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1850 Pts - Dark Angels Roster - Gun Line Multi Tac 1.0

HQ: Librarian (1#, 95 pts)
1 Librarian, 95 pts (Force Sword; Conversion Field; Infravisor; Combi-Plasmagun x1; 6E Psychic Disciplines: ; Divination; Pyromancy; Telekinesis; Telepathy)

HQ: Librarian (1#, 160 pts)
1 Librarian, 160 pts (Force Stave; Infravisor; Power Field Generator; Increase Mastery Level x1; Boltgun x1; Warlord; 6E Psychic Disciplines: ; Divination; Pyromancy; Telekinesis; Telepathy)

: Command Squad (5#, 180 pts)
4 Command Squad, 180 pts (Boltgun x4)
1 Apothecary
1 Standard of Devastation

: Techmarine (1#, 80 pts)
1 Techmarine, 80 pts (Bolt Pistol; Boltgun; Power Field Generator)

Elite: Dreadnought (1#, 135 pts)
1 Dreadnought, 135 pts (Searchlight; Smoke Launchers; Twin-Linked Lascannon; Heavy Flamer)

Troops: Scout Squad (10#, 125 pts)
9 Scout Squad, 125 pts
1 Sergeant (Melta Bombs)

Heavy Support: Land Raider Crusader (1#, 260 pts)
1 Land Raider Crusader, 260 pts (Multi-melta)

Heavy Support: Devastator Squad (5#, 130 pts)
4 Devastator Squad, 130 pts (Lascannon x3)
1 Sergeant (Bolt Pistol; Boltgun)

: Aegis Defence Lines (2#, 85 pts)
1 Aegis Defence Lines, 85 pts
1 Gun Emplacement (Icarus Lascannon)

Troops: Tactical Squad (5#, 90 pts)
4 Tactical Squad, 90 pts (Lascannon)
1 Sergeant (Bolt Pistol; Boltgun)

Troops: Tactical Squad (5#, 90 pts)
4 Tactical Squad, 90 pts (Lascannon)
1 Sergeant (Bolt Pistol; Boltgun)

Troops: Tactical Squad (5#, 90 pts)
4 Tactical Squad, 90 pts (Lascannon)
1 Sergeant (Bolt Pistol; Boltgun)

Troops: Tactical Squad (5#, 90 pts)
4 Tactical Squad, 90 pts (Lascannon)
1 Sergeant (Bolt Pistol; Boltgun)

Troops: Tactical Squad (5#, 90 pts)
4 Tactical Squad, 90 pts (Lascannon)
1 Sergeant (Bolt Pistol; Boltgun)


Set up is rather forward... plop the aegis line down close to your board edge, ICs go in devs and Tacs for night vision, command in land raider. If you have a ruin bolster it to a 3+ with techy.

At 1675 i have room to play with a few things. If you saw me drop this down on the other side of the table what final 175pts would you most fear was yet to be placed??

any thoughts?

Why all the lascannons? While I like the redundancy I would swap out some for different special or heavy weapons for versatility or at the very least variety. You also have very limited mobility with the tacs, they are just not going to be able to claim any objectives.

The dreadnoughts weapons are a bit mismatched. If you want fire support go for a riflemen dred or swap the heavy flamer for the ML.

All in all I think mobility is the main issue I would get some transports for the tacs even if only for late game objective grabbing/contesting.

My two cents. -Fire-

Add bodies to your Dev squad, otherwise it'll get focused and die
You either have too many or not enough vehicles, I'd add another vehicular shooting platform or two : Predator/Dread + WW maybe, you lack long range antipersonnal firepower
You could remove your two vehicles and take 2 extra Dev squads instead, it's another solution

As Firepainter said, Lascannons on Tacticals when you have the Standard of Devastation is not very bright, you're better off taking PC / HB rather than be tempted to take a LC long range shot and waste all those 16 bolter shots

First, I would like to point out that you have 3 HQ choices. Is this list two seperate DA FOC? If not, I'm pretty sure you cannot take 3 HQs in one FOC.
IMO, you have way to many LC and a lot of wasted Bolter shots to be paying 65pts for a banner that you really arn't going to be able to use unless you are going up against a horde assault army.
Thirdly, all of your minimal manned squads will be wasted very quickly if they are either fired at or assaulted due to low numbers and the enability to survive in CC.

You are asking about the last 175pts....I would either invest in some drop pods or add to your low manned units and make them more versatile like the others have mentioned.
Cheers!

I´ve made the experience that only one LR will die pretty fast due to him being the only dangerous vehicle. You basically force your opponents heavy fire to point at this unit.

I think that the problem is your lack of range and speed. you really want maximum sized squads to allow them to still qualify for the banner without being forced to crowd all around the banner.
A LRC is probably going to die but if you want one why not spend the points on DW vehicle? Why not allow your army to be mobile and ignore the flyers as far as an ADL.

Get some alpha strike Ravenwing squads... They can take out the LRBT or Manticores the enemy comes at you with...


So: 2 Max Level Librararins with PFG 260
2 Techmarines with PFG 160
1 Cmd Squad w Apoth & Banner 180
2 AC/LAS Predators 230
2 RW: 3 Bikes, 1 Attack Bike: 2 Melta 310
1140

Now you have 710 points for troops.
165
2 x 5 Scouts - Camo Cloak, 1 ML, Sniper Rifles 85 170
3 x 10 Tacs - Plasma Gun + ML 510
680
Hmm downgrade 1 to Heavy Bolters and add a rhino to the command squad.