Want to make a firepower heavy army not tau

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**bobmgee**

I've been playing assault heavy armies my entire 40k career with assault chaos and daemons and nids. So I'm now wanting to create a gun line style army but I don't want it to be tau. There is far too much tau in my local meta. Anyone have any ideas it doesn't have to be very competitive. I was thinking space marines allied with space marines with 2 units of shooty temi's and 2 thunderfires. Any suggestions?

**Squidmanlolz**

Imperial Guard will probably offer the next best gunline after Tau

**francieum**

Dark angels have some pretty nasty builds with the banner of devastation which put out an insane amount of fire.

**bobmgee**

Francium I don't think that the banner build really works because no one wants to get within 24" because they know about it. And I know imperial guard are very good I just don't want to be painting that many models.

**ThunderFury 2575**

Imperial guard and chaos do some pretty decent gunlines to my knowledge

**Nevelon**

They might not be the best, but there are a few options in the basic SM codex for gunlines.

**Rismonite**

If you want to throw a lot of dice;

45 Lootas, 3 Dakkajets, and 9 Kannonz.

**DogofWar1**

Orks and IG are definitely armies that can put out serious firepower.

To mention C:SM, IF with Devastator Squads can put out a lot of Tank Hunting shots. If you also put a Quad Gun/ADL there, manned by Devs, you can add 4 TL, S7, Tank Hunting shots. IH get IWND on their vehicles, so those Predator Annihilators and Vindicators go farther for their points, especially if backed by Techmarines/MotF.

**bobmgee**

I think I'm gonna go for codex space marines imperial fists.im going to include 2 Morris contemptors with twin linked lass cannons and cyclone missile launchers with sky fire. Then some thunder fire cannons for horde control and some tactically to hold the line.

**BoomWolf**

bobmgee wrote:
Francium I don't think that the banner build really works because no one wants to get within 24" because they know about it. And I know imperial guard are very good I just don't want to be painting that many models.

And that's why you get a bolterbanner army, with IG allies for a single vet squad, and an artillery team.
Get close, bolterbanner death.
Stay away, free artillery shots.

**generalchaos34**

BoomWolf wrote:
bobmgee wrote:
Francium I don't think that the banner build really works because no one wants to get within 24" because they know about it. And I know imperial guard are very good I just don't want to be painting that many models.

And that's why you get a bolterbanner army, with IG allies for a single vet squad, and an artillery team.
Get close, bolterbanner death.
Stay away, free artillery shots.

Or do biker banner blobs, fast moving rerolling salvo 4 death!