Uberunit

[EricBasser]

I want to build a Slaanesh themed army based around as much templates as possible and Chaos Daemons Slaanesh Paven gift. The Paven is a mini-lash.

 

For my "Deathstar" unit I was thinking of this.

 

Lucius, Sorcerer that is ML3, Buring Brand, and Force Sword, 6 Chosen with 5x Flamers, and Champ with Combi-Flamer and Lightning Claw and Icon of Excess. Put them in a Havoc Launching Rhino.

 

The unit itself gets 7/8 Flamer Templates a turn depending on the combi-flamer. Two being AP3. They are a harrasing unit. Even better if they get charged. 2D3 Ap3 and 6D3 wounds, followed by Lucius, Sorcerer, and Champions attacls before regular marines.

 

One question though. If I get the Preferred Enemy through Boon, does overwatch flamers re-roll 1's? I know it says To-Hit and To-Wound, but is that a different kind of wounding?

[minigun762]

I'm not seeing the value of a sorcerer vs a lord or warpsmith here if all you're looking for is someone to hold the brand.

 

I see what you're going for but I think it's just too expensive to warrant it.

 

Have you considered using noise marines with another doom siren instead of chosen? They are cheaper, scoring and add another AP3 flamer.

[EricBasser]

Sorcerer is to cast Slaanesh powers to buff the unit he's in and debuff the enemy target

-1 BS and WS along with +1 Str for Sonic Weapons seems good.

[Brother Nihm]

It is only really good if you spam NMs and field two Sorcs, as the power stacks.

[EricBasser]

That's a shame. I was hoping that as Troops, it would make up for only one Sorcerer.

 

Well, here is my list idea. 2 Vindicators, as many Rhinos with Havoc Launchers, the said unit of Chosen, allied Daemons with as much of the mini-lash as possible. Then start unloading templates on the now closely grouped units.

[minigun762]

I think it has potential as a variant of the old oblits & lash armies.

That said, I'd still look at replacing chosen with noise marines

[EricBasser]

Yeah. I'm still looking into how I want to build my list. Just the direction I wanted to go. Is there any current Forgeworld Sonic Dread rules that I could use? My area allows Forgeworld in lists, and the Noise Dread is a pretty model. Just not sure if the rules translate to the Hellbrute.

[minigun762]

I'm not sure on the sonic dread. You could do a count as with a plasma cannon. Seems fairly similar. Reaper might work too.

[heralds of excess]

There are rules for a sonic dread in the Forgeworld apocalypse book; the 2nd one i think. If you're not going to use forgeworld rules then the reaper autocannon works well to represent the Blastmaster.