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Looking for advice

HQ

235 Company Command Squad(50) Colonel Iron Hand Straken(95)2x Body Guards(30)Medi-Pack(30)Standard(15)Heavy Flamer(20)

145 Company Command Squad(50)Master of Ordnance(30)Astropath(30)Officer of the Fleet(30)Mortar(5)

TROOPS

230 Infantry Platoon
Command Squad(30)2xMelta(20)PF(15)
1st Squad(50)Flamer(5)
2nd Squad(50)Flamer(5)
3rd Squad(50)Flamer(5)

230 Infantry Platoon
Command Squad(30)2xMelta(20)PF(15)
1st Squad(50)Flamer(5)
2nd Squad(50)Flamer(5)
3rd Squad(50)Flamer(5)

230 Infantry Platoon
Command Squad(30)4xGL(20)
1st Squad(50)AC(10)
2nd Squad(50)AC(10)
3rd Squad(50)HB(10)

230 Infantry Platoon
Command Squad(30)4xGL(20)
1st Squad(50)AC(10)
2nd Squad(50)AC(10)
3rd Squad(50)HB(10)

100 Veteran Squad(70)3xMelta(30)

FAST ATTACK

130 Valkrie(100)Rocket Pods(30)

130 Valkrie(100)Rocket Pods(30)

HEAVY SUPPORT

170 LRBT(150)HB Sponsons(20)

170 LRBT(150)HB Sponsons(20)


Squads with flamers move in on objectives with the command squads supporting, Straken will most likely lead the way, LRBT support the infantry advance, 2nd company command squad support the squads with HW, (haven't play tested the astropath or officer of fleet yet so not sure how well they work not sure of their value, might swap 2nd HQ for a vet squad)

mass amounts of orders to give but hat is the ideal behind this, its kinda slow play but its hard to stop over 160 men and all those dice to roll

Perfectly good concept, plenty of Inf. squads, terrific. You could amalgamate your mobile inf squads into larger platoons (say 45 men each) because this makes it easier for straken to use his bubble of rage on more men. Another thing is that currently your PCSs are fitted for close combat. You might want to cut something and get power weapons and commissars in the blobbed infantry squads - the idea is that even with furious charge, a small guard squad won't match dedicated assault units. You want to give FC to a big, stubborn unit with hidden power weapons, who can whittle down the opposition over a few turns if they need to.

To get the points, examine your HQ section. Which of the upgrades on straken's squad do you really, really need? Same for the CCS. Do you need all the advisors? Does the squad as a whole add a lot to the list for its pricetag?

cutting 145 points ccs allows for 3 commissars(105)with 3 PW(30)
another 40 points free up if i drop the heavy flamer and 4 GL in a pcs, allowing a 4th commissar with pw

gives me 2 groups of 2 squads with flamers together with 2 commissars, 2 pcs and straken will lead them so that the 2 extra squads with flamers sit on the objectives after they are taken or can sit in the valkries for rapid deployment to where they are needed

The only thing that comes to mind is that you might want to drop the valks to up the Russes to plasma sponsons, since you have a grand total of 0 AP2 in this list. You may also want to drop the powerfists, a PCS will be terrible in melee no matter what you do to them.

I never thought I'd say this, but you might want to consider building up a voxnet. With this many lasguns, FRFSRF will be amazing.

What exactly is the point of the second CCS? I think you can get some points back there. Drop the MoO, and move the other officers in with Straken - you only really need them at the start of the game, so they can serve as extra wounds later, when Straken gets into combat.

Consider giving one squad in each of your flamer platoons krak grenades (assuming you blob the squads, which you should), so that they can pop tanks in melee.


I really like the idea of this list. It seems like it would be lots of fun to play.