niceness".  dafrca |
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| Author: | Miner [ Tue Jun 06, 2006 8:34 pm ] |
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and if you create a list like that , it would not even achieve any of the goals needed to win the game  so you have eliminate all of your opponents. -aNt- |
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| Author: | J0k3r [ Tue Jun 06, 2006 8:50 pm ] |
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Except that under the current air rules you can land thawks and l-craft to capture objectives. |
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| Author: | Miner [ Tue Jun 06, 2006 9:03 pm ] |
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where are those new rules for aircraft. i want to see them. -aNt- |
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