But when they come, they'll come in a flurry: serpent, jetbikes and rangers.
In the mean time, I have had some ideas.
n the ork board, there is a strategy called the BWagon rush. Not exactly the work of Sun Tzu, but effectively applies the principal of eliminating the usefulness of half the opponents army, with only the front of BWagons to aim at for the first few turns.
In the metagame, it seems that armour is ubiquitous. Hence every list is tailored to contain a large amount of anti-armour, in often very expensive options. I am wondering if we can make these expensive choices obsolete by making a list with no high T or AV targets.
The challenge with this is the extant need to include our own anti-armour elements. No vehicles / monstrous creatures (MC) means no mobile dragons, no EML, no BL. So our answer to armour comes in S6 shots, which we have plenty of, witchblades and star lance(s).
I am unsure whether such a list is necessarily mobile, as it may lack in firepower, or whether a fairly resilient 'anvil' would work. My personal philosophy with list writing is that all lists are 'all-comers', and I try to break the boredom of typical 'net-lists'.
So a list, applying the above might look a little like: (@ 1750)
Anvil
Farseer, doom, RoWarding
10 Avengers, exarch, defend, Pweapon & shimmer
10 guardians, Scatter laser
10 guardians, scatter laser
10 scorpions, exarch, claw, stalker
Hammer
Autarch, swooping hawk wings, fusion gun
6 Hawks inc exarch, talon, skyleap, intercept
5 Spears, star lance, skilled rider, withdraw
9 spiders, inc exarch, dual spinners
6 JBikes, 2 shuricannon
6 Jbikes, 2 shuricannon, warlock, spear, embolden
There are 5 scoring units, and heaps of opportunity to contest and claim objectives. It is quite a mobile force, but I am reliant on the spiders for ranged anti-horde and as my answer to MC's. The composition of the avengers I am uncertain about. Would bladestorm and dual cats be a better option?
I could also possibly drop 2 of the shining spears if I wanted them as a purely anti-tank role, but I figured that there is a severe shortage of power weapons in the list...
