I upload videos covering the hobby, tactics and lore of Astra Militarum in Warhammer 40,000. This includes hobby basics, building and kit bashing, painting, tabletop tactics and the lore of the Imperial Guard.
I'm also a former Australian Army soldier with Infantry training and deployment experience. This helps me understand what life in the Astra Militarum would be like.
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Is there a vanus assassin? ...just makes it so any time the enemy knocks over a piece on accident, it's actually dead? Pieces you can remove without the opponent noticing count as dead?
@Pestilencemage haha cool idea. Obviously there is a Vanus miniature for Horsey Heresy. Would be interesting to work up rules for a unit that essentially is a computer hacker
...all these units do exactly what they're supposed to. Most of them require you to do that though. To use them for precisely what they do, how they do it. Be that snipe off valuable units and disappear, drop off dangerous psykers instantly, charge in and cause chaos, or ninja around dropping commanders or swooping objectives. It's mostly a question of WHICH you think will be of most help. I personally either need something to charge in turning tides or disrupting enemy plans on those that do... ooor perhaps pick off priority targets to essentially debuff via ending buffs. Guard seem to be an attrittional army. Playing the cold logistics of war seems to win battles. Efficient use of points... is best aided by making enemy points less efficient.
Eversor assassin is a high probability pick. But I don't think I have the points to spare for him and he costs more than a scout sentinel. But all it takes is for one change to be made and he'll be a good fill. Dropping a minor officer along with a change in artillery composition or so... can easily find "...for this and an eversor." Can be a thing.
Shield breakers? Couldn't be used on the apostate cardinal... Don't think that's what hit Fulgrim... that was a needle. Maybe the group that went out after horus... the one that dropped his proxy.
...Catterchans are good 1st wave for getting into the field fast. Kriegers are good for marching into hell and advancing anyway. Good 2nd wave. Prime target for reinforcements so they can be the 3rd too. They endure more than your enemy planned for. Cadians are more stealth and tactics. They don't like to be shot or stabbed. They prefer to be base of fire troops. ...someone had to cover the rear and the gear! ...but they'll also provide special operations.
Culexus is also an absolute beast agains Tyranids, Swarmlord, Hive Tyrant (and Winged), Neurotyrant, Tervigon, Broodlord, Maleceptors, Zoanthropes and Norn Emissary. I think now that Hive Tyrant/Swarmlord are more popular than before, and the Neurotyrant+Zoanthropes combination is a go-to, and Maleceptor (already used everywhere) he seems like a pretty nice inclusion. I have put him to good use lately, while i didnt have him on a guard list (yet) i was playing him on a Imperial Knights list, and i played 3 times against tyranids, each time he did the work. First game i shot+charged a Swarmlord and killed it in one go, i think it overkiller it by like 4 or 6 wounds. Second game, shot at a unit of 6 Zoanthropes + Neurotyrant and just with that i presicion killed the Neurotyrant, then charged the Zoanthropes killed 1 + dealt 2 wound to the second on, and they did nothing in return, and then punched them again and left 3 i think in the unit, they did nothing in return again. After that he did get charged and killed by another unit, but he did his job. Third game same as the first, but killed a Hive Tyrant. Im planing to make space to run him on my Guard soon.
...ok, I need to know by role. If I were to take a bombard, it seems it's intended to roll with the punches. I'm worried 40" won't pick off back troops holding points... and it looks like my arty is also supposed to occupy the rear to prevent flanking maneuvers.
@Pestilencemage it's a good point on the Bombard. It's anti vehcile / monster 5+ would trigger dev wounds which could be decent but D6 shots is terribly inconsistent
...ty. I needed rules explained outright. We ain't even through assumed knowledge and I've got a nice referance that cuts the BS and provides knowledge. I'm expecting a lot from you now cuz I'm confident you'll deliver. Of course, numbers seem subject to change frequently. But honestly, if I'm just given a good idea of what my options are and what role they forfill compared to the other options... I like to do unconventional crap like see if there is an arty that can bullet sponge and potentially negate indirect fire by moving ahead. ...sometimes it can knock off their secondary asset and honestly soak up damage from more essential units to work off it's points cost. Logistics wins wars.
Sly Marbo has a reactive move Regarding Overwatch firing deck ability can only be used in your shooting phase so no over watch with firing deck In the shooting phase add the weapons from the two models to the vehicle
Officer issuing orders from a Chimera can only do as many orders as per their data card, ie Platoon Commander can issue 1 order, so can do from inside Chimera or when set up after disembarking.
Forty-two minutes? I am not going to need a snack to go with this video. I'll need a full meal. Edited: Of all of the guard transports, only the chimera is viable? Sad.
the smoke discharger under the front hull looks like it was just stuck on there, straight out of the box, as an afterthought. It should have been modeled with some of the most drastic weathering details. Tanks and APCs in real life get a large amount of wear and tear in that area
I felt so freakin clever when I discovered the LR Exterminator / Fields of Fire / Hellhound combo where everything has 3 more AP against one target.... but all my friends play Knights, Admech, Sisters and Necrons and in some of those armies *literally* everything has an invuln, so -2 AP is the same as -7. And I have to get the world's specialest cogboy to get just one invuln, it's criminal I did run a game in TTS where I shoved as many Scions as I could into a Stormlord, the insane baneblade variant with 48 transport slots and firing deck 24, to have a single Solar order buffing my entire army. The techpriest protecting it got charged down and died, and then the Stormlord got one-rounded, all the Scions inside spilled out like an accident on a clown highway, it was hilarious. I wish Baneblades got to have an army rule, or a detachment rule, or hit on 3's naturally, or had an invuln save at all, or......
Sounds glorious, all those hot shot lasguns spitting out the back, pew pew pew. I can vaguely remember that the baneblade models were semi decent at one point recently however can't remember exactly when....
