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Hey guys, List I've been working on for an hour or so, just want some feedback really! Thinking maybe its a bit thin on the ground in terms of numbers, anyway, let me know.

HQ

- CCS
Company commander w/ Boltgun, 4x flamers. Chimera - 127 Points

Troops

- Vet Squad
vets with shotguns. 3x meltas, sergeant with Powerfist. Chimera - 170 Points

- Vet Squad
vets with shotguns. 3x metlas. sergeant with Powerfist. Chimera - 170 Points

- Vet Squad
vets with lasguns. 3x plasma. Chimera - 170 Points

Heavy Support

- Leman Russ Vanquisher
Knight Commander Pask - 205 Points

- Leman Russ Vanquisher
Vanilla - 155 points

Total - 997 Points

Tactics for this I think are fairly obvious. Meltas and plasmas deal with vehicles and tough infantry. melta vets can double up as assault vets. ccs to fight anything squishy.

Just wondering where i could take this list for another 500 or 1000 points.

Cheers

Power fists on your melta sergeants is kind of a waste of points for what they offer you.

You can't really touch any fliers either.

Pask is a very expensive upgrade for 1k points, also two vanquishers is kind of overkill at 1k, how many vehicles do you plan on seeing?

Vanquishers are not really very good, it's a lot of points for 1 shot. As mentioned already, you are not likely to see so many heavy vehicles at 1k level, and that's the only target they're worth it against. If you are set on them, take lascannons, probably don't take pask. But standard leman russes, or demolishers, are more versatile and will scare your opponents far more.

It is generally considered a bit of a waste to give CCS (or vets) flamers, as they have BS4. Especially if you're all mechanised - chimeras should have hull-mounted heavy flamers, which is usually enough in that department. Meltas/plasmas are the way to go.

Minor thing, boltguns/pistols are a bit useless in themselves, and are almost the only thing in the codex that doesn't cost in increments of 5 pts. So that 2pt upgrade could be a 5-pt upgrade somewhere else, if you see what I mean. So when you have that urge to take one on a character, think 'why not take meltabombs instead?'.

To expand this list, another heavy support tank, more troops (mechanised veterans, or platoons with mechanised PCS and footslogging infantry would both be good), vendettas or hellhound would all be good. Apart from the above quibbles, mechanised IG is a strong, fun army.

The only real problem that this list has is in the mobility department. A few chimeras gunning it forwards is a recipe for disaster, while your russes, especially pask (who is best used when immobile) aren't going to be able to catch up at all.

Really, what you've got is an army built entirely around defensive units. This isn't all that bad... per se... but you're going to have to be pretty on top of things in the movement phase to be able to do any of the necessary things outside of your deployment zone.

If you want to do armored mech, though, the only real suggestion I have is to drop pask in favor of a hull lascannon and sponson multimeltas for your other vanquisher.

As others have said, ditch the fists, boltgun and pask, spend the points making one vanq an AT machine and make sure your chimeras all have hull heavy flamers.

I say keep the flamers on the CCS or swap them for grenade launchers for lols to save on points. Spend any remainding points on upgrading to plasmaguns.

swap the second vanquisher for either an exterminator or an eradicator with full heavy bolter loadout. (both of these will keep you mobile and very killy, swapping the hull HB on the exterminator with a lascannon helps for killing transports but at this level keep with the heavy bolters)


As for 1500 - 2000

2 vendettas + heavy bolters, with plasma/melta vet squads riding in them, maybe a colossus, basilisk or manticore
Its up to you really but the above template is basically a winner apparently.
If you are going to spend more on toys (elite or FA choices) make sure you have the boots on the ground, you may have to look at a small infantry platoon at 2k

all in all a pretty standard list, a good one mind you, guard can really shine at 1000pts

Noodles