Viability of AV 14 heavy lists?

[Luna707]

I am absolutely in love with Spartans, land raiders, and typhons. The aesthetics just rustle my jimmies and I was curious if an av 14 centric list backed up by terminators and Medusan Immortals can be made competitive in anyway.

 

For those who have seen my wip page, you'll know I'm into the rule of cool more than anything else, however I would like to put up a good fight every once in a while. I don't mind if I lose often and I don't want a cheesy list, just something that can sucker punch my opponent when they make a mistake.

[Memento Of Prospero]

I've been having a suprising amount of success with HotG, as the metagame does not handle it well. Proteus land raiders are very good for your troops.

[Lord Asvaldir]

Av14 wall can definitely be solid, especially against an army that's not prepared to face that much armor. It's a bit of a toss up since sometimes you'll face armies wih lots of anti armor, other times you'll probably crush your opponent when they don't have enough anti tank. I've been on the receiving end of an av14 heavy list with my terror assault list and it's incredibly difficult for me to face.

[Deekthegreat]

I run av 14 wall with salamanders and yes oh yes they're soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo good. 1 spartan 2 Achilles 2 rhinos quad mortars and then the infantry mash is just so good it also does amazing in the current iteration of 40k too lol

[Dono1979]

Until you run into a Grav heavy list and your expensive transports grind to a halt.

[Gorgoff]

Until you run into a Grav heavy list and your expensive transports grind to a halt.

Quite literally ;) Edited August 3, 2017 by Gorgoff

[Memento Of Prospero]

Grav heavy lists don't really cut it anymore; there are better anti tank weapons available that can actually kill things that are vehicles as well.

[Deekthegreat]

My group doesn't have any grav weapons for 30k the one player runs a basic battle company 6 troop choices all in rhinos with multi meltas on top. So while I can be subject to melta armored ceramite is a hard counter and when you dump 10 fire drakes in his face with a primus medicae a chaplain and a praetor in his face a battle company is pretty easy to handle. I'm working on adding and changing the list a little bit seeing as how it would be rather dull just to smash face every time so

[Spiritual Liege]

A Firedrake deathstar is pretty easy to counter if you know what you're doing.