Friday, September 13, 2013

Space Marine breaching squad

An idea struck me as I was paging threw the new codex. Well more accurately a way to use an old idea came to me. I have wanted to run a breaching squad seance reading the Horus heresy books and seeing how the Imperial fists fought ship to ship with squads of men with large shields and bolters. It's something I thought I  would do with vanguard vets at one point but they can't take bolters and they can't take special or heavy weapons. But reading the new codex opened my eyes to a different path. Legion of the damned! I don't know why I never thought of it before but they are armed like a normal tatical squad but have a 3++ save like they have a storm shield and seeing as they can't take anything that would give them a additional weapon to get the 2ed melee attack I don't see any rule conflicts with WYSIWYG.


these are the forge world breaching squad models not my own but they are smiler to what I plan on building . I think I will out fit the squad with a melta gun and a heavy flamer prehapts even a powerfist for the Sargent.

so what do you all think? am I insane or am I on the right tract to fielding a really well  themed unit?
   
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  1. 40kaddictSeptember 13, 2013 at 6:01 AM

    You'd be using the stats for LotD but modelling them as Breachers or painting them as LotD? Not that it makes any difference, sounds like a good idea. I guess you're going to kitabsh them rather than use the Forgeworld models, but economically you may as well get the LotD models £20.50 for five [oh, how we felt nauseous at the thought of £4 a model back when they came out! how things change] but that would redner the whole Breacher theme redundant. #rambling ;)

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    1. Turiya64September 13, 2013 at 7:52 PM

      I am thinking about using the LoTD rules to represent the breaching squad. But they would most definitely be painted as Imperial fists. I may look into actuality ordering the FW breaching squad but that depends on how long I put off this project there is currently no money in the old budget to be placing a forge world order... but perhaps by the time I get around to doing this squad I will.

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  2. Dunn911September 15, 2013 at 8:43 PM

    I'm using them but running as command squad.

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