csm Raptors.

[brujonation]

hey folks, looking for input. I've had a 5 man raptor unit for a while, and the way I built them is the champ with a power fist and a plasma pistol, 2 guys with chainswords and pistols, 1 plasma gun/ccw and 1 melta/ccw. I usually run them with Mark of khorne (for lethal hits on 5+ in melee w/ blessings). I got another 5, so how's the time to rekit them all lol. so let's run thru some possible layouts.

all melta. all the time. so 4 guys will have melta guns/ccw, 5 guys will be chainswords (ap -1, extra attack). now it's ice to have that melta but melta really isn't all it's made out to be in 10th at str 9. it does have nice ap, but lots of invul. svs are out there. still. d6 dmg and melta2. Mark of khorne still, or possibly nurgle for sustained hits in shooting....(not really inclined)

another kinda neat kinda is run plasma pistols. I can run 1 pwr fist/plasma pis in the champ. then 4 plasma pistols and 9x chainsswords. (36 str 4 attks lethal 5+ ap-1 d1 in melee with mark of khorne.)
it's all pistols so they can even fire in combat. now unfortunately if I run with Haarken leading they need to be undivided, and the spiciness of all the chainswords and lethal hits gets toned down a notch) albeit rerolls to wound w strat. I'm kinda leaning towards this. it's fun. it doesn't mind being tied up, and I dont lose any ap-1 chainsword attks.

the other way is either a mix of melta and plasma or all plasma guns, str 8 ap 3 d2 rapid fire 1. (cuz you know, always be overcharging). I dunno lol. I think I'd take melta over plasma.

[brujonation]

oh I am also gonna magnetize the one guy so I can run them as 2x5 if wanted.

[Jack Shrapnel]

Think the melta would outperform the plasma in most cases, especially on such a fast platform.

[brujonation]

true. 4 shots (3+ hit, s9 ap 4 d6). 12inch range. I lose 16 s4 ap 1 d1 lethal 5+ attks in melee to get them. (I do gain 12 s4 ap 0 d1 lethal 5+ as plain close combat weapons.)

the s9 meltas mmeans I'm wounding most vehicles on a 5+.