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So with all the excitement over the upcoming Knights, I decided to do up a theoretical list for my space Marines with a Knight in Support.

Thought I'd share it with you and get some opinions.

Captain w artifacer Armor, Teeth of Terra, and Melta bombs 150 pts
3 10 man tactical squads, with plasma gun and Missile Launcher 340 points
2 5 Scout Sniper Squad 120 pts
Knight Errant 370 points
Stormtalon wth skyhammer missles 125 pts
Land Raider 250 pts
5 Assault terminators with thunderhammer and stormsheild 225 pts

The Land Raider and Assault termies are there to force my opponent to split his heavy weapons firepower a bit and are proably the biggest area of "flex" in the list. I know a lotta people are down on the storm talon, but I have one, and it DOES give me some solid anti-air. but over all this is something I just threw together as a "hey let's see how this works"

I think its interesting. The paladin seems superior in all aspects personally. You lack horde control anyway and the pair of battlecannon shots and heavy stubbers will help immensely.

You'll want the land raider to at least be a crusader as it is by far the superior option (plus it will give your captain a place to be useful). Not a hugely great choice in this edition but I agree with you that with the Knight it takes a lot of the heat off and adds another must deal with threat.

You are lacking objective taking abilities. Rhinos at a minimum are necessary (you can drop a scout squad to get these). Bikes are better option with a captain, in your case, to unlock.

Best of luck.

yeah lack of rhinos is a concern of mine, my problem is currently I don't have very many rhinos right now. (only a single chaos rhino actually), my land raider is also chaos but I'm reasonably sure my local clubs not gonna object too much at least for short term.

you'd reccomend this then?

Captain w artifacer Armor, Teeth of Terra, 145 pts
3 10 man tactical squads, with plasma gun and Missile Launcher 340 points
2 Rhinos
1 5 Scout Sniper Squad 60 pts
Knight Paladin 375 points
Stormtalon wth skyhammer missles 125 pts
Land Raider Redeemer 240 pts
5 Assault terminators with thunderhammer and stormshield 225 pts

Only input I will say about the titan is that if you move them up or sit them back you need units to screen them and surround them. As an IG player I will have 2 stormtrooper squads deepstrike in with 2 meltas a piece. each focusing on a separate armor facing so you can only get your shields to help against 1 unit. Then statistically it only requires 2 melta shots with average rolls to down the titan. Biggest concern for these nights would be to wrap them or cover them.

What is a knight paladin (I have yet to buy the escalation book)?

 Arbiter wrote:
What is a knight paladin (I have yet to buy the escalation book)?

It's not our yet but there are previews of it in this weekends white dwarf. leaks are already out. check the rumors thread


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 tankboy145 wrote:
Only input I will say about the titan is that if you move them up or sit them back you need units to screen them and surround them. As an IG player I will have 2 stormtrooper squads deepstrike in with 2 meltas a piece. each focusing on a separate armor facing so you can only get your shields to help against 1 unit. Then statistically it only requires 2 melta shots with average rolls to down the titan. Biggest concern for these nights would be to wrap them or cover them.

thats part of why I was considering a land raider with hammernators, force people to split their big mech popping weapons. although I'm leaning towards replacing them with predators.

REALLY? wait until the 1st man