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The Idea is to reserve the entire army and pod half in on turn one and focus fire 2-3 units / vehicles down to gain a point advantage.

If i go second, I pretty much take the first game turn away from my opponent.

The pod with the locator beacon always goes balls deep turn one so that the tac squads don't scatter some crazy direction themselves when they come in.
This enables confident secure of cover or rapid fire.

Vulkan is not in a sterngaurd pod because I don't want him dead by turn 2. I'd almost rather him not come in on turn two, if im lucky.

The general strat should be obvious, which is to have stern pods come in guns blazing and single out 2-3 Vehicles with the squads (if any) inside.

Against nids (only one of these players here) I would use the combi meltas as hellfire rounds or the like, and simply not worry about melta fire unless I was in need of the AP.

35 Drop Pod w/
190 Vulkan He'Stan
180 Tac Squad +5 w/ Flamer, Multi-Melta, Combi-Flamer

35 Drop Pod w/
180 Tac Squad +5 w/ Flamer, Multi-Melta, Combi-Flamer

35 Drop Pod w/
180 Tac Squad +5 w/ Flamer, Multi-Melta, Combi-Flamer

35 Drop Pod w/
300 Sterngaurd Squad +5 w/ 10 Combi-Melta

35 Drop Pod w/
300 Sterngaurd Squad +5 w/ 2 Melta, 3 Combi-Melta, 5 Combi-Flamer

45 Drop Pod w/ Locator Beacon,
300 Sterngaurd Squad +5 w/ 5 Combi-Melta, 5 Combi-Flamer

61 bodies in a marine list. That is some serious bolter spam. Could be quite an interesting list to play. I would pretty much try to go second in almost every game.

What is your counter to Bale Flamers? A drake or two would eat this list. I would recommend dropping one of the SG squads in favor of a Stormraven with Stormtalon escort. That would leave you with 10 points to put elsewhere.

Other than that, It seems really nasty

TL multimelta and meltas, should at least give him a threat against the drakes. Best defense will probably to get in thick with the opponent.

Yeah the more I thought about it the better it sounds, could just take 2 Stormtalons over a sterngaurd squad in a non-local setting and honestly, I might just for the idea of having flyers.

Most people, like me, don't run anything against them. Whilst the other chunk of people run them.

There's not many people in between.

I'd say its 45/15/40 for doesnt bother / defenses / flyers.

At least it seems that way. Yet if you table someone using flyers and they fly off any turn you win. And you get kill points if you are playing purge while they are in ongoing when the game ends.

So it can be a double edged sword sometimes to use them. And Vulkan doesnt contribute to them at all really.