'ard Boys Thoughts

So I've started building the list for the next 'ard Boyz for 40k. I've only played the WFB before so this should be interesting. Read on for da plan...


It's going to be a 2nd company list based around Sicarus. I think he's the best character for the Ultras for the points. He's expensive to be sure, but he'll make one tac squad better.

The other HQ slot is a Terminator Librarian. He's not the beast that my Dark Angels librarian is, but he's got much better powers. So far he's not a lynch pin to the army but he does play into alot of plans. This guy gets gate and vortex for his powers.

I'm also going to take a bike command squad with 4 plasma guns and storm shields. The apothecary is there to just make them even harder to kill. Unfortunately I can't give him a plasma gun otherwise he's have one too. T5, 3+/3++ and TL Bolters and Plasma and Feel No Pain. These guys are plas over melta so they can hunt marines along with the Sternguard if they are in. I have enough melta elsewhere in the army to cover these guys. I think the nob bikers aren't as big of a deal as the were last year either.

Elites are still up in the air. One configuration of it will be two Drop Pod Dreads and a 10 man Drop Pod Sternguard. I made my Sternguard out of the robed marines from the Dark Angels upgrade sprue. The other option is a squad of hammer terminators in a crusader. The first one is that configuration so both dreads come down on turn 1 and the Stern come in whenever they get the roll. The dread drop first so they can kill either a transport rush or get into a vehicle park on turn 1. I need the odd number of pods also so both dread get to come in on turn 1.

Three tac squads fit the bill. One is a las/plas who will get tank hunters to turn the lascannon into a railgun. The other two are melta/multimelta and everyone gets a Rhino. The other troop option is a close combat scout squad with a sarge with a combi melta and a power fist.

Fast Attack is more meltas. Two MultiMelta speeders, 2 Attack Bikes with MultiMeltas and lastly a Storm Speeder to carry that above scout squad.

I'm sure there are more points to fill but those are the highlights. If I had an extra $ I would drop two thunderfires in the list in a minute.

More stuff...

Since the last update, I did another trade for a bunch of armor. Between my marine armies I have 5 Land Raiders, 7 Rhino hulls, 2 Predators, 3 speeders, and a bunch of bikes. The army has gotten away from being Crimson Fists to Ultramarines. I've also started out with green stuff for details for the first time. I've just used it as gap filling to date so this will be new.