Thursday, March 7, 2013

Chaos Bikers and Heldrakes are The New Black, But I'm Sure You Already Knew That



It's that time again. The 5 week league at the local game store is about to start back up.  It's going to be based on the Crusade of Fire campaign and I'm wicked stoked. This time out I'm bringing the current scourge of the 40k world. Chaos bikers and Heldrakes. Nurgle bikes are amazeballs right now. The point cost is low and the advantages are high. T6, 12" move, Hammer of Wrath, 4-5+ Jink save, what's not to love. I'm bringing 5 with 2x meltas and sticking my Nurgle Lord on a bike with a Burning Brand of Skalathrax for some S4 AP3 Torrent shenanigans. Heldrakes are very rapey right now dolling out the bad touch with S7 AP3 vector strikes that ignore cover as well as the S6 AP3 flamer of super killstruction. I shall bring 2. 



This will be the first time I've brought out my Chaos Space Marines for a league since I started playing at the game store around 2 years ago. I've been working on getting new units to bolster what I already had, and replace some of the units GW turned into sad sacks of dog shit or over costed pantywaists. Rhinos and Defilers anyone. The league calls for 3 lists all at 2000 points. A regular list and a Planetstrike attack and defender list. Here's what will likely be my regular and attacker list:

HQ
Chaos Biker Lord – 160 Points
  • Bike +20
  • Aura of Dark Glory +15
  • Burning Brand of Skalathrax +30
  • Power Axe +15
  • Mark of Nugle +15
Elites
5x Chaos Terminators – 228 Points (Deep Strike)
  • (Champion) Combi-Melta/ Chain Fist +17
  • Combi-Melta/ Power Fist +12
  • Combi-Plasma/ Power Axe +5
  • Combi-Plasma/ Power Axe +5
  • Reaper Autocannon/ Power Fist +32
Troops
8x Plague Marines – 212 Points
  • 2x Melta Gun +20
8x Plague Marines – 222 Points
  • 2x Plasma Guns +30
8x Plague Marines – 222 Points
  • 2x Plasma Guns +30
10x Cultists – 50 Points
10x Cultists – 50 Points

Fast Attack
Heldrake – 170 Points
  • Baleflamer
Heldrake – 170 Points
  • Baleflamer
5x Chaos Bikers – 160 Points
  • Melta Gun +10
  • Melta Gun +10
  • Mark of Nurgle +18
Heavy Support
3x Obliterator – 228 Point
  • Mark of Nurgle +18
5x Chaos Havocs – 125 Points
  • 2x Missile Launchers +30
  • 2x Auto-Cannons +20

So there you have it folks. Let me know if you think I'm being overly cheesy or if it's the perfect amount of Gouda. I'll post up my Planestrike Defense list and an update on how the league is going soon. Hopefully my counterpart and I can get some bat reps up here before to long, and if you're really lucky I'll squeeze in some of the new X-wing Miniatures game shit too. Keep on keepin on people.

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