DominicJ Posted October 6, 2012 Share Posted October 6, 2012 MSU? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nevaenuffbass Posted October 6, 2012 Share Posted October 6, 2012 Multiple small unit Referring to an army made up of small elite units with specialised roles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drunken Angel Posted October 19, 2012 Share Posted October 19, 2012 I am bumping this up because of the new chaos codex, almost all chaos Sgts and sorcerers etc etc seem to be required to challenge now either with marks or whatever. Point is once the chaos guy challenges and wins he rolls a on a boon table and all of a sudden I have some evil chaos sgt running around with a 2+ save or some terirble high initiative. I have reduced my priests now to only one or at the most two in a list, often with an axe for the Initiative step on assaults keeping him back till the last. I face chaos a fair bit and have decided I will never leave home without at least one storm shield Sgt carrying either an axe or a PF. Point is the squad that gets the PF/SS sgt is the one escorting the priest or HQ. Forcing a chaos player to avoid the Sgt in combat is a real headache for chaos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamaNagol Posted October 19, 2012 Share Posted October 19, 2012 Why not just take a cheap LC/Sword sergeant and trade simul-kills with the Chaos Champion? Chaos 'Sergeants' can't buy any invulnerable saves anyway furthermore. That leaves your Priest to smash face with Power Fist or Axe at I1. I'd only take a Storm Shield on a unit that has hidden Power Weapons as the Sergeant is generally obliged to challenge and leave the other guys to put the work in on the squad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drunken Angel Posted October 19, 2012 Share Posted October 19, 2012 Why not just take a cheap LC/Sword sergeant and trade simul-kills with the Chaos Champion? Chaos 'Sergeants' can't buy any invulnerable saves anyway furthermore. That leaves your Priest to smash face with Power Fist or Axe at I1. I'd only take a Storm Shield on a unit that has hidden Power Weapons as the Sergeant is generally obliged to challenge and leave the other guys to put the work in on the squad Its a good point I think though that with marks some of them strike at I5. Even though he is I1 the Sgt will get his unvun and FNP the chance the PF will instjib a multiwound sorcerer is a problem for the chaos guy he cant hide his HQ from a challenge like we can. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Res Ipsa Loquitur Posted October 20, 2012 Share Posted October 20, 2012 Power Lance. Mutual destruction at the least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitadelArmyGuy Posted October 20, 2012 Author Share Posted October 20, 2012 Wow. I had a heck of a game tonight, my BA-IG versus SM-BA. Something came up in that game that I feel is worth sharing. So there I was, running Mephiston who just claimed First Blood by slaying a Scout squad. Along comes an Assault Squad with a Librarian looking for a counter-assault, and I wonder what my opponent's thinking. Well... Sergeant with Stormshield issues challenge, I must accept. I slap him for four wounds, and he fails two... then gets re-rolls from the 10 models cheering him on and passes both! That SS Sarge goes on to tank Mephiston for four more assault phases, while the Librarian casts Prescience to other shooting squads nearby. The 'bystander rerolls' means he was able to Fix Mephiston for more than half the game. I felt chagrin, because he had nothing in his list that could actually touch Meph so I thought he had no answer to him. Surprise huh? So next time you're facing down a Daemon Prince or other lone-challengeable model, remember that Stormshield actually has a pretty interesting usage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morticon Posted October 20, 2012 Share Posted October 20, 2012 very smart. Limited uses though, but still a nice trick to have up one's sleeve ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitadelArmyGuy Posted October 20, 2012 Author Share Posted October 20, 2012 ...Limited uses though, but still a nice trick... Completely agree, very limited. Just enough of a small extra use to perhaps scrounge points for a SS slightly more often though. Using to fix Chaos MCs is what I'm mostly thinking about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
appiah4 Posted October 21, 2012 Share Posted October 21, 2012 Storm Shield & Lightning Claw sergeant for RAS does indeed sound quite good to me.. I'll model mine with a combat shield and call it a SS or a CS depending on points.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deschenus Maximus Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 I've abandonned giving sergeants wargear completely, personnaly. That way I can throw them under the bus/decline challenges all day long and not give a crap. The points saved allows to get more boots on the ground/better fire support. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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