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HQ:
Cadre Fireblade - 60

Elites:
3 Crisis Suits - 180
- Fusion Blaster/Missile Pod (same on each suit)
- 2 Shield Drones

Troops:
12 Firewarriors - 108

12 Firewarriors -108

Fast Attack:
4 Pathfinders - 44

Total: 500 Points

The pathfinders and the firewarrior squad with the fireblade sit back and shoot. The second firewarrior squad sits back and shoots, or runs up and snap fires while going for objectives. Crisis suits either fly up the board or deepstrike, and go for high armour or tanks.

This is the paint scheme I'm going to do them in, as if they were on a forest/grassland world. Any feedback appreciated.

At some point get an Ethereal, it will make your Firewarriors sing. The Cadre is great for the unit he is with but the Ethereal helps everyone within 12".

For your current list, think about breaking up one of your FW squads to cap points.

Think about your Pathfinder team - very easy to destroy/route with just 4 dudes. Think about 6. You could even run 3 groups of 9 FW, have 1 group of 6 PF, and have some room for Stim injectors or other upgrades on the Crisis team.

Just a quick pointer, I've learned that it's a lot more effective to not mix up weapon choices on the suits, and also give them target locks. If you deepstrike and there are 2 or 3 tanks to deal with, your suits can't effectively take out anything if they all have to fire at the same unit, and it is much better to have both the same weapons on a single suit. So my advice is go for 2 x (missile pod + missile pod) and 1 x (fusion + fusion) and give two of them target locks.

Also gun drones would be better than taking shield drones as extra firepower is always a good thing.

You could also turn them into marker drones. Considering the new firing rules for 7th, They could help with the BS3 of your suits in tandem with you PF team. Especially if you follow the above advice with target locks