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HQ:

Vulkan He'stan - 190 points

- Salamanders yo

Troops:

10x Man Tactical Squad - 205 pts
w/ MM, Meltagun, Combi Melta
in Drop Pod

-For Dealing with Tanks / Taking out riptides

5x Man Tactical Squad - 125 pts
w/ MM, Combi Melta
in Drop Pod

-For Dealing with Tanks / Taking out riptides

5x Man Tactical Squad - 125 pts
w/ MM, Combi Melta
in Drop Pod

-For Dealing with Tanks / Taking out riptides

Elites:

9x Man Sternguard - 313 pts
3x Combi Flamer
4x Combi Melta
2x Heavy Flamer
Melta Bombs
Drop Pod

-Idk what combi weapons to use, maybe Gravs? Meltas? Plasmas? Flamers? They will drop down with He'stan

Ironclad Dreadnought - 180 pts
Heavy Flamer
Drop Pod

-It sounded good in my head

Ironclad Dreadnought - 180 pts
Heavy Flamer
Drop Pod

-It sounded good in my head.....again...?

Fast Attack:

Assault Squad - 105 pts
2x Flamer
Combi Flamer
Drop Pod

Heavy Support:

Stalker - 75 pts

-Anti Air

Is this good?

To me, Sternguard became really, really expensive. I'd think you need more troops, and you could easily take two more five man squads in drop pods in place of the vet squad. Just a preference. The tac marines will be reasonably good at the alpha strike too, since you're rerolling misses with Vulkan. Actually, I think the best choice might be another full ten man, and an additional assault squad, all in pods. I like the sound of that better, personally.

Weird, I've only heard good about Sternguard, also with the fact they can take Heavy Flamers, killing tau. ALSO, where would He'stan go? to a tac squad? I'd have to drop one to 9 or use a 5 man...

If anything sternguard got better.

They got a nice points drop and have access to just about everything shooty. The only thing "bad" is that they now pay full price for combis so the combi spam on them isn't as points efficient but still good imo.

Your entire army is in drop pods besides the lone stalker. You don't really need to get one when you are that far into their backfield and if anything it will die before it gets to shoot since its not on that strong of a platform

-Assault sergeant can't take a combiflamer
-Why Multimelta instead of meltagun on the 5-man pod squads?
-Stalker can start in reserve since it's the only thing not in a pod, so it's just fine, imo

 RiTides wrote:
-Assault sergeant can't take a combiflamer
-Why Multimelta instead of meltagun on the 5-man pod squads?
-Stalker can start in reserve since it's the only thing not in a pod, so it's just fine, imo

stalker cant start in reserve if he goes second.....

He would auto-loose due to not having any models on the table.

False. You only auto-lose at the end of the GAME turn. So the enemy would have to kill the stalker, the pods, and the contents.

Since everything are in pods except a SINGLE tank (the stalker), he can put it in reserve because you are allowed half of your army to be in reserves, rounding up. Since it's 1, you ARE allowed to field 0 units on Turn1 (at the start of the game). E.g. - If he had 3 Stalkers, he would be allowed to reserve 2 stalkers and would HAVE to put the 3rd on the field Turn1.

In either case, he would never auto-lose until the end of Turn1. Both his turn and the opponents turn.

I like it. I think Sternguard in this case are handled well, It makes sense to bring the heavy flamers here. I might drop a few combi's here, as there's no reason to have ALL combi's, since their special issue ammo is already quite useful. Maybe here choose one dicipline - such as flamers, due to the Heavy Flamer - and then bring 2 or 3 combi flamers in addition. I'm not sure here, you seem to have balanced things out quite well.

If you are playing Sally's= Mastercrafted Combi-Gravs are your friend.

HQ:

Vulkan He'stan - 190 points

- Salamanders yo

Troops:

10x Man Tactical Squad - 205 pts
w/ MM, Meltagun, Combi Melta
in Drop Pod

-For Dealing with Tanks / Taking out riptides

5x Man Tactical Squad - 125 pts
w/ Melta, Combi Melta
in Drop Pod

-For Dealing with Tanks / Taking out riptides

5x Man Tactical Squad - 125 pts
w/ Melta, Combi Melta
in Drop Pod

-For Dealing with Tanks / Taking out riptides

Elites:

9x Man Sternguard - 323 pts
3x Combi Flamer
4x Combi Melta
2x Heavy Flamer
Drop Pod
Deathwind Missile Launcher

-Idk what combi weapons to use, maybe Gravs? Meltas? Plasmas? Flamers? They will drop down with He'stan

Ironclad Dreadnought - 180 pts
Heavy Flamer
Drop Pod

-It sounded good in my head

Ironclad Dreadnought - 180 pts
Heavy Flamer
Drop Pod

-It sounded good in my head.....again...?

Fast Attack:

Assault Squad - 95 pts
2x Flamer
Drop Pod

Heavy Support:

Stalker - 75 pts

-Anti Air

Is this good?
I don't like gravs because they aren't too good IMO.