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I have some old IG tanks from 3rd edition, and have the opportunity to bring them into 6th edition. How does this look as the start of a mech IG list?

HQ
Company Command Squad - 1x bolter(leader), 4x plasma gun, Carapace armour
-Chimera - ML, HB

TROOPS
Veterans - 3 x plasmagun, carapace armour,
- Chimera - ML, HB, HS

Veterans - 3 x plasmagun, carapace armour,
- Chimera - ML, HB, HS

Veterans - 3 x meltagun, carapace armour,
- Chimera - ML, HB, HS

Veterans - 3 x meltagun, carapace armour,
- Chimera - ML, HB, HS

It looks decent, but too many upgrades for me.

Bolter on the Commander? Pretty pointless. Likewise the Heavy stubbers on the chimeras. You'll mostly be moving so some random S4 snapshots are not going to do anything.

I'm also not a fan of mech vets with carapace. It's quite costly, so I only use it on foot vets. If you dump all of these random upgrade you could grab another mech vet squad, which will be far more effective than the carapace all round.

Hope this is useful.

The upgrades are definately not worht the cost. Even with Carapace Armor, the T3 vets die easily outside of their transport & without cover. Take the Chimeras, leave the carapace armor at home. If I was playing my mech guard at 1000 points, I'd rather play this list!

HQ - CCS, Plasma x4, Chimera (165)

Troops - Vets, Plasma x3, Chimera (170)
Troops - Vets, Plasma x3, Chimera (170)
Troops - Vets, Plasma x3 (115)
Troops - Vets, Melta x3 (100)

Fast Attack - Vendetta Gunship, Heavy Bolters (140)
Fast Attack - Vendetta Gunship, Heavy Bolters (140)

The Vendettas are stupidly good right now, can transport vets just fine, and add the the AV12 saturation. I think that they accompany chimera heavy lists perfectly. To be fair, they are a welcome addition to basically any list imaginable... This list has MORE firepower, MORE survivability, and requires serious anti-flyer capabilities to counter. It will cream lots of 1000 point lists that don't have an insane amount of heavy firepower, since basically all anti-infantry weapons are useless until they've gotten some of those troops out of the transports.



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It would cream another IG mech list that was just 5 Chimeras, such as the one you listed above, EASILY.

The list Erik made is very good. I've fased a similar list and it is really awsome.