Let’s talk through a few of the ways in which armies might defend a homefield point on the board…
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0:00 Intro
0:34 Defending the Home Objective
2:43 Unit Qualities
4:43 High OC Troops
6:31 Cheap Units
7:39 Lone Operatives
8:59 Ranged Damage Dealers
10:22 Indirect Fire
11:40 Counterattack Units
12:56 Sticky Objectives
15:43 Deep Strike Denial
18:26 Added-Value Units
19:51 Can Be Flexible?
22:19 Outro
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For Adepta Sororitas I just use a BSS equipped with the longer range options of heavy bolter and storm bolter. The OC at 20 is high as well.
They're relatively cheap at 100 pts and even if they are just hiding out there they do contribute a miracle dice every turn for holding the objective.
The other option is an Exorcist for some reasonably beefy indirect fire, but at 180 points I wouldn't call it cheap exactly.
Do you have a life mate I swear all you do is make YouTube videos seems a tad unhealthy how often it is
Can anyone confirm, post Jan 24 Dataslate, of sticky objectives stay until the end of a phase or the turn. As each rule seems to overule the other?
Asking for a Kabalite friend…
Firesight marksmen are great for this. They got a long range attack for chipping away at medium infantry, lone operative to avoid getting shot, and can guide reasonably well, especially with the Through Unity, Devestation
For necrons I generally have 3 doomstalkers one will toe up ,then I also have 2×10 deathmarks close to corners they have the ability to shoot anything coming onto the board at 18" for free. if you place them right thats 20 shots at a 2+bs this will screen or punish about 40" along back and about 20" up the sides in there turn and snipe characters
Grechin for my orks and Basilisks (used to be manticores :(… anyways)
I took a list I named Homewrecker to LVO and went 5-1 haha. It had two whirlies with a combi Lt to reroll ones on home, ntm 6 plasma inceptors and beacon Angelis on a biology professor w aggressors for free rapid ingress and deepstrike on em. It def worked out quite a bit like I’d planned and was super satisfying hahaha. Unfortunately Whirlies got sacked in the dataslate
my take on it is, using my corpuscarii led by a technoarchelogist at the start and later letting my dunecrawler sit there. Though its mostlikely over invested for that.
the sticky objective have been changed to any phase instead of any turn in the latest changes here in January.
Stick an infantry squad on it, with a mortar. Then spread two more infantry squads, a field ordinance battery, and a command squad across your deployment zone to prevent deep strike. Leaving your four other infantry squads, two other command squads to occupy the mid-board and tempestus scions and a scion command squad to deep strike into the enemy deployment zone. Combine that with three leman russes, a couple of sentinels, and three chimeras for some of the infantry and you’ve got yourself a little horde.
So my single 10 man cultist squad isn't ideal… Eh it'll be fine the horde of guys running up the board are the enemy's main concern
Lord Solar on the home field objective with 2 Basilisks to provide screening
As a Necron player I usually park a Doomstalker on the home objective and possibly some scarab swarms in the corners to deny deep strikes and already be in place for some secondaries.
If we put enough vehicles with artillery on the home objective that the enemy can't fit on it, they can't take it.
I can't say this enough – "The Infatry Squad" with a mortar is literally a perfect unit for this task. Cheap, strong, indirect fire + Stationary Imperial Guard rule.
I like squatting a Dominus Castellan knight on my home field. Tough, long range and nightmare for my local meta to remove effectively. Can't overwatch because of titanic, but can squish their deepstrike in melee and hellish for smacking infantry units around 😅
Plagueburst crawlers with plaguespitters to vomit on peskey 3" deep strikers baby!
I got some necron immortals specifically to hang out on my home objective
They had a change to sticky objectives in the rules commentary, now regardless of what it says they all check for OC every phase as normal … it just lets you control with no models now
Useful for new players, thank you
New to the table top part of 40K, what does the OC abbreviation stand for?
Infiltrators plus a phobos librarian basically makes your home objective very very safe, but is a big investment.
With my thousand sons I use tzaangor or a spceror led unit or rubrics.
My Dark angels I use a ballistus with a combi weapon lieutenant
Mekboy, mekboy workshop and a morkanaut, is it good? questionable. is it funny when someone gets in line of sight? definitely.