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Dante and The Sanguinor


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Hey

 

Well I recently made some counts as models for these guys and thought the next step would be to get some units for them to go in. Of course sangy can't join one but he needs some guys to benefit from his abilities!! So what units would best go with The Sanguinor and Dante??

 

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The best for the Sanguinor is a sanguinary troops with chapter banner so they get 4 base attacks and 5 on the charge (very nice)

 

And dante has to to a vangaurd vet squad 10 man with as many power weapons you can fit in..............

 

I can kind of see your reasoning for the sanguinor.

 

But why add Dante to the vanguard vets? He takes away their best ability, Heroic Intervention...

 

I would add Dante to something like an honour guard squad with meltas and go pop opponents most expensive vehicle.

The best for the Sanguinor is a sanguinary troops with chapter banner so they get 4 base attacks and 5 on the charge (very nice)

 

How about putting the Sanguinor with an Honor Guard? They can also take the Chapter Banner, and can gain the pistol extra attack on top of their 2 attacks--total 5 attacks, one guy without PW, though, and 6 on the charge. Not to mention other advantages (Storm shields, anyone?) that they can bring to the table if you want a really REALLY nice (and expensive) unit.

Sanguinor, probably a HG with LCs and SS, with Chapter Banner, or possibly deploy him close to a VV squad for some uber devastation.

 

The best possible unit for Dante I think is just a RAS (w/ 2 meltas and TH or PF) with a SP. Give the SP a LC and you have a scoring unit capable of taking on pretty much any armoured unit, and that can run away from CC when your RAS is up against something it can't tackle (which can be often as really, RAS might be better than Tacs in CC, but they are still not total CC monsters).

Here is how I run Dante and the Sanguinor:

 

Dante starts the game joined to a squad of Sanguinary Guard and a Sanguinary Priest:

 

Sanguinary Guard/2x infernus pistol, power fist & banner

Priest/jump pack, infernus pistol & power sword

 

They can deep strike and nuke an enemy tank. I tend to focus on tanks that have large blast AP2 pieplates. If you can pick a tank squadron it's even better with all those melta pistols.

 

The Sanguinor I run in a SR with a Furioso (Blood Talons, heavy flamer & extra armor). Sure it's nice when you can keep the Sanguinor in position to aura Dante and his posse but it's not something I try to focus on making happen. The Sanguinor and the Furioso combined are a two man wrecking crew... The last time I used them they charge a thunder wolf lord and squad of thunderwolves, breaking them in combat then they ran off the table.

 

I also run Vanguard and you dont want to attach Dante to this unit as then they can use their special rule Heroic Intervention. If you position your Sanguinary Guard well they are pretty much impervious to small arms fire since the Priest gives them FNP. You can use Dante to soak up wounds from plasma.

 

0b :P

Dante gets to go along with his golden boys to make their Infernus Pistols viable. My best shot was was deep striking behind a Medusa squadron, wrecked one, exploded the other two, taking out six Lascannon teams in the process. Gotta love Leadership seven, eh?

 

Wouldn't use the Sanguinor though, too many points and no Librarian. Dante's a great buy though.

as dante and sanguinator cost so much id keep it cheap ang go with a regular assault squad with a priest, 2 melta, ip and fist.

that is what I prefer.

 

Keep the Sanguinar as close as possible to two units of assault troops. Smash!

 

Dante, I run with honour guard and meltas. Bit expensive though, and he doesn't really seem worth it to me anymore. Now if Dante could run with vanguard Vets and not ruin their best ability that would be choice!

I've tried Dante with Sanguinary Guard (Banner, IP & Power Fist) and with an RAS-10 (Thunder Hammer & 2 Meltas), both with attached Sanguinary Priest. I've found that he really is best with the RAS. The Sanguinary Guard are just too small a unit to be all that effective against scary squads. And Dante is so darn good at beating up generic and mid-level name HQs that it's a waste not to go after them. Once I get a jump Honor Guard finished I'll try him with them, but even with toys I imagine the lack of numbers will still be a problem. Trying him in a big jump DC sounds cool, but could easily create the single most expensive unit the game has ever seen.

 

I've never used the Sanguinor, the model is just too silly, but I'm impressed by what he should be able to do. But first I just have to find a way to build a decent conversion that says "Ultimate Angel of Death" without looking quite so much like he's posing for a stained glass window. ;)

I keep seeing people mention that they want to field Dante with VV and still use HI. I saw this article a week ago on BoLS and thoguht that it might be the way to go to make that work.

 

http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2010/09/40k...-slingshot.html

one thing I noticed is that no one pointed out is that the Sanguinor isnt a independent character. He cant join other units, just like Mephy and DC Tycho

 

You missed the opening post.

 

Of course sangy can't join one but he needs some guys to benefit from his abilities!!

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