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I'm entering in a small tournament at my FLGS, and I'd like some feedback on my list. Never played in a tournament before, but I understand that it is a pretty friendly, fluffy environment with very few WAAC builds. It's 1500 points and I've run this list with friends, against Tyranids, IG, Tau and Daemons, and it has held fairly solid so far. Any constructive feedback is welcome, so have at it!

1500 point Space Marines, Imperial Fist Chapter Tactics

HQ
Librarian lv2

Elites:
5x Sternguard
5x combi meltas
Drop Pod

5x Sternguard
4x combi meltas
Drop Pod

Troops
Tactical Squad 1
5x Tac marines

Tactical Squad 2
5x Tac marines

Tactical Squad 3
5x Tac marines

Fast Attack
Assault Squad
5x marines
2x flamers
Drop Pod

Bike Squad
7x bikers
2x grav-guns

Heavy Support
Devastator Squad
7x marines
3x missile launchers w/ flakk
1x lascannon

Stormraven Gunship
TW lascannon
TW multi-melta
hurricane bolters

Thunderfire Cannon

One thing worth considering is making those bikes scoring units. Just a thought though. Then you could strenghten a squad or two of tacticals and put them in something to absorb some potential wounds and get them down the field faster if need be.

The librarian in this codex is awful. Even in TDA an level 2. He just doesn't bring anything outside of the telepathy psyker table. You could cut out the flakk missiles (they really are useless) and cut the combis in the sternguard down to 3 each. Also a smart move would be to combine the two sternguard squads into one, and leave the extra drop pod empty (you can take one for your thunderfire cannon and not our the cannon inside) so that way you don't have to worry about reserves. You can use the 60 points from the flakks and combis, to upgrade the Libby to a chapter master on a bike with 25 extra points to spend upgrading him (I suggest the primarch's wrath chapter relic, and melta bombs)

I agree with the above that the codex SM librarian is weak, not having access to Divination. Flakk missiles to are too expensive really.

Consider also Salamanders chapter tactics, and Vulkan Hes'tan as they really work well with drop pod lists. (base chapter tactic for flamers, Vulkan for meltas).