I'd agree with UMguy, though you could put your
CCS in a chimera with meltas and make two vet squads with plasma and demolitions and put them in your vendettas. Drop your vendettas in with a deep strike, let those vets loose with 6x plasma rifles and two demo charges. Watch the enemys back field run!
And vanilla Leman Russ' work perfectly fine. They're great against hordes and decent against armor.
A nice tactic is to keep your chimeras behind your russ' for protection, everything will be trying to get through that 14AV to get to your chimeras and for the most part, that likely won't happen. Then once you get your Vendettas in, you'll have them trapped, but you've gotta be careful were you
DS those vendettas, they'll only get one shot when the hit the ground, but you'd have vets coving them till their next turn. It's all in how you play it.
And jbsnv, I don't know why you hate Vendettas so much, every post about Vendettas, you tell people to remove them, this is in fact the first time I haven't seen you call them crap. Either you bought a few and they've never worked out or it's just some kind of unnatural hatred.
lol