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Ive been playing black legion for a while now and have got my army down to the way I like it...except for one squad, I normally play 2,000 points and to have that ammount of points, I use a spare squad of close combat equiped marines, and I gave them the mark of slaanesh for the iniative subtraction, AND I mount them in a rhino because whenever I have them leg it they die before making it anywhere.

BUT even with  the rhino they just get killed when I disembark them.

So my question to you Dakkites is what to do with this poor and unaffecting squad, should I just take them out altogether or is there a way to scavenge this that I have not seen? Thanks for any replies.

P.S squad is all CCW and BP other than the aspiring champion who has a power fist.

Do you have any other CC squads?
Do you have any other squads that ride in rhinos or hoof it?
What table size are you usually playing on? (i ask since the size of the table really determines how much time the opponent has to shoot the squad)
Do they look scary and you're opponent just worried they do more than they have the potential to do?

personally I play a khornate army that has to always slog across the board. Since all my units are CC I never really notice if one squad is picked on more than others. I tend to keep my possessed behind any berserkers i have to save them from some of the shooting. I don't use rhinos unless it's a big-ish game. even then it's only 2 squads that get them.

Obvious suggestion: I assume you're doing this, but smoke launchers to give your rhino a little more survivability. If it is the only vehicle or one of the few vehicles you have then i'd say that no matter what the opponent is going to focus on it. You can't do much about that unless you want to add more vehicles for your opponent to choose from.

Don't rush things. That is one of the bigest mistakes that I see often made in 40k. People will move their hand to hand units forward as fast as they can as soon as they can. While this is fine in armies that have lots of units rushing forward, it sounds like you are not in that situation. I would recomend that you hold the unit back behind some line of sight blocking cover and use them as a counter charge unit / deterant in the envent that your opponent gets close to your lines (deep strike, jump packers, bikes, ect.). If your one rhino is the only thing moving forward (or one of 2) then its little wonder its getting killed all the time.