Learn2Eel
10-09-2013, 01:43 AM
Hola amigos! I finally got started on my first true Loyalist Space Marine army, the Crimson Fists. So far I've got myself one Tactical Squad box and one Sternguard Veteran box.
I've settled on the Crimson Fists over the Salamanders as I really want to represent a specific army variant of the Fists; those who survived the destruction of their Fortress Monastery and made the perilous trek to New Rynn City on foot. I also liked how most of the Chapter is composed of Veterans, as it plays very much into the kind of army I would want to do visually. Now, to represent the force and do my first truly themed army list, I went with a few limitations and design changes.
1) No vehicles of any kind! No flyers, no transports, no tanks, nothing! For Space Marines, such a force is likely to be considered limited and very vulnerable to Tau/Eldar/Imperial Guard artillery, but I want to embrace a challenging force and do them justice.
2) Devastators to represent my "Initiates". The Crimson Fists have a heavy concentration of Veterans and Scouts, so to represent this with the 'column', I am using Devastators as my low ranking Marines. This is as much an aesthetic choice as it is a gameplay choice; after all, my army list would have virtually no anti-tank otherwise.
3) In some games, I may drop some units to ally in the Eldar army I am working on; after all, the two forces did sort of work together in the books so that the Fists could get to New Rynn City.
You'll notice a distinct lack of combi-weapons on my Sternguard. For a foot-slogging list, you need as many bodies as possible and given that I am not using transports, the more short ranged nature of combi-weapons would be wasted anyway. The Tactical Squads have heavy bolters for fluff reasons with Bolter Drill, and the flamers are there because of spare points really - and their effectiveness against Orks. The Devastators have lascannons to maximise on Tank Hunters.
So without further ado....do you like the list? It is a themed army list, but I am happy to hear suggestions and critiques if you can think of ways to improve or change it. Cheers!
As a little aside....for laughs, instead of using standard objective markers or those dead Space Marines to represent them, I'm going to make up some Space Marines sleeping against rocks or on chairs with sculpted sombrero hats pulled down over their faces :D
Crimson Fists 1850
HQ
Pedro Kantor - Warlord
Troops
Tactical Squad (10) w/ heavy bolter, flamer
Tactical Squad (10) w/ heavy bolter, flamer
Elites
Sternguard Veterans (10) w/ meltabombs
Sternguard Veterans (10)
Sternguard Veterans (10)
Heavy Support
Devastators (10) w/ four lascannons
Devastators (10) w/ four lascannons
Devastators (10) w/ four lascannons
By the by, I really like having 81 Space Marines. Why? It is a multiple of nine....in fact, it is nine by nine....
I've settled on the Crimson Fists over the Salamanders as I really want to represent a specific army variant of the Fists; those who survived the destruction of their Fortress Monastery and made the perilous trek to New Rynn City on foot. I also liked how most of the Chapter is composed of Veterans, as it plays very much into the kind of army I would want to do visually. Now, to represent the force and do my first truly themed army list, I went with a few limitations and design changes.
1) No vehicles of any kind! No flyers, no transports, no tanks, nothing! For Space Marines, such a force is likely to be considered limited and very vulnerable to Tau/Eldar/Imperial Guard artillery, but I want to embrace a challenging force and do them justice.
2) Devastators to represent my "Initiates". The Crimson Fists have a heavy concentration of Veterans and Scouts, so to represent this with the 'column', I am using Devastators as my low ranking Marines. This is as much an aesthetic choice as it is a gameplay choice; after all, my army list would have virtually no anti-tank otherwise.
3) In some games, I may drop some units to ally in the Eldar army I am working on; after all, the two forces did sort of work together in the books so that the Fists could get to New Rynn City.
You'll notice a distinct lack of combi-weapons on my Sternguard. For a foot-slogging list, you need as many bodies as possible and given that I am not using transports, the more short ranged nature of combi-weapons would be wasted anyway. The Tactical Squads have heavy bolters for fluff reasons with Bolter Drill, and the flamers are there because of spare points really - and their effectiveness against Orks. The Devastators have lascannons to maximise on Tank Hunters.
So without further ado....do you like the list? It is a themed army list, but I am happy to hear suggestions and critiques if you can think of ways to improve or change it. Cheers!
As a little aside....for laughs, instead of using standard objective markers or those dead Space Marines to represent them, I'm going to make up some Space Marines sleeping against rocks or on chairs with sculpted sombrero hats pulled down over their faces :D
Crimson Fists 1850
HQ
Pedro Kantor - Warlord
Troops
Tactical Squad (10) w/ heavy bolter, flamer
Tactical Squad (10) w/ heavy bolter, flamer
Elites
Sternguard Veterans (10) w/ meltabombs
Sternguard Veterans (10)
Sternguard Veterans (10)
Heavy Support
Devastators (10) w/ four lascannons
Devastators (10) w/ four lascannons
Devastators (10) w/ four lascannons
By the by, I really like having 81 Space Marines. Why? It is a multiple of nine....in fact, it is nine by nine....