Shadow War Armageddon- what Kill Team are you planning?

[majorsmith]

Apart from scouts do they have proper marines in the rules?

[Predatorpt]

Apart from scouts do they have proper marines in the rules?

No, just Chaos Space Marines and Grey Knights

[Gibby]

To be fair it wouldn't be hard to tailor some profiles for Marines. The Chaos Marine profile can't be far off, and there's various kinds of power armour available. Weird how they didn't include them given every damn thing else is in. Seems like an awesome game, though!

[Dentatus]

Is it possible to bump the stats for stock troop profiles to accommodate small squads of elite troops, say Cadians to Kasrkins, Ork Boyz to Blood Ax Commandos?

I ask because under the game table I found not only unpainted metal SM Scouts and metal Tau Pathfinders, but Ork BACs and a full squad of metal Kasrkins. And as much as I enjoy buying new figs, I certainly don't need 'em.

[eilif]

To be fair it wouldn't be hard to tailor some profiles for Marines. The Chaos Marine profile can't be far off, and there's various kinds of power armour available. Weird how they didn't include them given every damn thing else is in. Seems like an awesome game, though!

I'm a bit wary of any of the power-armored figs being avaiable as regular troops.  Not bad to have them as special operatives but I'm worried they'll be too hard to kill if fielded in multiples.  One of the things that made necromunda work so well was that all the factions had the same armor.

[Pictors Studio]

You can include odd elite models in your kill team for the price of one promethium cache   This includes terminators in the marine list.  There isn't much in the main rule book that can really hurt terminators. If it can hurt them it just isn't likely to do so. But one promethium cache is a high price to pay. 

[Daeothar]

Like I said; I'm building a CSM only Chaos list right now, and with only 5 models, they're individually tough, but as a group, they'll suffer from early bottle tests after only two downed models.

And because of the mechanics of the game, even autopistols still stand a chance of hitting and even wounding a power armoured individual. Yes; the modifiers are extreme, but as this game relies on dice rolling... Well; things tend to happen...

What I'm really wary of though, is facing off against the Harlequin Solitaire (and let's face it Voivod; I inevitably will ). Because to wound it, you first need to hit it, and with those stats, even a single model can be a real nightmare. Still; it would certainly be different and interesting

[McMordain]

Is it possible to bump the stats for stock troop profiles to accommodate small squads of elite troops, say Cadians to Kasrkins, Ork Boyz to Blood Ax Commandos?

I ask because under the game table I found not only unpainted metal SM Scouts and metal Tau Pathfinders, but Ork BACs and a full squad of metal Kasrkins. And as much as I enjoy buying new figs, I certainly don't need 'em.

You can equip the IG troops with carapace armor and lasguns with hot-shot laser packs, which basically makes them storm troopers/kasrkins.

[Dentatus]

Cool. Thank you.

[Bloodaxe]

Regular Marines would be fairly easy- use Chaos Marines as base. No Cultists. No Chaos Marks. Give them "And They Shall Know No Fear" rule. Skill levels in main book, as Scout lists.

[Ultravanillasmurf]

Finished assembling the first kill team: Cadians.

Sergeant, Grenadier, four veteran Guardsmen and two Guardsmen.

Now need to get some spray paint to undercoat them.

[Rhelyk]

My plan for "real" marines is to use the Chaos Marine list as-is with Mark of Khorne to represent a small pack of Space Wolf Grey Hunters that came to the nick-of-time rescue of an IG unit (counts-as "cultists") and are escorting/commanding them until the Wolves can get the IG back to their regiment. The missions are the wolves/IG taking out objectives/obstacles as they come across them.

[Pictors Studio]

My Genestealer Cult Kill Team is finished, at least the initial batch of them.  I'll probably need a few more as they go.  I want to do another hybrid initiate and a flamer guy tonight.



So far they have some decent pop but half the models are novitiates so if I lose the wrong three guys the gang falls apart. 



I think one more novitiate will do the trick though.



We are going to try to play one more game tonight using these guys and maybe try out an Eldar Kill Team to fight them with, perhaps even Harlequins.

[Commander Vyper]

Scouts, IG, inquisitor, Grey Knights, chaos and Harlies!

[sykoholic]

I wonder if there will ever be rules for using the original Necromunda gangs.