Title: Chaos Gunline
Description: .....you read correctly
waghi - October 14, 2009 09:34 AM (GMT)
So I downloaded the pdf of the Warriors of Chaos, hoping to fill the time until the beasts release. The main problem with the warriors IMO is the movement 4.
So, I brainstormed for another army with slow movement but rock hard combat troops and came up with dwarves. How do they deal with it? Castle up and make you come to them. Normally this strategy wouldn't work with WoC as you have no shooting, but what about if I had two HELLCANNONS! So, i propose to make a chaos gunline. 2-3 units of warriors, a chosen block maybe a unit of trolls and knights, and of course my dual artillery.
Give me thoughts if this would work or wouldn't, for what ever reason.
thanks
BeastsBookorNot - October 14, 2009 12:05 PM (GMT)
Possibly. Problem is the hellcannons are not accurate enough to scare an opponent into rushing forward. The opponent would have plenty of time to set up combo charges-even a big unit of warriors can't stand up to a strong combined charge. Either that or manuever around and get flank/rear charges. However, 2 hellcannons and a strong magic phase with lots of MM (lore of fire anyone?) could definitely force an opponent to come to you, while taking some heavy hits from all the magic missiles coming at them
Sherlocko - October 14, 2009 01:18 PM (GMT)
Marauder horseman with ranged weapons can also put a little pressure on the opponent. :)
Meals - October 14, 2009 08:28 PM (GMT)
If you combined the hellcannons with 2-3 Level 2s spamming Missiles maybe a level 4 instead/aswell, which can be done easily enough you could almost pull it off. I still can't see it making the Chaos Warriors any more useful but you can always try...
mrtn - October 14, 2009 09:47 PM (GMT)
MoS warriors should be a great bunker for all the mages, but I can't see a gunline without heavy magic work very well, there's not enough shooting to spend you points on. ;)
Khargor Rahitae - October 18, 2009 06:31 PM (GMT)
a friend of mine runs two hellcanons a bunch of marauder units and four spell casters and he does pretty well in 2250 list
Talonz - October 20, 2009 03:31 PM (GMT)
So sick of the magic gunline...makes me want to play DE just to field the ring of hotek!
But yeah, 2 cannons wont cut it. I really wish we could field 'lesser' DOW units in our special slots!