A good exercise is taking those 3 units and a couple other that stay in your zone and practice deploying such that there is no place within 9″ of a solid unit that something can be placed.Excellent point. With the speed of your units, you may also be able to pin vehicles down and/or surround them, preventing them from moving away or units form getting out.
If GW makes these kind of changes with each codex the odds are pretty good that balance will not happen for a while if it happens at all. His +1 Strength aura is great to turn the bikes into 2 attacks at strength 5 and he provides re-rolls for the plasma. You will start to pick up little model positioning tricks like moving 1″ away from a tank you charged in the previous turn to get extra movement up-field and prevent it from shooting, but still staying behind it to avoid being in LoS and then charging from behind it, avoiding overwatch, into a unit that was your actual target further up the field. If cover is commonplace and commonly used, however, the Imperial Fists are going to be awesome.The Salamanders, Black Templars, and Raven Guard both all tactics of mid-level power that encourage building your army a very particular way, but are mostly passive; The Imperial Fists and Iron Hands both have tactics of low power that are also broadly applicable to a variety of armies and completely passive; Lastly the Ultramarines and White Scars have tactics that need to be actively invoked by the player and are very powerful. Shame they don’t have her bikes in 40k to take care if those storm Ravens The problem is once they get to assault they’re very mediocre, the lack of any real combat boost plus the loss of psychic defence makes me sad.The crusader squads are still solid but this chapter trait barely even helps them and the Templars are inferior to blood angels in pretty much every wayHelbricht’s str buff is very substantial when it comes to buffing combat. "And if you're wanting to close…it's protecting you more while you close than IH does (and RG gives you more options for closing with Stratagems). They’re incredibly cool.
Every Space Marine army can be useful in melee while also providing solid shooting support. The 7th edition darlings have been much maligned in 8th ed, but is all the salt justified? Then push out a trilogy of event books detailing a massive campaign focusing on Guardsmen versus Bugs. White Scars Tactics now actually lend themselves better to Jump Pack units, since they basically operate freely even when falling back. Comparing favorably to 7th is one thing. It also has the potential for suffering from just doing what the army can already do, but more so whereas the other tactics in many cases unlock entirely new ways of playing. While I am forced to take them and they are expensive in this list I have a lot of 2 wound models or units with storm shields. If GW is going to go back to haphazard rules, poor balance, and generally not giving a crap, I'll pass.I'd argue they've talked more about positive moves than actually done. You can definitely utilize them in an outrider or supreme command detachment well however. Not bad, but certainly not worth taking over some of the other outstanding relics such as the Banner of the Emperor Ascendant or Shield Eternal.As we’ve discussed frequently in these articles, a good list in competitive 40k begins with asking yourself some fundamental questions:Luckily White Scars have lots of options, here. Everything else is shit until their codex comes out. Girlyman can make UM do this across whole units and it affects vehicles while Salamanders do not so it's relying on taking multiple small infantry units / dreads for maximum effect. If you want to take a second Captain, another great combo is the Thunder Hammer and Combi-melta. Perhaps writing about Marines for a week has driven me quite mad?But perhaps it’s genius, because I actually think this might be legit. It's almost like having a section actually saying what Fly does would be useful.Normally, models with Fly can fall back and shoot at no penalty (but they can't assault).
They traveled through the devastated landscape of Terra, often in small groups of a few dozen, looking for any enemies or foes in the wasteland. That pretty much makes this by definition worth considering/testing in some soup builds.Honestly, that’s about it.
It also, ultimately, can be overcome by the same "hit them a few more times" approach that the 6+++ save can. As you said in the article people are really surprised at how fast this list is. Slower, but that is not unacceptable.Not White Scars-specific, but in my Ravenguard Vanguard Vet Squads, I’ve been shelling out for a Thunder Hammer for the Sarge while keeping everyone else with dual Chainswords, and that bit of extra punch has been a huge help, especially once the chaff is done with and I need to start hitting harder targets.I find 5 to be a bit too weak, tho. You both do additional damage this way, but more importantly stop the vehicle from shooting in the case you don’t finish it off. White Scars with Fly can fall back, shoot, and then assault – it's a combination that they specifically call out in the article above, noting that Intercessors are "one of the most dangerous units that a White Scars general can field, capable of shooting and charging when they fall back thanks to having both Fly and the White Scars Chapter Tactic." The bikers will often want to deploy outflanking – if there’s anything like heavy burst cannons across the board you don’t want them getting blown away before they do anything!The Reivers can still throw a pretty substantial punch, especially in buff auras, as they have a huge number of attacks on the charge. I dunno man, I'm a Tau player (and GK, but none of them have Fly besides the Stormraven)As far as I can tell, they just listed it in each section, because they are taking "No USRs" to extremes. Your choices if you did try and do this would basically be:I think attempting this is basically a bust – you are losing out on some exceptional things to get some marginal ones that can be easily replicated within pure Scars.The most plausible other option I can see, largely based on the stratagems, is using a smaller force of Scars (probably as part of a soup list with other Marines or Imperium things) if you wanted a Spearhead or Vanguard of vehicles/Dreadnoughts.