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I am going to particpate in a series of gaming nights where the armies will be 1999 points with allies and fortifications allowed.

I like shooty armies, thus i prefer MSU style armies. I dont believe yet that mech style armies are not viable as long as you have armor enough.

Thus i want to spice up my SW with some IG:
SW
RP , Chooser, Living Lightning, Murderous Hurricanes (Or tempest for 5+ cover in the open) 110
Dreadnought 2 x TL Autocannon 125
Dreadnought 2 x TL Autocannon 125
5 Grey Hunters, Flamer, Rhino, Dozerblade 115
5 Grey Hunters, Flamer, Rhino, Dozerblade 115
5 Grey Hunters, Flamer, Razorback w. Las/TL Plas 150
5 Grey Hunters, Flamer, Razorback w. Las/TL Plas 150
5 Long Fangs, 4 Missile Launchers, Razorback w. TL Lascannon 190
5 Long Fangs, 4 Missile Launchers, Razorback w. TL Lascannon 190
Total for SW = 1270
IG Allies
CCS, 4 Plasmaguns, Chimera 165
Veterans, 3 Meltaguns (airborne) 100
Vendetta 130
2 Leman Russ w. hullmount Lascannons 330
Total for IG = 725
Total= 1995

I have played a number of SW/IG games thus far, and this is what I have picked up.

* 5 GH are just not enough. I found bringing 8 + terminator in a drop pod gives tons of cheese.
* Lone wolves in TDA, Chain Fist, and SS are money. Ill take 3 please.
* RP -- divination is your friend and is argueably the best school. While Jaws and Living Lighting are good, those are awesome
* Troops in a vendetta bring the cost to 230. They all die if it get shots down. Flyers do get shot down.
* I found Russ' underwhelming in my games.

Overall, my MVPs are the following
* Vendetta (130 points for a flyer, its hard to go wrong)
* PG vets in chimera (3 PG shots at 24, plus the chimera shots, yes please)
* Lone Wolves (85 points for a tank-wrecker that you can't avoid? And you can challange?)
* GH squads.

The banner is extremely OP for GH squads. In addition to rerolling 1's for overwatch shooting and charge distance, it also lets you do this trick.
Lets say your assaulted by 6 DCAs. They engage all your models, and your terminator is up front.
8 DCAs will have 32 attacks, 21.33 will hit, 10.88 will wound.

Normally that would be a dead squad, but you can use the banner and the terminator to save you. As your terminator is up front, you can allocate every power weapon attack to him until he dies. That means you make your terminator armor save of 2+ vs ~10.5 wounds. If you fail, well the wolf banner lets you reroll that one -- changing the chances of failure from 1/6 to 1/36.

That means that odds are you won't even get scratched from the 8 DCAs. Your 9 models return attacks will tear the DCAs to bits.
This trick works with any unit that has a large number of PW attacks but not character. If there is a character and they challange your wolf guard, he can't eat all the squads hits.

Thanks for your feedback. Great ideas for that style of army. The tda wg trick works really Well, i know. However this list is to get as much firepower A's possible. Reason for leman russ tanks is the long range ( and i have a couple of them in my collection).
A's for the small gh squads they are mainly objective grabbers and will stay indoor until they need to come out and claim or are needed to clean up a few enemies. Good point with flyer used As transport. Definately going to change that.

I'd consider taking a Primaris Psyker instead of the CCS (leaving you with 100 extra points) and spending more points on your Grey Hunters. For 2000 points your Troops are fairly light (your Veteran squad is basically a suicide squad and MSU is MSU) and regardless of what you think is viable or not, vehicles are easier to deal with now. You'll have to get out eventually so you may want to be able to take the casualties in the two Rhino squads.