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I recently bought a BA army from my buddy and need some help making something with it. He has Tao, nids and dark eldar, and after the first few battles (he let me win) i'm getting destroyed on a regular basis. need some help coming up with a viable list before my FLGS starts tourneys up again.

the list:

HQ: Capt Tycho

Elites:
Brother corbulo (in the pod with the assault marines)
Fragioso (pod)
10x sternguard combat squaded 6x combimelta (pod + beacon)

Troops:
8x death company w/ powerfist (w/ tycho in the land raider)
death company dreadnought 2x blood talons (in the stormraven)
5x assault marines (deep striking)
5x assault marines (pod)

transports:
Land Raider Crusader +multi melta

Fast attack:
Baal pred w/ flamestorm +Heavy flamer sponsons
Baal pred w/ assault cannon +heavy flamer sponson

Heavy support:
Storm raven TL MM TL LC

Strategy:
My plan is scout up the Baals 12" together on one side of the table and send the landraider up the other side (depending on heavy weapon concentration). 1st turn i drop the sternguard, combat squad em and pick two juicy targets. The second pod comes in on top of the sternguard to deliver corbulo and the 5 man assault squad and give them some survivability. To add to the pressure my Baals are moving flat out on the other side of the table to threaten his flank. While the enemy is busy with their backfield, the Landraider is moving flat out to their front door. Turn 2 sees the stormraven moving up to the enemy line to deliver the blenderator. the fragioso is delivered via pod within 6 inches of the other pods with the beacon, or wherever is needed. The deathcompany with Tycho are assaulting out of the land riader any juicy target I see. Deep striking assault marines land in my backfield to claim any objectives.

This worked great against an IG gunline I played, effectively tabling my opponant turn 3. not so well against nids. The only downfall I see is lack of troops. I've come to accept that to be competitive with BA i've got to sacrifice something, and assault marines are just sooo bad. Anyone see any ways to make this better?

Swap Tycho for a librarian and the death company for some Th/SS Termies. Maybe stick Corbulo with them in the LR and Libby with the assault marines.

You should have some extra points left over that you could use to add flamers to the assault marine squads.

Horde armies will always massively outnumber you because of our troop costs so not sure what else to recommend against tyranids, I haven't faced any with the new codex yet. Maybe start troops on the board and send the pods in empty?