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Here's my 1250 space marine list, you'll probably notice there is no HQ. Its more for friendly games than anything, but I find HQ are too expensive and feel they dont justify their cost at this point. Just wondering what the consensus was with this, and if I was to take one, what would be removed.

10 Tactical Marines - 230
power sword
missile launcher
plasmagun
rhino

10 Tactical Marines - 230
power sword
missile launcher
plasmagun
rhino

5 Scouts - 140
heavy bolter
Land Speeder storm

5 Sternguard Veterans - 200
Razorback
TL LC

Dreadnought - 140
TL LC
Missile Launcher
drop pod

3 Landspeeders - 180
tornado heavy bolters

2 Attack bikes - 100
Multi meltas

Main idea is to split all marine squads into combat squads. So deploy from rhino, stationary missile launcher and mobile power sword/plasma squad. Then have sternguard to deal with difficult infantry in cover or MCs with the razorback tank hunting. 3 Landspeeders solely for AI and 2 attack bikes to go heavy tank hunting. The scouts are for early objective grabbing and to try and put early hurt on MCs (often opponent is DE haemonculus army). Then deep striking dreadnought for first turn tank kills... hopefully.

Well, to keep it by the rule book, I'd say you need an HQ. Just a 100pt Libby is all you need.
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Other than that, drop the PW on the Tac squads. I find them to not be worth the cost since you mainly want them for shootyness. If you were to charge an enemy, you wouldnt be able to shoot the bolters/plasma/ML.

Why a drop pod for a long range shooty dread? If you want it to drop down & pop a tank, I would go for a MM/HF dread instead.

yeah well since they're just friendly games its not too stringent on the rules, but out of the HQ choices taken raw/as is, would the librarian be the best option?

Fair enough about the power swords as well.

Yes, librarian is generally the best option for HQ. 100 points (on par with captain and chaplain), and you get a force weapon and 2 psychic powers, where as with the captain you have to buy wargear and the chaplain is only really for close combat.

Sternguard are great with combi-weapons. If you're not going to drop pod them, then combi-plasma would be the best option.

Im unsure of the benefit that the scouts on the storm would bring. So if I dropped them could take a librarian, but the only transport with space for him is the razorback. I dont think he complements sternguard so well. But following that line anyway the remaining 40pts could be used for either 5 combi-plasma or stormbolters on the sternguard then 15 left over for something random. Maybe a power weapon for a sergeant or a hunter-killer missile.

I find the librarian to be great fun. If you're playing C:SM you can grab the Gate of Infinity and Avenger powers so you can gate, shoot with sternguard and anyone get too close can eat a flame template. Granted you'd need more points to make him an Epistolary to cast both powers but that's tactics then.

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I've run my vanilla librarian with telepathy and try for puppet master and make the enemy shoot themselves.

I would suggest to change the loadout of the Razors to LC and TLPlasmagun.
More shots for same costs. A single LC has anyway a good chance of hitting on its own.

Stick the sternguard in the drop pod with combi meltas. First turn byebye anything they have thats hi priority. Chaplain Cassius is also a decent HQ. Hes 125 pts and is hard as nails to kill. Keep the dread as is. With what you have on him is wont last long against a power fist/ claw etc.

Cassius... possibly. I have a chaplain model so could trial him. One thing I should have pointed out was my most common opponent is DE with around 2 raiders, 2 ravagers, 3 venoms and a Talos. Warriors+blaster in venoms, wracks+heamonculus in raiders.

I like the TL lascannon on the razorback as its insurance that it will hit. But I guess the LC/plasma combo would work.

Typically a game goes something like this, I deploy my guys... then he stacks every model behind one building out of LoS. The deep striking long range dred was to manouvre it around to hit him yet remain out of blaster range. Since he's fast moving infantry with meltas may not help much, so I stuck them on attack bikes. Lastly the sternguard vets with storm bolters should be able to put decent hurt on the talos with hellfire rounds at 24".

I guess this kinda makes the list not so TAC, but from what I've thought of it would still perform reasonably against others.