Sunday, 9 October 2011

Raven Guard Army List

My main inspiration for collecting Raven Guard was the armour customiser on Space Marine for the Xbox 360. After playing around with it, I made a cool looking vanguard veteran and wanted to recreate this on the tabletop.

Whenever I go about building an army, I first look at the army list construction. I toyed with the idea of running a Shrike list, but I really dislike the model as he doesn't look swift and fleet, but a bit of a lumbering fool with large hands.

Next I looked at the Imperial armour list. It allowed me to take jump packs as troops (which is what I really wanted), but would require me to use an Imperial Armour book, which may not go down well with local gamers.

I settled with using the blood angels book as it allowed me to use my Storm Raven that had been gathering dust and also build a competitive jump pack army. (I'm no tournament player, but my local meta usually plays hard).

This is the list I came up with:
  • Shadow-Captain (represented by the Sanguinor rules)
  • 2 Apothecaries (Sanguinary priests with jump packs)
  • 10 Marine Assault squad with 2x Meltaguns, Sergeant with Power Fist
  • 10 Marine Assault squad with 2x Meltaguns, Sergeant with Thunder Hammer. (The sergeant will be buffed by Sanguinor, representing the company's First Sergeant).
  • Furioso Dreadnought with blood talons
  • Stormraven with assault cannons, multi melta
  • 5 Marine Devastator Squad with 4x Missile Launchers
  • Predator with TL Autocannons and Lascannon sponsons.
Comments welcomed as always!

1 comment:

Tom said...

Nice list, that does sound fun. Did you find that it was not competitive to have all jump pack / stormraven units or just decide to add in the predator, devestator etc for versatility?

I'm toying with making a similar army but soley Jump packs and Stormravens, but i'd also like it to be viable?

Cheers for the read.