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Monday, March 1, 2010

Herohammer - Abaddon the Despoiler.


Normally I'm not a big fan of fielding 200 Point HQ's unless they provide support for the rest of my army in the form of Leadership/Combat/Stat boosts. However Recently I have started fielding Abaddon in my 1650 Chaos Space Marine list. I've fielded the following list for the past 3 Games:

HQ:
Abaddon the Despoiler

Elites:
4x Chaos Terminators with 4x Combi Plasma's, Chainfist, Powerfist

Troops:

10x Chaos Space Marines with Icon of Chaos Glory, 2x Flamer, Aspring Champ + power sword

10x Chaos Space Marines with Icon of Chaos Glory, 2x Plasma, Aspring Champ + power sword, Combi Plasma

8x Khorne berserker with Skull Champ + Powerfist

Heavy Support:

1x Chaos Landraider

1x Predator with Heavy Bolter Sponsons, Pintle Combi Bolter and Twin Linked Lascannon turret

10x Chaos havocs with 4x Heavy Bolters

1648 Points

As you can see I'm very deficient when it comes to High Str Shots and I'm not packing all that many High str power weapons either. However I've found this list to be very flexible so far. I've played 1 game vs Marines and 2 games vs nids.

Game 1 vs Marines Abaddon Accounted for the following:

10 man tactical squad
8 man Devestator Squad
Space Marine HQ (Chapter Master ?)
2 Terminators

Game 2 vs Nids

I get flanked by 20 genestealers led by a Broodlord - They charge abaddon + 4 Termi's. I lose the Termi's and in return he kills 10. The following round he obliterates the remaining stealers before dying to Tyranid shooting - this was the worst he performed however he did stop me from losing the Left flank completely. Due to this I won the game.

Game 3 vs Nids
2 Tervigons
3 lictors
1 Carnifex
9 Warriors
1 Warrior Alpha
Some gaunts

That's alot of stuff - again I Lost the flank untill his unit deepstruck into battle. The following turn they unleashed hell on the enemy flank forcing him to divert the majority of his force to stop him from clearing out the objectives.

As you can see in 2 out of 3 games he's killed nearly double his points and in the last he killed almost 4 times his worth in points. I've found him a neat option other than going Daemon Princes with wings or 4x Havocs in a rhino with Melta/Plasma guns.

Due to the nature of my list I can Deploy my units in a number of ways. I can deepstrike the Terminators if I know my opponent's list is lacking AP2 weapons or if I can neutralize them quickly. I then drive the Khorne berserkers forward to charge out of the raiders to support the terminators. Alternately - I can use the berserkers to run behind the Raider + Pred using them as a shield with the Terminators inside the land raider. This obviously changes from army to army depending on what I'm facing.

Sometimes you just have to hang back with the land raider and use it's twin linked lascannons to blast tanks and use it as a last turn bunker to make sure you can't get swept off of objectives. This list is still evolving at the moment, and I' will still drop some of the cheap little upgrades I have scattered around to perhaps grab deamonic possession for the raider. But I'll play another 3 or so games before I make any changes.

Feedback and questions are welcome.

4 comments:

  1. Dude... you have a different memory of the game to me! Abaddon did indeed wipe out the entire Devastator squad with one fell blow, but him and his Retinue were soundly destroyed by the Tac Squad, Captain and Termie Squad (hey, what can I say? I wanted to be sure of victory!) He did take out half the Tac squad before going down though. We won't talk about how you managed to roll max attacks for him (both times) nor make Armour saves to shooting like a Hootchie-Mamma! Oh... And I blew up your Landraider... Again! :) It was a very cool and very tight game though!

    When can my Woodies take on your Lizzies?

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  2. Hmmm Woodies vs Lizzies - We can play 2250 - I'm back on the 14th April - do you wanna play then ? Drop me a mail if your keen.

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  3. Cool! 14th it is!

    Great Blog btw...

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  4. Yar - The 14th it is, We will show those elf hippies how things are done ;)

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