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I've been watching a lot of StrikingScorpion82 videos lately and his new Imperial Fists army is built revolving around 30 tacts, devastator centurions w/libby, and 5 termies assault canyon w chaplain.

Now I know its a super competitive build especially w terminators and I know his channel isn't mainly geared towards competitive play (beautiful models & terrain though), but how viable do you think a similar list would be?

I was thinking if he could add a little more long range fire power in the form of a thunderfire cannon or 3x las pred, it might be a nice shooty list.

Now I'm pretty new to the hobby, so by no means an expert but the idea of 30 tactical marines, centurions, termies, and maybe a few sternguard rockin bolter drill will be a nice site to behold. Just curious to see if you guys think it will be ok in a semi-competitive scene.

I'm actually trying to avoid the Gladius. I know competitive wise its the way to go, I just hate the transport spam. Mainly because painting a bunch of pods and rhinos is pretty annoying as I currently only have 2 rhinos and 3 pods.

Well I have 5. Was planning on putting 20 tacts in 2x rhinos, 10 tacts in a drop pod, and the sternguard in a drop as well (maybe even splitting then into two groups of 5 and taking two drops).

Maybe my title was a little misleading, by mass I meant running 30 tacts, backed by sternguard, centurions, terminators and a few mechs to round out 1850.

Something like this;

10 tacts in rhino
10 tacts in rhino
10 sterguard in pod (maybe 2 pods for odd number of pods)
5 Terminators w/librarian - foot slogging
5 Assault terminators w/chaplain - deep striking

Then I'm thinking either 2 vindicators or centurions and I believe I should even have enough points for a TFC.

The idea is you press forward with the main force and get the drop pods and assault terminators behind the lines. Basically sandwiching their line. I haven't worked out the points yet but roughly I think it'll fit into 1850.

Lots of bodies on the ground, 2x terminator squads for CC.