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So I have an 1850 point tournament coming up, and I'd like to put forth a competitive list.

This is what I've come up with. Any thoughts or criticism would be appreciated.

I'd like to run a Lion's Blade Strike force - 2 Demi Companies as it gives me transport for free

Demi Company 1

Company Master: Artificer Armor, Conversion Field, Storm Bolter, Power Sword, Melta Bombs - 155pts
Command Squad - Apoth, 5 melta Guns, Drop Pod- 160pts

3 x Tactical Squads: Sgt w/Storm Bolter, Plasmagun, LasPlas Razorback - 345pts

Dev Squad - 4 lascannons, LazorBack - 190 pts
Assault Squad - 2 flamers, Sgt with Power Fist and Combat Shield, Drop Pod - 110 pts

Dread - PowerFist, Melta, Flamer, droppod - 110pts

Demi Company 2

Chaplain: w/melta bomb 95pts

3 x Tactical Squads: Sgt w/Storm Bolter, Plasmacannon, Razorback - 285pts

Dev Squad - 4 lascannons, LazorBack - 190 pts
Assault Squad - 2 flamers, Sgt with pair of LC, Drop Pod - 110 pts

Dread - PowerFist, Melta, storm bolter, droppod - 100pts

I have that at 1850 but sometimes math is bad. what do you think?

The Company Master comes with a 4++ standard, so giving him a conversion field is wasted points. Also, assuming you're sticking him with the command squad, I think a combi-melta would be good on him.
Otherwise, looks good to me

You need an auxiliary to run a Lion's blade. I might suggest dropping the Dreadnoughts and taking a Ravenwing Attack Squadron with grav guns on the bikers and TML on the land speeder. Also, combat shield is not good-use the 5 points for something (anything) else. One good idea could be to take the Lion's Roar instead of the unnecessary conversion field on your Company Master (the conv field is useless on him as Steve pointed out above). Another idea might be to take the Foe Smiter instead of a storm bolter. Also, instead of twin LCs on the assault sarge in the second demicompany (expensive on such a squishy character), you might take something like a power sword and bolt pistol. Less points and still gets +1 attack for 2 weapons. On the 3 tactical squads in the second demicompany, you might consider missile launchers instead of plasma cannons. Plasma cannons are really not too amazing for their cost, and you have to stand still to even fire them. Missile launchers at least don't have to worry about scatter, and you can snap fire them if you have to move them.

Just my 2 cents.

Just remember that your firing on full bs also whenever you snapshot so if you put some bikes in there and try to let them charge in your gonna be taking out a lot of models on your opponents turn. I ran the demi company last week at my tournament against orks and tyrinids and they each lost a significant amount of models on the charge and made them rethink how they were gonna play

thebearjew54 wrote:
Just remember that your firing on full bs also whenever you snapshot so if you put some bikes in there and try to let them charge in your gonna be taking out a lot of models on your opponents turn. I ran the demi company last week at my tournament against orks and tyrinids and they each lost a significant amount of models on the charge and made them rethink how they were gonna play

No you are not, you only fire at full BS when you overwatch.

As for the list, as poeple have pointed out you need an auxiliary for the free transports. If you want to be competitive I find vanilla marines Gladius much better than the Lions Blade (Even fluffier as well since you can include bikes in both the command squad and the fast attack slot) . If you want to stick to DA then I would drop the upgrades on most of your sargents, especially the 30pts CC upgrade on the 1A ASM sarge. 10 pts for a stormbolter is a massive waste of points as well. Use the pts to get you some ravenwing auxiliary.

Plasma canon, while fluffy, is just not very good.