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Salutations dakka! I was wondering what to get after my Cadian Battleforce, Leman Russ Battle tank and 3 extra heavy weapons squads (mortar, rocket launcher and lascannon).
As most of the people in my school play eldar (them being fanatics of skimmers) I was wondering what would a good anti-eldar army worth 2k points.

My list so far:

HQ

Company Commander
Voxcaster
Guardsman with medi-kit
Guardsman with standard
Guardsman with plasma gun

Elites

None!

Troops

30 x Guardsmen
3 x Heavy Weapons team (don't know what to make them )
1 x mortar
1 x rocket launcher
1 x lascannon

Heavy Support

Leman Russ Battle tank

Fast attack

Scout sentinel with lascannon.

A great Anti-Eldar weapon would be the Hydra.

i'd lose the Vox caster in the CCS since they're the only ones that have one!
i'd drop the medic and add at least 1 more plasma gun.

with the troop bits in the Battle force you could proxy a Marbo easily enough.

can't say enough good thinks about the Manticore.

and i'd get a Vendetta or 3

The list as written can not be constructed legally. Only 20 guardsmen means you can't make an infantry platoon and still have the mandatory two troops choices, and a heavy weapons squad cannot be made without a platoon.

If you do want to make platoons it's really important that you get a lot more guardsmen and a couple more command squads. That would allow you to actually use all of those heavy weapons teams you have. Without platoons I think you'd actually run out of slots where you can put heavy weapons and at the end of that you'd have some crazy Vet squad heavy weapon gunline.

Raxmei wrote:The list as written can not be constructed legally. Only 20 guardsmen means you can't make an infantry platoon and still have the mandatory two troops choices, and a heavy weapons squad cannot be made without a platoon.

If you do want to make platoons it's really important that you get a lot more guardsmen and a couple more command squads. That would allow you to actually use all of those heavy weapons teams you have. Without platoons I think you'd actually run out of slots where you can put heavy weapons and at the end of that you'd have some crazy Vet squad heavy weapon gunline.

I think you have missed the point of the post.

I am pretty sure he is listing only what he has at the moment and is wondering where to go from there up to a 2k point army list.

You definaly could afford to get some more troops onto the board, and definatly work on making this begining list legal.

Id sudjest getting some rattlings into the list, they are a cheap great shot and definatly worth fielding. You can pick up the old generation or OOP one from ebay cheap.

If you're playing objectives, IMO you lack scoring units, but if you play total annihilation missions i.e. to just destroy your opponent's army, then you do have lots of fire power on your side.

plus, i totally agree with alarmingrick, hydras are death incarnate to skimmers, trust me

Hmmm anti Eldar...

Well your HQ isn't that good ATM, ditch the standard as you don't want to be in combat and if you do get Strakken I believe he gives furious charge to all within 6" but double check that, then you'll kick point ear ass in combat. Other wise get more plasmas seems you're on foot, or Creed would help with multple orders for a foot ist.

I'm guessing this is what you've got because this list isn't 2k. You need plenty more troops, probably about 80 in total. Get a PCS probably with plasma too and then throw in Commissars with every 20 man blob, throw autocannons in with them. If you have the points get Priests so they get furious charge too...

Ditch the lone Sentinel and the tank. I would get artillery because you can hide it and/or bubble wrap it with a blob so it gets a cover save.

To beat Eldar it depends what lists your opponents take. Do they take mech or foot or hybrid? Guard have more guns to tackle them at range and then charge in for the kill, the Eldar will strike first but same S & T as you and with furious charge you'll be stronger . If against mech melta is the way as +1 on the damage chart can still tackle Serpents even without the 2D6 armour pen.

At this distance from 2000 points I'd suggest just buying a couple more troops boxes and thinking about what sort of army suits you while you assemble and paint your first few squads. Build up a small small army and organically work your way up from there to build up a larger army that you know very well how to use.

Sorry guys i meant i had 30 guardsmen all of them in 10 man squads. But why is it in the codex it says compulsary 1 hq 2 troops and i don't have enough troops to be legal? If i had 2 infantry squads with 10 guardsmen in each isn't that 2 troops choices?

Apologies for pulling a bit of threadnomancy, but your a kid and I want to save you some cash. So:
3 x Heavy Weapons team (don't know what to make them )

http://sororitas-minoris.blogspot.com/2010/01/youve-seen-girlsnow-boys.html

About 1/3 into the post is a tutorial on how to make swappable Heavy Weapon Bases for IG.
So after making 3 Rockets and you decide you would rather have 3 Autocannons, no need to spend tons of cash on 3 MORE models...just swap the gun.

dkellyj wrote:Apologies for pulling a bit of threadnomancy, but your a kid and I want to save you some cash. So:
3 x Heavy Weapons team (don't know what to make them )

http://sororitas-minoris.blogspot.com/2010/01/youve-seen-girlsnow-boys.html

About 1/3 into the post is a tutorial on how to make swappable Heavy Weapon Bases for IG.
So after making 3 Rockets and you decide you would rather have 3 Autocannons, no need to spend tons of cash on 3 MORE models...just swap the gun.

I know about this... but the thing is i bought them 2nd hand and my friend was a newbie at the time so he glued the bases.

Another thing to remember about assembling the heavy weapons, is that there is no reason to use kneeling models to represent crew. I use regular guys for crew, as well as the guys holding missile launchers. Mortar crew can be two standing guys as well. I'm in the process of converting some heavy weapons 'in transit', or being carried. I just love how you get all 5 weapons on each sprue, so for instance with the battleforce you get 15 heavy weapons, but only 6 kneeling guys. Use regulars to get them fielded. Making lists with them all in there is another story...