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Long story short, I'd love to start GK, and am hoping I can use at least a squad of Purifiers, Paladins, Rifleman Dreads, and either Draigo or Crowe. Are there any highly competitive lists that adhere to this criteria?

It'd really be ideal to find one, as I've loved these models, and love the idea of an easily-transported, low model count army that tables people left and right.

Table people left and right and you won't find anyone who will want to play you. Maybe 3 or 4 games per store and word will get around. But, I would suggest purifiers. 3 ven psifle dreds and 3 psifle dreds. That's 24 str 8 shots. People disagree with me on this but put out full purifiers with 4 OSI cannon. Have done pretty well with mine.

Problem is you also won't table good players left and right no matter what army you field espeacially with a low model count since you will lack number of shots per round to do it outside of IG gunlines or maybe venom spam.

There are no highly competitve insta wins with all these in the same army since most competitive draigo lists use librarians to 1. give their big 10 man shrouding/sanctuary or 2 give the storm raven shrouding.

You don't have enough pts to do a little of this or a little of that. If you want purifiers and paladins in the list you just run them as elites and snag a cheaper hq like coteaz.

If you want purely low model count you run a draigowing with 10 paladins draigo libby etc. Even a 2k pt purifer list will end up with over 40 models which is low to other armies but high compared to a draigo 2.5k that can have only 14. lol

the tabling thing was a joke. Mainly my issue is I live in NYC so transporting my massive guard blob army is tough, and I'm looking for a smaller army that is still competitive.

What I seem to hear is I can't have all of what I want, so I guess my main desire becomes one of those HQ's, at least a unit of termies, and some PAGK's of any kind, with at least one psyrifleman. I can do without the purifiers I suppose, but I would like to include some regular power armour somewhere, and if I simply must use a diff HQ, so be it.

I'd love a comprehensive list offered, as I've never played or written GK lists, so I'd pretty much have no idea what to write in/what to buy

Considering Purifiers are... more or less the best unit in the codex, they're definitely worth considering whether you want to make them troops or keep them as elite spots, (I really don't like Crowe lists, they're too predictable and boring.)

What I do recommend is a librarian. They're so incredibly diverse in terms of what they bring to the table. Offensive powers, defensive powers, mobility for slower lists (summoning), psychic hood etc. Librarian is a main stay in most Draigowing armies as they need shrouding to stay alive against ap2 stuff. Of course then again you might just have TFG who runs 9 leman executioners with plasma sponsons. haha