Here's a random table!
...Just kidding, pick whatever you want. The random table is pointless and you're only ever going to pick from the same two every single time. Why didn't we write every option on the table to be good?
I'm not
completely new. I just haven't played the game in ~20 years, and the game has undertaken x2 major overhauls (2nd-3rd, 7th-8th) since I last played.
But, AFAIC, everyone who hasn't played their first game of 8th Ed., may as well have had never played the game before. I don't care if you played 3rd-7th, 8th isn't the same game.
One of the biggest hammers to the head, is when their opponent plays
Counter-Attack to interrupt their Fight phase. It works every single time.
(And yes, I have read your whole post, and I'm aware that you end up doing exactly that)
I'm going to be honest, when your list has ~100 Orks in it (and Ghazgkull), and he's a Space Marine with no Twin Assault Cannons or Missile Launcher/Heavy Bolter spam, Aggressors or Inceptors. Hell, Imperial Fists? I'll even settle for Assault Centurions with Hurricane Bolters and Flamers (I
really want Centurion Devastators with Heavy Bolters and Hurricane Bolters to be good, but Dev.Cents are 27 Points more expensive that Ass.Cents
before weapons which makes no sense at all).
You were always going to win. Does he also know that Imperial Fists are arguably the worst Chapter in the book? And even if he wanted to play Imperial Fists, he doesn't have a single unit to use
Bolter Drill on. I mean, you could SUA the Terminators, throw
Bolter Drill on their Storm Bolters and go to town. But I'm guess that that's not what he did, and Sternguard can do the same thing for half the cost (including trading all of their SIBs for Storm Bolters, not that you should, but you could, especially if you knew you were playing a horde...Which is all the time, right?).
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Imperial Crimson Fists> even have a dedicated
Chapter Master in Pedro Kantor.
I'm just glad that your new player didn't have to suffer the disappointment that is Captain Lysander. 'The Milky Way's Best Street Fighter', isn't.
There is a way to make Imperial Fists
playable, and he didn't even do that. :smallfrown:
The insulting part is that they don't even have a Codex. They're like Conscripts that are harder to paint. They'd actually be real good if anybody actually bothered to paint them all and take them to a tournament.
I know how to Melee! Here's what you do...You don't play Space Marines. :smalltongue:
(Or, failing that, if you do have to play Space Marines, play Ultramarines, and always Fall Back from it :smallwink:)
ION; Tyranid Hive Fleets
|
Adaptation |
Stratagem |
Bio-Artefact |
Warlord Trait |
Behemoth |
Okay |
Bad |
Bad |
Bad |
Kraken |
Okay |
Good |
Good |
Okay |
Leviathan |
Good |
Okay |
Bad |
Good |
Gorgon |
Situational |
Bad |
Bad |
Bad |
Jormungandr |
Best? |
Best? |
Worst |
Situational / Worst |
Hydra |
Worst |
Worst |
Okay |
Best? |
Kronos |
Good |
Situational |
Okay |
Situational |
Discuss.
IMO, Kraken's artefact is the best, but
calling it 'the best' would be damning with faint praise, since the bar isn't very high, and doesn't compare to other Factions' Relics anyway.