So, with a little over a month to go this year, it's time to start planning (and actually following through with the plan) on next year's tournaments. The big one around here for me has always been Warmasters (yearly tournament in Kitchener/Waterloo, Ontario, Canada). I've always enjoyed going every year, this coming one will be my 4th. The first day of the tournament is a double's tournament of 1000 points each player, where the second day is the single's one of 1850 (the one I will be focusing on building up for here).
Normally, I just end up running some sort of iteration of my Templars, changing the army year to year, but mostly building upon what was already existing, so this year, I'm going to start nice and early and build a new army from the ground up. With ranged combat being the newest way to go, and vehicles seeing a decline lately, and with the new codex that was released, I've decided that it would be fun to finally build the Chaos army I've always wanted to build, Iron Warriors.
The list itself that I'm going with is kind of bland overall (multiples of the same unit mostly), but I think it will be fun to build and play as ranged combat is something my Templars have never been able to do (the way I built them anyways, the fluffy way). I wanted to stick mostly to power armoured marines and tanks, and less with, I guess for a better term, the new toys (the fiends, hell drake, that sort of thing), keeping the Iron Warriors to doing what they do best, siege warfare. However, this is very limiting, as Iron Warriors don't make particular use of cult troops, I was going to vary the army by adding in traitor Imperial Guard with a battery of basilisks for good measure (that and I have a bunch of assembled, unpainted guard and basilisks around that are screaming to be used...).
Anyways, here's the list I was planning on using:
HQ
Warpsmith
Company Command Squad - Autocannon
Troops
10 Marines - Heavy Bolter
10 Marines - Heavy Bolter
10 Marines - Heavy Bolter
Veteran Guardsman Squad - Autocannon
Veteran Guardsman Squad - Autocannon
Heavy Support
Vindicator
Vindicator
Land Raider
Squad of 3 Basilisks
Fortification
Aegis Defense Line - Quad Cannon
I will be picking up the guard from my buddy's place hopefully tonight and will start painting up a test model to see how it looks (hopefully badass...). Pics to come soon with updates