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HQ - Grand Master Mordrak
HQ - 5x Ghost Knights w/ 4x Halberds & 1x Hammer

Elites - Vindicare Assassin

Troops - 5x Terminators w/ 4x Halberds, 1x Hammer & Incinerator
Fast Attack - Stormraven w/ TL-Multi Melta & TL-Lascannon

Troops - 5x Terminators w/ 4x Halberds, 1x Hammer & Incinerator
Fast Attack - Stormraven w/ TL-Multi Melta & TL-Lascannon

Troops - 5x Terminators w/ 4x Halberds, 1x Hammer & Incinerator
Fast Attack - Stormraven w/ TL-Multi Melta & TL-Lascannon

Heavy Support - Dreadnought w/ TL-Heavy Flamer, Nemesis Doomfist w/ Heavy Flamer & Psyflame Ammo

Fortification - Imperial Bastion w/ Comms Relay

Mordrak zaps in turn 1 on the most vulnerable and priority target, Vindicare is inside the Bastion with the comms relay in my deployment zone, Dreadnought is with one of the Stormravens. Each Terminator group is in a Stormraven obviously, comms relay pretty much guarantees they come in. Stormravens should have the fire power to deal with flyers and tanks, 21 terminators and a dreadnought with str 6 ap 4 flamers should be able to deal with anything on the ground, vindicare ties up the loose ends. Thoughts?

First, buildings really suck. The damage chart is unbelievably bad, and having a single model (the Vindicare I assume, since someone has to man the Comms) on the battlements means he's going to get horribly mutilated when that building goes down. Why not take an ADL instead? Saves some points, although he only gets a 3+ cover instead of 2+ from the battlements.

Putting troops in Flyers is a bad idea (with the exception of Necron flyers, because they have dirty rules). When a Flyer goes down, it's pretty much assured that you will lost most, if not all, of the men inside. Str 10 Ignores Armour hits on all the Termies means you will take 5 wounds and MAYBE have two guys left from each squad.
Of course, you could use the Death from the Skies rule (or whatever it's now called) and DS out the back before they can intercept. But now you have Termies who are gonna get a face-full of plasma, melta, rail cannons, and whatever else the enemy throws at you. Or from an assault army, you've just moved in and thrown all your troops into assault range, denying yourself the charge bonus while giving it to them!


Mordrak really needs to be supported on the field. When I use him, he has a squad of GKI and a DKnight who shunt forward to back him up/distract the enemy from my HQ. This allows the fire to be spread out over three units instead of one.
If you don't want to back him up, DS him out of LoS, thus avoiding most of the guns anyhow. But not TOO far away, since you want a T2 assault.
I'd also consider at least one sword in the Ghosts. When they inevitably get assaulted, you'll love that 4++.

You have some valuable advice, but many of your critiques definitely fall into "worst case scenario." The building is AV 14 so it's not going to just crumble under bolter fire, melta is short range, so unless they throw a lot of turn one lascannon shots (or equivalent) at it, it's going to be standing. The Stormravens are assault vehicles and should be putting my terminators into the fray as soon as they arrive. I don't think the opponent is going to get a round of shooting at them with their passengers inside. Mordrak can choose to arrive turn one wherever he wants, obviously I'm not going to plop him down somewhere where he doesn't have the tactical advantage. Your scenario of my Stormraven getting blown to bits with my terminators inside, them falling to there deaths with the survivors melted to shreds with plasma when they come-to sounds very silly and completely avoidable lol.

The units in the Stormraven must spend a turn inside the raven unless they use "skies of blood' or whatever its called these days. Either deep strike your guys along the way, or they spend a turn in the raven. The worst thing about using the raven as a transport is the amount of points you end up reserving. I have beaten GK lists with the crappy ass BA that I never should have been able to beat except for that I got to fight his army piecemealed.

What about something like this?

HQ - Grand Master Mordrak
HQ - 5x Ghost Knights w/ 3x Halberds, 1x Hammer, 1x Sword
Heavy Support - Land Raider Redeemer w/ Multi-Melta & Psyflame Ammo

Troops - 5x Terminators w/ 3x Halberds, 1x Hammer, 1x Sword & Incinerator
Heavy Support - Land Raider Redeemer w/ Multi-Melta

Troops - 5x Terminators w/ 3x Halberds, 1x Hammer, 1x Sword & Incinerator
Heavy Support - Land Raider Redeemer w/ Multi-Melta

Troops - 5x Terminators w/ 3x Halberds, 1x Hammer, 1x Sword & Incinerator
Fast Attack - Stormraven w/ TL-Multi Melta & TL-Lascannon

Yup, I think that's a lot better.