Refining the lists for the 6th edition
Well, most of my (few) readers must have noticed a slowdown in this blog activity.
Fear not, my friends!
At the moment, I am simply overwhelmed with stuff: the last exam before graduation, more trips to the local (well, 35km away) friendly GW shop and also i've began painting my 150+ cadian figures :D
Future of my lists
Well, 6th nerfed the Power Weapons, and in general the blob-cc approach is now much less viable than before: The sergeants will die a lot sooner if they're near the first rank of close combat, or otherwise they won't strike at all (or at least no more than one turn).
The ability to tarpit for 4 phases and do not lose a single PW in the process was what made this approach extra powerful.
Also, i don't have any "power axe" (Am I the only one that find this concept stupid? Power Axe? power Staff? WTF?) so terminators would make a mess of my lines.
The new approach: RUNlines and Rapid Fire
Yeah, not GUNlines, but RUNlines: it's not a typo. This basically means to have a large blob or multiple smaller blobs armed with guns which take advantage of the new Rapid fire rules: the plasmagun.
Keep your plasma unit mobile on foot about at 24" from the enemy (now you have an effective 30" range, keep this in mind) and maneuver on the field while harassing from distance.
Of course there will be a static section to provide a solid firebase to complement the mobile skirmishers.
Heavy armour on the field
Now it's much, much harder to get cover for our men. That's why an Aegis Defence Line will become mandatory from 1000pts up. The weaponry is optional albeit recommended if you lack fliers.
Also, I think I'm gonna give up the "all infantry all the time" theme, because the Leman Russes are now much more awesome against every opponent, infantry and vehicles alike. Now they will most probably be glanced only, so they will be really difficultly stunlocked. The problem i must figure out is if i should get the Leman Russes in place of the outflanking Al Raheem blob, or keep Al and trade away one of the other two static platoons.
Considerations
I'll need to playtest a lot, and the local GW has just launched a small campaign to get some practice with the new rules: so far I've played necrons 3 times out of 3 (which is the worst matchup for my Leman Russes) and I managed to win 2 of them. At the moment i'm running a 20x men Lascannon blob, a 20x with 2x plasmagun and plasmapistols (sarges can "precision strike" on a 6 with their plaspistol!) and 2 Leman Russes at 750p.
I need to face more varied opponents because if I use only the feedback I got from necrons, it would be basically tailoring. Anyway, i have a good feeling about this list, even if 750 is quite restricting and at 1000pts it would be much better (30x instead of 20x blobs, lascannons on the russes and an Aegis Line with the 35p gun).
Don't worry, I'll be in touch.
Do you have any suggestion or consideration or even rants about 6th edition or my ideas? feel free to comment and let me know :)
