Sunday, 8 December 2013

Theorycraft 2: Threorycraft harder!

So with another lovely Saturday* night arriving it's time for theorycraft!  Today we are looking at the Chaos Space Marine version of my Knights of the Broken Sword army list.


*today may not actually be Saturday...
Anyway, on to the list!
Knights of the Broken Sword: 1499 points
HQ
Chaos Lord with Veteran of the Long War, power sword, power axe, melta bomb,
                                     sigil of corruption                                                                               130
Elites
Troops
8 Chaos Space Marines with close combat weapons, bolt pistols, melta gun,
                                    and power fist on sergeant                                                                  149
10 Chaos Space Marines with power sword, double melta, bolters, melta bomb                  180
10 Chaos Space Marines with power sword, double melta, bolters, melta bomb                  180
Fast Attack
Helldrake with flamer thingy                                                                                                  170
Heavy Support
Chaos Land Raider                                                                                                                 230 
Chaos Land Raider                                                                                                                 230
Chaos Land Raider                                                                                                                 230

So this list is a pretty simple Land Raider rush deal.  I made it up a while ago, and I think it's possible that it hasn't aged well.  With Eldar being a major tournament force now my armour 14 isn't looking quite so good anymore, and also Chaos Daemons could just kill my tanks in close combat fairly easily.  That's not even considering the possibility that the new 'Escalation' rules could lead to me pretty much being guaranteed to remove two tanks from the table each turn.  That being said, any list not very well equipped to deal with high armour would definitely have a hard time taking this one down.

I think that the loyalist version of this army, shown in the post before this one, would be more fun to play and perhaps less dependant on the composition of my opponent's list.  That being said, the fact that I could have this list done in just 3 purchases is tempting.  Feel free to chime in with comments on which list you think is better!

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