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While its probably mostly cookie cutter. Heres what I'm thinking of taking. I'm not used to playing at this high of points so theres probably allot of room for improvement. Still have 215 points to spend somewhere.... Guess I could add 3 chimeras and keep my opponent guessing.


points: 2285
HQ:
Command company Squad, Straken, Medi pack, Carapace Armor, Melta gun, Regimental Standard, Body Guard x2

Elite:
Guardsmen Marbo

Troops:
Veteran Squad, 2x melta guns
Veteran Squad, 2x melta guns
Veteran Squad, 2x melta guns

Fast Attack:
Vendetta x2, heavy bolter sponsons.
Vendetta x2, heavy bolter sponsons.
Bane Wolf x2.

Heavy:
Medusa x2, enclosed crew
Leman Russ Battle Tank x2
Knight Commander Pask, Leman Russ Executioner, Plasma Sponsons.


Troops and command company in the vendettas. should have enough variety in fire power that i can handle anything they field. Straken for counter assaults or busting up their armor. marbro to kill deep striking units (or just be a general pain).

Ok I’ve play tested a very similar list, and in some venues may do well. But there are some very obvious problems with the list.
First, just because you can squad up your vehicles in no way means you should. The LR should not be set up in a squadron. They are far to expensive and you need to be able to split there shots. If you are looking for multiple blasts simultaneously, go with the manticore. And unless you are running air cav, the vendettas are just way to easy to kill to be grouped up like that. If you are running air cav you need at least 2 more vendettas and drop the bane wolfs. But I have never seen air cav take an ard’ boys.

I feel you need to figure out what kind of list you want to run. IG only works if its dedicated. You have to much going on here. It looks like you are trying to run a tank colum with air cav and I’m not really 100% on the CCS, don’t drop so much stuff to try to keep them alive. If some one wants them dead…..they’ll bed dead.

Here we go...

Command company Squad, Straken, Medi pack, Carapace Armor, Melta gun, Regimental Standard, Body Guard x2

Drop Carapace and Standard, get 3 more Meltaguns. Medic is fine with Straken, although he feels pretty extraneous in this list.

Guardsmen Marbo

Drop Rambo, and give more Meltas to your Veteran squads.

Vendetta x2, heavy bolter sponsons.
Vendetta x2, heavy bolter sponsons.
Bane Wolf x2.

Looks fine. I'm not a fan of Bane Wolves or squadrons, but this is definitely workable.

Medusa x2, enclosed crew
Leman Russ Battle Tank x2
Knight Commander Pask, Leman Russ Executioner, Plasma Sponsons.

Drop the Enclosed Crew Compartments on the Medusas, and give them Bastion Breachers. Drop Pask from the Executioner, and replace the LRBTs with 2 Hydras. With the extra points, you may be able to squeeze in another Vet squad or something.

Hopefully this helps.

quick note, dont they have to be in squadrons for me to keep the numbers and stay in the FOC?

Yes. Bane Wolves are hardly ever worth the bother though, since they have to get within pissing range to even attempt to fire. If you have to use a Dog variant, I prefer the Hellhound.