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I have a 1000 point tournament coming up this weekend, and am wondering what to bring. At the tournament will be 2 space marine players, one imperial guard, one ork, and one tyranid player. Here is my list so far. Any comments or criticism are much appreciated.

HQ
Farseer

Troops
5 man dire avenger squad with exarch
10 man dire avenger squad
Both mounted in wave serpents with holofields scatter laser and shruiken cannon

Elites
5man fire dragons
Wave serpent with holofields scatter laser and shruiken cannon

Heavy Support
Fire Prism with holofields and shruiken cannon

My farseer will go with the fire dragons in their serpent, making sure with guide that they kill the tank they drop next to. The dire avengers will unload next to objectives later in the game, and stay wrapped up in the serpents until then. The fire prism will either target heavy tanks, or use its large blast to take out MEQs. As i said earlier c&c is welcome.

Anybody?

I would swap the Dire Avengers for guardians. You can get 2 full squads and still have change for that 15 DAs...

FD with Farseer is a great way to give your opponent STW. I would run him in a troop squad or solo on a bike with Mantle. Or you could drop him down to a Spiritseer and you could upgrade the FDs to Wraithguard get another troops choice and a unit that can shoot more than once before it dies.

I really like your ideas flingit. I think i probably will exchange fds for wraithguard. I will then probably hide the farseer in the wraithguard unit, as I dont have a farseer on a jetbike. I probably wont switch to spiritseer because I like the runes of fate powers to much. At higher points values, I probably will get an additional spiritseerthough. As for the DAs vs. guardians, I personally have found the guardians limited range to seriously hinder them in their survivabilty because, with the average infantry gun shooting rapid fire at 12", the guardians will have to withstand twice the shooting at their maximum range that the DAs have to survive at their max range. Plus, I like their 4+ save, as they can take their save against a bolter, while guardians can't.


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I rethought my earlier comment on farseer vs spiritseer and decided to change my list. Here's the most updated version of my army list.

HQ
Spiritseer

Troops
5 Wraithguard- Wraithcannon
Wave Serpent-Holofields, Scatter laser, shruiken cannon
5 Dire Avengers
Wave Serpent- Scatter Laser, shruiken cannon
5 Dire Avengers
Wave Serpent- Holofields, Scatter laser, shruiken cannon
3 Man Windrider Squad

Heavy Support
Fire Prism- Holofields, shruiken cannon

Same idea as before, but with spiritseer hiding in wraithguard unit. How does this look? Any better? Worse? C&C welcome, and thank you for earlier thought flingit

That does look better. You've also got 4 fast scoring units which is a lot at 1k so you should be able to control the table more.

what happened to no jetbikes?

while i woundnt call this serpent spam, it does look intimidating.

you shoudnt have to much trouble at the tourney, no tau to ruin your fun :0

Thanks a lot everyone. At this point, i to wouldn't call it serpent spam, but, i still think it will be more effective than my original idea. If my computer cooperates, illpost some battle reports next week.