Background.
What do you get when you cross the Alpha Legion with the Raven Guard? No, I'm not sure either, but one possible answer is the Falcon's Claws. In brief, they are the White Scars advanced team who try to assassinate key targets before the main battle is joined. They are very skilled at this, and at laying traps. Their rules reflect this, albeit lacking infiltrate.
Strengths.
The best way to think of these marines is as scouts with extra stuff. Or maybe as scouts that the Alpha Legion or Raven Guard turned down, but the White Scars were simply not as fussy.
Look, they have lightning claws, cameleoline, shroud bombs, hatred of characters, precision strikes, move through cover, and a special rule that let's they redeploy up to an amazing 18 inches. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that is the best redeployment in the entire game?
To my mind, they are ideally suited for some crazy back line adventures to try to take out some of the enemy before they become a threat. They are also going to be under-rated by opponents who have never seen them in action before. Multiple units of these are going to prove a headache.
Weaknesses.
They have recon armour, rendering them as being especially vulnerable to smaller arms fire. Equally, their points cost reflect this lower survivability.
Builds.
10 Falcon's Claws (170 points).
The basic, maximum body count unit. Redeploy and press your threat across the board. Take several of these to scare your opponent. Take a 5 man squad to surprise them.
10 Falcon's Claws, all with power weapons and bolt pistols, Champion with cyber-hawk and thunder hammer and single lightning claw (200 points).
As well as being able to model these as (more or less) regular scouts, they have their pick of power weapons. Take some power axes to really surprise your opponent in the mix to provide a threat to terminators. Strictly the cyber hawk is not needed. But when there's several of these on the board, they can add up to something rather amazing.
What do you get when you cross the Alpha Legion with the Raven Guard? No, I'm not sure either, but one possible answer is the Falcon's Claws. In brief, they are the White Scars advanced team who try to assassinate key targets before the main battle is joined. They are very skilled at this, and at laying traps. Their rules reflect this, albeit lacking infiltrate.
Strengths.
The best way to think of these marines is as scouts with extra stuff. Or maybe as scouts that the Alpha Legion or Raven Guard turned down, but the White Scars were simply not as fussy.
Look, they have lightning claws, cameleoline, shroud bombs, hatred of characters, precision strikes, move through cover, and a special rule that let's they redeploy up to an amazing 18 inches. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that is the best redeployment in the entire game?
To my mind, they are ideally suited for some crazy back line adventures to try to take out some of the enemy before they become a threat. They are also going to be under-rated by opponents who have never seen them in action before. Multiple units of these are going to prove a headache.
Weaknesses.
They have recon armour, rendering them as being especially vulnerable to smaller arms fire. Equally, their points cost reflect this lower survivability.
Builds.
10 Falcon's Claws (170 points).
The basic, maximum body count unit. Redeploy and press your threat across the board. Take several of these to scare your opponent. Take a 5 man squad to surprise them.
10 Falcon's Claws, all with power weapons and bolt pistols, Champion with cyber-hawk and thunder hammer and single lightning claw (200 points).
As well as being able to model these as (more or less) regular scouts, they have their pick of power weapons. Take some power axes to really surprise your opponent in the mix to provide a threat to terminators. Strictly the cyber hawk is not needed. But when there's several of these on the board, they can add up to something rather amazing.
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