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tabled turn 3 against eldar
HQ Librarian (sanguary shield, and blood lance)
Elite 5 man Sternguard (one with melta)
Transport Drop Pod
Elite Brother corbulo
Elite Furioso dread (with fragcannon)
Heavy Devastators (2x plasma cannon 1x missile launcher 1x multimelta)
Troop 5 mam Scouts (5x snipers and camo cloaks)
Troop 10 man Assault marines (2x melta, sarge w/powerfist stormshield)

thoughts? advice?

With BA you have to go all out close combat I would not recommend scouts and I would Never take a multimelta on devastators, I would get more of dem assault marines or some vanguard vet squad also don't get combat shield on your Sargent its just not worth it

I would also change the devastator squad around a bit. Did having the multimelta in there help at all during the game?

Maybe just go all plasma cannons, or all lascannons. Another option is to drop the devastator squad and replace them with more assault marines.

Replace the scouts with more assault marines, or get some deathcompany in there.

Did you try to walk the furioso dreadnought in to combat?

So more assault marines and switxh devastators multimelta and no the furioso dreadnought never made it close. What ab mephiston?

Mephiston is better in larger games but at 1k he will suck up far too much of your points for him to be worth it

The Sternguard need to all have combit weapons to be worthwhile.

It seems that most of the unique HQ choices of any army are slightly too expensive in a 1000 pts. There are a few exceptions out there (baron sathonyx for DE)

As far as the furioso goes, I would stick him in a drop pod and when you disembark do what you can to avoid getting shot at, take advantage of any and all cover, but still position yourself to get a charge the next turn.

Well, in small pt games you need numbers. How did the Eldar army look like?

Just out of curiosity ... What unit was in drop pod and what unit did Corbulo protect?

Corbulo with a 5man squad?

I was the eldar player

I had a farseer with guide and doom (did not select any other powers and not sure if i was supposed to i am still getting used to the new ways of powers)
4 dark reapers
1 exarch dark reaper all of them with the normal weapons

2 ten man squads of dire avengers with no exarch

12 guardians with a starcannon weapon platform

2 war walkers each with one scatter laser and a bright lance

5 striking scorpians
1 exarch with scorpians claw

the way the battle went was I stole initiative and the dark reapers killed the whole devastator squad in first round of shooting and then nothing else i believe
he killed one dire avenger with the scouts and moved up and tried to assault my scorpians but failed the charge roll
my turn two i shot up all the assault marines and blew up the dreadnaught and killed a couple scouts
his turn two the drop pod failed and all he had left at my turn 3 was 3 scouts on the field with 9 avengers about to be right next to them

he had corbulo his libby and the sternguard in the drop pod i believe

i do have a question. when BA only runs one drop pod can they use the drop pod assault and bring it out turn 1 or do they have to run 2 in order to do that?

Half the drop pods come in automatically in round 1, rounded up. So yes, Drop Pod should´ve come in right away.