So I did a little local tournament this past weekend - got stomped in the standings, but got 1 win, 1 loss, and 1 draw in the actual matches. My first time playing at 1500 points, I padded my regular 1000 point list with relics and upgrades, and added five Terminators and a Devastator squad, as well as swapping in Brother Corbulo as commander instead of a generic captain.
Fought the Tau to a draw, got absolutely pulped by a Guard list with a Knight ally (so many heavy large blasts… yeesh… and playing that time diagonally…), then trounced another Blood Angels player pretty soundly.
I need more vehicles with anti-tank weaponry, beyond just my Dreadnought. Or maybe a Knight ally of my own.
Knights are absolutely defenseless against fliers like the Stormraven gunship. A Knight can’t engage a flier in close combat, so its Destroyer chainsword and Stomp attacks won’t work. The melta and battle cannons are both blast marker weapons, which can not make snap shots (what you need against fliers unless you have the “Skyfire” special rule), and da 'eavy stubbas wot iz da bakkup weapons are only strength 4, which can’t possibly hurt the Stormraven no matter how well you roll.
A Stormraven would do it, yes. Also, I just need to gets my guys in its face more quickly - the Terminator Squad might be able to take it down in close combat - maybe. I did discover I had been reading the Destroyer rule wrong - it’s less scary than I had thought. But that game I didn’t get close enough to worry about that.
