Combat Engineers

One of my favorite units is my combat engineers. They are a special weapons team with three flamers and a demolitions charge. Now these weapons are all only practical if I'm really close, and with a 5+ armorsave, and only 6 men in the unit, how will I ever get them where I need them? Well, that's where the transports come in. Preferably, a Vendetta, which can zoom in from a table edge, and drop these badboys pretty much anywhere guaranteeing at least one good round of whoopass, and with a transport capacity of 12, I could squeeze in another special weapons unit, however I think that's too many points for what I want to accomplish. Now if a Vendetta is not available, a chimera works, but my suggestion here is to take them with a whole bunch of other Chimeras as part of a mobile platoon, just seat these guys with the officer in the command Chimera.

With three flamers there isn't a whole lot that can survive that, well, at least anything on foot. But that's what the Demolitions charge is for, it lends an incredible amount of versatility. If I need to crack space marines ridiculous armor, then the demo charge will do that. If I need to blow up a building, then the democharge will do that, no matter what, the democharge is perfect for the situation, so long as you are close by. Now I know what your thinking, whats the point of blowing up the transport if your flamers can't burn the survivors. Well, the Vendetta does a wonderful job of popping transports, with even one twinlinked lascannon shot, firing at the rear/side armor of a transport, is usually enough to pry it open, then the recently disembarked flamers can burn the even more recently disembarked screwed whoever it is.

When using my combat engineers I use them to pry the enemy off objectives. When my friend who plays Tau parks on his objective with a bunch of firewarriors, I simply fly up my flamers, and burn them off of it. Now it gets even better, after they turn those lads into a fine layer of ashes, they can now hold the objective, because they are troops. And when its an annihilation match, his kroot are doomed.

There isn't a single thing on the board my Vendetta/combat engineer team can't take care of, from killing hordes of troops, to blowing up tanks and monsters, they've got the tools for the job... of course they never survive, so all their awards are given posthumously, but this is war after all, and they know the price.