Army list for London 40K GT

Hi everyone!

I've been busy the last few weeks and have finally finished a unit of 3 bullgryns, painted a new commissar and another squad of regular guardsmen. Photos of those to follow in upcoming posts.

What I am posting today is a draft army list for the upcoming London 40K GT that I will be attending this month on the 28th May. Might anyone who follows my blog be going?

Essentially, I havent played a proper game of 7th, or if I have it has been so long that I have utterly forgotton. Unperturbed, I intend to do what I always do, which is take some fun units that look good and road test the newly painted models!

I've got a draft of the army list below and have maxed out pretty much all my options in a standard Force Org Chart (is it called a CAD now???), taking the little loved units such as ratlings, rough riders, scions and even the bullgryns!

280 points for the 5 bullgryns is such a points sink it makes me almost physically sick, but they need to be taken because they look bad ass.

I'm well aware I have no real anti tank or AP2, also nothing above AV 12. It's definitely not my usual army list. All alternative incarnation sees me taking a baneblade, but I can't help but feel that really is a wast of points.

I have little understanding of the meta at the moment beyond it being likely to be lots of marines, knights and wraith knights.

Please have a look at the list and let me know your thoughts. Any tips advice or tactics greatly welcomed.

Thanks!

Unit	Wargear	Points
HQ
Command HQ		60
Chimera		65
Commissar		25
Priest		25
Elite
Life Guards (Stormtroopers)	flamer	75
(T) Taurox Prime	taurox gatling cannon	90
Ratlings		50
Bullgryns	3 Bullgryns with power mauls, 2 with slab shields	280
Troops
Command Section		30
(T) Chimera		65
Squad 1		50
(T) Chimera		65
Squad 2		50
(T) Chimera		65
Squad 3		50
(T) Taurox		50
Veteran Squad	Missile Launcher, grenade launcher	80
Chimera		65
Fast Attack
Rough Riders squad	5 Roughriders, 1 melta gun, 1 Plasma gun	80
Hellhound		125
Heavy Support
3 Thudd Guns		150
Thunderbolt		180
Wyvern		65
	TOTAL	1840

500pts Praetorian list

Hello everyone

It's been a quiet week on the hobby front. I've had to move for work which means I am currently without all of my miniatures and hobby tools! Sad times indeed.

This does mean that unfortunately there are no pictures of cool new models to post, however it has got me thinking about other aspects of the hobby, namely gaming and army list writing.

In May I am off to Warhammer World to take part in the Badab War pt2; the Badab War for those who don't know is a two day campaign weekend with 5 special scenarios with custom rules and various army sizes. To take part I need 500, 1500, 2000 and 2500pts army lists. In addition every army gets a free special HQ character worth up to 130pts (HQ is 0+ in all games as this guy always plays and is free), the type of character is specified but you can equip as you like. For the guard it is the Lord Commissar.

In the many years I have used Imperial Guard I have never ever taken a Commissar (my Praetorians are quite disciplined enough thank you!), so this will be a first for me. I have tried my best to spend 130pts on a Lord Commissar but it is unfortunately impossible. Nontheless here is my load out -

Lord Commissar
Plasma pistol, power fist,
Carapace armour,
Camo cloak,
melta bombs                               total 120pts

Any ideas on making a cool conversion for him would be well received. So far I have bought the finecast LC model and am thinking about using that as a base.

 The 500pts List

Today I want to look at the smallest of the army lists I need for Badab War, the 500pts list.

The mission type for this game will be Seize Ground with only 3 Objectives and the deployment will be Spearhead.



For this mission given the small points allocation I think it is probably wise to play to my strengths, i.e. number of cheap troops and cheap armour. While some armies might struggle with such a small engagement I can field a rather large number of troops and tanks. As I get a free commissar Lord I can safely leave the Colonel and his Command squad in the barracks knowing my troops will be well led and hopefully sticking around long enough to kill some enemies! Here is what I have so far.

Free Lord Commissar

Platoon 1
Command squad, melta gun, banner, bolt pistol    Chimera
Squad 1 autocannon, flamer                                   Chimera
Squad 2 heavy bolter, plasma gun                          Chimera
Platoon 2
Command squad,
Squad 3
Squad 4
                                                                 Total          497

This means that I will be going to battle with 50 troops (all troop choices for objective claming) and 3 tanks. Squad 3 and 4 will likely be blobbed together and will be given lots of 1st rank 2nd rank orders targeting whoever dares get close to 60 lasgun shots. To this extent I might drop the banner from the command squad (doesnt seem right going to war without a flag...) get a few more special weapons and maybe a vox. The army should be very mobile with the chimeras, and I can't imagine anyone taking too many anti tank weapons in such a small force (either way smoke gives me a good chance of survival). I might also swap the heavy bolter for another autocannon to have a bit more AT myself.

I think 500 pts is a really interesting size for guard ans there is real potential for interesting armies. Rough Riders at 55pts for 5 could easily fit in at the expense of a chimera and give me some power weapon combat support. Another nasty trick could be to heavy flamer up the chimera, template weapons could be very costly to any enemy that tries to get into close combat with me. Considering othere options any large tanks would likely be targeted straight away and should they be destroyed it could be game over quickly and elite troops are a bit to costly coupled with not being able to claim an objective.

 I think with this army I will need to focus on killing their troop choices quickly and then try to keep one of mine safe on an objective to secure the win. It is very manouverable which means that no objective is safe from me and the numbers will give me a psychological edge against the inevitable marine player who will be rueing the loss of even one marine.

Please let me know your thoughts and ideas for a 500pts list and what you think of this one!

An army list and a nightmare

I had a nightmare last night, not a very bad one but I'll class it as such nonetheless. I had just painted my highland vets and spray varnished them, only the spray varnish ruined the models turning them all cloudy and grey.
Whether this is an omen or not I'm not sure but I'm certainly wary of purity seal now...

Anyway, on to the more serious subject of the Praetorian mechanised 4th. Since I came back to the hobby a few months ago I have been converting and painting as I fancied with no real method to the green stuff and painted fuels madness. I have not yet played any games since my return but that is of course on the list of things to do. Ideally I'd like to take the army to tournaments and gaming weekend etc to meet some fellow hobbyist and of course show the praetorians off (victory is somewhat secondary to vanity at the moment!!)!  As such it's about time I had a plan.


The army list.

This 1500pts (there is a lot more infantry waiting in the wings to easily make another 750pts worth) list has come about with no real tactical thinking, rather it is what I'm enjoying painting etc and like the look of. Any suggestions are very welcome!


Command HQ, reg.std, medic, vox, master of ordinance, body guard carapace armour, chimera, extra armour.

Priest, eviscerator

Highland vet squad, missile launcher, grenade launcher, chimera
Infantry platoon

Command squad, standard, vox, bolt pistol, meltagun, chimera

Squad 1, plasma gun, heavy bolter, chimera

Squad 2, autocannon, flamer, chimera

5 rough riders, meltagun, plasma gun,

6 rough riders

Hellhound

Medusa

Leman Russ with lascannon

Leman Russ exterminator with sponson heavy bolters


Painting wise it is about 70% done.

The tanks are all painted, but I'm reworking all the markings and insignia on them, free hand painting everything, also adding damage and chips to the paint.

The infantry platoon has half of the 25 finished (squad 1 and 3 from command squad) while the others range from undercoat to almost done.
Rough riders are all done.

Highland vets are all based and undercoated with one finished.
Command HQ are undercoated and based with the bodyguard (Zulu) and MO finished.



Now that work has finished for Xmas I should have some time to make some real progress and get all of this finished! First step is to finish the platoon and tanks. I'm going to try and add some pages in the next few days to the blog to create a gallery where the finished models can be displayed.

Sorry no pictures today as I'm on a train, but there will be some in the next few days. Imperial tacticians let me know your thought on the army list!