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Please comment with thoughts and/or suggestions for this list:

HQ Chapter Master - Plasma Pistol, Lightning Claw, Artificer Armor

Elite Terminators X5 - Standard

Elite Dreadnought - Twin-Linked Lazcannon

Transport Rhino X2 - Standard

Transport Drop Pod X1 - Teleport Beacon

Heavy Support Predator X1 - Twin-Linked Lazcannon, Heavy Bolter Sponsons

Troops Tactical Squad X10 - Plasma Pistol, Plasma Gun, Missile Launcher, Power Fist, Teleport Homer, Melta Bomb

Troops Tactical Squad X10 - Melta Gun, Missile Launcher, Power Fist, Melta Bomb

Troops Tactical Squad X10 - Plasma Gun, Missile Launcher

Troops Tactical Squad X8 - Standard

I would give your chapter masters a j pack so that he can bounce around and support your foot sloggers. Termies are T hammers?

I just see a lack of armour on the board to draw fire. The enemy in a standard list will be able to address your rhino with ease. The next thing to think about is your forward elements in your list and whats going to support that push. I just do not know what all your have to offer up any change outs.

Something to think about when building a list is what will you be facing in your area. I myself when list building will dwell on what I have seen at the local tournies over the course of a few months. That will help you build a stronger list to address weak points in you list.

In this list I would try and cheapin your character so that you can increase that last squad. Maybe just a j pack, power weapon and pistol for command and if needed a little xtra punch in your lines.

I would defiantly get more heavy weapons, nothing wrong with big bangs!

Your list is not a good list for the following reasons:
- Your chapter master costs almost the same as Pedro Kantor while not having Pedro awesome buff. You either choose a named character as HQ or stick to a cheap captain/librarian. At 1500 pts, one librarian with bolt pistol is the best option.
- There is no reason to ever take Tactical Terminators. Thunder hammer and stormshield terminators or leave them at home. You might think that Drop Pod goes down turn 1 with Dreadnought, then turn 2 Termies come in shooting. The problem is they don't come in turn 2 all the time. That dreadnought (and probably drop pod) will be dead on the enemy turn and 10 Str4 shots cannot kill anything.
- If your dreadnought is going to go down in the Drop Pod, take multi-melta, it will kill as good as (or even better) than TLLC and it is free.
- Tac squad is all around bad choice for SM. There are only two ways to take tactical marines for SM: 5-man with Razorback LasPlas or 10-man with upgrades. So that 8-man squad needs to be changed. You will find that sergents power fist will almost never see any use. Those powerfists and Melta Bomb might as well be used to buy Typhoon Landspeeders or Riflmandreads.

At 1500 pts, there is not many choices for SM that will be competitive, check out this compilation of different lists that work
http://www.3plusplus.net/p/army-list-compilation.html

So looking at your list, I see you have 3 dedicated transports but I'm not sure which units they're for. I'm guessing they're for your Tactical Squads? Did you take the Chapter Master instead of a Captain for Orbital Bombardment?

In addition to the points leohart made, you may want to consider re-gearing your Predator. TL-Lascannon and HB sponsors are not a good combination because you are either wasting anti-armor power or anti-infantry power no matter what you shoot at. I typically run a predator with autocannon turret (FREE) and lascannon sponsons, used as antitank.