Keeping it in the 4th Ed Family: Black Templars

Evening champs, as I decided the other day, I am going to keep on with Deathwing. Partly I feel its "unfinished business", but namely its just more enjoyable than most of the other armies to play that I've tested recently. However I want to "extend" the force as it were, just to give myself something to change the pace while still keeping it in the family.

Since the Dark Angels book, unfortunately, sucks on the most part, I'd probably have to look elsewhere, since really you can only really make two other types of lists outside of the Deathwing/Double wing lists we see, and neither of them are particularly striking or exciting. These lists being "GreenWing" as its affectionatly called by FAAC players, and Ravenwing based lists.

Now neither of these are really ideal. The mech based army (greenwing) is just pretty vanilla, but not as good as standard marines. The Ravenwing is not the worst, Samael is pretty "meh" but you can run plenty of bikers (plus without a shadow of a doubt the attack bikes are scoring here - giving you ~9 scoring units) and then have some terminators running off the teleport homers. At 1750 there is not all that much room for anything, but its quite interesting - in fact I'll do a post about this later with some Ravenwing biker idea's.

Black Templars certainly intrigued me, and they can do a lot of the things I want to do - run unique terminators, plus have a mix of mech. BroLo had mentioned a few idea's in my other thread, and I'd tested a BT foot army as well, so its certainly a route I could see myself going down.

BroLo linked a very cool army list (plus excellent explanation):

Black Templar 4th Ed Pod Abuse List!

Now, that seems really tempting, but two problems with it. I really want to run tank hunting terminators, plus I'd actually have to buy a ton of drop pods, since I only actually own one - and this kind of defeats the point of the exercise (use the multitude of resources I have available, despite selling half my bits).

So back I went to BroLo's posts on 3++, Bringer of Victory and Marshal Laeroth - I'd say I rustled this up, but I didn't, basically a copy and paste job.But I'll take credit for it :P

EC - Witch - 110

Terminator Squad (5) - 2 x CML - 265

Terminator Squad (5) - 2 x CML - 265

5xInitiates - Las/Plas - Rhino - 151

5xInitiates - Las/Plas - Rhino - 151

5xInitiates - MM/Melta - Rhino - SL - 153

5xInitiates - MM/Melta - Rhino - SL - 153

Land Speeder Typhoon 70

Land Speeder Typhoon 70

Predator - AutoCannon/LasCannon - 125

Predator - AutoCannon/LasCannon - 125

Predator - AutoCannon/HB - 110

1748

So not quite sure about this. I think its fairly solid, but that's about all I can say. There is plenty of fire power, and I've used 4 mechanised troops before with my Blood Angels, so I am some what used to that. In an ideal world I've managed to sneak in a 5th troop, but points just don't work unfortunately. The temptation, and something I don't overly want to do, is to drop the 2nd Terminator squad, with the points from that I could add a basic dread and another "lasplas" squad in a rhino

But, this gives me a chance to clear some of my back log of models. I have about 6 predators all magnetised up that I never use from my BA days, and plenty of Rhino's - plus I can use a lot of my Dark Angel Veteran models for the troops - or Sisters of Battle models (cant decide which, tempted by Sisters as they are amazing models and gives me a use for them!). Just need to magnetise my two speeders and I am ready to rock!