Good tactics, but was it just me or did the video have issues with the lighting… it seemed like it was really dark, really bright, and out of focus at some points.

Nice to see you back making these vids, Darrell.

Against a light infantry unit like IG or Eldar, sternguard drop pods are pretty effective. Especially when you have deep striking terminators. Against mech though, dropping empty missile launcher drop pods inthe way of the vehicles makes a nasty road block; blocks line of sight and it slows them down.

Tactics in rolling dice? You may have finally gone too far.

Very good tactics for Drop Pods Darrell. I have been up against an all Drop Pod army. never faced anything like it before. I lost. Second time I lost but less severely. All the other times after that I have won. I hardly use Drop Pods, so I have hardly any tactics to give. But realy I would go for not a massively expensive unit, but not a cheap unit that will die easily. You want either a small expensive great unit, therefore mediumly costed or a unit of fairly good guys. Don’t just waste points. Yes they will be… Read more »

A great tactic for drop pods against nids are stern guard with combi-flamers. It gets even better if they are salamanders.

i didnt know you could take terminies in drop pods

You need to get a tan Darrell, the camera was clearly having trouble deciding on the brightness level. But a good video, made me consider the sternguard in drop pod, either combi-flame or combi melta. would be devestating.

You can’t take terminators in drop pods, but you can use locator beacon to deep strike them in. How to use a drop pod depends on what do you want to do with them. A good tactic is to take 10 sternguard veterans (5 combi-meltas, 5 combi-plasmas), so you can have options. You can combat squad them when they hit the ground. You can pop 2 vehicles with no problem. Or you destroy the land raider with the combi-meltas and then rapid fire the terminators with combi-plasmas. I use 2 drop pods in my blood angels army. Each has a… Read more »

what happened to BoW’s Youtube channel?

Nice vid. I’d like to go ahead and preorder my Bow smoking jacket/Turn 8 straight jacket in Burberry. Thanks!

Sternguards are most of the time a one shot affair…I think mine never survived the following opponents turn but once, and that because my opponent was a beginner and put his land raider in a choke point so no other units could reach my veterans…and he forgot to shoot at the drop pod, so the Vanguards intervened the next turn….all in all it was a weird game…4 on 4…we had to end the game at the end of turn 3 (club was closing) and my team lost only one or two units…our opponents were being slowly massacred (more than half… Read more »

Hey Darrell can we get a Chaos Daemons daemonic assault tactics? Daemons are one of the hardest armies to deploy and advice would be awesome.

When playing my BA army I usually drop in 2 standard Dreadnoughts (Multi-Melta and Dreadnought Close Combat Weapon) they are 115 points a pop (140 with Pod) and are amazing at taking out whichever vehicle I want. These force my opponent to focus on the Dreads while I move up with the rest of my army, if they don’t take out the dreads, even better. To ensure that both Drop Pods arrive on turn one I take a 3rd drop pod with my 10 man Assault Marine Squad that goes inside my Stormraven. I use this empty drop pod to… Read more »

Another great video, However my favorite part may have been the AT AT in the background. : )
Seriously though, I find that using them to get my dreadnoughts close to where I want them, that way they can stall/delay/stop almost any unit on the board. (as long as your careful!)

This is a tactic I like to use against my friend’s IG army in higher point games. I take 3 drop pods total. The two that come down turn one have a basic dreadnought (melta and fist) and a squad of 10 basic marines with a flamer and a missile launcher which I combat squad when they land. The whole point of these is to bully/distract him while my main army moves up. The real trick is that both turn 1 drop pods have locator beacons, and I position them where the locator beacons, not the guys inside, would be… Read more »