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Hi, I've been contemplating starting a SW list for some time now, and I'm not jumping on the bandwagon since the new models were announced! I've put together a starting 1k list. I normally play 2k point games, but in a 3 player group so we're typically playing 2k vs 1k + 1k... I'll be upgrading to 2k points in time, but for now my thousand points look like this... Your thoughts would be appreciated...

HQ
Rune Priest
Terminator Armour, Runic Weapon, Storm Bolter, Chooser of the Slain, Living Lightning, JOTWW

Elite
7 Wolf Guard
5 x Terminator Armour as bodyguard for the RP with PW and Storm Bolter + 1 x Combi-melta
2 x PF & Combi-melta to lead GH squads

Dreadnought
TL Lascannon, DCCW & Storm Bolter

Troops
2 x 9 Grey Hunters w/ Meltagun & Rhino

Heavy Support
5 Longfangs
Squad leader
2 x lascannon (may swap for HB, still undecided)
2 x missile launcher

Ok right, well I think I could have fun playing you with my 1000pts list cos it would be fun and random to say the least.

One or two things I might change. You have a nice block of 2+ saves there in the list which is a difficult thing to deal with at 1000pts cos there are very little ranged ap2 weapons out there. So good, you can keep them in cover most of the time which effectively gives you a 2+/4++ from what heavy fire you've got to deal with.

What you should think about putting in there is a powerfist or chainfist for dealing with vehicles, walkers, MCs and ICs. That would make the squad hit harder, you may need to drop down to 4 men but that could give you the points to stick in a heavy weapon on that squad.

An assault cannon or CML moving forward is IMHO better then the 2 lazcannons in the long fangs, if you switch to all missile you have a more versitile unit and can leave the heavy armour killing to the dread or the meltaguns. The fangs can then spend their time taking out light armour like transports, shooting at characters not in TDA and ripping apart hordes with frag missiles. Heavy bolters do work but you would still need a squad of missiles to take care of heavier threats and the missiles have a greater range which means less time moving on the board.

With any points you have left over or if you re-make it a little you should think about tooling out your GH squads, a MOTW is a great upgrade and having a wolf banner in there is always worth it for a tough cc phase.

Otherwise it looks good and would be doing well in my local league.

Thanks for the tips, I'll see if I can re-jig things a bit in line with your suggestions...