Legionnaire of the VIIth Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 After some considerations, conficting emotions, and internal debate, I have decided to decend down the dark path of creating a Horus Heresy Battalion of Imperial Fist. This will also be my first foray into the realm of playing an Imperial army as well. Yes, I am a dirty Xenos, a Dark Eldar player with Eldar Corsair and Harlequin allies who wanted to try an army with a much different feel. After read up on the Horus Heresy, looking at the legions, their personalities and thinking what would actually fit my personality the most, I have come to the conclusion that the VIIth Legion would be the ones to collect. The collection of this army, will of course take time. Forgeworld is not cheap and to save myself money I plan on buying in large enough quantaties to make sure I'm getting free shipping (I'm in the U.S.A.). To begin I will be making the following purchase: 1x MKIII Command Set 2x MKIII Mechanized Tactical Squad 2x Imperial Fist Squad Upgrade Set 1x Legion Command Upgrade Set 1x Deredeo Pattern Dreadnaught 1x Anvilus Autocannon battery 1x Aiolos Missile Launcher 1x Hellfire Plasma Cannon This will give me 20 Tactical Marines, 2 Deimos Rhinos, and a Deredeo Pattern Dreadnaught to begin with. I'll use the MKIII Command model with the sword as my Centurion. By the time I finish collecting the force I intend to have a force that will provide flexibility in movement, offense, and defense. I even plan on purchasing a Callestrum eventually, we are after all the Imperial Fist. I do have some questions: I plan on purchasing two Land Raiders in the future to be deidcated transports for some Breacher Squads. Is there a reason that I should buy the Land Raider Proteus over the Land Raider Armored Proteus? I like the look of the Armored Proteus better but I also want the equipment to be period appropriate and don't know if the Armored is a later configuration. I also would like to have a Forge Lord later but could find no Forgeworld model for it, nor could I find one for the Servo-Automata. Do they not have models at this time or did I just miss them on the website? Thanks for your time, Legionaire of the VIIth Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/310931-treading-the-age-of-darkness-with-the-vii-legion/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kriegriss Posted July 10, 2015 Share Posted July 10, 2015 never fear tecymarine minis where on display at forge world open day or whatever it's called and I think all patterns of land raider models are viable at least to me they are welcome to the seventh Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/310931-treading-the-age-of-darkness-with-the-vii-legion/#findComment-4119272 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lionofjudah Posted July 10, 2015 Share Posted July 10, 2015 Armored proteus is fine- may be better for a group of seekers or a vet squad as Breachers are great objective campers. Also remember the Achilles as it was designed by the VIIth for bunker busting- maybe sigismund and a command squad or Templar squad to wreck face. Think about the IF command squad as they as boss, the phalanx and Templar upgrades are really sweet and full of detail! Glad you are a treadhead as the HH provides us with a slew of fun big tanks if you'd like. I'd look at the Deimos laser destructor or the venerator for big AT, the deredero is pretty rad at AA and AI. I'd personally stay away from heavy weapon squads and look at tactical support squads if there is a specialist roll you like more than others(I run a flamer squad for template love piling out of a rhino)... Otherwise find your favorite flavor of yellow and start practicing:) Our bolter drills are your friend and will lay waste to other 30k tactical marines in an even matchup... This is the world of 20man blocks of tacticals... Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/310931-treading-the-age-of-darkness-with-the-vii-legion/#findComment-4119293 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legionnaire of the VIIth Posted July 10, 2015 Author Share Posted July 10, 2015 Thanks for the information guys. @Kriegriss Good to hear that they are coming out with a Techmarine for Horus Heresy. @lionofjudah I had planned on forgoing heavy support squads, I would rather use the heavy support slot for heavy support vehicles. I do plan on running a couple squads of Tactical Support Squads. My plan was to run a Talon of 2-3 Contemptor Dreadnaughts, would Templar be a better use for the elite slot? I also plan on creating a command squad for them. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/310931-treading-the-age-of-darkness-with-the-vii-legion/#findComment-4119312 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slips Posted July 10, 2015 Share Posted July 10, 2015 Thanks for the information guys. @Kriegriss Good to hear that they are coming out with a Techmarine for Horus Heresy. @lionofjudah I had planned on forgoing heavy support squads, I would rather use the heavy support slot for heavy support vehicles. I do plan on running a couple squads of Tactical Support Squads. My plan was to run a Talon of 2-3 Contemptor Dreadnaughts, would Templar be a better use for the elite slot? I also plan on creating a command squad for them. Sigismund Makes Templars Troops and we have 4 Elite Slots. Also, a Talon of 3 Contemptors takes only 1 Slot. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/310931-treading-the-age-of-darkness-with-the-vii-legion/#findComment-4119323 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legionnaire of the VIIth Posted July 10, 2015 Author Share Posted July 10, 2015 I hadn't looked over Sigismund's rules close enough appartently so I missed that (actually I hadn't really look at any of the named HQ until now), thanks for pointing that out. Could you point me to the page and book that says we have 4 elites slots I'm having trouble locating it. I should add that the army I've been planning out is based off of the Age of Darkeness force orginization chart. I was aware that a Talon only takes up 1 elite slot but I was thinking of field a Terminator Squad and apothicaries. I can see how my comment would make it sound that I thought I was using more than one slot for the Talon. Thanks for the responses, Legionaire of the VIIth Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/310931-treading-the-age-of-darkness-with-the-vii-legion/#findComment-4119352 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slips Posted July 10, 2015 Share Posted July 10, 2015 I haven't looked over Sigismund's rules close enough appartently so I missed that (actually I hadn't really look at any of the named HQ until now), thanks for pointing that out. Could you point me to the page and book that says we have 4 elites slots I'm having trouble locating it. I should add that the army I've been planning out is based off of the Age of Darkeness force orginization chart. I was aware that a Talon only takes up 1 elite slot but I was thinking of field a Terminator Squad and apothicaries. Thanks for the responses, Legionaire of the VIIth Look at the "Games in the Age of Darkness" section and look closely at the FoC chart Presented. Main differences are 3 HQ and 4 Elites. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/310931-treading-the-age-of-darkness-with-the-vii-legion/#findComment-4119353 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legionnaire of the VIIth Posted July 10, 2015 Author Share Posted July 10, 2015 Thanks for the help Slipstream, I found it. I feel a bit stupid now as it was right there in front of my face, not sure why I kept over looking it despite the chart showing 4 and it stating in plain english 4... It's even in two of the books! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/310931-treading-the-age-of-darkness-with-the-vii-legion/#findComment-4119365 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slips Posted July 10, 2015 Share Posted July 10, 2015 Thanks for the help Slipstream, I found it. I feel a bit stupid now as it was right there in front of my face, not sure why I kept over looking it despite the chart showing 4 and it stating in plain english 4... It's even in two of the books! Its because its so familiar that you dont really look for differences :p Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/310931-treading-the-age-of-darkness-with-the-vii-legion/#findComment-4119372 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arsaces Posted July 10, 2015 Share Posted July 10, 2015 Welcome to the AoD Legionaire! Very good Legion you've picked too. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/310931-treading-the-age-of-darkness-with-the-vii-legion/#findComment-4119424 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legionnaire of the VIIth Posted July 10, 2015 Author Share Posted July 10, 2015 Thanks for the warm welcome Arsaces. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/310931-treading-the-age-of-darkness-with-the-vii-legion/#findComment-4120253 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legionnaire of the VIIth Posted July 13, 2015 Author Share Posted July 13, 2015 So after taking into consideration what you guys mentioned, and looking at the options available to the Imperial Fist, this is a list of what I plan to collect over time for my Combined Arms Battalion: HQ (1-3) 1x Praetorian 1x Forge Lord +4 Servo-Automata [should they finally come out with a model for them] Troops (6) 2x 10 Legion MKIII Tactical Squads ---2x Deimos Pattern Rhinos Armored Carrier 2x 10 Legion MKIII Tactical Support Squads ---2x Deimos Pattern Rhinos Armored Carrier 2x 20 Legion MKII Tactical Squads Elites (4) 1x 3 Imperial Fist Contemptor Dreadnaughts 2x 10 Templar ---2x MKIIB Phobos Pattern Land Raider 1x 2 Apothecary Fast Attack (3) 2x 1 Legion Storm Eagle Gunship 1x 10 Seeker Squad ---1x Armored Proteus Pattern Land Raider Heavy Support (3) 2x Deredeo Pattern Dreadnaught 1x Achilles-Alpha Pattern Land Raider Lord of War (1) Legion Glaive Super Heavy Tank Fortification (1) Space Marine Castellum I think that this will give me a good basis to work with when building lists of different point values. Let me know what you think. Edit: I should also note I'm not a particularly competitive player. Thank you for taking the time to read my post, Legionaire of the VIIth Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/310931-treading-the-age-of-darkness-with-the-vii-legion/#findComment-4121825 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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