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I have a friend who is considering a raven guard army with Shrike in it. This is his creation:
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Shrike

Sniper scouts 8
1 rocket launcher

6 man tacticle squad
Heavy bolter, flamer, razorback, heavy bolters

6 man tacticle squad
Multimelta, melta, razorback, lascannons

10 man assault marines (not termos)
Sergent, plasma pistol, squad plasma pistol

3 landspeeders
3 pintle heavy bolters, 3 underslung assault cannons

1 predator miximulus
Twin-linked lascannon, sponson heavy bolters

Any comments or criticisms would be greatly appreciated. This army is probably from the old space marine codex and may need updating to the new one.

Tac squads have to be a full ten man squad to take special weapons. Also what is the deal with the load-out on the predator? Iirc the most common/widely accepted setup is autocannon/las sponsons

Try #2 by my friend. He is trying to get a lot of chapter character in this, so a fluffy yet effective army.

Kayvaan Shrike

Troops

5 x scouts
4 snipers, ML

5 x scouts
4 snipers, HB

5 x scouts
5 BP, 4 CCW, 1 PW

Fast Attack

10x Assault Marines
1 Plasma P.

1x LSS
1 HB

Heavy Support

1x Predator
1 turret auto cannon, Sponson Lascannons

Elites

1 Dreadnought
1 MM, DCCW w. Heavy Flamer.
Drop Pod
Storm Bolter OR Deathwind launcher.

Drop the Plasma Pistol and give the Sergeant a Power Weapon instead.

You have to have a full 10man squad to have any Special or heavy weapons on tactical squads.

Having all Scouts means your army is a GEQ army with better toughness and armour save. Scouts can be good if used in support or harass roles, but are terrible if they are the only troop option.

That's my opinion on scouts, at least. I field a full 10 unit over 1000pts w/ Telion, just because Telion messes with peoples heads so much.