Is 15 Line Troops going to be enough for 3k?
#XX Recon company 3k
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shell kayak
Granted, I don't play Alpha Legion, but I feel like the low amount of line troops is very much an achilles heel of this army
You have a ton of dakka to be sure, but your ability to score points is easily shot off the board.
This is what I think at least
kindred linden
Oddly enough it wasnt the lack of line that hamstrung me, but a dedicated melee to stop dorn and his retinue. Went up against a list with Sigismund, Fafnir and Dorn with a 10 and 20 man phalanx warders, 10 templar brethren and 10 terminators
Took out a spartan, the 10 phalanx warder squad and had the bigger squad with fafnir almost down to half until I forgot about the IF advance reaction and moved my Interemptors to his reaction range and decided since it is the movement phase, I cant overwatch with the interemptors. Lost that combat, and on his turn the survivors turned around to charge my 10man headhunters left.
In the end it was 3 brethren, Sigismund, dorn and 2 terminators, 7 warders, fafnir and a deredeo left on his side. While mine had exodus, praetor, 2 recon squads and 2 contemptors left.
Definitely going to switch up some points to fill up the recons
shell kayak
Sure, but that is only one opponent here. If you go up vs a list with a lot of shooting (such as IW for instance), you can bet that is what they're going to do
But now that you mention it, there's a melee tarpit unit missing as well
kindred linden
Recon Company Rite of War
Legiones Astartes Alpha Legion
Exodus 165
Saboteur: pair of lightning claws; Nemesis bolter 95
Praetor: Nemesis bolter; master-crafted weapon 140
Warlord: Master of lies
Troops
5 Reconnaissance Marines: Reconnaissance Sergeant (Nemesis bolter); 4 Reconnaissance Marines; 4 × Nemesis bolter; augury scanner 145
5 Reconnaissance Marines: Reconnaissance Sergeant (Nemesis bolter); 4 Reconnaissance Marines; 4 × Nemesis bolter; augury scanner 145
5 Reconnaissance Marines: Reconnaissance Sergeant (Nemesis bolter); 4 Reconnaissance Marines; 4 × Nemesis bolter; augury scanner 145
5 Tactical Support Marines: Tactical Support Sergeant; 4 Tactical Support Marines; rotor cannons 110
Elites
Contemptor Dreadnought Talon
• Contemptor Dreadnought: 2 × gravis lascannon 215
• Contemptor Dreadnought: 2 × gravis power fist (graviton gun) 205
9 Dreadwing Interemptors: Interemptor Praefectus; 8 Dreadwing Interemptors 205
• Rhino: searchlights 40
Fast Attack
10 Headhunters: Headhunter Prime (combi-plasma); 9 Headhunters; 3 × magna combi-weapon (plasma); multi-melta 265
• Rhino: searchlights 40
10 Headhunters: Headhunter Prime (combi-melta); 9 Headhunters; 3 × magna combi-weapon (melta); multi-melta 265
• Rhino: searchlights 40
3 Outriders: Outrider Sergeant (Astartes shotgun); 2 Outriders; 2 × Astartes shotgun; Spatha Combat Bikes (twin-linked plasma gun) 115
Heavy Support
Sicaran Arcus Squadron 15
• Sicaran Arcus Strike Tank: helical targeting array 215
Scorpius Squadron 15
• Scorpius Tank 105
Fire Raptor Gunship: two sponson-mounted gravis autocannon battery; four wing-mounted Hellstrike missiles 315
Legiones Astartes
3,000 points
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Pretty simple plan, keep recons in the back line taking potshots at Characters. Praetor joins one of them while Exodus and Clawbeteur can split off or join a unit depending on my opponent deployment.
HH’s will infiltrate to take out key targets, using Warlord trait for redeployment to switch up as needed.
Just wondering if I should switch up points and models to have a melee unit (like the khenetai or locutarus). Not using Alpharius and Super heavies for now.