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A 500pt WIP guard force for a tournament and I need some help,
Running vets, with one lascannon and auto cannon, with with grenadiers and vox casters. Taking with them is a Wyvern (I can't have anything with an amour value combined over 42), a chimera and a command squad with master of ordinance . The command team has one plasma (I plan to put him in the chimera) and both vet teams have one melta and one flamer. Is this a good list?

From what i can see your list is ok but it is hard to picture due to the way you have laid it out. But the main problem i can see with your force is that it just lacks focus. first things first, drop the master of ordinance, its too small a game to need him and you already have the wyvern for raining template death, then decide if you are going to have your infantry hanging back on the board edge ( in which case i would recommend forward sentries and an ageis with some heavy weapons) or if you wan them to be aggressive objective grabbers ( in which case you want chimeras/tauroxes, meltas and grenadiers).

If I run vets then i normally equip them with a missile launcher and forward sentries or 2 meltas, grenadiers and a chimera. Finally just something to consider, you may want to trade the vets out for regular infantry platoons as at this points level having lots and lots of guardsmen with lots of autocannons can be a real problem to face.

Its your choice what to do but if i was going to play i would use some thing along the lines of this :

HQ

- CCS w/ missile launcher, 75

Troops

-Infantry platoon : PCS w/ autocannon, 40
Infantry squad w/ autocannon, 60
Infantry squad w/ autocannon, 60

-Infantry platoon : PCS - 30
Infantry squad w/ autocannon, 60
Infantry squad w/ autocannon, 60

Heavy support

-Wyvern - 65

Fortification

Aegis defence line - 50

-500-

Now with this list you have lots of antitank fire power, with lots of bodies (65 guardsmen) backed up by the almighty wyvern with an army wide 4+ cover save. The only real problem you may face would be with having to capture objectives due to it being a stationary gun line but in that case you can just send out one of the platoons to grab near by objectives in the late game. Hope this helps.

Ha okay, on other forums to they were saying to do the lots of bodies trick, I will try this out!

Something that is also quite fun would be to drop the second platoon and buy a cheap vet squad and the use the left over points to buy conscripts, a horde of 40 conscripts at 500 points would be pretty terrifying especially when backed up by a priest.