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Hey guys, I'm currently in a weird situation where I have a nice LE Space marine codex, but never got around to building the biker spam army I wanted, and I have a bunch of Blood Angels models on my hands, but I'm not a huge fan of the way they reorganized the new codex. So, to solve both problems at once, I've decided to field my sons of Baal using regular SM rules. On the plus side I can change my chapter tactics on a list by list basis, but now my Baal predator is relegated to being a regular predator.

So I've come up with a 500 point list I think will be fun to play at my FLGS. Help me decide which chapter tactics would work best.

HQ:
Master of the Forge - 110
- Conversion Beamer

Troops:
2 x 5 Scouts - 105
- Storm Bolter on Sarge
- Land Speeder Storm with HB

Fast Attack:
Land Speeder - 80
- 2 Multi-Meltas

Heavy Support:
Thunderfire Cannon - 100

Total: 500 Points

Let me know what you think!

Bump still waiting on answers.

At 500pts and 2 vehicle I'd say Iron Hands... not sure if the cannon would be covered.

Which one are you leaning towards? I'd pick one and then try and build the army around it if you can.

And I think your points are off

Not too bad, I would drop the storm bolter on the sarg for meltabombs on both though

Definitely Iron Hands with that list, no question. You have Vehicles, master of the forge, and a techmarine with that thunderfire cannon. You get a 6+ feel no pain, and all your vehicles and characters have it will not die, plus you get +1 to your blessing of the omnissiah rolls.

Astral Claws. Turn the Master of the Forge into Valthex by dropping a Land Speeder Storm. Bit of a hurt but oh well. The other Land Speeder also gets Scout because of the Chapter Tactics. As you stick to the fast things, Bikes will come in handy with the Astral Claws using Skilled Rider. And Valthex has a special ability to turn a squad's Bolters (from how I read it it is EITHER Bolters or Bolt pistols, not both) into Poisoned (2+). Rules are free on Forge World.