[HH1.0] The Sons of Barbarus : A Death Guard Tactica Thread

[Charlo]

Moving Heavy Weapons at normal BS because you attached a Master of Signal... 

[Arbarbalus]

Artillery gun line. Medusas, quads and heavy squads, do have deathshroud or gravewardens to act as bodyguard and a Spartan tho. I have both a typhoon and morty but can't include both.

And as for grav imploders..... I have my own reductor force

[LtDan]

I've used the typhoon one game and id did ok. Not any better then my two medusas did tho. Morty eats most things but really need a bodyguard and Spartan which makes the points spiral out of control a bit. Unless u run him solo.

[Gorgoff]

I've used the typhoon one game and id did ok. Not any better then my two medusas did tho. Morty eats most things but really need a bodyguard and Spartan which makes the points spiral out of control a bit. Unless u run him solo.

[LtDan]

Land raider or dread claw will just get 3 deathshroud with him tho. Hardly worth it. And I have a,Spartan lol

[Charlo]

For hilarity though you can fit him, two Deathshroud and a Primus Medicae in a Dreadclaw. If it's shot down you just tank with Mortarion now having FNP.

 

Otherwise you're pretty much guaranteed to get Morty where he needs to be to start his teleporting shadow dance of doom.

[LtDan]

That would be cool to see. Can't deepstrike with the reaping tho

[Gorgoff]

That would be cool to see. Can't deepstrike with the reaping tho

[LtDan]

My army is based off it.and how I like to play..... Not really gonna change it much. Only other way is sometimes run pride.

[Arbarbalus]

I run reaping pretty much all the time, have two deathstorms that never see daylight.

 

I found Morty with a bodyguard actually made him easier to kill due to majority touhness rule. Take him in with Spartan, leave unit on disembark, hit tso targets simultaneous... maybe?

 

I generally run a Cataphractii Praetor with Scythe these days. Cheap as chips.

[Bosswoodfox]

I run the Cataphractii Praetor with Scythe too because sometimes I use the Typhus model for it.. friend was saying I should just do artificer with Iron Halo and it would be better/cheaper.

 

Anyone have thoughts on that?

[Marshal Loss]

A Praetor with Cataphractii armour and a Power Scythe costs 145 points. A Praetor with an Iron Halo and a Power Scythe costs 145 points. Both have identical armour and invulnerable saves. The Cataphractii Praetor cannot sweep/overwatch/run, and is bulky, but has a better gun and access to cheaper guns like combi-weapons (by a small discount). So the non-Terminator has a slim list of advantages.

 

I have two Praetors, one modelled as a Terminator, one without. It's really just about rule of cool. A Terminator Praetor can rapid fire something like plasma and then charge, which a normal Praetor cannot do, As I don't run a Praetor around the board, and have Grave Wardens/Deathshroud for overwatch, and DG have negative modifier to sweeping anyway, I don't think there's a significant disparity between the two. The only time I run him in artificer armour is when with Deathshroud or in smaller games with no Terminators at all, as they can sweep/run and there's no point in having him slow them down.

[LtDan]

I have 2 terminator praetors' one is calas one is in tartaros with a paragon blade. He is so much better with the shroud. Calas/cata praetor is better with wardens. Put the same armours together to get the benefits.

[Marshal Loss]

Other than rule of cool, Tartaros offers you basically nothing over Iron Halo + Artificer. A Praetor in Tartaros + Paragon Blade is 5 points more expensive than an Artificer/Halo Praetor with a Paragon. I'd take the +1 invul over a slightly better bolter any day

[Gorgoff]

Other than rule of cool, Tartaros offers you basically nothing over Iron Halo + Artificer. A Praetor in Tartaros + Paragon Blade is 5 points more expensive than an Artificer/Halo Praetor with a Paragon. I'd take the +1 invul over a slightly better bolter any day

And you can use grenades in an Artificer Armour. Edited May 16, 2017 by Gorgoff

[Arbarbalus]

Aside - HH is staying 7th Ed for now from the FAQ.

 

Re the armour if you use reaping there is only the sweeping advance vs relentless (thats not relentless but it is relentless...) as a difference between the two armours. That and i generally roll with a cataphractii squad anyway.

 

I just like the armour i guess.

[Marshal Loss]

Yeah, like I said, it's fine as a rule of cool. But if you're not taking a chainfist on your Praetor, or rapid firing a combi-plasma before you charge, you get no benefit at all from Tartaros armour.

[Arbarbalus]

Ah i somehow missed the swap to Tartaros, totally agree there Marshal.

[LtDan]

I just like the look

[Arbarbalus]

I shall leave Tartaros to the more airy fairy legions... does look nice tho.

[LtDan]

Err deathshroud? It's tartaros.

[Arbarbalus]

Did they retcon it to specify? Cos otherwise if it looks like Cataphractii it is Cataphractii...

Never did understand why they modelled tartaros. You can probably guess i dont take them out for a stroll much hah hah

[LtDan]

You could model them are cataphractii. I'm planning on doing that in future.

[Gorgoff]

They are neither Cataphractii nor Tartarors.

Just vanilla terminator armour.

Edited May 22, 2017 by Gorgoff

[LtDan]

There modelled as tartaros.