Sunday, August 22, 2010

Experiments in Duality for BA

So I took the basis of what I have been playing (most often) with my BA lately, and ran it out this last weekend.

I only managed to face Chaos (undivided) twice in two different scenarios, one KP and one Capture and control. Pitched battle followed by DOW.
It was a list based loosely on his SW long fang/rhino list, with oblits and Khornate Raptors led by a Slaanesh JP lord (dbl claw).

Libby (shield/lance)
Libby Furioso (wings/lance)
Libby Furioso (wings/lance)
DC x5 (2x PW/PFist)
AssSquad x5 (melta/pfist/lasplas razor w/hk)
AssSquad x5 (melta/pfist/lasplas razor w/hk)
AssSquad x5 (melta/pfist/rhino w/hk)
AssSquad x5 (melta/pfist/rhino w/hk)
Baal Pred (hb/asscannon)
Baal Pred (hb/asscannon)
Rifleman Dread
Rifleman Dread
Stormraven (lascannon upgrade)
(where points allowed, I gave vehicles xtra arm/dozer blades...I don't have full list in front, but I know I didn't regret a single Dozer Blade as I set up terrain and made certain it did NOT lend advantage to easy movement for my vehicle spam...I re-rolled a LOT of 1's)

One libby furioso and DC in the stormraven.

I don't generally like fragile MSU armies, but this one played very....eldaresque. It was interesting to say the least, and alot of fun.
With doubles of almost everything, the 'hammer' was really more or less a red-herring that couldn't be ignored (pseudo death-star in the stormraven). Combined with the additional mobility of fast transports/scouting baals, my opponents found it difficult to sort out what REALLY needed to die first.
Though it is by no means a true take-all-comers tourney list, it did reinforce the advantage of having no clear choices.

My thoughts, among other things, was that the DC/Raven red-herring may not do a whole lot for the list. Flipping points into Mephi to get on-board the 'raven would dig a bit too much into other units (he would cost me a bit under 100 pts more than the DC) yet provide a true hammer as opposed to a paper tiger.

I can say that I KNOW I would have missed template weapons (flamers or hand flamers) against horde 'nids/orks.

Thoughts?