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Hey guys!
Next week i'm heading to my first escalation style tournament. The format is: round 1 500pts, round 2 1000pts, round 3 1500pts. Each round's army must include the previous army unadulterated (completely without changes.) So if the first round's army has a naked tac squad, in the following round it must remain naked! This forces some difficult choices. So I have worked up this series of lists. I don't know the general meta of escalation, so input would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

Archangels Strikeforce

Round 1:
- LvL 1 Terminator librarian
- 5 TH/SS Terminators
- 5 sternguard veterans with 4 combi meltas in a pod

Round 2:
- 5 sternguard vets, Heavy flamer, melta bombs

- Imperial Knight Paladin Ally

Round 3:
- Furioso Dreadnought, frag cannon, heavy flamer, drop pod
- Furioso Dreadnought
- 5 Lightning claw terminators

Please let me know what you guys think, i'd hate to show up and fall flat on my face! Thanks!

I'd drop the other Furioso and try to get a transport for your terminators (even if it is just a Rhino on another unit) because they will otherwise be wasted points.

Like melta sternguard in pod, they never fail to impress.

Librarian giving nice psychic support.


Looks solid overall.

Here's what I suggest for the first round. I'm working on the others.

Mephiston Take powers from the BA codex.
Priest - Valor's Edge, Melta Bombs
Tact squad 5 Man, Heavy Flamer Serg has Melta Bombs and a Hand Flamer Drop Pod

These are all in the Pod.

Assault squad 5 Man 2 Meltas Serg has Melta Bombs, Hand Flamer

That's 500.

I like the idea of throwing Mephiston in there turn one, sadly, my list needs to be legal... Evan at the 500 point level, so that doesn't meet the 2 troop requirements of a standard cad

I think you could go flesh tearers detachment then.

triant308 wrote:
I like the idea of throwing Mephiston in there turn one, sadly, my list needs to be legal... Evan at the 500 point level, so that doesn't meet the 2 troop requirements of a standard cad

So take out the Assault squad and add another Tact squad with a missile launcher. That will leave a few points left over.