2001 GT Army
THE DOOMFARERS SCOUT COMPANY
THE DOOMSCOUTS
Following the success of my Doomfarer marine list, i decided i wanted a new army, that in theory would not play the same as the power armour army and be a bit more interesting. during this time we were pretty much following the rogue trader rules for tournaments and i wanted to follow it to get max points. As we had started to get more familiar with the 40k tournament scene it turned out my marine army was a little on the whiffy side of comp, a wee bit minmaxed.
on the way back from the 2000 NZGT we were discussing cool army variants, one of the ideas that stuck in my mind was a scout army. 6 months later, the 2001 nationals comes and goes, on the way back GW wellington were having a sale, and scout boxes were half off, that clinched it, so i bought the bulk of the army right then.
i had also just read a WD where it had an army from overseas that had been a 'scout' army, but it had a dreadnought, vindicator and a bunch of power armour. to me that was not a scout army, i wanted only scouts, and stuff that could be made to be scouts.
So how did it do?
Well pretty well actually :)
people made a lot of comments that the army was soft, could not stack up to a normal marine army, etc. but scouts for their points are very very good, and other than hating heavy bolters they are as resilient as marines, but have infiltrate etc. now the new necrons were not out and neither were the tau when i did this army, so i suspect that the army would not be as good any more.
by the time i had finished with this army, and the various tournaments, i was sick of marines, and was looking for soemthing else.
Paitning wise, its not bad, but i never actually finished it all, and once i one best army for it, i could not be assed finishing it.
Grendel Priest Balam
Chaplain on a bike. the bike is the original chaplain on bike, it has extended forks, i put his helmet back on (the one thats on his saddlebags), and of course put the skeleton on his bike.
Carnage Team Artus
10 scouts with close combat weapons, and a vet sgt with power weapon. These guys are trainging to be assault marines, but are nowhere near ready for jump pack training.
the combat sgts are supposed to be trainee chaplains, so i gave them the grendel eye markings. this squad all have knives for combat weapons. As artus is supposedly in superority to Jurgen and closer to being a chaplain, he has a crozius as well. the sgt is an old space wolf sgt.
Carnage Team Jurgen
As above, but this squad has axes, not knives. Jurgen is also based off a space wolf sgt.
Hahns Ancients
These guys are not trainees as such, but old grumpy sods, who have had enough of everything. so they get given sniper rifles and get to pick people off from a distance.
this squad had 10 models, i used 4 of the marine snipers, with converted heads, two of the catachan snipers, the last chancers sniper, and some others. Hahn is based on slymarbo, with a power armour chest plate and middenheim head. if i did the squad again i would give him a rifle.
Fire Team Jacob
10 scouts with bolters, 1 missle launcher
made from mostly scouts with boltes, and a few other spares, converted to have bolters. the missile launcher is converted from a combat scout, and the sgt is actually a heavy weapon model.
Fire Team Malik
9 scouts with bolters, and an autocannon. the basic scouts were all shotgun models, with bolter clips added (as i find shotguns crap). the autcannon is converted from the heavy bolter with two shootas used as well.
Malik is a basic scout with head removed and changed to a catachan head.
Fire Team Vargan
9 scouts with bolters, and autocannon.
autocannon made like the last one, the scouts are mostly converted combat scouts, and the sgt is vet sgt namaan converted up.
Strike Team Trakus
4 Scout bikes, in the last codex scout bikes blew, but i needed them for theme, and to hang out with the chaplain. i decided their battlefield role was as supply coordinators and recon, so added stowage etc to them.
the bikes are basically two bikes side by side.
Vengeance Team Balor
3 attack bikes with heavy bolters. converted to look like scouts, made from two chaos bikes, with a firing platform, the gunners were placed in with magnets to make moving them around easier.
Phoenix Wing Gorn
Speeder Training, 3 speeders with multimeltas.
I figured the chapter would not give the trainees nice new speeders so i messed em all up, with damage etc. they are also carrying cargo. their job is to track down tanks. the crew are scout bikes and hevy bolter guys. This is the least finished squad.
