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The Lamenters army I just finished has a Sternguard squad in it.

10 man squad
2 Missile Launchers with flakk missiles
Sergeant with a power sword and a melta bomb

I can run them in a number of ways.
-Keep them all together and hold an objective or piece of terrain.
-Split them into combat squads, the Missile launchers hanging out to target fliers while the Sergeant and the remaining Marines reinforce a flank or act as a counter-assault unit

Martel732 wrote:
Getting rid of the special ammo bolters for MLs is a harsh way to go. Why not just use devs?

It wasn't an easy choice. But in the end I wanted the army to be able to function as a viable list in its own right or as a detachment. I've got two troops and an HQ but that left me with a single elite, fast attack, and heavy slot. So I went with missile launcher sternguard as my elites and a land raider as the heavy.