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Messing with a few lists. Trying to stick with a Dark Angels theme, but from my understanding, unless you're going straight DW or straight RW or a mix of the two, there's no point in using the DA 'dex.

Librarian
-Epsitolary
-Termie Armor
-Storm Shield
-Might of the Ancients
-The Avenger

Tac Squad (Combat Squaded)
Sargeant - PW
-Flamer
-ML
-Rhino

Tac Squad (Combat Squaded)
Sargeant - PW
-Melta
-ML
-Rhino

Terminator Squad

Dreadnought
-Multi-Melta
-DCCW

To start with the librarian. Epistolary is a rubbish upgrade. It costs far to many points and the powers just aren't good enough to justify it. The best powers are null zone and the avenger. Anyone with an invulnerable save (and they are quite alot) hate that power.

Tactical squads. Either run power fists or nothing on the sergeants. power weapons are not going to do anything or a WS4, S4, A2 model. At this points level give them power fists. (at higher points I tend to give them nothing).

What does the terminator squad have? is it normal storm bolter terminators, or assault terminators? if the former get them a cyclone missile launcher. They are excellent.

A single dreadnought with that close range loadout is going to struggle to do a great deal during the game. My recommendation would be to either run an ironclad, or give him 2x TL autocannon, to make him either more able to survive, or able to shoot from turn 1.

Hope this is useful.

Interestly I think I would rather have a bunch of DA razorbacks at this points cost. Vanilla can not do 1000pt very well. DA can do Razorbackspam with their pretty power armour marines.

Someone else has commented the list. I think the dread advice is more just with the current list than completely generally true but otherwise I nothing to add.

Thanks for the replies!

To answer a few questions, I don't have any Razorbacks (Trying to find a cheap homemade way of converting rhinos as the turret I'm seeing online for $17 for just a turret upgrade) and the Terminator Squad is just a regular Term squad. I'd normally add a Cyclone, but I would've been over points with that list. Now if I cut back the Epistolary, I'll have the points however. I also don't have an Ironclad, just two regular and a Venerable.

As per Dark Angels vs. Vanilla 'dex, I know there's plenty of threads on it, but just to summarize, am I correct in saying unless you're doing a Deathwing, Ravenwing, or Dualwing list, I'm better off going Vanilla?