3000 Talons list

[The_Stray_Idea]

I’m looking at putting together a more competitive list to take to less narrative orinated events. Don’t get me wrong my legion rocks but to fit the meta with them I need to start breaking this list a bit and I’d rather not shoe horn in cheese and lose the character of the army I have worked to build.

 

So with that said I took a look at the talons. Not only will they make for a good compliment in larger games, they will also give me a very different palet to work with.

 

So what I have come up with so far is as follows. Nothing has been ordered so changes won’t wreck the bank any more than the project intends to.

 

HQ

 

Shield tribune. Not with a shield but 3++ and spear of many more attacks. Has all the deep strike tricks. Warlord trait I was thinking of picking up feel no pain for him. I know they are a hated unit to start with so I feel he is going to be getting on the end of many nasty sticks.

 

Sister of Silence head honcho with a paragon blade master crafter.

Sisters command unit with charnable sabres all around cross bows and 1 destructor tucked away in the unit just in case.

 

Elites

5 Custodes terminators as they come no upgrades to attach the shield captain too.

 

Custodes contemptor with 2 destructors and that sweet sweet spear.

 

Troops

2 units of 10 bolter babes with vox and sabre on the Sargent. Simple and sweet.

 

Fast Attack

2 units of Jet bikes with the Lascannon upgrades all round

 

Sister seeker cadre max’d Squad size with 6 hell pups 2 of which will spit flames.

 

Heavy support.

Custodes bolter bros. Unit of 5 deep strike and Melta Bombs. Idea being to make use of the beam shot to strip some armour and be in a good centre field possition to roll lots of dice with the bolter shots for the rest of the game.

 

The super dread. Fist and 1 gun. Not set on this yet. Seems like a great unit though and I do want to paint it.

 

I think I’ll give all the sisters infiltration to keep them in a solid forward position to deep strike onto as needed.

 

Any feed back would be most appreciated as always.

 

Stray

[Korellian]

Just a few thoughts in a competitive context....

 

Why no shield on the tribune? It makes him nigh on unkillable. And by spear of many more attacks I’m hoping you mean paragon spear.

 

I’m not sure what terminators are giving you that hetaeron guard aren’t. Whilst expensive they are the single best infantry unit in 30k and for those points will chew through far more than the terminators ever will. Give them shields and a mix of paragon blades and gauntlets (in a ratio of 2/3 blades per gauntlet) and they can handle anything in the meta short of some primarchs and be a total pain to land wounds on let alone kill. Just keep them away from medusas and vindicators. Seriously in my last game my tribune with 3 hetaeron guard were charged by 8 fists hammernators with hammernator praetor and 2 turns later my tribune and 1 hetaeron guard had lost 1 wound each and the praetor and hammernators were all dead. That was with 2 paragon blades and 1 power gauntlet. And no shield on my tribune (my list isn’t that competitively minded).

 

I would drop the pursuers and spend the points on actual seekers with grenade launchers. Blowing psykers up by perilsing them to death is both effective and sublimely hilarious. Sadly I haven’t faced a psychic dreadnought but I should do soon and can’t wait to kill it with strength 2 grenades. For the points seekers and far better than pursuers in my view. I’ve had my seekers (in 2 squads of 5) infiltrate onto the side armour of medusas and rhinos and wreck them before my opponent could react.

 

I would also drop the sabres on the sisters sergeants. Just one in a squad isn’t gonna do a lot and the points could be better spent elsewhere.

 

And lastly the take the sagittarum guard out. This is not advice, this is a must, lol. They are awful. They can’t fire their heavy bolters on the move and the destructor is extremely short ranged. They also suck out loud in combat. Very easily tarpitted by even a modestly sized tactical squad. Use those points on more jetbikes or hetaeron guard. Or even a caladius annihilator. Which makes its points back every time for me.