Chaos Marines for the Dark Prince - Third Update

Garrett:

 

Noise Marines – First game and Painting Progress

So I played my first game last week with the Noise Marine Army. I played against my friend Chad who was running Black Templars with Grey Knight allies.

 

 

Here was the list I ran at 1500

HQ –

Lord w/ Black Mace, Plasma Pistol, Sigil, MoS

7 Noise Marines – CC weapons and Icon of Excess (FnP), Champ w/ Doom Siren

Rhino – Dirge Caster

Sorc – MoS, Rank 2 w/ Biomancy and Slaanesh Lore

5 Noise Marines – 3 Sonics, 1 Blast Master, Icon of Excess (FnP), 1 Champ w/ Doom Siren, Rhino

Troop

6 Noise marines -  1 Blast Master, 4 Sonic Blasters, Champ

6 Noise marines -  1 Blast Master, 4 Sonic Blasters, Champ

Fast

Heldrake – Baleflamer

Heavy

3 Obliterators

5 Havocs – 4 Autocannons

Total 1496

 

I am terrible at Battle Reports but I lost 6-5 when his Emperor’s Champion unit made a run for the rear objective and had the boost from his Warlord ability. I will say this, it was a good win and Chad is always a great opponent. But man it was close.

That being said, the Noise Marines and Heldrake owned the game. He could not get out of his Rhinos at all for fear of being decimated. Any unit not in a vehicle was gone quickly. Tasty from Blood of Kittens is right when he says “the Blastmaster is the best weapon in the game.” It very much is. I tried to get rid of the Land Raider in Turn 2 when my Oblits came down and hit it with everything I had. Sadly it survived and worked as a roadblock for most of the game. I made the mistake of being too static and not moving my troops fast enough. I also always put an objective in the middle of the board (we had 4). I need to stop doing this as he was able to contest with what was left of his Grey Knight Termies.

Overall, the battle was awesome. For the army I am thinking of ways to change up some areas. I do think the Lord may have to switch out that Expensive as Hell Black Mace for the Burning Brand and a Lightening Claw, but I have not decided yet if that would work better? I think it will, since he is in a CC unit with a Doom Siren as well. 2 templates at AP3 going off before an assault at I5 for NM is pretty sick.

 

 

I love playing the sacred number 6…but am nervous on unit size. I did bring 18 cultists as a meat shield. I also will be planning 17 Daemonettes with a Herald (18) if the rumors are true, I’ll pick up the Daemon Codex first thing Saturday morning.