Someone will stab you in the eye for playing this. That would be my only advice about it. 18 KP is quite hefty so you'll find some trouble in those missions.

 

why would someone stab me? i dont really see myself as the most compettive player (play vulkan marines) and win maybe half the time. but is this list really that good? or is it just super cheesey? either way im pretty sure it would be effective in my meta with lots of infantry and some with lots of low armoured tanks.

oh and i didnt make this list to annoy anyone, just thought i'd post my idea.

Durian

 

I think its the anti-fluff that might upset people. Obviously you are free to play whatever you want, but no army tactically or fluffily would emply a bunch of three man squads.

But honestly, Ive also thought about a list like this. If I were you, I'd give the ven dreads assault cannons and close combat weapons just to give you some close combat protection.

 

Yes the list really is THAT good at 1500. Very, very fragile scoring component but who cares when you table your opponent every game. Unless your group is ultra competitive, people will refuse to play you more than once.

 

Hurricane, you really think the list is that strong? I feel like any decent MEQ list would do alright against it since there's no low AP weapons. Obviously there's some rending but there's not a gross amount.

 

The only AP weapons that count are AP1 against vehicles and that only comes on meltaguns, multi-meltas, railguns, and zoanthrope lances (maybe more, but I totally forget). AP doesn't matter with the number of high strength shots you are putting out (and yes that's quite a bit of rending imo). A mech list would have a hard time with the sheer amount of rending assault cannons and str8 TL autocannons. Perhaps if land raiders are mucking about then you're in trouble, but in my area, there aren't a lot of land raiders around.

Against this list, I feel a horde list would be far better since it lacks template weaponry of any sort and all the high strength shots would count for nothing.

Perhaps I overreacted a bit in my first post, but at a cursory glance, most players would feel that this is the definition of cheese (if you put stock in that term) and would not want to play you. Yes it does have its weaknesses, but in a mech environment it would have a strong showing.

 

Yeah, I agree that it's pretty cheesey. The more I think about it, the more I think you're right. It would do very well against many lists. It is a pretty cool list though, but only if I'm the one playing with it