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So arranged a game this sunday against a pal who suggested a large points game to prep for next months apoc game and so I can use some of my collection I have quickly gathered (10k points in under 2 months!). We are using 2 2k point lists each.

At first I was going to use a part gun line army with some hard hitting units but decided to do a more fluffy list and use a all drop pod/jump pack/flyer list.

HQ

Librarian with 2 powers and JP
Captain with JP, Infernus pistol, and power weapon.
Reclusairch with power fist

Elites
9 Sternguard, 2 combi flamer, 2 combi melta, 3 combi plasma 2 heavy flamers in a drop pod (Sang priest 2 will go with these)
Sang priest 1 with jump pack, BP CCW
Sang priest 2 with combi melta
Sang Priest 3 with JP BP CCW
Furioso Dread with Blood talons, HF MG with searchlight in drop pod with locator beacon
Furioso Dread with Blood talons, HF MG with searchlight in drop pod with locator beacon
Furioso Dread with Blood fists,Magna Grapple HF MG with searchlight in drop pod with locator beacon
Furioso Dread with Blood fist, Frag cannon MG in Drop pod

10 Death company, 9 with bolters, 1 with Thunderhammer in drop pod with locator beacon
9 Death company 7 with BP CCW, 2 with BP PF in drop pod with locator beacon (Chaplain will go with these)

10 man Assault squad with 2 flamers
10 man Assault squad with 2 flamers
10 man Assault squad with 2 meltas
10 man Assault squad with 2 meltas
5 man Assault squad with plasma gun in a razorback with TL Assault cannons

pred with Autocannon and sponson HB HK Missile
pred with Autocannon and sponson HB
pred with Autocannon and sponson HB
Storm Raven with hurricane bolters, TL AC TL HB
Storm Raven with hurricane bolters, TL AC TL HB



Between 5 and 9 Scoring troops depending on mission, the Dreads will be going in on the first wave and will either focus fire on a unit or two or try and pop some armour for first blood, each dread drop pod has a locater beacon so I can get the other drop pods in either where I need them or relie on the guidence system (which is very reliable ime), but they are mainly for the deep striking assault marines so I can get them exactly near the pods if I need more troops there. i am hoping to lose only 1 maybe 2 dreads the first turn meaning I will be able to charge them in the second, this should stop my assault marines which deepstrike near them so they wont get charged. I may take the DC in the Storm ravens and leave their pods empty depending on mission and how I feel. Everything in the list is either fast jump packs or in drop pods so I imagine it to be a spear tip attack on a ork camp, should make for a fun game!

Dont you need astorath to have 2 squads of death co?

You might be able to because its double FoC...

Anyway
I dont like captains, and you only need 2 HQ. I would drop him.
Those dreads will do a lot of damage, as will the sternguard: 4 pods coming down turn 1 will hurt.
For the death co, always give PF marines bolters because it gives them an extra shot/longer for no penalty. Relentless. I would give them all bolters, but you dont have to: this just makes them deadly the turn they come down too.
I would either drop the razorback squad or turn it into a Baal, because av11 only works if there is a lot of it. your razorback will die 1st turn, maybe 2nd. Either add more squads like that or take the one away.
Preds look good, you have enough pods etc to cover the mech side.
Ravens too.

Good work, gotta go otherwise I would expand more. GLHF GG

using the razorback with assault squad so I can get to objectives a little quicker, depending what mission it is, I will probably combat squad one of the assault marine squads that are deep striking but dont want to have to deepstrike both into my deployment, he hasnt got a huge amount of large range firepower and turn 2 he will be focusing all his fire on my dreads (or his turn 1 if I go first). The razorback and preds will be hidden behind LOS blocking terrain anyway, being fast I cant see it being a issue.

I was thinking of swapping out the assault cannon on there for something with a bit more range, las plas maybe (although I dont have that turret and everything else is WYSIWYG) so maybe TL Lascannons.

I mean, if you'r'e gonna camp him I would go with lasplas because you can hit long range and then hit even harder if he comes close.
Think about DC/captain comments though...

Sadly the PF guys have BP modeled on them and I only have 9 with bolters, at the moment, and i cant see me getting more. Everything in the army is WYSIWYG, its going to be too confusing to start proxy-ing things.

Not doing this to win, think it should be a fun fluffy game