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this is a 2000 pt list for a tourney. an idea i had floating around - figured id post the list and get some feedback. its a take all comers list, expecting to face DE venomspam, at least 1 necron imotekh list, and probally a few GK (most likley purifiers or draigowing)

HQ:
calgar termie armor - 265

Troops: (1055)
10 man tac squad, missile, melta, drop pod - 210
10 man tac squad, missile, melta, drop pod - 210
10 man tac squad, missile, melta, drop pod - 210
10 man tac squad, missile, melta, drop pod - 210
10 man tac squad, lazcannon, rhino. - 215

Elites:(480
5 termies, assault cannon = 230 (joins calgar)
rifleman dread extra armor - 140
rifleman dread extra armor - 140

heavy support:
2x predators w/ hev bolters (85 each) = 170

2000

calgar joins the termies and will deepstrike.(yea they will take a #$% ton of fire on arrival, but may also dish out the hurt if they arent killed, and if they are its fire thats NOT going into the riflemen/preds) the pods do their thing, getting into the face of the enemy or bolstering a center or defensive line. riflemen and preds sit back with the lazcannon rhino team, camping home base or otherwise providing long range support. the tac squads can combat squad on pod arrival if they need to, and the weapons are kept cheap since they will probally take alot of fire and thus the investment should be minimal. meltas are for close range landraider and so on duty, everything else should do ok in dealing with light vehicles and so on. the lazcannon exists because i had the points for it, dont have the pods, and wanted something to snipe with. it may work it may not either way these guys main job is to camp home base objectives or camp a close one after deployment. thoughts?

wow... this must be the best list ever cause no one has any suggestions. just give me the gamesday trophy now i guess.

Can you make the Terminators assault ones? If they are going with Calgar, they might want to pound things in, and nothing does that better than TH/SS termies..

Also, having half of your tactical squads + your HQ and an elite choice deep striking seems risky.

Bringing in Terminators via Deep Strike as well, seems like they could end up sitting on the sidelines till turn 3 or 4 when playing against a guard list.

The codex Astartes calls this maneuver...STEEL RHEIN!
Only thought is that the Termies should go assault, and that in a kill point game, all those drop pods may provide a bunch of easy kill points

the reason the termies are ranged, is so when they deepstrike in, they arent just sitting on thier hands doing nothing. this way they get to shoot stuff when they arrive, and while charging. and all they loose is the 3+ invun.. since fist / hammer is pretty much the same.

yea its defeinitily a gamble bringing in the majority via DS (although the pods come in first and second turn via pod assault dont they?) im just wondering if calgar is a bit much. mabe drop him for a basic capt with termie armor, and pickup a 3rd pred?

The God of war is a good choice I think. Its worth it for the fact that you choose what to take on leadership rolls. Kinda nice for a troop list such as this. Maybe add a few deathwind missle launchers for horde. And if your loading up preds for shooting why double up shooting duty with the Dreds? Can always drop them as well. Also if your gonna deepstrike calgar and crew, you can put homing beacons on drop pods, allowing no scatter.

Well, since you are going for a gunline army (it seems), it'd probably be better to even leave the shooting terminators/calgar at home, as a good counter assault unit. Not to mention Calgar does have AP2/Assault 2 bolters.

(Speaking of Calgar, since he has two powerfists, does he count as having two weapons, or do the bolters ruin that?)

Two weapons.

so keep calgar and termies back near homebase to work with the dread/preds... could work pretty well, plus then im not having to wait around for him to make his reserve roll.

edit: so if i do that, why not deploy him with a small unit of sterngaurd instead, and use the free points from termies to put lazcannons on the preds?