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!
