40k newbie ultramines vs Dark angels

[scottcarroll1980]

Hi everyone

Ive just started playing 40k and have chosen the ultramarines. I pick this chapter as ive read their books and quite fancied them.
I have a good fair amount of troops and have played a couple of starter games at the gamesworkshop.
The other player said his friend has dark angels and fields all terminaters as DA can do this.
Is this true?
the thing is i will be playing him and his friend next week and i wanted to know if this was possible and how i can prepare.
Myself and team mate both space marines vs Dark angels, tyranids.
thanks

 

[me_in_japan]

Howdy First of all, welcome to the forums. Your question is a reasonable one, but it's probably worth bearing in mind that CMoN is primarily a painter's forum, rather than a gamer's. That's not to say you won't find gamers here, but a question like "how do I get that swooshy lightning effect on my chapter master's power sword?" is likely to be met with a barrage of advice from world class painters, whereas "what's the best unit for killing terminators in 40k?" has the potential for tumbleweeds-in-the-wind.

Anyway, as it happens I do play 40k, although I can't pretend to be any good at it. I believe that DA can take termies as their Troop choices, but I suspect it requires a particular special character to be taken as an HQ choice. I'm not 100% sure on that. If nobody has commented further to clarify by the time I get home I'll look it up and let you know.

As for killing termies, I'd recommend plasma guns. These will also work well on things like nid warriors, or the kinda middle to big sized nid beasties (Doom of Malantai, ravagers, that big bastarding burrowing thingy etc). If you're gonna be up against a nid horde then pack some flamers, and against marines and other techy armies multiple melta guns will help you deal with their tanks. Something to bear in mind is that as tough as termies are, at range they basically just have bolters. If you can keep them at arms length then your opponent has basically just got himself a huge points sink. It's when they get into CC they'll make problems for you.

Hope that helps

 

[eskin]

Yes of course they can choose termy as troops with Belial special character

I remind you against marines to not forget plasma at home and thunderfire to splash tyr swarms
anyway as you are learning the games the best advice is to play, try and have fun

And remember painted army hit harder:brushwave:

enjoy

 

[scottcarroll1980]

thanks for the advice cheers.

 

[secretpaintgeek]

I find the best way to deal with terms is pure weight of fire maybe backed up by the occasional plasma. Plasma Cannons are nice as you can potentially catch a few at a time but any decent opponent will minimise this pretty quickly by spreading as much as poss. What sort of set up does he take for them? I assume its the thunderhammer + SS combo with the cyclone? This is why in suggest the weight of fire approach as if you rely on just the plasma those invs will get in the way quite a bit. "make him roll enough dice and the 1s will flow" is pretty much a mantra for me
Hope that is of at least a little help to you but its just 1 mans opinion. I'm sure others will have different opinions but its all about finding what suits your style. Are you aggressive? Do you always wanna charge in or are you happy to sit and exchange fire?

P.S on a personal note, I'm not a fan of the ultra smurfs so go angels hehe