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I recently purchased 12 bikes and an attack bike and wanted to know your opinions on the build for them.

I figure that there will be one sergeant, five regular bikers, two special weapon bikers, and one attack bike. should it be all melta on the bikes?

also, the remaining four I thought about putting a libby, apothecary, and a chaplain on them, leaving one last one for a commander or something else.
Just wondering what weapons would be good/useful for the whole lot of them...don't worry about parts I have plenty.

also while asking for advice...

how should I kit out a dev squad (I was thinking 2 las, 2 plasma), I never used them before, and was looking to make a stern squad too with multi-meltas. Is this viable or should I just make a tactical squad with melta/multi-melta?
Thanks in advance

Chance

On sternguard, All C-Melta, all day. No other way to run these guys.

Bikes, all melta, all day.

Putting a Libby and Priest on a bike gives them the extra durability that they need and mobility to boot. This is how I play my Libby and Priest.

Here lately I've played less priest and more bodies, yeah the extra save is good, but I'd prefer bodies on the board, and a 75 priest is almost 5 more guys.

Personally, in BA I shy away from Dev Squads, but if I were to play them....I just wouldn't, I'd play 2 Preds or 2 Vinds and a Storm Raven.

Just to jump in, the 5 combi-meltas on the Sternguard coming in with a Drop Pod seem to the the favored tactic. Some people are putting a Lightning claw (or even a Power fist?) on the Sergeant to give them some close combat goodness, but with 2 attacks each they're pretty solid in that respect.

I DO run Devastator squads but I usually run 2 of them when I do so. I run groups of 6 with the extra bolter-armed Marine just there to be the "closest target" to keep my heavy weapons safe a little while longer. You can also throw that extra dude onto a Quad Gun behind an Aegis line, which makes the squad that much more powerful. I run 2 LCs and 2 MLs (because they're cheap) and then run MM and PC in the other one.

I don't have any bikes, but the FNP you get from the Sanguinary Priest plus the Toughness 5 from the bike, plus the Jink special rule has me thinking I need to get some. MM on the attack bike, definitely.

For bikers, plasma is the best I think. It takes the most advantage of their relentless.

For attack bikes, MM.

I say combi-melta for sternguard , but I never combat squad them. I send 8 sternguards, corbs, and a shield of sanguinius libby.

Yeah, plasma on special weapon bikes and MM on the attack bikes is certainly the way to roll.

I think there's a place for H Flamers (or 2 if you're willing) in Sterngurd squads, and they can certainly make an assaulty opponant think twice about what he throws at them, but combi-meltas and should be the default choice.

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thank you all for your responses.

how will Relentless help plasma weapons, maybe I am not reading it correctly?

How should I kit out the characters so that they are WISIWIG?

Relentless allows a model to fire a rapid fire or heavy weapon and still assault.