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Drop Pods any good?


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I know that drop pods are frowned upon, but I do think that along with the dreadnought drop pod wing of blood angels and regular marines I do think SW can make a decent drop pod list with GH hunters with a wolf guard with a combi melta being the main ingredience. In short it will be rough and dirty for both parts.

 

Here are two sugestions for how to use drop pods around 1750 points:

 

http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/index.p...howtopic=242354

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I've had success with drop pods. I actually took a hybrid mech/pod list to a local tournament that I took 2nd.

 

I got stomped in the final round w/ a guard leaf blower with whatever the 12"-18" shoot on deepstrike arrival thing (inquisitor & mystic?) when Daemon Hunters could still ally.

 

Army responses in your other thread.

I've used one with 5 hunters with a melta gun and a wolf guard in termie armour with chainfist and a combi melta with reasonable success before. Drop down turn 1 and take out a target of opportunity and generally be a thorn in my opponents side for the first couple of turns.

I'm really keen on the idea of having some grey hunters in a pod. However I'm not sure if I want them to come in turn one or not.

 

Having them delayed a couple turns means I can plonk down a troops choice exactly where I need it for objective games. It requires another unit taking a pod though.. perhaps a dreadnought for 1st turn drop.

 

The alternative is it coming down first turn, and maybe only 5 man plus a termi WG like Ragnars Claw uses. But then with it coming down first turn maybe it would be better to bump the numbers up a bit for the inevitable casualties it will take.

I always drop 9 Hunters and a Wolf Guard in a pod on turn one. They alleviate so much firepower that it's almost a no-brainer, especially if you get the drop pod location right so that it provides cover to the mech sections of your army.

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