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Post by garrett on Oct 8, 2011 19:28:19 GMT -5
Hey, I was wondering if I should use 1 or ten man squads. Also what weapons should I give them?
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Post by Admiral Agrippa on Oct 8, 2011 20:23:38 GMT -5
Well, it all depends really on what the rest of your list looks like.
The more the merrier always works, but if you're only running two five man squads in a 1500 point army that's not good.
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Post by calitom on Oct 9, 2011 1:48:16 GMT -5
Math-hammering it out, these are the more effective squad sizes I've found in the codex for troop choices :
Plague marines : 5 man with 2 plasma guns in a rhino
Khorne Berserkers : 8 man with Skull champ w/ PF in a rhino
Noise marines : 5 man with Blastmaster
Thousand Sons : 6 man with wind of chaos in a rhino
CSM : 8 man with melta and champ w/ PF, Icon of Chaos Glory in a rhino or 10 man with 2 melta and champ w/ PF, Icon of chaos glory in a rhino
As far as CSM are concerned, the 8 man vs 10 man is what your points are looking like- if you need to skim some points, losing 2 marines and a melta for 40 points isn't all that bad to deal with. The Plague marines are used as a cheap reliable plasma squad that can help take some punishment for the less durable squads. 8 is the magic number for assault marine units / Khorne berserkers as far as points vs number of attacks go. The Noise marine squad with the blastmaster is a nice STR 8 AP 3 blast template that can sit on a home field objective and drop templates all game and the Thousand Son squad sized usually works well as an escort for a Tzeentch Sorcerer Lord with Warp time and Winds of chaos. I'd likely not run TK any other way, and if not running the Sorc Lord- I'd leave them out entirely.
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Post by garrett on Oct 9, 2011 5:53:01 GMT -5
Well I'm talking about a 1500pt list I have abbadon in there and a sorcerer. I'll have to tey 8 man squads
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