Tank regiment

[spafe]

Hi guys.

 

I'm now finding myself planning out a tank regiment army, 1k starting I think. I'm not sure what regiment rules I should use, I'll be using some of Mad robots awesome heads/bodies, along with a load of the GW sentinal crew heads, so they wont look like any regiment (although if someone knows of some great fluff for any I'll likely say they are them perminantly and use transfers etc to show their regiment as best I can). I'm half tempted by mordian because my tank commander will be using the old commisar tank commander model with the peaked cap, and the extra overwatch shots feel nice on all the tanks, but as the inf are going to more look like rag-tag tankers who have lost their rides, it wouldnt work so well for the inf (could always jsut not use any regimental bonus for the inf and only apply it to the tanks).

 

My first draft list is:

Tank commander in a demolisher with hull las, side meltas

Russ (2iC) demolisher with hull bolter and side plasma cannons

Russ battle tank with hull las

Russ battle tank with hull las and side bolters

 

Company commander, bolt pistol

inf squad, vox, grenade launcher

inf squad, vox, plasma gun

 

I'm thinking of using the laurals for extra ordering ability, not sure about warlord trait as that might well take on the regimental one (I like the mordian and cadian ones if I use them as the regiment, not looked at the others yet). Oh, and it's all in a spearhead formation/detachment thing. 50PL (for when we use them), or...944 points, so close enough to 1k for those games too.

 

Thoughts?

 

I'll hopefully have my company commander painted up soon... also gonna have to work out if I want regimental colours or a mismatch of light grey/blues, blacks and browns for the tankers uniforms. I'm half tempted to all in a bluey grey scheme, but not totally sure yet, so any thoughts on that would be appreciated. 

 

[Harrowmaster]

With the amount of random shot russ you have, catachan would be the best as it allows one dice to be re-rolled. it also gives the infantry str 4 meaning they'e better in cc. If you don't want to run catachan, valhallan is good for durability and mordian is very defensive. 

 

Tallarn rules would help your sponsons on the move and make your infantry quite fast.

 

The others wouldn't have much overall force benefit. 

[WarriorFish]

Tanks have some good durability in 8th, but are no less vulnerable to close combat. Given how easily infantry squads can be cleared you need a good number of them to properly escort your tanks. It's harder to run tank heavy now due to how Reserves works - enemies can come down Turn 1 and charge so a good screen to protect your armour is essential. As Harrow says Tallarn is a good pick for tanks, gives you vital mobility.

 

As for colour schemes, going different or matching works well so could be an excuse to try something different if you want :)

[librisrouge]

If you're going all tank, I cannot recommend hellhounds enough. Tanks are vulnerable to CC enough, but hellhounds at least make the enemy walk through a wall of FIRE to do so.

[spafe]

That's great guys, thanks for the replies. A little annoyed with myself now though, I should have asked the questions then stopped thinking about it! Last night I got into my head it would look cool for the tank crew greys to be in a light bluey grey jackets and their ground escort inf to be in the tradtional dark blue of the iron guard... and have them all mordian (even if the inf squads who are disembarked tank crews arn't in their dress uniforms). Now reading that catachan or tallarn would be better... sigh.

 

At least if I do end up using them alongside my cadian inf and artilery the mordians can be the defensive ring protecting the sharpshooters I guess.

 

I will invest in some hellhounds, I have one that I need to de-chaosify, but another might be on the table.

 

To force back turn one attackers, is it worth taking some scout sentinels? between them forcing deepstrikers back further and my intial inf bublewrap, will that buy me enough time to keep the big guns firing for long enough?

 

Time to do some research into armour colours for mordian regiments, and any notable tank regiments of the mordians (iirc they had a side panel of the mordian lions regiment or something in the new dex, will check on that tonight).

[The Ergonomic Enginseer]

You can still look Mordian but play Catachen.

 

I feel that the force must be aesthetically pleasing before any deeper choices are to be considered.

[spafe]

Okay... my google searching... I have found an old gw pic of a group of mordians moving forwards with a hellhound support, which was black with blue and yellow front markers... this looks nice, but a little bland, and a lot of my tanks are not in good enough nick to pull off a flat colour (esp black) very well I dont think. The artwork for the cobalt liions mordian tanks looks like the bit below the commander is a blue tank that matches his uniform... anyone got any idea how this would look, or any other suggestions for what would fit well with the dark blue traditional, and (for the actual tank crews) a lighter blue/grey 

[duz_]

Mordian! Good choice commander! ;)

 

Hrmm I do my Mordians Macragge, I wonder if Kantor for the tanks could work?

Would be a lot of blue...

 

Im just in the process of changing up the colour scheme on my tanks. I should be posting about it soon! ;)

[spafe]

Looking forward to reading what you come up with Duz :)

 

Had to look up those, really need to get up to date with the new gw paint names. Do you use the coloured spray primer for you guys? I saw that on their website... that might a good way to get a even coat on my tanks (no airbrush... not painted a vehicle in a long long time and then it was iron warriors or orks).

 

Getting excited about starting these guys now.. jsut got to find some hobby time (and finish of my chaos dwarf blood bowl team... one project at a time!)

[spafe]

hmm... I'm now very tempted to try and do a wood effect on their tanks... keep it ceremonial

[duz_]

These days I have an airbrush so I use that. :)

 

I've painted some UMs (not mine ;) ) that were based with some of the spray. I still had to go over it with some Macragge afterwards. Be warned that if youre in a high humidity area the spray can go on dusty. :ermm:

 

Also given Mordians are metal it'll probably pay to use the black undercoat first for better adhesion in general. Id also suggest looking into varnish coats to prevent chipping once you've painted them. I have that on my to do list.

 

On the tanks if youre doing them Kantor you'll still have to paint them by hand afterwards so not sure if it will gain you anything?

 

Tl;dr

Black + macragge sprays for Mordians followed by varnish after painting them all should work the treat.

 

Depending on the final colour of the tanks Im not sure if macragge as a base would help. It could, but I'm no expert on that. Im sure someone else here can provide some advice though :)