Let's Talk about Protection

rancor709

No, mind out of the gutter, I'm talking the often misunderstood and much praised and despised Extra Armor. This article will focus primary on standard vanilla marines and my thoughts overreactions and personal experience with Extra Armor. I'm a fan of extra Armor on two vehicles, Dreadnoughts with DCCW and Land raiders full of assaulty goodness. Everything else extra armor doesn't make sense to me.

Okay why extra armor on Dreads, the reason is I want the dread to keep moving, can't shoot awesome I'm gonna move and then I'm gonna run. Again this goes to directly to my belief on what dreadnoughts are, Dreads are DCCW delivery systems. The gun is their to scare you, the DCCW is what does most of the damage. Again why I take Extra armor on the raider is the raider is designed to move and deploy its contents. Giving it every advantage to do its job is key.

Why I don't advocate it on rhinos namely is the cost of the advantage relative to the unit. 15pts on a 35 point vehicle to me is to high to have a 2 result moved down to a 1. Rhinos have the advantage of being inexpensive points wise, why almost double the points with a single piece of wargear that provides little mobility. Buying two sets of extra armor means with those points plus 5 more I could just get another rhino and give the previous 2 a cover save.

So in conclusion Take Extra Armor on your dreads and your crusaders don't take it on your rhinos. Or even better tell me what you think.