So i had a simple choice, I needed a 100ish point fodder unit to go with my chaos lord on bike, burning brand.
i had 2 choices at hand, 3 dark vengeance bikes that needed to be severely modded and painted or 2 boxes of raptors that needed to be painted.
After spending hours reviewing the forums of bols ,warseer ,3++ among others i came to the consensus that the raptors were a little behind the bikes in both offence and defense.(and thats putting it mildly,the majority of posters derided jump packs as nigh useless in 6th)
So after 4 weeks of lovingly modding the DV bikes into nurgle plasma gun bikes I was ready for the big game.
I won the roll off and deployment looked to be heavily in my favor,my opponent took a couple of chances and placed some land speeders to the front of his deployment zone,hoping to seize the initiative,but failed so i went first.
I had a plan, a real plan... my units were set up to take out most of his heavy hitters in the first turn, it should've happened that way.
But Alas The very first shot i fired from my army was the brand new, never fired before plasma gun bikes.
A dice roll of one...
then a one for the armor save,dead.
Then almost to a unit everything else failed to make a mark on the ultramarine scum, in the end i was only able to severely weaken some scouts.everything fired,4 scouts died it was demoralizing to say the least.
He switched his tactics to fit the scenario and eliminated the bike squad,earning first blood.
Needless to say i lost,but i don't feel bad, my opponent has had his marines for almost 20 years, this is my 3rd game with csm, but i gotta think that the raptors would have been a better choice even only as fodder.
We play a terrain heavy board, my bikes had a hard time navigating, raptors would have been able to traverse it easier.The 2 extra men instead of 2 plasmas probably would've fit the mission needs better.
And without the plasmas they probably would have been less of a target priority allowing them to use grenades turn 2.
Anyways , that's my thoughts on the subject, i will either be swapping out the plasmas on such a small unit, or taking raptors as fodder because all in all the bike lord with a brand is pretty frickin awesome and i will be keeping him XD.
rant=over