Is Armored Company IG still legal anymore?

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Is Armored Company IG still legal anymore?

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I have had a painted IG armored company ready to go for quite some time, but haven't played them in forever. My question is with the new rules, and troops claiming objectives and so forth:

A) Is the list even still allowed, number 1
b) If so, can the Russ troop choices claim objectives

Yes, I know vehicles got nerfed and whatnot, I'm not worried about winning, just doing things for fun and trying different things. I don't get to play often but when I do I just like to play the game and steer clear of the win at all costs guys.
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As far as I know it is no longer a legal army.
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That's a shame because it would be a lot more fun to play against now than it was back in the day when it was TOO hard to play against........
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Yeah, it went the way of. . .well, anything fluffy and fun. Personally, I'd throw down against an armored company provided I knew what I was getting into.

The closest you can get now is taking three platoons of three LR's each as your Heavies, sentinels and hellhound variants for Fast Attack, and mechanized infantry for your HQ and Troops.
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What reegsk said is the way to do. With the current rules you can still get a ton of tanks, just no scoring LRs.
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Well, there is 1 mission where heavies can be scoring units.
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Yep. Big Guns Never Tire. It's how I managed to tie a game against Marines with Tau. Dropped a Hammerhead on one objective and held another with a squad of Broadsides.
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We roll our scenarios randomly from the book. We have NEVER rolled that one. We have rolled every one (with every configuration for deployment) BUT that.
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It's good times. Especially if you have Dev Squads, Broadsides, Havocs, Obliterators, Dark Reapers. . .pretty much any Heavy Support choice that would be PERFECT for just deploying onto an objective on the third floor of a building and never moving.
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MagickalMemories wrote:We roll our scenarios randomly from the book. We have NEVER rolled that one. We have rolled every one (with every configuration for deployment) BUT that.
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we've rolled it several times. 1 time, neither player had any heavies.
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I always take at least 1 fast attack and 1 heavy, just due to those missions.
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I'm actually 90% sure that if you really wanted to play the list you could always ask your opponent if you could, or if your regular opponents are friends they should be cool with it most of the time. all else fails just make sure you have a close enough list from the current guard codex just in case.
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FockeWulfe91 wrote:I'm actually 90% sure that if you really wanted to play the list you could always ask your opponent if you could, or if your regular opponents are friends they should be cool with it most of the time. all else fails just make sure you have a close enough list from the current guard codex just in case.

Agreed. We've been doing "theme lists" in my group the last couple months. I was inspired to try a Genestealer Cult list.
I broke some rules with it, but had a lot of fun.
I took Allied Tyranids & IG.
The list:
HQ:
Tyranid Prime (Genestealer Patriarch)
2x Bone Swords (Bad @ss claws. LOL), Scything Talons, Adrenal Glands, Regen, Toxin Sacs

Troops:
Genestealer Brood (9x Stealers & a Brood Lord)
Stealers: Adrenal Glands, Toxin Sacs
BLord: Implant Attack, Aura of Despair, Hypnotic Gaze
--(Implant and Gaze were taken mostly for fluff purposes, as if he hypnotizes his victim, then implants an egg)

Genestealer Brood (9x Stealers & a Brood Lord)
Stealers: Adrenal Glands, Toxin Sacs
BLord: Implant Attack, Aura of Despair, Hypnotic Gaze

Genestealer Brood (9x Stealers & a Brood Lord)
Stealers: Adrenal Glands, Toxin Sacs
BLord: Implant Attack, Aura of Despair, Hypnotic Gaze

903 Points
IG:
HQ:
Primaris Psyker (Magus)

Ministorum Priest (Seemed appropriate to have someone to "fire up" the humans while preaching the gospel of "The Brotherhood")
-Eviscerator (he'll get 'em fired up ONE WAY or ANOTHER)

Elite:
Psyker Battle Squad (9 + Overseer) (Genestealer Hybrids)
-Chimera w/Multi Laser, Camo Netting, Dozer Blade, Ex Armor, Pintle Hvy Stubber
(I know the options aren't optimized, but I went with the "trying hard to protect the hybrids in the vehicle" idea).

Psyker Battle Squad (8 + Overseer) (Genestealer Hybrids)
-Chimera w/Multi Laser, Camo Netting, Dozer Blade, Ex Armor, Pintle Hvy Stubber
I'm thinking I'll put the Primaris in here

Ratling Squad (x4)
(only Because I had extra points left LOL)

Troop:
Penal Legion Squad (9+Custodian) (Cultists w/hybrid leader or something)

Penal Legion Squad (9+Custodian) (Cultists w/hybrid leader or something)

Penal Legion Squad (9+Custodian) (Cultists w/hybrid leader or something)

Fast Attack:
Vendetta

Vendetta
(The Vendettas may hold Penal Legion Squads)

1100 Points
Yeah. It's 3 points over. We're pretty lenient on 1-3 points, and I knew it wasn't nearly an optimized list.
Rather than keeping the codex powers, I chose to take phychic powers from the brb for all my psykers who could.

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that looks like it would have been fun to play against. how'd that game go?
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Push.
He played an equally non-optimized army. It was a fluffy Shrike army. Nothing crazy, like fleeting terminators.
We both had dice that varied between average and crappy.
We beat on each other throughout the whole game, both of us feeling like we had our butts kicked, until the final turn when the game just kind of died off at the die roll. LOL

It WAS fun, though, to play such a non-optimized army for a change.

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