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Hi, This is my semi competitive 1500 pts ba and allies list. As you will know ba are not very competitive at the moment and consquently I have jazzed them up with allies. What is your opinion.

Total 1499
HQ
Reclusiarch 130

Troops
9 deathcompany with 2 power axes 210
Drop pod 35

10 assault marines (without jumpacks) with 2 meltaguns 210
Drop pod free

elites
Furioso dreadnought with blood claws meltagun and magnagrappler 140
Drop pod 35

Allies
Inquisitor Coteaz 100
Henchman squad 1: 3 plasma servitors + 7 henchman with bolters 95
Henchman squad 2: 10 henchman 7 with bolters 3 with plasma 77
Henchman squad 2: 9 henchman 6 with bolters 3 with plasma 72

5 legion of the dammed with plasmagun and plasmacannon 155
5 legion of the dammed with plasmagun and plasmacannon 155

Fortification
Agesis defense line with Icarus lascannon 85


Tactics
Depending on what the opponent deploys, is what drop pods will go first turn, if there is lots of enemy armor the assault marines, who can split in to two 5man teams, and the dreadnought should hopefully nuke 2 vehicles. If there is infantry, the deathcompany and furioso should make thinks difficult. While this rains confusion down on the enemy lines, the 2 plasma henchman squads will advance and attempt to take objectives, cover is there best friend. Coteaz provides awesome anti deepstriking and anti air power. A twin linked icarus lascannon for any air units and 3 plasma cannons for anybody stupid enough to deepstrike within 12". The legion of the dammned bring further trouble in the enemy table half, being hard to get rid of and posing a real threat to any meq with their ignore cover plasma cannon/gun combo.

At 2k I would add a vindicator and a imperial knight errant, which is arround 525pts, this brings two fast units that have 9, 13 armour hull points between them.

I think my main weakness would be lack of troops? However I feel that the imminent threat of the drop pods makes it harder to focus on removing them.

what do you think? and believe it or not, I haven't used up my allies detachment