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Hi, I would like to take a pure GK force to the UKGT heats and possibly Cally Uprising, but only played about 10 games of 7th ed so not that big on if I'm on a hiding to nothing.

Here's what I'm considering:

Grey Knights Nemesis Strike Force

HQ - Terminator Librarian, combi-melta, mastery level 3, Liber Daemonica
5 Terminators, 3 x halberds, 1 hammer, 1 sword, 1 psycannon
5 Terminators, 3 x halberds, 1 hammer, 1 sword, 1 psycannon
5 Terminators, 3 x halberds, 1 hammer, 1 sword, 1 psycannon
5 Terminators, 3 x halberds, 1 hammer, 1 sword, 1 psycannon

Heavy
Nemesis Dreadknight, heavy psycannon, heavy incinerator, hammer
Nemesis Dreadknight, heavy psycannon, heavy incinerator

CAD
Brother Captain, psycannon
Strike Squad
Strike Squad
1739


Plan to hide the brother captain and strike squad first turn whilst trying to bring in the majority of the nemesis force first turn. Get in faces with 20 GK termies and dreadknights to try and force melee turn 2.

Unsure whether it would be better to drop the strikes and put in the absolute bear bones 2 terminator squads to take it up to 1850?

Any additional units or tactics welcome suggestions, though would like to keep pure GK

Thanks in advance

Since you have the CAD there and some spare points, you could add an ADL with comms relay or bunker with comms relay to make your turn 1 deep strike more reliable.

Yeah that is a good suggestion, may go with that. I have also thought about swapping out the dreadknights for moar terminators, so that I'm deep striking nearly 30 in the first turn.

Any other suggestions more than welcome

I wouldn't swap out the Dreadknights. They're the strongest unit in the codex.

The biggest thing that isn't optimized here is the CAD with Strikes. Their only purpose is to babysit an objective and they don't even do that well. You could drop the CAD and put teleporters on those Strikes for an Interceptor Squad. Give them incinerators and they can shunt with the Dreadknights. Then convert that Captain to a second Librarian.

IMHO, you should drop the CAD entirely, and go for some purifiers in the strike force, either go MSU and chuck them in 6-man razorback teams (these make fantastic TaC units), or put them in a rhino if you need to squeeze as many points into the list as possible, (fire points vs. HB up to personal preference). both DK's need to have personal teleporters to increase their threat bubble (not sure if you're taking them as written), and the general consensus is that they should almost always have swords.

Alternatively, you could just take more terminators and hide the DK's behind cover turn one, and shunt forward + deep strike T2-3 for an alpha strike.

I would drop the CAD to get Personal Teleporters on the Dreadknights and take a squad of Interceptors. If I remember right, you should still have enough leftover for a Strike Squad to babysit objectives, or just bump your Interceptor unit up to 10 and combat squad it.