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After having a year or so messing about with Tau I fancy something with a different flavour and I think Salamanders fit the bill. I just want something different to paint other than Tau I guess! Hopefully I'll be able to play a few games using Mercer's BA's as proxies as I get my own force together. I'll try bribing him with sweeties...

Seeing as I don't really know much about SM's I thought I'd look towards Dakka for some guidance and inspiration. Here's a list I've thrown together...

HQ

Vulkan He'stan 190pts

Troop

10 Tactical Marines, w/ flamer, missile launcher & Rhino 205pts

10 Tactical Marines, w/ meltagun, missile launcher & Rhino 210pts

10 Tactical Marines, w/ meltagun, missile launcher, Sergeant w/ power fist 200pts

Elite

Dreadnought w/ multi-melta, Dreadnought close combat Weapon w/ built in heavy flamer 115 points

Dreadnought w/ multi-melta, Dreadnought close combat Weapon w/ built in heavy flamer 115 points

5 Assault Terminators w/ Terminator armour, thunder hammer and storm shield & Land Raider Crusader w/ multi-melta, extra armour 475pts

Heavy

Land Raider Redeemer w/ multi-melta, 250pts

Predator w/ autocannon, 2 lascannon side sponsons 120pts

Predator w/ autocannon, 2 lascannon side sponsons 120pts

Total - 2000pts

Any advice or thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Ta!

No problem with the HQs

Troops are lookin' good. Nice simple force. Dump the P.fizzle and get a rhino.

Elite, Terminators are a must have, but we know that terminators wear terminator armour... its a given.

The dreadnoughts don't need heavy flamers. anything that you'll want to flame you won't want to enter combat with. they'll only slow you down...

Drop 'em, you can afford that rhino now.

Consider simply giving the redeemer to the terminators and dropping the crusader. Then, you have points for something cheap and an extra predator.

Your list is very simmilar to mine, but I run a little bit of plasma. it should work fine, and vulkan with terminators is a threat to behold.

Two land raiders is so excessive, they unbalance your army, one can survive or deflect pressure off your army two is just too big an investment.

Combimeltas are a great investment.
Powerfists are a good idea so you can just about hold your own in cc, if your tactical squads get charged currently they will just be eaten.

The heavy flamer on the dreads is probably worth the points. I am not sure how successful getting the dreads into play you will be. You are looking to be within 12'' to melt, assault or flame.

Good start

Thanks for the advice guys. After a little more thought and research I'm starting to lean more towards drop pods now...