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Haven't played a game since 3rd edition, been workin on this army for about a month. Decided to lurk till I got the army painted. I used regular guard snipers as ratling because ratlings are stupid imho. I made my own custom daemonhost, I view it more as some experimental ogryn servitore that can teleport for some reason. A lot of the choices were made more for modeling purposes then tactical ones. I'm working on a more balanced 2000 pts list, just got a bit more painting to do.




HQ - Inquisitor lord and retinue - 195 pts

Inquisitor lord - Plasma pistol Power weapon Melta bombs - bionics - 90 pts

Servitor - Multimelta - 35 pts
Servitor - Heavy bolter - 25 pts
Servitor - Plasma cannon - 45 pts





HQ - Command Platoon 401 pts

Command Squad 118 pts
Senior Officer - power weapon storm bolter and carapce armor
Guardsman with flamer x2
Guardsman with master vox
Standard bearer





Mortar Squad - 80pts



Anti-tank squad (3 lascannons) 110pts



Sentinel - Lascanoon - Hunter killer missile Armored crew compartment Extra armor Rough terrain modification Smoke launchers - 93pts





Troop - Infantry platoon - 229 pts

Command squad - 63pts
Junior officer - bolt pistol power weapon carapace armor
Guardsman with flamer x2
Guardsman x2




Infantry squad - 83 pts
sgt las pistol ccw
Guardsman with missile launcher
Guardsman with grenade launcher
Guardsman x7



Infantry squad - 83 pts
sgt las pistol ccw
Guardsman with missile launcher
Guardsman with grenade launcher
Guardsman x7



Troop - Armored fist squad - 168pts

Chimera - Heavy flamer x2 - 85pts

Squad - 83 pts
sgt las pistol ccw
Guardsman with missile launcher
Guardsman with grenade launcher
Guardsman x7





Elite - "Ratlings" - 55 pts



Elite - "Daemonhost" - 85 pts





Heavy - Leman russ - Lascannon Heavy bolters sponsons - Extra armor Track Guards Smoke Launchers - 183 pts



Heavy - Leman russ - Lascannon Heavy bolters sponsons - Extra armor Track Guards Smoke Launchers - 183 pts

bump

I would drop all the missile and grenade launchers in favor of lascannons, plasma guns, flamers, heavy bolters, and auto cannons. I counted about 4 lascannons and that is just not enough for a guard list. I'd also drop HF on the chimera in favor of a multi-laser + heavy bolter + heavy stubber. Chimeras should sit back and fire and then wait for the last few turns to actually move forward to contest/hold an objective.

I thought blast weapons were better in 5th? I can see taking the flamers over the grenade launchers in some cases. GL's do seem pretty pricey. Are missile launchers just not worth the points?

I'm not thrilled with the list - I'd rather see Las/Plas in the line squads than ML/GL, and I think the Command Squads with 2 flamers really should have 4. That said - it's a very pretty army - you've done a really nice job with the modeling and painting on it.

Thanks for the kind words

I still need to get plasma models but I hate having to get meltaguns I will probably never use. Would it be cheaper just ordering the plasma gun bit?

As far as the list, would the simplest option be taking a 3 ml anti-tank squad and give the squads the lascannons instead?

Get your hands on plama pistols and a box of cadian shock troops. Just convert the lasguns into plasma guns, i did this with 17 men to great effect

Thanks dude, got any pics?

the self propelled gun in the background looks a bit like an elefant... cool stuff.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elefant)

Thanks, I wish I could have found a 1/48 scale one.