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So, random army of the day:

Librarian, Shield, Fear of the Darkness 100

(5) Assault squad, remove packs 100
Razorback, TLHF 20

(5) Assault squad, remove packs 100
Razorback, TLHF 20

(5) Assault squad, remove packs 100
Razorback, TLHF 20

3x Land Speeder, 2 w/ Typhoon missile launcher + HB, 1 w/ HF 230

3x Land Speeder, 2 w/ Typhoon missile launcher + HB, 1 w/ HF 230

3x Land Speeder, 2 w/ Typhoon missile launcher + HB, 1 w/ HF 230

Stormraven, TLMM, TL Lascannon 200

Stormraven, TLMM, TL Lascannon 200

Stormraven, TLMM, TL Lascannon 200

= 1750

Yay, 12 skimmers!! If going first break 9 vehicles. If going second deploy out of your opponent's range if possible, you've got effective 60" range with all your missiles/lascannons anyways.

Your first shooting phase you've got 3 TL las @ 3 targets, plus 24 krak missiles going into 6 targets, 12 of them at ap1

Give shield to stuff with your Lib for a 5+ cover.

Kite CC armies around while shooting the crap out of them, block with razors if necessary.

Objective missions might be hard, but oh well. You can either throw your assault squads in the razors or the Ravens, your choice.

Thoughts?

Well, its actually a good idea. Twelve skimmers with decent fire power should be hard to stop.

I think this might actully work out very well.

This sounds like a pretty cool army! I'd be tempted to hide little RAF roundels somewhere on the skimmers after the title of your post!

Well, you could hold the Razorbacks in reserve if necessary.

I'm not a fan of the mass Land Speeders especially when they have heavy flamers and missile launcher. But as usual I always think your army lists are out the box and very interesting.

The basic idea of the army is to alphastrike your opponent's army and break as much of the stuff he has that can hurt you at long range as you can.

The army accomplishes this by either:

1. Going first (obvious, I know, but it helps a lot )

2. When going second, if your opponent's longest range AT is 48", you can deploy around ~55" away, be out of their range on t1, then zoom in and alphastrike anyway (betastrike? lol )

Against CC armies you can kite them for forever.

Its not a very competitive list ( its a gimmick that relies on the alphastrike, too many things can go wrong, and it has too many bad matchups) but it should be fun to play. Plus if you're good at scratchbuilding, you can build it almost for free (just gotta buy 16 marines).