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Ok so a player at my local gw wants me to field the most savage C:SM army I can against his 1500pts 'tournement list' also from C:SM. his list consists of:

10 assault marines W/Jump pack, 2 plasma pistols
Chaplain w/Jump pack
10 man tactical plus ML and plasma gun, power fist
5 scouts with telion
10 Devestators w/4 Heavy plasma guns, power weapon
10 man Tactical, same as above
1 Land raider.

To give this a good ol fashion battering i was considering the following

Pedro Kantor
10 sterngaurd, power weapon, 2 combi meltas, melta bombs, Drop pod with deathwind
10 sterngaurd, power fist, combi melta, Drop pod with Deathwind
9 sterngaurd, meltagun, power weapon, melta bombs, Drop pod
2 units of 5 scouts
2 assault squads (5 man) with melta bombs and drop pods

so what do you think?

Well, if you have a full codex available to you, it is worthwhile customising it to the army you are facing...

If you wanted to be mean:

Space marine chapter master + Power fist

5 Assault Terms with thunder hammer + SS with Land Raider

5 Scout marines
5 Scout marines

Land Raider
Land Raider
Land Raider

Comes in at 1500 points.

Chapter master goes with termies in LR

Scouts go with a LR each, with one spare to contest and in case one gets blown away.

Start off the game with chapter master outside of LR, call down orbital bombardment on the one of the tactical squads.

ML and PF are the only things in the army that have any chance of damaging the LRs after his LR is gone.

Target his LR turn one with as many twin linked lascannon shots as required (you have up to 8 in total, so the LR should be gone after your first round).

Then you can watch him cry!

;-)

I like it, unfortunately i do not have acess to 4 land raiders. Another idea I toyed with is losing the assault marines and jimmying stuff around for 2 vindicators

Actually, on second thought, if you have all the models, I quite like your first list too.

Dropping the two units with Meltabombs close to the LR (especially if he keeps his troops separate) and dropping other units to intervene assaults should allow you to destroy the LR quickly.

So turn 1 - drop in one assault squad with bombs next to LR, then drop the two 10 man units close by to stop any charges. You can then fire with the MMs on the first turn or shoot up his troops with them.

The remaining two DPs will come in from reserve. Drop Cantor with one of the 5 man units - he can always exit from them to join someone else if he wants to.

2 vindicators would also be cool.

Well, I'd take the following:

Librarian w/ terminator armor, storm shield, nullzone, goi
10 Termies w/ cyclone x2
10 Assault Termies w/ thunder hammer x10
2x10 Tactical Marines
10 Scouts w/ sniper rifle x10

Vindicators.

"What's that sorry? your entire assault squad and chaplain just got annhialated?"

What's not to like?

Wuestenfux also has the right idea.

Jimi Nemesis wrote:Vindicators.

"What's that sorry? your entire assault squad and chaplain just got annhialated?"

What's not to like?

It wont ever happen. With model spacing, scatter and cover saves the most youll ever lose is two or 3.

It is still worth taking them though, because if that is the list hes bringing then he has far to little anti-tank. Take as many vehicles as you can. Razorback and vindicators will give you a solid firebase that he cant get rid of easily. It will also give you some more mobility because as soon as your pods come in your army is completely static.

Recently, I played the above force in a tournament and won it.

For the upcoming tournament on Saturday, I'll make some changes and replace one Tactical squad by a Thundercannon and 2 Attack Bikes with heavy bolters.