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So a tourneys up on sunday and I'm thinking of competing... but bringing something new. Due to me obsessively painting my D-co finally, I figured I'd show em off. The tourneys 1500 pts, no special charecters. The TO has some wacky rules for his games, so I figured I'd try something new. Heres the breakdown:

HQ
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Reclusiarch - power fist - 145 pts

Troops
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5x Assault Marines - Melta, TL-las Razorback - 165 pts
5x Assault Marines - Melta, TL-las Razorback - 165 pts
5x Assault Marines - Melta, TL-las Razorback - 165 pts
8x Death Company - 2x PW, 1x PF, LRR w/ MM - 465 pts

Heavy Support
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Rifleman Dread - 120 pts
Rifleman Dread - 120 pts
Rifleman Dread - 120 pts

Total - 1465 currently

Now, I don't know what I'll face as this is a new shop. I know theres a LOT of tau players, 1 BT player, 1 SW guy with T-wolves (my friend), and some others. This list leaves me 185 pts to play with. I'm toying with the idea of 1 more rifleman, a PF on my reclisiarch, 1 more PW in the D-co, and... I dunno. Heres the list of models I have:

- Stormraven
- 1 more Rifleman
- 1 Frag cannon/BF dread
- Tons of marines
- 5 Sternguard/Honor guard w/ 4x melta
- Sang Guard
- Pod
- 1 more LRR
- 3 land speeders w/ MM

The breakdown of the proposed list:

- 4 meltas
- 4 AC's
- 1 Assault C.
- 24 marines
- 3 AV 11, 1 AV 14, 2 AV 12 vehicles
- 3 lascannons

At 1500 I believe its more than capable of knocking out most armor, has a great deathstar (to deal with crap like T-calv and nobs), and is pretty mobile. C&C would be most welcome, especially what to spend my other points on!

I would suggest that you add another Rifleman, to bring you up to 1435.

With that, you would simply add some upgrades to your squads. A combi-melta for each squad leader, and an additional power-fist for your death company squad would take you up to 1490. Enough to buy Melta-bombs for your Reclusiarch.

That said - it's a very nice looking list, and I hope you do well with it.

MinMax wrote:I would suggest that you add another Rifleman, to bring you up to 1435.

With that, you would simply add some upgrades to your squads. A combi-melta for each squad leader, and an additional power-fist for your death company squad would take you up to 1490. Enough to buy Melta-bombs for your Reclusiarch.

That said - it's a very nice looking list, and I hope you do well with it.

Some great ideas! I was thinking of a fist on the reclusiarch + 1 more PW in the squad - thats 30 pts, which is only 5 more than just a fist for the squad

I'd take another Rifleman Dread, too.
That many autocannon shots can be annoying.

Cool, added rifleman, PF, and PW... leaves me 35 points. I can shove another D-co guy and an infernus pistol in, or... extra armor and a marine somewhere.

I would have suggested a DC dreadnought with blood tallons... MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH! But for 35 points, add another DC marine. But if you want CC killiness, bring the blood tallons.

Happygrunt wrote:I would have suggested a DC dreadnought with blood tallons... MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH! But for 35 points, add another DC marine. But if you want CC killiness, bring the blood tallons.

Issue with the dread is it dies too quickly in most games :( I typically run a Furioso with Blood Talons when I run my Raven; but at this level, and for a tourney, its just too many points. Plus with the change to fast vehicles, if I turbo the raven and it goes boom... there goes 500+ points lol

It's only if you wreck it on your turn due to Dangerous terrain etc.

Anyways, I just wanted to possibly suggest trying to fit in a Libby, and Priest into the list. that way you'd get the 6in bubble of FC and FnP, ntm psychic def and powers

jdjamesdean@mail.com wrote:It's only if you wreck it on your turn due to Dangerous terrain etc.

Anyways, I just wanted to possibly suggest trying to fit in a Libby, and Priest into the list. that way you'd get the 6in bubble of FC and FnP, ntm psychic def and powers

The FnP bubble would be nice; what to take out for it though? I could cut a PW for it.

The libby would be good... except that, with no "named" guys allowed, the libby wouldn't be uber useful as no players at the store (that I know of) play eldar. BA or SW would be my only fears, but the SW player runs wolf lords on mounts, and I don't forsee too many other BA players

I know it is just one persons experiences on one day, but yesterday I was at an 850 pt tournament and played with:

Reclusiarch
Sanguinary Priest w/ Jump Pack
5 Death Company 1x Thunder Hammer in Twin-Linked Heavy Bolter Razorback
Death Company Dreadnought w/ Blood Talons
8 Assault Marines 1x Melta, x1 Power Fist w/ Jump Packs
Baal Predator w/ Twin-Linked Assault Cannon, Heavy Bolter Sponsons

There is only one scoring unit, but I did manage to table a Space Wolves player and would have tabled a Tyranid player if I had another turn. The Death Company Dreadnought more than made up for its points taking out 15ish Space Wolves's, a Warrior Prime, and a Tiragon.

Try using the actual names of things, rather than abreviations and gaming terms.

I wanted to help, but then I read you're friends with a Space Wolf player...

I fixed my above post for the haters.

Well, list did well. Tabled an SM player, almost tabled a second, and lost to mech guard (killed everything but 3 chims and a valk, lost due to him controlling 2 objectives to my 1... he got a lucky hit, 6 to pen, and 5 to wreck my raider on the last turn, keeping me from contesting one objective). Great list all around, gonna definitely work it into a 2500!

What's a Rifleman Dreadnought, by the way?