Monday, Hojyn left its Tyranids appart and he awaked its Dark Angels.
And I decided to play a new list : Adeptus Mechanicus.

Lists
Space Marines (Handbook 2008 + free exchange Rhinos/1 Dreadnought)
Adeptus Mechanicus 1.07

Dark Angels
Tactical + 1 Rhino + 5 Razorbacks (lascan) + Hunter + SC
Tactical + 2 Dreadnoughts CC + 1 Hunter
Terminators + Chapelain
Landspeeders
Landspeeders Tornado
Landing Barge(Pred & Dev)
Predators Annihilator
Devastators + 2 Rhino
Warhound (Plasma blaster + Vulcain)


Adeptus Mechanicus
Demi-century + Tech-lord + 1 Hydra
Ordinatus Golgotha + 2 Hydras
Forge Knights
Manticores
Sentinels
Reaver (2 Laser Blasters + 1 Plasma Cannon)
Warhound (1 Plasma Blaster + 1 Inferno)
Warhound (1 Plasma Blaster + 1 Inferno)
I forgot my Hydras, so I load my Manticores with AA-missiles (count as Hydra) and I borrowed Hojyn's Manticores


Deploiment


I wrote the batte report in French on the Epic_Fr forum, but as usual, it is heavyly-pictured.

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cool, I love reading French, such a pretty language (even if I don't understand all of it . Sounds like you struggled to counter Hojyn's maneuverability - those land speeders must have been a considerable annoyance. Taking out the terminators as soon as they landed must have been fun though!

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I made mistakes on my deployment :
- mis-placing my Sentinels. If I hadn't won the Strategy on turn 1, would my Ordinatus have been destroyed by Terminators.

- placing my Reaver too close to Manticores. This allow Hojyn to take them in an intermangled assault and win it with the help on the +3 modifier (= 3 dead Manticores). And during the 3 turn of the game, my shooty titan was unable to shoot even once ! grrr !

The Landspeeders really annoy me, but hight mobility and Scout ability are their main weapons.

About the Adeptus Mechanicus list, I feel it fine (except the über Praetorians). But every 'cool' formation is cost a lot (really frustrating ^^).
Playing with custom titans is cool too (well, if they dont spend all game time broken).

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I'll be fixing the Praetorians next.

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Out of curiosity, are you going to increase their cost or decrease their abilities? I'm in favor of a points increase.

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I'd rather see a decrease of their abilities: 10 Fearless units with save 3+ are always going to be a nightmare, even at 350-400 points.

Actually, my choice would be to keep the same profile but to make them an upgrade of the Skitarii, just like the Ogryns in the IG list. 0-2 Praetorians for +X pts each.

Something else came up while Flogus and I were discussing the Praetorians: they take up 2 spaces in a Corvus pod (transport capacity 10), so how are they supposed to use a Corvus pod if they only come in a 10-strong formation  ?

I believe I originally intended the pod to transport only 5 Praetorians and forgot that fact at some point ; I could simply ajust the Praetorians down to being a 5-strong formation for 250 points?

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