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Cheers for all the replies, guys. So effectively it boils down to this:

(1) Find and stick to a theme.
(2) Try to diversify the list as much as possible in order to effectively deal with as much as possible.
(3) Try to 'fix' the list so that it is as points efficient as possible.

As for the AA issue, there's only one person I know who'll ever bring flyers against me and that's only when they're having one of those days where they think I should be spending my life savings on Warhammer thus meaning that I should definitely have some AA haha

 G00fySmiley wrote:
for black Templar I like the idea of melt it all and drown em in bodies. I would start with an empirors champ, throw him with a max squad of initiates in a land raider, get 5 more sqads of initiates and neophites mixed into them every squad gets a melta, so now you can deal with hordes or armor. 5 sternguard in a drop pod with combi meltas, and a meltabomb to crack armor. a stormtalon or two, an attack bike or two with multimeltas, and 1-2 thunderfire cannons to thin horrdes or crack light armor/hiding things.

I'm mucking around with running an Assault Terminator Death Star. In the last game I played, I used a 6-Man Terminator Assault Squad with 4x Thunder Hammer/Storm Shields and 2x Pairs of Lightning Claws, a Captain upgraded to a Chapter Master with a Thunder Hammer and The Primarch's Wrath [R24" - S4 - AP4 - Salvo 3/5, Master-crafted, Shred] in Termy Armour, and a Chaplain in Termy Armour. Worked pretty damn well, though I can imagine the Emperor's Champion doing just as well in place of the Chapter Master with regards to melee combat. Thinking about this gave me an interesting idea to try:

Run the aforementioned Death Star (either with the Chapter Master or Emperor's Champion) and run an Armoured Task Force that contains Vindicators and Thunderfire Cannons. Oh I can hear squishing already haha

Sure. But ratlings dont have that option for example

If going into a pickup game, I make 2 lists. A relaxed one and a tournament level one, to avoid the main issue of the game, which is unmatched armies. By doing this simple thing I have never had any issues whatsoever.

In tournaments I accept that one or two matchups will be difficult to win. About the rest I figure out what to do with them and how to play the match.

"What if I go against a Riptidewing accompanied by a Stormsurge?"

"What if I go against a Gladius Strikeforce in an objectives heavy scenario?"

That is the TAC approach. The other one is to skew, to build a list that beats 90% of matchups with ease and loses one 100% with no chance whatsoever. Depends on preference.