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Hello all! My local Games Workshop store is doing a three-month campaign, with increasing points values as it goes on. We're starting at 1,000 points, and I wanted some critique on the list. Fliers and MEQ are abound, but I didn't want to tailor my list too hard. Also, the flavour of the army is that it's a mostly mechanised recon force, with an emphasis on being able to take objectives - with the next points leap, I'll be adding another Devilfish, a Hammerhead, and some Pirannahs. Also notable is that we can't take relics/signature systems, with objectives in-game giving our commanders similar things. Also, I very much want to stick to the standard force org chart, rather than going unbound or Farsight.


HQ

Ethereal - X pts

Troops

9 Fire Warriors - 81 pts

10 Fire Warriors - 90 pts
- Devilfish with 2x seeker missiles, blacksun filter, disruption pod - 117pts

Elites

2 Crisis Battlesuits, both with plasma rifle, twin-linked plasma rifle - 114pts

2 Crisis Battlesuits, one with fusion blaster, twin-linked fusion blaster, one with 2x fusion blasters, target lock - 114pts

Riptide, stimulant injector, velocity tracker, ion accelerator, twin-linked smart missile system - 240pts

Fast Attack

5 Pathfinders - 55pts

5 Pathfinders - 55pts

Heavy Support

Sniper Drone Team, 3 Sniper Drones, 3 Firesight Marksmen - 84pts

Total: 1,000 points

Ethereal out. Promote a suit to commander. Es are good for 36+ FW lists.

EWO on the Rip and suits. Do you know for certain that fliers are part of the meta?

The list is nice so far, maybe drop 2 crisis suits for a broadside?

Ethereal's in, both for fluff reasons - he's leading a recon force to discover whether rumours of time-travel tech are real or not - and because I can't buy any signature systems for a Commander.

I know three people will be bringing fliers for sure, but the other nine I don't know. EWO would be worthless against a non-flier, non-deep strike army, and putting it on so many things at the expense of a gun seems too much like trying to tailor against one specific thing. I'm happy to rely on a Riptide and 13 markerlights for fliers.

Broadsides seem a bit slow for a heavily-objective based game - they can't move and fire their railguns at full BS, right? It's a big reason why I'll be adding a Hammerhead at 1500

a skyray for a meer 115 points would add quite a bit to your list. Anti-flier, or delete someone's expensive bike squad, space marine commanders, anything eldar or jinking etc.

sticking to your original list this one has the skyray which drops the need for velocity tracker on the riptide and puts your second devil fish into the game. everything but the pathfinders are mobile now.

HQ
- Ethereal

Troops
- Firewarriors x 8 - 72
-Devilfish: SMS, BSF - 91
- Firewarriors x 8 - 72
-Devilfish: SMS, BSF - 91

Elites
-Riptide: IA, SMS, EWO - 190

- Crisis Suits x2: Fusion blasters - 104
- Crisis Suits x2: Plasma Rifles - 104

Fast Attack
-Pathfinders x5 - 55
-Pathfinders x5 - 55

Heavy Support
-Skyray: BSF - 116