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At current this is my only army pieced together with gifts from before I wanted to play (My HQ) a Battleforce and a spare rhino. In short this is my baseline, I am a fluff-esque player with an affinity towards Iron Hands. At current I am looking for suggestions on what I should look into getting. The game meta around me is:
orkz x2
GK
Tau
Blood angels
Necrons


With a favoritism of everyone toward objective games (except me). And now the list. All assuming I am not doing it wrong


HQ
Master of the Forge 145
Storm bolter
thunder hammer
digital weapons

Servitors 100
3 addtional
2 with heavy bolter


Troops

220
Space Marine tac squad
x5 marines
1 melta gun
1 sergent with power fist and plasma pistol

163
tac squad
x3 added marines
1 sergent with powerfist


Transport

Rhino 60
extra armor
storm bolter

Rhino 60
extra armor
storm bolter


I Really want some iron clad dreadnoughts to take advantage of the lord of the armoury rule...are they worth it?

Tac squads can only take weapons if they are full 10 man squads. I'm in a similar spot with my marines, I'm about to make a big purchase to make my list

cyorysh wrote:Tac squads can only take weapons if they are full 10 man squads. I'm in a similar spot with my marines, I'm about to make a big purchase to make my list

It is a full squad, thats why he's written x5 marines (or at least, thats what i assume, looking at the points)

At the moment, its very plain, with 2 needlessly expensive Rhinos, little long range fire. And i'm not sure how effective the MOTF/Servitor combo is.
The MOTF can be very useful, but not necessarily here. Conversion beamer is probably the best weapon for him as well. And the servitors are only really needed for fixing better tanks, you don't really need to fix Rhinos, and i don't think the Servitors can do much damage on their own, so really just wasted points.

Is 750 the points level you will be playing or are you trying to build up to 1500 or another points level?

Really I am the odd man out at 750, everyone else can play at 1500. We are by no means a highly competitive group so I would like to keep the MOTF As my hq if possible given it was my first miniature ever and I like Dreadnoughts so the ability to take up to 6 in a standard game makes me happy, obviously I likely woudnt do the whole 6 but the option elites and heavy support is nice.

So yeah I am building up to 1500 this is just what I have on hand at the moment I would like to have a more mech oriented army by the end of it.

If you want to get up to 1500 really quickly, buy some TH/SS Terminators, a Land Raider (of any type, preferrably a Redeemer) and Vulkan. That puts you at nearly 1400 points if my quick maths is correct, allowing you to throw in an AC/LC Predator if you play around with the points. Definitely bump the second tac squad up to 10 Marines and get the free Flamer/ML at least.

By no means the most competetive list, but it's fairly cheap and adds some key units.

Dreads are the other option, but I'd recommend something similar to my previous suggestions to get you going. Another idea might be to swap the Predator (and perhaps Vulkan, but he's very nice) for some Rifleman and Ironclad Dreads (the latter of which would be in a Pod).