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"Death Dealers" Company

HQ

50 Command Squad(50)[any extra points will go to sniper riffles]

TROOPS

310 Infantry Platoon
50 Command Squad(30)2xGrenade Launcher(10)2xFlamer(10)
65 1st Infantry Squad(50)Sniper Rifle(5)Heavy Bolter(10)
65 2nd Infantry Squad(50)Sniper Rifle(5)Heavy Bolter(10)
65 3rd Infantry Squad(50)Sniper Rifle(5)Autocannon(10)
65 4th Infantry Squad(50)Sniper Rifle(5)Autocannon(10)

615 Infantry Platoon "Mad Devils"
100 Command Squad(30)LT. "Mad Devil" Dravier(counts as Captain Al'Rahem)(70)
55 Chimera(55)
60 1st Infantry Squad(50)Melta(10)
55 Chimera(55)
60 2nd Infantry Squad(50)Melta(10)
55 Chimera(55)
60 3rd Infantry Squad(50)Melta(10)
55 Chimera(55)
60 4th Infantry Squad(50)Melta(10)
55 Chimera(55)

ELITES

165 Storm Trooper Squad(85)+5 Models(80)

165 Storm Trooper Squad(85)+5 Models(80)

FAST ATTACK

110 Valkrie(100)Sponson Heavy Bolter sponsons(10)

110 Valkrie(100)Sponson Heavy Bolter sponsons(10)

HEAVY SUPPORT

125 Basalisk(125)

125 Basalisk(125)

210 Leman Russ Punisher(180)Heavy Bolter Sponsons(20)Heavy Stubber(10) [or an executioner(190)plasma sponsons(40)]



The heavy weapon squads are to set up a base of fire while basalisks pound the enemy waiting for the mechanized platoon to outflank and come in from the side carrying melta
storm trooper squads will infiltrate or deepstrike to disrupt enemy, favoring the AP3 to target chaos space marines(always been a problem for me)
LR Punisher is there for just sheer fun and i love the ideal of laying down vast amounts of firepower.

For the infantry platoon, you may want to replace the sniper rifles with GLs. Most people think sniper rifles are crap, and the math supports this.

Al'Rahem's flanking platoon seems fine, but you might want to concentrate the meltaguns in the command squad and give at least some of the inf. squads flamers, so you won't have to waste 30 lasguns every time you concentrate fire to kill a tank.

Storm Trooper squads, if it works for you do it, but smaller squads with special weapons might be better, so they can hurt hard targets if they have to.

Valks, try to scrape up the points for MRPs before taking HB sponsons, the rocket pods are defensive weapons and will put down a lot of hits on big units.

Heavy support, punisher is far too expensive IMO. Looking at the math, Heavy 20 produces 10 hits and the strength and AP is worthless. It's more reliable than a battle cannon, but it'll never do really terrifying destruction on your enemies. Drop it and take a 150-point leman russ, spend the points on guns as advised above. Or another basilisk. If it's an executioner that's fine though, damn good tank!

Alternative, and this is more an idea than a suggestion, you could take 3 cheap leman russes instead of the artillery. Basilisks can be hard to use if you play on a small table or without much terrain, and since so much of your list is presumably flanking from reserve, the AV12 artillery may be really exposed in the opening turns. Switching to MBTs could help with that.

Hope those suggestions help, good luck!

I agree with essentially everything I-bounty-hunt-the-elderly said!

I'll add that the Manticore is vicious - even firing indirectly - and has served me very well in the past. A couple of LRBT (or maybe a Plasmacutioner if you're up against MEQ) and this baby will get the job done.

I'll go even further and say that full squads of Stormtroopers don't do it for me. The only effective use for them I've found is 5 of them deep striking and using meltas to snipe the back of a tank. Remember to take the "re-roll scatter" option and they work quite well. Not well enough (or cheap enough) for me to use them a lot, but it's a reasonably effective tactic.

DoW

"Death Dealers" Company

HQ

80 Command Squad(50)Master of Ordnance(30)

TROOPS

310 Infantry Platoon
50 Command Squad(30)2xGrenade Launcher(10)2xFlamer(10)
65 1st Infantry Squad(50)Sniper Rifle(5)Heavy Bolter(10)
65 2nd Infantry Squad(50)Sniper Rifle(5)Heavy Bolter(10)
65 3rd Infantry Squad(50)Sniper Rifle(5)Autocannon(10)
65 4th Infantry Squad(50)Sniper Rifle(5)Autocannon(10)

615 Infantry Platoon "Mad Devils"
120 Command Squad(30)LT. "Mad Devil" Dravier(counts as Captain Al'Rahem)(70)2xMelta(20)
55 Chimera(55)
55 1st Infantry Squad(50)Flamer(5)
55 Chimera(55)
55 2nd Infantry Squad(50)Flamer(5)
55 Chimera(55)
55 3rd Infantry Squad(50)Flamer(5)
55 Chimera(55)
55 4th Infantry Squad(50)Flamer(5)
55 Chimera(55)

ELITES

105 Storm Trooper Squad(85)2xMelta(20)

105 Storm Trooper Squad(85)2xMelta(20)

FAST ATTACK

130 Valkrie(100)Rocket Pods(30)

130 Valkrie(100)Rocket Pods(30)

HEAVY SUPPORT

125 Basalisk(125)

170 LRBT(150)Heavy Bolter Sponsons(20)

230 Executioner(190)Plasma sponsons(40)


swapped for the executioner, put melta with Al'Rahem and flamers with squads, swapped out a basalisk for LRBT (put master of ordnance in to make up for basalisk), reduced # of storm troopers for special weapons, and rocket pods on Valkries

Looks better now IMO. You may want to find 20 points for 2 more meltas in Al'Rahem's squad - the LRBT doesn't need sponsons that badly, I'd switch those around.

I still advocate GLs over snipers, but hey, you gotta play it your way.

How are you going to deal with Mech Armies? 4 meltas and 2 autocannons don't seem reliable to me. What are you trying to do with your heavy choices?

I personally don't think more lasguns is a good thing. I would trim down the lasgun count and use more special weapons.

I think if you run into an army with a scout/fast anti tank to take out your heavy, and having the rest of their army mech, you're going to find yourself removing lots of those infrantry models....


Also with no Commisars on your big platoon squads you are risking having your platoon get whiped in closecombat just off of a leadership check.