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Ok, this is my first army list, so bear with me because I am not completely sure what I am doing. This is a Space Marine army which I am probably going to be battling Chaos with:

HQ: Space Marine Captain with a bike and relic blade and melta bombs: 170 points

Elite: Legion of the Damned squad: 4 Damned legionaires (can't spell it) and 1 Damned Sergeant, 1 legionary has a lascannon. The sergeant has a powerfist: 210

Troops: 1) Space Marine Bike Squadron: 5 bikers and 1 biker sergeant. 2 bikers have meltaguns and the sergeant has a powerfist: 210

2) Tactical Squad: 9 Space marines, 1 Sergeant. 1 Space marine has a meltagun. The sergeant has a chainsword. The unit has a Rhino as a dedicated transport: 215

Fast Attack:

1) Land Speeder Tornado with a multimelta: 100

2) Scout bike squadron: 2 Scout bikers, Scout biker sergeant. All bikes have grenade launchers: 100

Total: 1000 points (If I got some of the point values wrong please tell me)

Ok well the gist of this army is that the captain and the bikers rove around killing infantry and assaulting light infantry, while maybe killing the odd tank with the powerfist. The Scouts draw fire and take out light vechiles. The landspeeder is kitted out for both tanks and infantry. The Rhino helps the tactical squad keep up with everyone else and deploys them were they can get a good cover save. The Damned Legion guys deep strike in and hopefully kill the odd tank with lascannon/powerfist.

This list will hopefully win a few games but is also for fun as well, I really like having a fast army. Comments would be great !

If you're taking a Bike Sarge you really should go all bikes or at least mostly bikes.

Legion of the Damned are over costed for under effectiveness. THey also don;t really suit a Bike list.

Tac squad should take the heavy weapon even if you don't use it and as I've stated don;t realy suit the bike list.

Heavy bolter and Multi-melta is a poor mix of weaponry on the LS Tornado. Just keep it vanilla with a MM ior swap the HB for a HF which is a great combo (and te same points).

Scout bikers add nothing to this list that you can't do better with the now scoring Bike squads...

Unfortunatley the lack of more bikes is more to do with me not having any more bikes :(.

Also it might be more helpful if you told me what do to instead of my crappy legion of the damned and scout bikers?

Legion of the Damned are glorified tactical squad who cost SO much more than necessary.

If you want a squad that can lay down firepower for 200 points (or 250 if you can afford it) go for 7 or 10 sternguard.
OR go for Terminators

Tactical Squad: Take a missile launcher as well. Combat squad the squad so the launcher can fire every turn.

I would take an extra combat squad. That way you don't have to rely on those 2 troop choices.

Thanks for the advice