I played my first game with my Mantis Warriors last night against Tau4Eva’s Blood Angels. I haven’t painted a single model yet, mostly just trying things out. I’ve not played as Codex Space Marines before.
My whole idea with this Mantis Warrior force is to present them after the Badab War. They don’t have a lot of anything – no spam, really, except a few tac squads in rhinos. The chapter has always been focused on stealth tactics and lightning strikes, so I’ll include sniper scouts, land speeders, and bikes.
I was pretty limited to what I could take last night. My list:
Captain, storm bolter relic blade
Librarian, terminator armor
Terminators with storm bolter and powerfist (plan to get cyclone launchers)
Venerable Dread with Plasma Cannon (BS5 whuuuuuuut)
Sternguard squad with 2x combi plasma, 1 combi melta, 1 combi flamer, 1 powerfist, rhino
Tac squad with ML, Pfist, Flamer, Rhino
Tac squad with ML, Pfist, Flamer, Rhino
Scout squad, snipers, ML, camo cloaks
Scout squad, snipers, ML, camo cloaks
Scout squad, bolters, heavy bolter
Land speeder storm
Bike squad x6, pfist and meltagun
My general idea was to use the scouts to shoot at stuff and hold objectives while the tac squads reinforced where needed. The sternguard zipped to the area of need and the terminators were a fire magnet. The Speeder Storm went forward with its scout move, got assaulted first turn (he had first turn) and was wrecked.
I had to use my Chaos rhinos for now. I had an extra Rhino on the table at the beginning by accident. |
Luckiest scout missile in the world. |
My terminator broke the assault marines off of the objective. |
My librarian. Two handed force sword. |
I can't say enough about how amazing it is to have really bright lights at the game store. It is easy to take shots with a phone and not have problems in GS.
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I can't say enough about how amazing it is to have really bright lights at the game store. It is easy to take shots with a phone and not have problems in GS.
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