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Before anyone starts telling me how bad my army is just remember this is my first ever building an army in 40k. I've played a few games with the Space marines from the AoBR kit. I need some help trimming the fat off this list as it's almost 1200 points

HQ
Shas'o [140pt] Plasma, AFP, Shield Gen, HWMT,
Elite
5 Stealthsuits [310pt] 5x Target arrays
- 1 Stealthsuit TL Target Array, Bonding knife, 2x Marker Drone (total of 6 guys in the squad. hope i did this right)
Troop
4x 5 Fire warrior [85pt each]
- 1 Shas'ui Bonding Knife, marker light (again total of 6 guys each squad)

Fast attack
5 Pathfinders [172pt]
- 1 Shas'ui Bonding knife,
- 1 Devilfish Disruption pod

3 Piranha [225pt] 3x Fusion guns, 3x Targeting Array, 3x Flechette

Point total: 1187pt


I'm looking for places to trim some of this. I split the fire warriors because i'm affraid of not being able to hold points in a game. I'd rather have more Crisis suits but i don't have the points for them and the stealth suits look so cool being able to buff themselfs to a BS 5 with the marker drones but i'm not sure if they are worth the points. They Are 8 wounds that hit 18 times with almost perfect hits and ST 5... Let me know what you think

Drop the Shas'o to a Shas'el
Drop the Targeting Arrays off the Stealths, it's not really worth 5pts each. (and/or drop the marker drones)
Drop a Piranha, split the other two to independant squads
Drop 1 pathfinder,
Merge 2 FW squads (saves you 1 shas'ui and a bonding knife)
then drop FWs till your right on points.

I'd have the large FW squad hijack the pathfinder's ride, and work on forward objectives. Keep your other FWs in cover and hope they don't get shot at to much.

With the re-roll from the pathfinder's 'fish, go ahead and Deepstrike your suits, they make great ways to contest objectives in the late game.

Drop off the Parana's drones when you slow down to fire, from there they can be a pain in your opponents rear. Don't forget they can assault to tie up a backline unit.

With that many marklights in a small game, consider seekers for you parranahs or even the fish.