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So my girl got me the tempestus fire base as an early valentine's day gift and I've been playing around with it and my Stronghold Assault. We're going to start allowing both Stronghold Assault and Escalation into our tournaments (with restrictions on strength D weapons) and I'm wanting to try out a castle defense strategy.

The Castle
Wall of Martyrs Imperial Defense Network
x1 Imperial Bunker w/ Quad Gun and Ammo Store (120 points)
x1 Imperial Defense Line (80 points)
x3 Imperial Emplacements (120 points)
x1 Firestorm Redoubt w/ Punisher Gatling Cannons, Maigos Machine Spirit and Ammo Store (245 points)
x2 Vengeance Weapons Batteries w/ Quad Icarus Lascannons (150 points)
Total Points: 715

That leaves me with 1135 points to spend on the rest of the Imperial Guard army. The big thing I'm looking at is that the one Infantry Platoon I'm taking will fill the bunkers, emplacements and battlements with dakka. Whatever objectives I put in the back will be REALLY hard to get to, and on turn 5 I can fall back out of the bunker and stand on it if I need to. I'm putting Heavy Bolter Squads in the Bunkers, Auto Cannon Squads in two of the Emplacements and the other emplacement holds the Heavy Bolters in the Infantry squads and gives a little space between the bunkers in the middle. Thoughts?