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HQ:
Pedro Kantor

Troops – 400pts:
Scout Squad –
5 Scouts, camo cloaks, sniper rifles, missile launcher

Scout Squad –
5 Scouts, camo cloaks, sniper rifles, missile launcher

Scout Squad –
5 Scouts, camo cloaks, sniper rifles, missile launcher

Scout Squad –
5 Scouts, camo cloaks, sniper rifles, missile launcher

Elite – 960pts:
Sternguard –
10 Marines, 5 combi-melta
Drop pod – Locator Beacon

Sternguard –
10 Marines, 5 combi-melta
Drop pod – Locator Beacon

Sternguard –
10 Marines, 5 combi-melta
Drop pod – Locator Beacon

Heavy – 435pts:
Thunderfire cannon –
Thunderfire cannon
Drop pod – Locator Beacon

Thunderfire cannon –
Thunderfire cannon
Drop pod – Locator Beacon

Thunderfire cannon –
Thunderfire cannon
Drop pod – Locator Beacon

Basically scouts infiltrate on the flanks or hold up in my deployment zone in fancy 2+ cover. First wave of pods will either be the cannons or the sternguard.
Guard go in close and shoot things, combat squadding if needed. Cannons deploy at range to hit the enemy with a bunch of templates.

I've still got 30pts to play with and I really don't know what to spend it on. I've thought about dropping the beacons on a few of the pods (or all) bt I don't know what I'd do with the points (except maybe another scout squad).

Don't Thunderfire cannons only have a marine with 1 wound manning them? Seems pretty easy to snipe the cannon and take it out of the game with just about anything.

Danny Internets wrote:Don't Thunderfire cannons only have a marine with 1 wound manning them? Seems pretty easy to snipe the cannon and take it out of the game with just about anything.

Sadly that is correct. Model is also pretty huge and so easy to see.

You need pretty high LOS blocking terrain to stop that, and most boards won't have it.

I suspect with a 60" range it'll be jammed into corners and hope the drop pod can block LOS long enough for a couple turns of firing.

It's very situational, I guess is the best answer.