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Ok so I posted a 1750 army point list earlier but it turns out that everyone I know that plays wants to play with 1500 point armies. Any advice will help a lot.

HQ: 485 pts
Overlord + Warscythe + CCB
Overlord + Warscythe + CCB
Royal Court:
Cryptek x 3 + Destruction x 3 + Solar Pulse

TROOPS: 408 pts
Immortals x 8 (Gauss)
Immortals x 8 (Tesla)
Immortals x 8 (Tesla)

ELITES: 155 pts
Triarch Stalker + Particle Shredder

FAST ATTACK: 275 pts
Scarabs x 5
Scarabs x 5
Tomb Blades x 5 + Nebuloscopes

HEAVY SUPPORT: 175 pts
Doom Scythe

TOTAL: 1498 pts

The reason I have the particle shredder on my stalker is because most of the people I play against have Guardsmen, Tyranids, and Orks so the possibility of getting multiple squads twinlinked is a good thing. I personally love the Doom Scythe even though it is really a one turn shot. It can potentially destroy a lot of units. One of each Cryptek will be going in each Immortal squad. I kind of feel like I'm not fielding enough models but then again that could be because I go up against armies that field a stupid amount of troops so that's why I feel that way. Anyways please leave a comment and tell me if there is anything I could possibly do to make this a better well rounded army.

One problem is that I'm pretty sure you can only have 2 solar pulses if you have 2 royal courts (1 per court) because you can only have 1 of the special wargear per court. Haven't got my codes with me but you should check.

Maybe drop a destructek and get a despair tek w vod so you can move one of the immortal squads around?

From what you said it seems to me that you'd be better off with 2 annihilation barges with Tesla destructors rather than the death ray, particularly if you are twin linked. COMPLETELY understand using models because you love them (for me it is deathmarks and lychguard), so maybe think about dropping the fast attack and replacing with another stalker and an Anni barge.

If you are going up against Nids and Guard, the prevalence on template weapons is going to wear down a small scarab squad of 5 really quickly - particularly if they catch you out of cover.

I do only have 1 Solar Pulse in the army. The 3 Destruction Crypteks go well with the twin linking though.

oops. misread the list - sorry.

Maybe just join the scarabs together then.

Hmm, if you've got the Stalker in the army, a Doomsday Ark suddenly become much more viable.
If you're going to be playing a lot of mob armies, maybe consider replacing the Doom Scythe with Doom Ark (dropping a pie plate on a group of 30 Boyz and watching it scatter to miss them all is sad... but being able to reroll the scatter die to then see it land smack dab in the middle is a beautiful thing).

Otherwise, looking good!
(but yes, combine those Scarabs into one big unit. In fact, drop a couple Scarabs to give yourself that second Solar Pulse. Trust me, your guys will thank you for the extra turn of night fight. Use the extra points left over to buy one of your Tomb Blades something pretty?)

this seems like a fun killy infantry list to try

i would give the tomb blades twin linked gauss because its rapid fire and twin linked also so you can give it a 3 up armor

i would also change 1 crypteck to a veil crepteck and put it on the gauss immortals and keep a lord with it so it has rending or have the lord that upgrades immortals and go jumping around popping tanks with your gauss

stalkers is fine

scarabs i would make just 1 unit and make it bigger (then again thats just me)

2 solar pulses so that you can make it day or night for your enemy to get rid of pesky long range shooting (keep the mini las cannon thing on him though)

i would also change it if you have the points to do so however change the 2 immortals with telsa to 2 9 man warriors in ghost arks

the doom scythe if you make it night fighting turn 1 and 2 it will get about 1 or 2 shots in (mabe) but will die if you make it a doomsday barge then if will kill plus the twinlinked thing will kill opponents much faster because its twin linked from the stalker but it can go either way for me