Hello All
I jumped on a deal on a nemesis strike force box before the holidays and have since been throwing in a nemesis strike force formation into my Blood Angels (who have largely lost their appeal to me in the new codex).
I love the GK terminator models. They're really super awesome, and I've been running them in a 5 man squad, 3 'berds, 2 falchions, 1 incinerator with a libbyhammer attached. I like how they can deepstrike in first turn, but the problem I've been having is that despite how many red herrings I throw at the enemy to have them ignore my GK's, they dump moderate amounts of firepower into the squad and neuter it mostly before they can do anything really useful. Even a bolter volley punks enough models to make the squad anemic in any kind of combat - even with psychic buffing.
I'm seeing suggestions to run them in a stormraven in order to preserve them up until they make their assault. I have two issues with that...
1) I have a visceral reaction to putting psykers in transports where they're totally marginalized and
2) By putting them in a SR, you're totally taking away the turn 1 deepstrike ability.
So the question is, what am I doing wrong? Why can I not keep my GKT's alive for a single round of shooting in order for them to make it into combat? Is this just an issue with this unit that has to just be accepted?