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I'm relatively new to 40k and SM. Please give any advice/help to improve my army.
HQ
Vulkan He’Stan (In LR) 190
Librarian 100
Ortan Cassius (In LR) 125
Chaplain- Jump pack (In drop pod) 115

Troops (All tactical sergeants have chainswords)
Tactical x10-Flamer, missile launcher, meltagun (In Rhino) 175
Tactical x10- Flamer, heavy bolter, plasma pistol, multi-melta (In Rhino) 185
Tactical x5 90
Scout- Sniper rifles, missile launcher, Telion upgrade 75
Telion 50

Dedicated Transport
Rhino x3 105
Drop Pod 35

Elite
Stern guard- 5 extra SM, 6 combi meltas, 4 combi flamers (In Rhino) 300
Terminator (A)-5 thunder hammers and storm shields (In LR) 200

Fast Attack
Assault-5 extra SM, combat shield, power fist, melta bombs (In drop pod)

Heavy Support
Land Raider-Multi-melta 260
Predator-Heavy bolter sponsons 85
Vindicator-Siege shield 115
Chronus (In Vindicator) 70

Total: 2500

Don't list point values for models. Put like - Heavy support - 300 pts.

Also how do you have two special/heavy weapons in one tac squad?

 SickSix wrote:


Also how do you have two special/heavy weapons in one tac squad?

maybe it's combi?

Anyways. This list is all over the place. If you wanna run Vulkan, use his ability to the fullest. Take more flamer/melta weaponry in exchange for stuff like the heavy bolters and plasma.

drop the plasma pistol, it could be a lascannon on your TAC squad, which would be much better for you, as you really lack long range anti-tank. -15
Drop the assault marines, they are usually very meh as you can see here. -225
Tellion, in this context at least, is not worth the investment honestly. -75
since tellion is no longer giving scouts their +1 to cover, give em cloaks +15
OH GOD Chronus is so expensive don't take the silly git-70
Since the jumppack chaplain doesn't have any assault marines to drop with, take im out -115


If you do all this, you have almost 500 points to work with. I'm also not sure that the librarian helps you any, nor that cassis is gonna do great by you (he's good and cheap, don't get me wrong... but personally, I'd rather have: ANOTHER VINDICATOR

but seriously, you're going to want to run at least two for target saturation. So take out that predator for a second vindicator, since you seem to be wanting to run a close/melee range based army. Also, as such, you might wanna take that LR from a godhammer pattern to a crusader. Assault cannon is nice, though now you really need that long range anti-light tank that we were talking about earlier.

You have an open elite slot and three open FA options (provided you took out the assault marines) So here's where you can fill that gap in your army. Land speeders are pretty decent at this, though really pricey and fragile. I've heard of some cheese where you take DA allies, cause their typhoon is cheaper, which also gives you scoring terminators (aint nothing to scoff at, and might work in this list) I'm not sure how good this actually is, as I'm just too damn tired to look it up. But it might be worth the effort to you sir.

one thing you're probably going to want to take for sure is a rifledread (two twin linked auto cannons)

also, fill out that 5 man tac squad, give one a ML, the other melta, throw em in a razorback with some weapon that will help you (maybe plas/las or twin linked las, assault cannons are good too, though all of these pricey upgrades), combat squad em each game with your ML half providing back end scoring and fire support.

I also don't see what your librarian is doing for you, might wanna take him out too.

hope this helps man.