Corbulo and footslogging plasma honour guard.

[evilturkeyofdoom]

An idea I had on my cycle to work this morning.....

 

I'm thinking Honour Guard, 4 plasma guns, Corbulo.

 

Naturally Corbulo takes the shots but the sanguinary noviate bites the first bullet.

 

Not an insanely powerful unit but sounds good fun to me.

 

Anyone tried it?

[Xenith]

I'm a massive fan of the ol' Plasma Death Squad, but am unsure of a squad that has to get close to the enemy, where every model is painful to lose.

 

Foot slogging assault squad, serge, 2 plasma pistols, 2 plasma guns, corbulo? 6 plasma shots at 12", +7 bolt pistol shots, lots more wounds.

 

Corbulo, Sternguard, 2 plasma guns, 3 combi plasmas, razorback?

[evilturkeyofdoom]

A good poine, there might be better ways to achieve pretty much the same thing. I might think about it some more.

[himkano]

What about a drop pod?

[evilturkeyofdoom]

I suppose the safer, cheaper option is a 4 plasma cannon devestator squad.

 

I liked the fact that the squad could stay at 24" for 4 shots, or move within 12" for 8 shots but having thought about it I'm not sure its the right way to achieve this

[John Rainbow]

While you have increased durability with Corbulo, I see a couple of issues:

 

1. Points efficiency goes down as the Novitiate is wasted and cannot upgrade his weapons

2. Corbulo is great as a tanking CC character but this unit does not really want to be in CC

 

While this unit could be a tough rock. I think there are better ways to spend the points as suggested i.e. Devs w/Plasma or Sternguard, etc.

[evilturkeyofdoom]

I think I have decided that this isn't a great idea.

 

Thanks for the suggestions!

[Xenith]

Oh, the 4 plasma gun squad is a good idea. Just maybe not with Corbulo.

 

4 plasmas, keep them at 24"/in a bunker, priest gives them FnP. Use them to soften hard targets.

[evilturkeyofdoom]

You litteraly mean a bunker - the fortification?

 

Iv'e never really thought about foritifications.

[Killax]

Be sure to do so, altough having said that BA is not the best shooty marines army there is.

So you might want to switch to SM codex if you want to do this thing DA PROPPA WAY ;)

 

Also the cheapest fortifications are more than enough. The Aegis defence line is well worth the effort for example.

[Remtek]

If you want to field more plasma you could roll 2x plasma pistols on your sergeants. You can protect him fairly well, putting him in the back/middle. You are not loosing much declining challenges (fielding PF can be problematic in 6th). Great for softening terminator squads, mech etc.

[Landdavi]

I have been thinking about this squad in a drop pod assault army with 2 stern guard squads in front and the honor guard right behind them. it's kind of an ambush if you have the drop pods to bring the 3 units in on turn one. Then you get some added plasmas and the fnp gets spread to all 3 units.