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Hello everyone! Clearly by the single digit post count to the left, I am new here. At the moment, I play a relatively.. crummy Space Marine army, which I started (along with everything GW) in August. Just today I wrote out a 1000 point shooting army list that goes as such:

HQ
Librarian- Terminator Armour, Storm Bolter 130

Troops
Tactical x 10- Flamer, Plasma Cannon, (Sgt) Combi-Melta 185
Tactical x 10- Flamer, Heavy Bolter, (Sgt) Storm Bolter, + Drop Pod 215

Elites
Dreadnought- Assault Cannon, Twin-linked Autocannon 125

Heavy Support
Land Raider Crusader 250
Whirlwind- Storm Bolter 95

What I had in mind is the Librarian would come in with one of the Tactical Squads (that isnt in a Drop Pod, which by the way would be interchangeable) and just be a part of the shooting, until the hostile squad comes within Assault range, at which point the Librarian would take the squad using Gate of Infinity to a safer location, to continue shooting.

The Drop Pod Tacticals would come in a flanking position just to split the hostile forces up.

The Dreadnought would provide long to mid range heavy firepower.

The Whirlwind would provide long range firepower (the Storm Bolter was just to even out the points)

The Land Raider would provide "Heavy Support" to the letter.

Any thoughts/suggestions?

~Sirsolo


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Really? Nobody has anything to say? =(

OK mate, welcome to the site!

First of all, your tac squads might be better off with weapons that go together or work in combat squad format. Example: Tac squad, meltagun, sgt. with combimelta, [heavy weapon]. Or flamer/combi-flamer, or a power fist - if you're flaming things, there is about to be an assault, have your sergeant be prepared. Obviously the storm bolter on the whirlwind would be points better spent here. So would the librarian's termi armour, his protection lies in the squad he's in, he won't need to take a save until things fall apart.

Most people give a dreadnought 2 long-range guns, like double TL-AC, or they give it a close range gun, e.g. assault cannon/multimelta and a DCCW (heavy flamer is a great upgrade here) This allows you to either stand back and shoot, or engage aggressively. Your weapons here don't work together - if you're in assault cannon range, fast enemies can assault you, most troops can meltagun you, so some kind of preparation for assault is useful.

As for the land raider, it's really a heavy assault transport, and people tend to use it in tandem with a brutal assault unit, which doesn't seem to be your aim at all. If you want to stand back and shoot, the crusader is terrible value for points. Take an ordinary land raider if you must, but you'd be better off with predators or vindicators.

Finally, a single drop pod doesn't really suit your idea for tactics, maybe a rhino instead? You can fire weapons out the top hatch until your enemy gets in rapidfire range, so the tank forms a sort of layer of protection for the squad, and of course all armies need some mobility to move on objectives.

Put both your tactical squads in rhinos, that way they can shoot out the top. Or combat squad them, but give them razorbacks. Not much need for storm bolter on the sgt, though I would give them both power weapons as you need to be within 9" range to hit with a template.

The crusader isn't really anti tank (this is something your list lacks) and is more anti infantry. I would throw in the librarian and some assault terminators in there.