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HQ
Captain storm sheild thunder hammer (joining honer guard)
Honer guard drop pod

Elite
Furiso dreadnought BT drop pod
2x Sanguinary priest's(joining tactical marines)

Troops
9 tac marines drop pod
9 tac marines drop pod
So what are your thoughts? (I like big scary dreadnoughts)

Drop a couple Tactical Marines for some Melta?

That's it really.

I can only get melta if I have 10 models. Was thinking of dropping dread and storm sheild+thunder hammer forsome sternguard.

Oh riiiight. Well I think a furioso is nice at low points. The AV13 makes a big difference. I'd drop the honor guard before I drop the dread!

 Brometheus wrote:
Oh riiiight. Well I think a furioso is nice at low points. The AV13 makes a big difference. I'd drop the honor guard before I drop the dread!

I was under the impression that the furiso was AV12 not 13... I could be wrong though since I am new to BA and don't have the codex with me at the moment. The only reason I don't have 10 men in my tac squads is because I need to fit my sanguinary preists in. Or do you think they are survivable enough for what they have? The storm shield I will probs take away from the captain since he is just paying 20 points to add +1 to his invuln. I was going to reduce the thunder hammer to a lightning claw as well. My new list would be:
HQ
Captain lightning claw
Honer guard drop pod

Elite
Sterngaurd vets 2 meltaguns drop pod
2 sanguinary priests

Troops
9 tac drop pod
9 tac drop pod

I think I would have quite a bit of upgrade points after this. What should I do???

I would take a libby over a captain. And swap the melta guns for combi meltas.
You can take a melta and infernus on a 5 man assault squad and get the pod for free. If going down that route you could probably afford the essential 5th pod.
Bear in mind the only difference you have over a vanilla marine build is 2 sang priests, more expensive squads, inability to take spec/heavy weapons under 10men and no chapter tactics. If you want to take this build use c:sm, they do it better for cheaper.
Lastly - by not spending 16pts on another tac marine you are losing out on a missile launcher, a flamer and options of upgrades on both squads.

The reason I dont take 10 men is because I need to fit the sanguinary guard into the squad. I dont want to use phycic powers in my BA army since all I used in my csm army where sorcerers.

Take a libby as a HQ. Much more useful. Take Shield of sang and sang sword for his powers. You will enjoy it. Blood lance is also good as well.

Taking assault squads with free pods plays to the BA strengths. If you do this you can afford 7 pods including BOTH a stern squad and dread.
I'll show you what I mean;

I suggest a librarian, if you are set against this, a captain will do.

4 x 5 man assault squads
Flamer, melta bombs
Pod

5 man assault squad
Flamer
Pod

5 man sternguard
4 combi-meltas
Pod

Furioso
Frag cannon, magna grapple, melta gun (good at huntimg tanks, squadrons and troops)
Pod

1000pts

You can swap the sterns for another frag-grapple furioso if you like and with the extra 5pts equip the 5th assault squad with meltabombs.
Flamers make up for reduced bolt shots.
No longer having to decide between sterns or furioso.
More models. 5 scoring units.
And all possible by taking assault squads instead of tacs and dropping the priests.

Always assault marines over tac for me. 9 assault marines and a melta gun in a pod is less points ( if my late night math is correct...)

Also poly rangers list looks pretty scary for a 1k marine list

assualt > tac for BA I believe, if only due to the sang priest, ( I suggest keeping them 9-10 man units to cut down on cost of sang priests as they are a must)

9 man Tac squads are a flop for anyone, especially BA since we're not getting special weapons unless the squad numbers ten.

Go for 5-man ASM squads with Flamers/meltas with a priest and a free Pod and if you still seek some bolterfire, take DC.

Furioso + Fragcannon = First Blood. And so is a combi-melta Sternguard. A good list, but maybe a bit uneven.

Poly Ranger wrote:
Taking assault squads with free pods plays to the BA strengths. If you do this you can afford 7 pods including BOTH a stern squad and dread.
I'll show you what I mean;

I suggest a librarian, if you are set against this, a captain will do.

4 x 5 man assault squads
Flamer, melta bombs
Pod

5 man assault squad
Flamer
Pod

5 man sternguard
4 combi-meltas
Pod

Furioso
Frag cannon, magna grapple, melta gun (good at huntimg tanks, squadrons and troops)
Pod

Will probs use this list but modify it slightly (take out a assult squad and add some upgrades in sych as thunder hammer and storm shield for captain or lv2 for libby with div).