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Hey fellas. I'm tuning up my Night Lords for a series of tournaments, hopefully to include the Bugeater GT later this year. Here's a list I've been playing with lately, it's been working great.

2000p Night Lords (Codex: Blood Angels)

=HQ=
Librarian /w Jump Pack, Unleash Rage, Shield of Sang @125p
Librarian /w Jump Pack, Unleash Rage, Shield of Sang @125p

=Elites=
Chaplain in Terminator Armor @130p
5x Assault Terminators /w 2x Lightning Claws & 3x TH+SS @215p
2x Sanguinary Priests /w Jump Packs

=Troops=
10x Assault Marines /w 2x Meltagun, Power Fist, Jump Packs @235p
10x Assault Marines /w 2x Meltagun, Power Fist, Jump Packs @235p
10x Assault Marines /w 2x Meltagun, Power Fist, Jump Packs @235p
10x Assault Marines /w 2x Flamer, Power Fist, Jump Packs @225p
5x Scouts /w Sniper Rifles, Camo Cloaks @90p

=Heavy Support=
Stormraven Gunship /w TL Assault Cannon, TL Multimelta, Extra Armor @215p

Tactics:
So in general my forces organize into two groups, each made up of a Librarian + a priest + 20 marines. This list can be played in a traditional "hop up the board" style, using the shield of sanguinius to protect the jump marines on their way up the board, or it can be played DoA against opponents where deepstriking meltaguns would be more beneficial. The stormraven generally goes into reserves if I don't have first turn. If I do have first turn, it will probably just flat out up the board. It's sole purpose is to deliver the terminators and their chaplain, and it rarely has failed me in doing that.

The scouts are a fun little unit. Generally they just hide on a home objective and never move, hoping to go unnoticed until the end of the game when objective counting starts, but they can also assist in softening up monstrous creatures, I suppose. I've also gotten limited use out of outflanking them to steal an objective late game, or just to have something on the board for Dawn of War, in order to force the opponent into their own deployment zone.

Anyhoo. Thats my list. Tell me what you think fellas.

Anyone?

My main thought is that the Stormraven is a bad idea, and I'd cut it along with all its cargo. You don't have any other vehicles, so I really can't believe it will ever survive a turn of shooting, 4+ save or not. If you have first turn AND non-DoW deployment, I guess that's ok, it helps the Terminators get close enough to assault something. But otherwise, you just end up with Terminators at midfield.

Even if you want to keep the Stormraven, I don't think the Chaplain is a good inclusion. You put more points in the same fragile basket, and you could just run a Librarian with the Terminators, in Terminator Armor or not.

If you cut the Stormraven, Termies and Chaplain, you'd have 560 to spend. That would be enough to add some combination of the following: Devastators with 4 Missile Launchers, Honor Guards, Vanguard Veterans.

Alternative would be another priest in terminator armor to give FnP to the assault termies, which I'd probably value higher than the chaplain.

Otherwise I'd go with MrEs advice, except I'm not a big fan of devastators as they'd be on their own island of the board with no support.