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I was wondering as to everyones thoughts on my friends BA's list, I've played against it twice and find it really hard to fight. I am unsure of the specific points, but the list is generally as follows:

HQ
2x Librarian w/ that shield cover spell

Elites
Dreadnought w/ heavy flamer & frag cannon in a drop pod

Troops
2 5 man assault squads(only here for the LR's and to hold any objectives)

Fast Attack
None

Heavy
Land Raider Redeemer
Land Raider
3x Vindicator

First turn he deploys either in reserve(heavy drop pod list) or with the land raiders turned so they block all 3 vindicators and brings in his drop pod and with a heavy flamer and frag cannon to just demolish any single unit he wants. The land raiders move 6 in so he can fire everything while positioning them to block LoS(at least the side) to the vindicators(12 in movement) so the minimum armor you are shooting at is 13. He then casts shield on your shooting phase so hes giving 5+ cover to all the vindicators and the 3 land raiders so they are ridiculously hard to kill.

iv neverseen the frag cannon used befor so i dont know how well it works and im not sure you need 2 libbys but it could work i wouldnt say it compeditive but it defantly would be fun to use

Those Land raiders are Dedicated transports.

Bring Melta guns. He'll cry like a little baby.


This list is a one trick pony that will fall down to any list with some good shooting.

I've tried two different lists against it using a quarters game type.

First.
3 RP
3 6 man LF
3 las/plas Razorbacks
2 GH squads in rhino w/ melta
wolfguard 3 with termi and 2 w/ PF, 1 with cyclone

My saves were good due to cover, but at the end of the game I had killed the dread, drop pod, 1 vindi, and weapon destroy on other vindi, while he had killed both GH squads/rhinos, 1 LF squad and 1/2 of another, and 2 razorbacks...he dominated the quarters due to his minor losses.


Second.
A SW Drop pod spam.

2 RP
5 10 man GH squads w/ 2 melta, motw dropods
3 5 man LF squads

He got 2nd reserved his entire army and literally got EVERY reserve role in on turn 2, dreadnought destroyed a LF squad with a RP on turn 1. On his 2nd turn his army came in and killed 6/10 GH 5 man combat squads with his 2 LR and 3 vindi.

He has an extremely low model count and would really be hurting if he plays a list with several meltas. If my 1500 DoA list played this I would just Deepstrike next to his LRs and put 2 Meltas into them. When the land raiders get popped that is 1/3rd of his points gone, and those unprotected 5man squads will die quickly. There goes all of his scoring units. I think they key is to deepstrike meltas at those land raiders and pop them as soon as possible. Also with such a low model armor heavy list spam units with mass melta. If possible EVERY unit should have at least one melta.

Not really sure what trying to do with that single Dreadnought, cannot assault anything - just melta it.

Same with the other tanks, unleash melta at them while blast the Vindicators from afar with everything you've got.