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This is a list I'm building for an all comers 600 Points Imperial Guard List. What do you think?

HQ:
Pask in a punisher
Executioner /w 3 Plasma Cannons

Troops:
10 Veterans /w an autocannon

10 Veterans /w an autocannon

Heavy support:
Wyvern

What do you guys think? Quite low on numbers but can be pretty devastating, especially with pask in 600 points. Let me know, comments and criticisms how can I improve? Thanks

HQ Ethereal

2x 6 Firewarriors

2x Riptide with Ion Accelorater and FNP

598 and I would put Ethereal and FWs in Reserve

Pask has 20 twinlinked rending shots, and plasma wouldn't do to bad against them either. armour 14 would be tough for you too. and wyvern would make short work of any fire warriors that come in reserve

HQ
Destroyer Lord 125

Troops
Warriors x5 + Night Scythe 165
Warriors x5 + Night Scythe 165

Fast Attack
Canoptek Wraiths x4 + Particle Caster x1 145

The Wraiths go with the Lord as a unit, at the front so that the 3++ soaks up the rending and Plasma. Everything revolves around taking out your tanks first. And with the Punisher's 24" range, you probably only have a single round of shooting before the tanks are toast.

If I came up against that list I wouldn't deploy 12" on first off, I'd also surround them in infantry to prevent you getting any sort of charge on them, considering your only starting with 1 unit on the board, those guard are still going to be there by the time you reach the tanks

Hmm, true. How about this:

HQ:
Overlord + Catacomb Command Barge + Phase Shifter + Gauntlet of Fire 220

Troops
Warriors x5 + Harbinger of the Storm (Voltaic Staff) + Night Scythe 190
Warriors x5 + Harbinger of the Storm (Voltaic Staff) + Night Scythe 190

The Barge needs only keep out of the way of Pask, who has the only chance of scoring a Penetrating hit, which won't be so difficult considering 24" range, and can always elect to take hits on the Lord's 3++ if need be. The Night Scythes drop near the tanks.

Admittedly, I'm not sure how certain 5 warriors and a voltaic staff are of killing the tanks. With both Scythes coming on turn 2, I think there should be a good chance of taking out the Leman Russes though, at which point the Barge lord can mop up with impunity.

Autarch-Mantle, bike, fusion gun, laser lace, banshee mask.

Dire avengersX5: Serpent w/scatters, holos, shuricannon
Dire avengersX5: Serpent w/scatters, holos, shuricannon

Shadow weaver

Hide the shadow weaver out of sight, using it to snipe the autocannons out of your squads. Get side armor on the wyvern to take it out, autarch meltas and assaults the pask squad to destroy it. Won't win in a headon gunfight, but using terrain and speed it should do well.

Nothing can hide from the Wyvern, ignores cover, barrage, 48" range. The shadow weaver would probably be toast if you didn't take it out in time.

HQ Vulkan
T1 7 Tact w/ meltagun, combi-melta, drop pod w/ missiles
T2 5 tact w/ melta, combi-melta, drop pod
T3 5 tact w/ flamer, combi flamer, drop pod

drop everything in your face and pop the tanks
Vulkan has 7 extra wounds
flame pod takes care of the vets...

Alternatively

HQ
Nemesor Zahndrekh 185
Cryptek + Abyssal Staff + Veil of Darkness 60

Troops
Immortals 170
Warriors x6 + Night Scythe 178

OR

Warrios x14 182
Warriors x5 + Night Scythe 165

Nemesor Z and Cryptek with the Immortals, hang right over in the corner edge, behind cover or out of range as much as possible if going second. On their first turn they Veil in behind or to the side of the Leman Russes. Nemesor Z gives the unit Tank Hunters- that is a very dead pair of tanks. Or they can just avoid as much as possible until the Night Scythe can come in to deal with the Wyvern in the same turn.

C:SM CT:IH

HQ
Master of the Forge

Troops
Scout squad (5 guys)
Tactical squad (10 guys) melta gun, combi melta, drop pod

Heavy
Land Raider, multimelta
600 points

MotF with scouts in the land raider, Tactical squad in pod. Pod squad goes for pask, land raider for the wyvern.

TC- Vanquisher with LC
Vanquisher with LC

10 vets
10 vets

Deathstrike

600

Veterinary reserve
Vanquishers out range you and kill pask first.
Deathstrike fan ruin anyone's day.

I love how this was originally a comment and criticism post haha

Well, the title was 'can you beat it'?

It says in my first post about comments and criticisms, I prefer the post like this anyway, quite interesting to see lists that are designed to beat my army, in a tourney however it's not realistically going to see any of these list bar maybe 1 or 2 as people will tailor all comers lists

Well in this case, how about swapping Pask's Punisher for an Exterminator? Still a very good choice for Pask, and is a little bit better at taking out flyers, and you may well face a flyer, especially something like a Night Scythe. More likely still FMCs. Nonetheless it retains it's utility against ground targets. With the 10 points you save you can then either buy a Lascannon for Pask, or a grenade launcher for each Vet squad.

I would run my list in a tournament. Who prepares for an IWND land raider with a MotF inside at 600 points?

@God In Action, I considered it, but Pask in a punisher is devastating, I'm not sure if you've seen him in action, but his ability to simply decimate most things he looks at is amazing.

@Erick99, Most necron lists can deal with a Land raider and trust me, last time I went to the tourney, there were a lot of them

I never said I'd win. I'd also use this at a tournament:

Lord Commissar

Platoon 1
PCS
Infantry squad x2
50 conscripts
Platoon 2
PCS infantry squad x2
41 conscripts
598 points

Because why not? But I've found people rarely expect Av14 in small games, though I didn't think about necrons...

librarian

techmarine full servo harness, pfg


land raider with deathwing upgrade

1x 5 scouts sniper rifles with HB
1x6 scouts HB, bolters

598/600

techmarine and servitors ride around in the land raider. the land raider itself has 4++ (this is now legal as of the latest faq), re-roll pens, and the tech and company and disembark and repair on a 5+

the scouts hand back and pluck what targets they can from range but tbh i could care less if they die

librarian also rides in the land raider and has pyromancy as their magic with some luck i get molten beam

my land raider will be impervious to your tanks and could single handedly kill the lot of them. leaving your veterans without anywhere to hide from its violent metallic wrath

The Landraider is not impervious to the Pask Punisher, which with addtional +d3 rending penetration can glance AV14. But sure, it's not ideal for taking out AV14.

Farseer on Jetbike

Warlock

5x Dire avengers in wave serpent

3x Jetbikers

3x War walker w/ 2 Bright lances

I think the strongest Eldar list I've made at 600 was:

Spiritseer

5 Dire Avengers /w wave serpent kitted out

5 Dire Avengers /w wave serpent kitted out

Fire prism

Youy can't take pask without the second tank. He's a tank commander - he's obliged to be in a squadron, so, 2 tanks minimum.

Who is that aimed at?

I would either go with my fun 600 list, which is:
Lord w/ Sempi-Weave and Res Orb (tanks shots)
Mini-lord (dem ap3 shots)
2 lots of 10 immortals, one unit with Gauss and other with Tesla
Annihilation Barge

ORR you could go super massive 'feth you!' to opponent and go for:
Overlord, MSS, WS, SW, PS, CCB, ResOrb(285 points of pure rage and semi-brokeness)
2 lots of 5 warriors
2 Annihilation Barges

Fits nicely at 595

Actual C&C for your list, the vets will be taken out in very short order, unless you hide them away near the back, in which case they won't do much good. Pask is good, but may be a bit much for such a low points game, as he won't usually make his points back (don't quote me on that, haven't played against him, only seen his rules).
I personally think you'd be better off demoting him to a standard TC and getting extra gubbinz on various units.

2 Exterminators w/ H bolters & H stubbers 310
2 Vanquishers w/lascannons 290

600