Something stirs.....

Sitting at my desk the other day, I felt a sting in my ankle, only to look down and see a small six limbed critter scurrying back under my bed. Try as I might, I couldn't find he sucker! But the slight glimpse of him I got looked like a mix between an insect, a horse, and a tiny dinosaur. For the past few nights, I've been waking in cold sweats and hearing voices. I haven't been able to astropathically communicate for a while, and it's awfully cloudy outside.... and raining spores....

If you can't get it, I've caught the bug bug. After a while with the codex and a few test games, they are just too fun. The new book is probably one of the most balanced and well put together things GW has done in a while, with a few goofy things here and there. I've been toying with some lists and came up with something kind of gross that must be tried. I dub it- THE DOOM BOMB!

The Doom Bomb is essentially going to be the Doom of Mal-antai (or whatever) in a nifty snot pod with two Primes attached to him. With the Doom being a unit of 1 infantry model, and Primes being independent characters, I see no reason this wouldn't work. The way I'd run them, it comes out to exactly 300 points, leaving enough to form up a potent force to be the main army. The plan is, quite obviously, to drop the pod as close as possible to as many enemy troops (or transports full of troops if you swing that way on that argument) and begin to eat them through their own moral checks. I estimate that if I get a decent spot, I can get the Doom up to 10 wounds and S10 blasts in one turn. That's nasty. The Primes will give him CC support and take any wayward S8 shots that could double him out. While by no means super tough, this combo seems to me to be quite the thorn in the side, and I hope will really make people have to choose their targets. You can't just let the Doom and two Primes run around and do what they please, but you also have to watch out for the rest of the army, which should be substantial due to the fairly low cost of this mob.

What do you guys think of the bomb? I'll whip up a full list sometime soon. Any other 'Nid experiences? Hate 'em? Love 'em? Let's hear it.

-Bangley

Blood Angels on the horizon!

So there's this leaked codex beta. And I may have found it and playtested it. It was a 1750 games of new Blood Angles VS a Salamanders marine army. I played around with the Landers, Dante, and some Predators. I have to say, this army looks really fun! And not as over the top as some elements might make it look. The only big thing is the apearance of another fast skimmer tansport that might make Eldar players cry (myself included).

The Lander is fun, and despite it's ridiculous main gun isn't that crazy. Dante is a hoot as he used to be, with some fun new stuff and lacking some of his old stuff. I think one of the coolest, if not the biggest thing, is the new Baal Predator stuff. It has a Plasma Cannon option for the turret, and a zillion cool sponson choices. And you can make it a fast vehicle and relive the old mobile fire base that Predators used to be! My favorite setup so far is a Plasma turret, Multi Melta sponsons, and over charged engines. It comes out priced about like a Leman Russ Vanquisher base cost. I'll probably run two of these just because I think they're cool!

So has anyone else peeked at this leak? I suggest giving it a try, it's a hoot! We'll see when the book officially comes out, but from this experience I think my fledgling Space Sharks army might be using this book....


-Bangley, out.