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Steel Rain (1850 vanilla marines)

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master of the forge100 pts

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3x ironclad dreadnoughts w/ ccw + heavy flamer in drop pod 180 pts each

troops

3x 10-man space marines w/ flamer, mm, and sarge w/ combi flamer in drop pod 215 pts each.

heavy
3x Ironclads w/ heavy flamer ccw in drop pod 180 pts

what do ya'll think ?

I'm sure the look on your opponent's face when 5 pods drop in his lap on turn 1 will be priceless.

That said I don't think it will be that competitive of a list, dreads aren't as tough as they used to be. Melta-bombs, and even kraks will hurt them fairly easily now.

At the 2k level, I would take 3 Lucius pattern pods for your Ironclads, they'll automatically pass the dangerous terrain test necessary to assault out of them thanks to their move-through-cover rule, and they will tear some s**t in CC.

with all that melta it might pay to add vulkan he'stan

With all the melta, flame and bolter maby you get some explosives...

where can I find the rules for the lucius pattern drop pods?

Imperial Armour Apocalypse Second Edition.

drop the powerfists on the tactical marines - since you don't have a chapter tactics guy you may as well run from combat using combat tactics, then come back and shoot the crap out them rather than sticking around trying to powerfist stuff

Alright, errm, If I drop the powerfists on the tacs and the thunderhammer on my lord and make all the dreadnoughts ironclad, would that be any better?

Uhmm, I don't know.. Your army is pure awesome but I'd try fit more in, if you were to face any decently melta orientated list you'd be messed up. but to be honest, I'd love to play with that list, although if I wanted to make it less mean I'd probably drop a couple of the dreads for another Tac marine squad and go upgrade crazy on other guys or take a scout squad