2000 pts imperial fists

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**faith is my shield**

Hello, Dawn of War got me into 40k and codices and such. Comments/criticisms please.

Imperial Fists, 1996 points

hq: 370

captain lysander, 4x terminators, assault cannon, heavy flamer, 2x chainfists - 370 points

elites: 761

4x terminators, sergeant, assault cannon, cyclone missile launcher, 3x chainfists - 260 points

9x veterans, veteran sergeant w/ power fist, storm bolter, melta bombs, purity seals, and teleport homer, 7x bolt pistol/CCWs, heavy bolter, flamer, infiltrating - 241 points

troops: 400

9x marines, veteran sergeant w/ power fist, melta bombs and purity seals, plasma gun - 200 points

heavy support: 465

5x marines, sergeant, 3x heavy bolters - 135 points

5x marines, sergeant, 2x missile launchers, lascannon - 165 points

Edit: Thanks for your advice. Forgot about a teleport homer, so I added a veteran squad and revamped things a bit.

**Mr. Bombadidaloo**

Put the chainfists into the squad with assault cannons and missles. When it comes down to the tabletop, you won't need chainfists for what you're shooting heavy flamers at, you'll need 'em for what you're shooting assault cannons and missiles at (assuming you dont kill the target), because as we all know, you can only assault what you shoot at.

In addition to that, I've never found heavy flamers to be more effective than assault cannons, so I'd just take more of those but it's entirely your call.

Give some squads teleport homers; maybe two squads and have them deploy on opposite ends of the table.

One thing I've seen done effectively with a Lysander-Fists army is to buy a scout squad and give them the homer, then let them move up into position and there ya go. Either that or an infiltrating unit of veteran marines with a teleport homer :-)

Nice Devys, in theme with the persona of a true IF army. Why seven marines each? Looks like you could scrape some extra points there by trimming them down a bit.

If you can find the points to attach a librarian to Lysander's command squad (maybe cut a troops or a devys), and give him fear the darkness, you could have a lot of fun with teleporting on the table, shooting the enemy then making them run so they can't assault you on their turn, then shoot & assault them on yours.