...you're bored with your Black Templars and Grey Knights and you have 50 or so Termintor models you haven't used in ages?
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| Soon to be Belial? |
Deathwing!
The only models I don't have right now are 6 bikers to be the melta contingent of the force, but I have the rest of the things I need: a suitable Belial model, 20 something assault terminators, 5 or so Cyclonators, Land Speeders of all configurations, Attack Bikes and so on. When you can have a whole new army for the price of 6 SM bikers, it's a doable task.
I know many of you have experience with Deathwing lists, especially in competitive situations, and I'd like your advice on how to write the list. I think the basic starting point is 5 units of DW and 3 units of RW for outflanking melta. It's a pretty straightforward list, but does it have the chops to win tournaments? Should I swap out some RW for Typhoons or HF/MM Speeders? My initial thoughts are adding Speeders as your only vehicles is a bad idea, but what do you think? Should Belial be TH/SS or TLC?
On a semi-related note, I have decided that I'm going to repaint all my Marines to match my Grey Knights. This way I can swap in and out the Rhinos/Razorbacks/Raiders/Speeders between all the different chapters I want to play. Plus, it will give me a chance to paint my Marines to a slightly higher standard than my 15 year old past self was able (or patient enough) to do. So I will have Silver Vanillas, Silver Templars, Silverwing, Silver Angels, Silver Knights, and so on ad infinitum. I know some people frown on that and to those folks I say: buy me 9 Rhino chassis per different marine force I want to play, and I'll paint them all differently. If you aren't willing to do that, plan on me playing a different Marine flavor every time I get bored and get the itch to change.
So between buying, assembling, and painting my 6 outstanding bikers, and painting up the Terminators I already have, I have enough hobby stuff to do to keep me occupied for the foreseeable future.
Alright, so back to the Deathwing, gimme your most thoughtful answers to my questions from above.
