Sunday, October 28, 2012

Enter the Dragon?





I admit to being a bit of a hypocrite with regards to the new Chaos Marine Heldrake and the other new daemon engines.  I don't think that they really fit in looks-wise with the other Chaos Marine stuff.  The Defiler, though crazy, was a much better fit aesthetically.  On their own they're OK, and if I had seen the Heldrake made by another company, like as a Warmachine Cryx monster, I would have been drooling over it wanting to find a way to use it as something counts-as in 40K.  

So I wouldn't want to bring a Heldrake or a Forgefiend into most regular CSM armies I would think of.  But might there be a way to use them nonetheless?  I think so.

They may not fit in well in my mind to a regular CSM force, but who might they fit in well with?

These guys.


I think that a flying mechanical dragon could fit in very nicely with the Scythiak.  With Allies, I could do it as an actual Heldrake instead of as a counts-as Valkyrie.

How might a Scythiak list look to bring in some CSM allies with a Heldrake?  I think that I can accomplish tying the CSM and the Heldrake separately in with the Scythiak.

1500 Scythiak with CSM allies to 2000

HQ
Company command squad, regimental standard, 2xflamers
(75) (uses my existing command squad, just need to make an alternate commander instead of Straken.  Purpose is to give morale boost to the fire base and orders vs. enemy big targets)

HQ
Primaris Psyker
(70) (run with Ogryn and take either biomancy or telepathy to boost/support them)

Elite
10xOgryn
(410)

Elite
Marbo (Khonan)
(65)

Troops
Infantry Platoon (Techno-barbarians)
     -Command Squad, 2xflamers (40)
          -Infantry squad, grenade launcher (55)
          -Infantry squad, grenade launcher (55)
          -Mortar squad (60)
          -Lascannon squad (105)

Troops
Infantry Platoon (Cultists)
     -Command squad, 2xflamers (40)
           -Infantry squad, melta (60)
           -Infantry squad, melta (60)
           -Missile Launcher Squad (90)
 
Fast Attack
10xRough Riders, sgt meltabombs 
(110)
 
Fast Attack
Scout Sentinel with Missile Launcher (Spawn Rider)
(45)

Fast Attack
Scout Sentinel with Missile Launcher (Spawn Rider)
(45) 
 
Fortification
Aegis Defense Line with Quad-gun
(100)
 
(1485)
 
CSM allies
 
HQ
Chaos Sorcerer, level 2, aura of dark glory, meltabombs
(105)
 
OR
HQ
Dark Apostle
(105)
 
Troops
15xCSM (bolt pistol/ccw only, no bolters), 2xmeltaguns, champion power sword
(240)
 
Fast Attack
Heldrake, baleflamer
(170)
 
(515 allies, 2000 combined)

So if I can get hold of a Heldrake for a reasonable price or as a present, might consider doing this.  I would also want to find a way to make a decent looking tail in place of the jet port rear end the regular kit has.

Not sure how I'd want to do up the CSM.  Regular Endless Ones, Sons of Taurus (coppery/bronze with black and silver), or a mixed hodge-podge of renegades.

4 comments:

  1. I feel you on the Helldrake, I think it looks like a Yu Gi-oh monster. It definitely could work in that list though.

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  2. The helldrake looks like something the Power Rangers should be fighting...

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  3. Both good points.

    Heldrake, I choose you!

    I wonder if anyone has done up an Eldar Court of the Young King as Power Rangers...or at least a group of Harlequins...

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  4. I get you, i like the model until i get to the head... then i hate the model, i might replace it with a valk cockpit, to make it look like a crazy fighter/bomber rather than a daemon engine.

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