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Hi. This is a list I made for a tournament.

Doctrines
-Iron Discipline
-Drop Troops
-Close Order Drill
-Heavy Weapon Platoons

- Ibram Gaunt

-Command Platoon
-Junior Officer with Honorifica, iron discipline
- Standard Bearer
-Anti-Tank Squad w/ 3 lascannon
-Anti-Tank Squad w/ 3 lascannon
-Fire Support w/ 3 Heavy Bolters
-Fire Support w/ 3 Heavy Bolters

Hardened Veterans
-5 vets
-lascannon

Infantry Platoon
-Command Section
-Junior Officer with shotgun, iron discipline
-3 plasma guns
-medic

Squad w/ autocannon, plasma
Squad w/ autocannon, plasma
Squad w/ autocannon, plasma

Infantry Platoon
-Command Section
Junior Officer with bolt pistol, CCW, iron discipline
3 Grenade Launchers

Squad w/ lascannon
Squad w/ lascannon
Squad w/ melta
Squad w/ melta

Hellhound w/ rough terrain mod, smoke, extra armor
Hellhound w/ rough terrain mod, smoke, extra armor

Basilisk w/ indirect

Heavy Weapons Platoon
-Command section, iron discipline
Fire Support Squad w/ 3 autocannons

I would have liked to include some rough riders, but I dont have any painted miniatures for them, and I really want to field a fully painted army. So basically it will form your standard gun line. The hellhounds provide some mobility. I think i might like to drop one of the squads with a melta gun and replace it with a 5 man hardened vet squad with 3 meltas.

Gaunt serves no purpose in this list.

10 man squads with 1 melta and BS3 are pretty useless as drop troops.

Hellhounds with EA and RTM are extra points wasted.

Squads with AC and plasma...why? Just stick to AC.

Put all the special weapons into 2 more hardened vets.
Everyone does this for a reason--they don't suck.

Why'd you buy an honorifica instead of just buying a SO?

I'd put the PG on your 2nd CP into hardened vets and give that squad the meltas and drop ID, then suicide drop it.

Stelek wrote:Squads with AC and plasma...why? Just stick to AC.

He gives his line squads plasma because the 10 points spent on the plasma gun cause just as many MEQ kills on average as spending 80 points on lasguns.

Why'd you buy an honorifica instead of just buying a SO?

Probably because a JO with an Honorifica has leadership 9 while the SO has leadership 8. Of course, if you had ever even read the guard codex you might have realized that.

I am sure he meant Heroic Senior Officer, and not just Senior Officer. Anyways, with the honorifica it is 5 points cheaper. If I removed Gaunt I would stick the Honorifica on another officer, but I dont think I am going to do that. He has a nice Ld 10 bubble and is good for counter charging stray units that make it my lines. I dont expect him to repulse the enemy, but just to do a bit more damage to stem the carnage they can do. He is only completely useless versus orks, tyranids, and other dedicated assault armies.
I am not sure of the exact total of this new, but I think it is about 20-50 pts less then 1850. I really dont see how RTM and EA is useless. There is always difficult terrain to hide behind, and it always nice to beable to just drive threw it and flame some enemies. I dont intend to just keep my tanks in the open, especially if a good round of shooting can kill them if I dont get first turn.

Doctrines
-Iron Discipline
-Drop Troops
-Close Order Drill
-Heavy Weapon Platoons
-Veterans

- Ibram Gaunt

-Command Platoon
-Junior Officer with Honorifica, iron discipline
- Standard Bearer
-Anti-Tank Squad w/ 3 lascannon
-Anti-Tank Squad w/ 3 lascannon
-Fire Support w/ 3 Heavy Bolters
-Fire Support w/ 3 Heavy Bolters

Hardened Veterans
-5 vets
-3 meltas

Hardened Veterans
-5 vets
-3 plasma

Hardened Veterans
-5 vets
-3 plasma

Infantry Platoon
-Command Section
-Junior Officer with shotgun, iron discipline

Squad w/ autocannon, melta
Squad w/ autocannon, melta
Squad w/ autocannon, melta

Infantry Platoon
-Command Section
Junior Officer with bolt pistol, CCW, iron discipline
3 Grenade Launchers

Squad w/ lascannon
Squad w/ lascannon

Hellhound w/ rough terrain mod, smoke, extra armor
Hellhound w/ rough terrain mod, smoke, extra armor

Basilisk w/ indirect

Heavy Weapons Platoon
-Command section, iron discipline
Fire Support Squad w/ 3 autocannons