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Amancio Mccrae
If you like really durable, and very potent close combat units, then Assault Terminators might be for you. While they have no ranged weaponry a unit of 5, or 10, Assault Terminators with a high number of Storm Shields will provide head aches for your opponent. 2+3+ and 2 wounds is nothing to sneeze at this edition. In fact Storm Shield equipped Assault Terminators are one of the few units in the game that can boast a 3++. Lightning Claws are also nice to have in Close Combat as they give the models a re-roll to wound, and re-rolls to wound are difficult to come by in 8th edition.
Terminator, and Terminator Assault Squads also have access to Teleport Homers. Something the other two types of Terminators do not have. Teleport homers can be set up anywhere in your deployment zone, then instead of moving, once per game, the unit of Terminators can be removed from their place on the board and placed within 6 inches of the teleport homer. The teleport homer is then removed. This is a neat tactic as it can get your last few terminators out of harms way and near your home objective, re-position the unit to counter assault, and it can be done instead of Fall Back for a unit of terminators in combat, meaning they can still shoot and charge as normal!
Cataphractii pattern Tactical Dreadnought Armor, or Terminator Armor, was the first Terminator armor developed by the Mechanicum during the Great Crusade. Originally desinged as a hybrid of Dreadnought Armor, Power Armor, and Heavy Environmental suits used by humans for millennia to work in the harshest environments; these suits of armor were designed to help stem the tide of casualties among the Legions as the pace of the Crusade began to wear on the Legions numbers. Cataphractii armor provides better protection than the newer Indomitus pattern but at a cost, the Space Marines who war the armor are often slower in movement than their brethren in Power Armor or even the more common Indomitus pattern Terminator Armor.
You can place it within 6 of a beacon but what if there are enemies near by, can you place your terminators so that they are not only within 6 of your beacon but also closer then 9 away from an enemy model/unit?
As for the rest I highly disagree. Terminators are no more survivable in 8th then in 7th due to the prevailence of rending and multi-D everywhere. They are better vs grav and small arms fire now but that is more then countered by the above mentioned plus their slow movement.
Lightning claw transported melee is the only place you will see them outperform other terminators so either that or say DS behind a pesky shooty squad, trust the 4++ and charge next turn. No special weapons worth mentioning.
There are a number of ways to equip a melee squad which I think could all be viable, so I decided to focus mostly on Power Level rather than Points and build a 7-man squad with as much melee oomph as possible. I needed a Champion with a plasma pistol and powerfist, so I took the single-model Champion kit (the one that comes with the sassy-helmet Nurgling) and strapped the plasma pistol from the Marine kit to his backpack. Most of the rest of the squad list wrote itself. I obviously want a pair of Marines with plague flails, and a pair with maces of contagion and bubotic axes. They form the hard-hitting core of the unit. Because the 7-man box only comes with one of each weapon, I salvaged the extra flail, mace, and axe from the Putrid Blightkings kit from Age of Sigmar (which I used previously to kitbash my first Icon of Despair Plague Marine).
At this point I had run out of arms. Not guns, but actual arms. The 7-man kit has a good number of arms, and I also had a bunch from the Mk-3 power armour bits, but the poses are limiting. For example, arms that are extended at the elbow can only be used for guns held out in front of the model, which is sometimes too ostentatious for the mood of the Death Guard in my opinion. To solve my arm shortage, I used copper wire to build tentacles instead. On a couple of models I stuck a few pieces of the wire into holes I drilled into the sockets, which I can later paint with liquid Green-Stuff or leave un-puttied as slender tentacles.
Just have to say that the 20-man Squad is extreme over-kill. Again, I heavily advise splitting the squad up, for multiple reasons, but here so you can engage two targets. You can shoot the same MEQ squad if you have to, but you can also pin/wreck two separate squads.
THIS SERIES is for idiots like me who suck at deployment, and would like some general advice (learned the hard way) on how to do better. You can find the introduction here. This series was initially written for 40K, but is relevant, methinks, to similar games, such as Grimdark Future.
Because these units tend to use lots of heavy weapons, they usually move only a little, if at all. Thus, when you are deploying them, you want to place them where they will spend most, if not all, of the game.
Place them first, before other units. As I mentioned earlier, these units are often integral to your battle plan, so make sure they get the prime real estate in your deployment zone.
I usually prefer to put my HS units in the center of my deployment zone, but sometimes, the board will have a lot of terrain in the middle that blocks line of sight. One workaround is to put Heavy Support units off center, or even in corners, so as to be able to shoot past the terrain. This almost always cuts down on how much firepower you can throw at certain targets, but having a few shots is better than none at all.
The three tanks do not have line of sight. Because I deployed first, my opponent simply set up his forces in one corner of his deployment zone, completely out of sight. On my turn, my tanks had to advance and turn to have any targets.
Cover? What cover? I thought I was protecting my tanks by setting up in the ruins, and by using the Predator and the Vindicator to screen the more vulnerable Stalker. But seeing as how I had to move out of the area terrain just to have line of sight to any targets, I lost cover saves for my two orange lead tanks.
The tanks are on a flank. Given its short range, the Vindicator at the least should be in the middle of the board, where it could cover much more territory, and give my opponent second thoughts about marching his large infantry units towards my side of the table. The others would have also benefitted by being in the center, as they would be able to engage more worthwhile targets.
The tanks have line of sight. No terrain blocks any of the vehicles. I could have set up the Whirlwinds behind that bunker in the center, totally out of sight, but doing so would have made their Barrage fire inaccurate. Better, I reasoned, to be able to hit the horde of Tyranids arrayed against my Space Marines.
The tanks are in cover. Oh, hell yes they are. The walls (which are merely terrain pieces, not purchased Aegis Defense Lines) provide cover for the Marines, who screen the Razorbacks, who screen the Land Raider. On the other side, the Marines screen the Whirlwinds. Combined with the Night Fighting at the beginning of the game, my tanks had a 2+ cover save on Turn 1.
The tanks have left room for other units, and are supported. The very-expensive Land Raider has not one, not two, but SEVEN units supporting it: two Tactical Squads, two Razorbacks, and three squadrons of Attack Bikes. On the other side, the much less-expensive Whirlwinds are supported by a large Tactical Squad. Nids, as they are want to do, charged my lines, but none of them assaulted any of my vehicles. All three HS tanks survived the battle.
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