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so I'm going to a tournament in a week. 1250 6th edition, no warlord traits. and i want to try out my new space marines.
what do you think of this semi bike list.

Hq
Captain (175)
- bike
- power weapon
- artificer armor
- hellfire rounds

Troops
Tactical Squad (210)
- x10
- flamer
- missile launcher
- powerfist
- plasma pistol

Bike Squad (200)
-x6
- power weapon
- meltagun x2

Scout Squad (75)
- sniper rifles

Elite
Assault Terminators (450)
- x5
- SS/TH
- land raider

Dreadnought (140)
- drop pod

keep in mind, i don't own too much more than what i posted, just a couple more tactical squads with drop pods, and another Dread.
thanks everyone.

Your list is a little all over the place. Vanilla marines tend to be at low points.
If you want a biker army get more bikers. The ravenwing box set is a good source. Also Telion is awesome.

You are going to have problems with flyers. Get an ADL with quadgun.

Additions later:

Give the captain a relic blade and meltabombs, do you have storm shield lying around? This is firstly just a good set up but then just makes him flexible which is what you need for both low point marine armies and in tournament play. (you can split off and be awesome if needs be, challenge units or meltabomb mech.)

Scouts need camo cloaks.

I would give the tac. serg. melta bombs, pistol, bolter. As with a fist he is going to die in challenges. Else go for a powersword if you need to spend the points. What you actually want to do is lose combat by the smallest margin, combat tactic out of there, then regroup and fire with everything you have on the offending enemy unit.

I would bring LCs on the assault termies. 2+ is already hardy, and the extra attacks and the higher initiative are needed normally.

I would give the dread a heavy flamer. It is just a useful upgrade as flamers are cool.

The crux of your list is the raider and assault termies. This is a deathstar unit. If the enemy can eliminate this threat then they are fine, otherwise 5 assault termies make a mess if they can get into combat.
The issue is, like the deathstar, they can all too easily die with not much gain.
This is the risk of your current list. I think I would go for it.

Otherwise take it out and replace with your other models. Drop pods with bikers and scouts can be pretty good.

thanks for the reply. i like the idea of the adl, especially with the camo cloaks. i have to buy it though. (and paint it!) a little explanation of my tactics. i only made the bikers troops for scoring. its only a semi biker list.

what if my temies go 2 th/ss, and 3 LC
i dont want to drop the deathstar but it really would free up points.

also, didnt think about pf challenges. wish i would have before modeling :(

should drop the tac squad for an extra scout squad and adl.