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Hey guys looking at doing a competitive space marine army, haven't played since 4th edition so need help.

HQ

Vulkan He'stan
[190]

TROOPS

10 man tactical squad
Meltagun, plasma cannon, powerfist, combi flamer, meltabombs.
[220]

Razorback
Lascannon, hunter killer
[85]

10 man tactical squad
Flamer, plasma cannon, power axe, stormbolter.
[200]

Razorback
Lascannon, hunter killer.
[85]

6 man tactical squad
Power axe
[121]

Razorback
Lascannon, hunter killer.
[85]

10 man scout squad
Teleport homer, power weapon
[170]

7 man scout squad
7 sniper rifles, 7 camo cloaks.
[122]

ELITES

Ironclad dread
Heavy flamer, 2 hunter killer.
[165]

5 man terminator squad
Heavy flamer, 2 chain fists.
[215]

FAST ATTACK

Chaplain
Powerfist, digital weapons, jump pack.
[140]

7 man assault squad
Flamer, power axe.
[161]

Land speeder
Multi melta.
[60]

Total [1994]

Love some feedback

What's the Ironclad for? A CC dread should always have some other method of travel, because footslogging it will mean it will almost always get popped before it does anything.

7 man assault squad, 7 man scout squad and 6 man tactical squad are horrible awkward numbers.

Chaplains aren't a fast attack choice.

I'd say give the tactical squads missile launchers instead of plascannons, but that's a personal call depending on your local meta.

I really like cc dreads! Was going to move it up behind the razorbacks.

7 man assault squad was 9 for the chaplain but had to shave points. Same with sniper scouts.

I know the chaplain is a HQ but I'm writing this on an iPad, they suck! As you can't scroll up when halfway through a document box on a web page, I had to add him there with his assault squad.

Yeah didn't really know what heavy weapon to choose. I used to play dark angels in 4th edition and had 6 plasma cannons so thought they'd do.

Do you see any problems with this list? What heavy weapons should I choose?

Plasma Cannons are good against MEQ armies but use missile launchers against others. I'm not sure but i think you can get a drop pod for your dreadnought if you drop them.

Do yourself a favor a get a pod for your dread. Footslogging might get you into assault by turn 4 or 5, but it won't last that long because it will be a fire magnet. That's not necessarily a bad thing though. Drop it in, pop a tank, assault a unit, and by turn 2 you opponent is trying to fight back inside his own deployment zone. This gives you razorbacks time to move onto objectives, and by the time your assault marines arrive, they can pick and choose weakened units to either get an easy kill point or contest a weak objective.

swordshaver wrote:Drop it in, pop a tank, assault a unit

Except for the fact that you cannot Assault after deep striking. Unless your Dreadnoughts have Heroic Intervention (they don't).

Irconclads are a terrible choice for drop pods. You have to drop within 6" to be effective, which puts you right into your opponents Melta range. So IF you hit, and IF you penetrate, and IF you manage to destroy something...well done, you've managed to kill a 35 points rhino. Unless your opponent is silly enough to let you drop next to his Land Raider, it's not worth it.

unbeliever is right, if you drop the ironclad and the assault squad and chaplain however, you now have the points to add some TH/SS termies (ace with vulkan, master crafted TH's) and a basic dread with MM and still have points to spare, you can probably get away with dropping in the MM dread too seen as the melta range is better. I wouldn't bother with the razors neither and go for rhino's and keep the extra points for later but thats just me