Comments on: ‘Ard Boyz 2009 Preliminaries: Game #2

By: Kris

Kris — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 07:57:35 +0000

ugh in all my fatty glory. I do love the sad face on the self immobilized land raider that cost me the massacre lol

By: Danny Internets

Danny Internets — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 01:04:19 +0000

And pictures added

By: Danny Internets

Danny Internets — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:49:54 +0000

Correction made!

By: Kris

Kris — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:13:31 +0000

Thanks man! Just to correct only 3 of the troop bike squads have combi-weapons. I was using combi-flamers in my list in case I ran into hordes but from what we’ve seen winning I’d put them back to melta’s.

I’ll have 2 solid reports on the 2 terminator + command squad version on monday hopefully.

By: Stelek

Stelek — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:33:12 +0000

FYI I posted this as an ‘upgrade’ path for the ‘Best Of’ biker army Froggage runs, from 2k to 2.5k. Hope that’s ok. I credited you of course. :)

http://www.yesthetruthhurts.com/2009/04/best-of-biker-marines.html?showComment=1247844694986#comment-c2659739348934564041

By: Kris

Kris — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:02:51 +0000

vulkan doesnt allow it, but the biker captain also in the list does :p

By: Saark

Saark — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:50:23 +0000

Are you sure of the list? Vulkan does not allow Bikers as Troops, that’s Kor’ssaro Khan, and only if he is mounted on Moondrakan, his command bike. Also, Vulkan doesn’t have the option to have a bike.

By: Kris

Kris — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:34:29 +0000

I felt the LRR and terminators served the list better than the command squad. The 2 raiders give my bikers something solid to hide behind against lash and ordinance and can be a pain to bring down when used right. A biker command squad can be torrented down by lootas while a LR laughs at the str7 shots. A command squad can also be assaulted freely by anything fast that can reach them, where as for the terminators you have to go through the LR first and I find it lets them be in assault on my terms more than the biker squad.

The list I’m testing for the second round though drops 2 troop biker squads for a biker command squad and I’ve been converting them up all week. I dont know how effective it will be and I’m hesitant to go so low on troops but it will be fun to play around with at least. It will really depend on the scenario’s we get for the second round. The updated first round KP scenario put the biker command squad at only 1 KP with the captain himself being 5. In hindsight I probably should have tried it out before round 1.

By: Danny Internets

Danny Internets — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:01:02 +0000

When I get home from work I’ll upload all of the pictures and link to them. They should still be on the camera.

By: Stelek

Stelek — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:43:17 +0000

I’d like to see the pics anyway. ;)

Very interesting list, Kris. Well built for 2500 points. I’m curious why you didn’t go for a biker command squad? Was it the stupid KP system Ard Boyz used?

By: Kris

Kris — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:39:14 +0000

I couldnt kill anything that day. It was pretty sad. Pulling out 2 minor victories with my dice was amazing enough. I thought you were gonna beat my ass honestly, especially after the 2nd or 3rd turn where I failed to kill your dreads and bikes.

Highlights of the day include 3 close range melta’s taking 3 turns to kill an immobilized dread, taking 8 melta shots to kill a single defiler, having to roll 6 normal terminator saves and failing 4 and then losing the 5th to a vehicle explosion next turn, failing to penetrate with 3 close range melta’s on a battlewagon, and immobilizing my own land raider 3 times in 2 games(one of those costing me a massacre against the orks) and just generally failing to kill just about anything.