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Give your Captain a power weapon and thunderhammer. Far more effective as you can choose which is your secondary weapon according to your target.  Combat shields are ok, but Iron halo is better. I would drop the artificer armour to pay for it.

Bionics cuts in as being worthwhile with three wound characters. Pity you dont get free thunderhammer anymore, doesnt stop you having a hammer shaped croxius.

Can I assume the loadout for Squad Beta is plasma gun and multimelta? If so typical standard Salamander tactical loadout. I would add a sixth marine.

You dont need both plasma pistols and flamers in Assault squads. Either work. Flamers are more Salamander (in the old list only Sallies could have flamer Assaulot marines).

Id Scout Squad Alpha from the sniper scvout boxset. If so add all the sniper rfiles you can, plus the missile launcher.

I see you have been fixing the traits rules. Technically if you take Salamanders you either take them without traits or with the Set traits provided. Sure the Never Despair 'asdvantage' is similar to the Die Standing disadvantage but avoiding Eye to eye will be questioned by some. Salamanders are not FA fans.

Now your Land speeder squadron is a mess. Take one of the three (the Tornado!) and no more.

Salamander bikes are not complete without a multimelta attack bike. I would equip the other bikers with plasma gun or if you want to get in close, melta guns.

Vindicator needs smoke launchers so it can spend a turn moving in relative safety, you might not need them, but for only 3pts its worth having.

Predators Annhilators with heavy bolters dont work. Destructors work with either sponson armament, but an Anihilator needs lascannon sponsons. Dont bother keeping the tank mobile just shoot.

Interesting list for friendly play, if you want to play tournaments though you will need to start over.

Well there's no tournaments ever in my area so that won't be a problem. If the Captain has a Thunder hammer and a power sword won't that mean it can't shoot at all? I'll probably convert the Chaplain with a hammer from my Dwarf warrior boxed set. I'll re-do the rest of the list when i have time. Thanks!

Yes thunderhammer and power sword means no shooting. But even though he has Bs5 Space Marine character shooting is something you can afford to miss. What you cannot afford to do is be illequipped for close combat. Fist/sword combo and lightning claws are the best options, being a Salamander swapping out the power fist for a Thunderhammer is more in keeping with the theme.

What you could do is give the Captain lightning claws and add the thunder hammer to the Chaplain while keeping his dwarf hammer croxius. Now neither of them can shoot, but close combat will be very nasty. A Salamander chaplain with two hammers would prove your faithfullness to Vulcan's memory!

Posted By Orlanth on 02/10/2007 5:56 AM


Id Scout Squad Alpha from the sniper scvout boxset. If so add all the sniper rfiles you can, plus the missile launcher.


 Salamanders are not FA fans.


Salamander bikes are not complete without a multimelta attack bike.

comment 1 + 2 :  What do you mean?

comment 3 : Didn't i include a Multi-melta attack bike?

Comment 1+2. You have a unit of five scouts, not six. Therefore you likely have one boxset. Even numbered squads are more efficient than odd, but the advantage is not worth it for expensive units like Terminators or five man boxsets where you would need a whole extra box to take a six marine squad.

Comment 3. It means what it says, you are misreading the motive behind the comment. When on the net dont assume everyone writes the way you do, or that all comments are complaints or recommendations for change.

oh thanks.

By the way: Welcome to Dakka.

Have a look out for my 'nid list that i'll probably do. Thanks for all the help!