Points, Points, Points!

[Hotspur]

With the advent of the new dex, I've found myself with a lot more points to use, since we don't have to throw them into HQs anymore. I'm writing up a new list and was wondering what would be a good use of the points.

 

I'm thinking of fielding another full squadron of LSs armed with ACs and MMs; I already field a full squadron w/ TMLs and MMs. What do you guys think? Points better used elsewhere, or something to run with?

 

I will be fielding about 50 troops, but, if I field the second squadron of LSs, I will have about another 160 pts to play with. How do you think should I use the points?

 

I was thinking about a couple of Vindis, but I don't like that they only have 24" range. Whirlwinds maybe?

 

The army should come out to about 2000 points when all is said and done; as soon as it is finished, I'll post it in the army list section so you guys can give me some feedback.

[stinkenheim]

wolves and a bike squad make a nice speed bumb (the bikes T makes them hard to kill and the wolves supply numbers and extra attacks).

Vindicators, while limited range are very good at 2 things- killing stuff and forcing your opponent to either avoid an area of the table or spend a lot of fire power removing them to brave said area.

whirlwinds are great against hordes and light infantry.

what HQs do you take? can you give us more of an idea as to the make up of your force, it should help us give better advice.

[Hrathnar Flintfang]

Just because you don't HAVE to dump points into HQ and WG anymore doesn't mean you shouldn't. Honestly I think that was always part of the fun.

 

You could always use thsoe extra points to pump up your WL and his guard perhaps? If you are dead set on spending it for other things, you could always get a LF squad in a rhino with ML. I would also suggest perhaps replacing the second set of LS with some Thunder wolves, perhaps just to see if you like them. True they will probably be hard to model for a while but if you set the LS squad up for dedicated tank smashing and the Cav up for dedicated troop smashing you should probably come out really well in the end.

 

also with 160 points you could always take a GH squad with two plasmas and no leader. they would have to walk, but if that is not a problem for you its another full scoring unit with some nice offensive punch.

[Vilhelm]

My lists up to 1,500 tend to only include one HQ. It's just hard for me to justify giving up a squad of grey hunters to get an additional character, but I'm cheap like that.

 

My extra points are going to skyclaws and long fangs, which up til now had been sitting on the shelf. Bikes are also a bargain, and WG termies can be, depending on how you equip them.