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I'm throwing together a quick list for tomorrow's GW's 40k night, and I'm thinking of a fast moving pile of bodies.

The strategy is to have the tactical squads split up and combat squad, leaving behind 4 marines + the heavy weapon to either give heavy support fire, or run to an objective, with the sergeant and special weapon riding up in the rhinos. The rhinos will move flat out 18" with an assault squad and sanguinary priest behind each for cover saves. Dante and his crew of sanguinary guard and another sanguinary priest will deep strike using dante's rules and take out some armor if need be with 2 infernos pistols, then move on to carnage. The vindicator is a good psychological tool that can move 12" and fire, great for almost anything.

here's the list

HQ
Dante - 225

Elite
Sanguinary Priest x3 - 225
-jump packs

Troops
Sanguinary Guard - 250
-chapter banner, infernos pistol, power fist

Assault Squad - 235
-power fist, melta gun, melta gun, 10 marines

Assault Squad - 125
-power fist, 5 marines

Tactical Squad - 245
-power weapon, lascannon, melta gun, rhino

Tactical Squad - 235
-power weapon, lascannon, flamer, rhino

Heavy
Vindicator - 155
-siege shield

Overall looks pretty good. I can't say I love the idea of the Priests not attached to the squad, however. Cover saves are nice, but there's noting like being able to get rid of more expendable bodies before putting wounds on your IC. I know you won;t be able to take 2 meltaguns, but I'd suggest going with 9 man assault squads so the Sang. Priest can ride along. While you'll lose some range overall, remember that an Infernus pistol is 3 points less than an Assault Marine.

Props on taking tac squads in a BA list. Genuis way to field them. I see you having no problems with objective games.

1700 is sort of an odd points level, at least in my experience. 1750 is far more common. If you end up playing games at that level, see about giving the Tac squads some Razorbacks.

If my math is litte off your tactical squad should be 260 170+25+10+5+50= 260 and the flamer one is 255 i think you miss BA rhinos are 50 points and save the 10 points on the siege shield but then again where i play there is not a lot of train and off the points you listed i got 1695 but love the idea

eerm we're both wrong, the flamer squad comes to 245, and the other is 250

EDIT: Anyways, it all went horribly wrong. I played a tao player for the first time and had to trim the list down to 1200 on the spot to match his army.

Needless to say the symmetry of my army with multiple priests and whatnot went out the window, and they just got shot to gak after i deployed for a first turn rush, but he seized the initiative and it was an uphill battle from there, with plenty and plenty of crappy armor saves

finished off 6-7 kill points.

lol thought it said PF

my list is sorta flesh tearers but it works fantastically just thought you might wanna try it
1500 pts
HQ: Seth 160 pts
Elites: Furioso Dread 150 pts
-frag cannon, heavy flamer, mag grapple
Elites: Corbulo 105 pts
Sanguinary Priest 100 pts
-power sword, jump pack, hand flamer
Troops: Death Company 250 pts
-power fist x2, power sword x2, infernus pistol x2
Troops: Death Company Dread 140 pts
-blood talons, mag grapple
Troops: Assault Squad 265 pts
-power fist, storm shield, infernus x2
Dedicated Transports: Redeemer for DC and Seth and Corbulo 240 pts
Drop Pod x2 for the Dreads 45 pts each


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Basically for my list if you go first, drop either dread next to enemy, use locator beacon to guide ur assault marines and land raider in, hack the gak outa them
if you go second, keep everything in reserve andthen do the same thing.



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if you wanna take it to 1750 or similar, just add another DC dread in a pod, or a maxed unit of sanguinary guard, though personally, having seen my DC dread hack through 30 guardsmen in one assault phase, Id very much like to see my opponent's face if i field two


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like in all seriousness, there isnt much that is scarier than seeing 3 deep striking dreadnaughts and a deep stiking redeemer
that just scares the gak outa ur opponent

Sorry dude but your 3 Dreads aren't scary at all. They're assault based Dreadnoughts so they'll come in and stand there - right in melta range - not good.

A deep striking Land Raider has a big foot print. You may not get everything around the Drop Pods if all comes in at once.

Also you've only got one scoring unit as well, objective games will be very hard for you.

actually my furioso has got a frag cannon
plus my DC dreads are fleet
i simply run them into cover, then run back out next turn

S6 rending frag cannon won't do a lot against vehicles and infantry in the open should be in cover and as it's AP- still get a cover save and -1 on vehicles too, nice.

You need 50% cover to get a cover save which probably won't be available if you drop in a enemies face and you're only going to run 6" max, not like the enemy is going to be out of range hey.