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I haven't posted anything for a while so I guess I'll start with an idea for a Guard army.

HQ:
-Company Command Squad w/ Plasma Pistol 60 pts.

Troops:
Inf Platoon

-Inf Command Squad w/ Chimera 85 pts.

-Inf Squad w/ Chimera 105 pts.

-Inf Squad w/ Chimera 105 pts.

Inf Platoon

-Inf Command Squad w/ Chimera 85 pts.

-Inf Squad w/ Chimera 105 pts.

-Inf Squad w/ Chimera 105 pts.

Fast Attack:
-Three Armored Sentinels w/ Plasma Cannons 225 pts.

-Three Armored Sentinels w/ Plasma Cannons 225 pts.

Heavy Support:
-Three Basilisks 375 pts.

-Three Basilisks 375 pts.

Total: 1850

C&C Welcome

No offense, but your troops mean nothing in this list and it shows. Even your HQ is a non-factor. I am surprised you don't take away the plasma pistol and make it a AC... at least you have something that is BS 4 and you can give 'BiD!' to yourself every round.

The 36" minimum range is a killer on those Basilisks when the oponent starts out 36" away from you. You have to split them up to give each one covering fire from the other by placing them in the corners... till you scatter into your own guns doing the work for your enemy.

Your also going to have difficulty against AV 14 because the only thing that can hurt them are your Basilisks.

This list will have /alot/ of problems with DSing lists and outflanking lists.

I am not a fan of the Basilisks personally, much less taking them and really having nothing to protect them. The Sentinals are so small that getting a AV 10 side shot is not that hard, not that the AV 12 is that rough to blow through. The BS 3 just really makes them expensive popcorn.

The Infantry is all about the Chimeras, and your banking alot on the Chimeras to do something with thier MLs/HBs to pin down stuff for the Basilisks to hammer them or mop up what is left. Problem is they have the same effect as the Sentinels... people will ignore them till the Basilisks are dead or unless they have nothing else to shoot.

Conclusion:
I can dig the 750pts of artillery, I respect the goal. But I don't like the Sentinels or the naked platoons. Your going to have /alot/ of difficulties with objective games because now your artillery can scatter into your stuff. Two outflanking units or two DSing units shuts down your artillery.

I would ditch the Sentinels for bubble wrap blobs to protect your Artillery. I would seriously consider even changing your artillery, but that is your choice.