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Basically I'm trying to salvage a list I was working on in 5th edition, I've played a few small games but now I want to step it up a bit. I really don't like the look of the Riptide so regardless of its power it won't be included in the list. I have a feeling flyers might be a problem but I don't encounter many in my FLGS. Let me know what you think.

+ HQ + (347pts)

* Commander
Command and Control Node, Drone controller, Stimulant injector, XV8-02 Crisis 'Iridium' Battlesuit
* 2x Marker Drone
2x Markerlight


* Commander Shadowsun
Advanced targeting system, 2x Fusion blaster, XV22 Stealth Battlesuit
* Command-link Drone
Command-link
* MV52 Shield Drone
MV52 shield generator


+ Elites + (564pts)

* Stealth Team
* Stealth Shas'ui
Advanced targeting system, Burst cannon, Stealth battlesuit x 5
* Stealth Shas'vre
Advanced targeting system, Burst cannon, Stealth battlesuit


* XV8 Crisis Team
* Crisis Shas'ui
Advanced targeting system, Crisis battlesuit, 2x Plasma rifle x 2
* Crisis Shas'vre
Advanced targeting system, Crisis battlesuit, 2x Plasma rifle


* XV8 Crisis Team
* Crisis Shas'ui
Crisis battlesuit, 2x Fusion blaster x 2
* Crisis Shas'vre
Crisis battlesuit, 2x Fusion blaster, Puretide Engram Neurochip


+ Troops + (360pts)

* Fire Warrior Team
10x Fire Warrior Shas'la with pulse rifle, Photon grenades


* Fire Warrior Team
10x Fire Warrior Shas'la with pulse rifle, Photon grenades


* Fire Warrior Team
10x Fire Warrior Shas'la with pulse rifle, Photon grenades


* Fire Warrior Team
10x Fire Warrior Shas'la with pulse rifle, Photon grenades


+ Fast Attack + (400pts)

* Drone Squadron
* 5x Marker Drone

* XV9 'Hazard' Close Support Team
* Hazard Shas'yr
Counterfire defence system , Fusion cascade, Fusion cascade, XV9 'Hazard' battlesuit x 3

+ Heavy Support + (325pts)

* Hammerhead Gunship
Disruption pod, Ion cannon, Twin-linked smart missile system
* Longstrike

* Hammerhead Gunship
Disruption pod, Ion cannon, Twin-linked smart missile system

1996pts

looks good but i feel a etherial and a augis line would be nice considering the amount of fire worriors it seems that nothing really needs the markerlight support leader tbh as your drone will let you reroll 1's from shadowsun i would add 4 marker drones to each unit of battlesuits add a drone controler in each unit and then you can get some marker light support to help the 3 units of suits as the other units should be fine. and with them in the 3 units your solid you can up your bs and remove cover and because there in 3 units you can assign them differently and loosing the commadner you gained a augis line and a etherial. hope this helps

The Etheral it's a really good idea but if I get ML drones attached to the Battlesuit squads they can only fire at what the rest of the unit target unless I give everyone a Target Lock?

I would really appreciate your feedback on this.

Cheers

You only need target lock on one unit. If you are running a gun line (and it looks like you are), go with cadre fireblade. He gives you and extra shot at full range if the squad doesn't move. Also marker drones suck. They fire at bs 2, that's hits on 5 & 6. And if you join them with your buffmander that's 9 ml on one target. For the price go with a few pathfinder squads drop the drone controller, pick up multi spectrum sensor, use shield drones, and give one of the suits your commander joins target lock. Then you have a good deepstrike armor shredding unit with a few ablative wounds. Really you should add a suit to your sunforge team so your mander can join them for a 4 strong team. You could drop another target lock in the team so you can fire buffed shots on 3 different targets and really make the most of the buffmander. Then I would even go sunforge on the last suit as a suicide armor popper. Or you could run flamers on him (super cheap at 5 points per) then you could maybe squeeze in another flamer suit. They aren't great but they are mobile and can swoop in to knock that last few troops off an objective.

Edit: Stealth suits suck the big one. I've been trying to make them work in my list and they just fail hard. You are doing it right with all burst but they are just to expensive and lack mobility.