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Ok,

First off, this is a fluffy army (you can see the basis of the fluffy army in the link in my signature) and so am looking for:

1) Comments on what problems I am likely to encounter.
2) What minor changes you would make (this is mainly about equipment, but also changes based on the fluff of my army also welcome)
3) What Major changes you would make (this is if you were looking to make the army competitive, but still with an eye towards the fluff of my army)

I used battle scribe for the army list, so sorry about the long winded format:

HQ

Company Command Squad
Carapace Armour, Veteran w/ Sniper Rifle
Chimera
Heavy Bolter, Multi-laser
Company Commander
Boltgun, Carapace Armour, Close Combat Weapon, Orders, Warlord
Veteran w/ Medi-pack
Veteran w/ Regimental Standard
Veteran w/ Vox-caster

Troops

Infantry Platoon

Infantry Squad
Guardsman w/ Sniper Rifle, Guardsman w/ Vox-caster, Heavy Bolter Team
Chimera,Heavy Bolter, Multi-laser
Sergeant, Bolter, Close Combat Weapon

Infantry Squad
Guardsman w/ Sniper Rifle, Guardsman w/ Vox-caster, Heavy Bolter Team
Chimera,Heavy Bolter, Multi-laser
Sergeant, Bolter, Close Combat Weapon

Infantry Squad
Guardsman w/ Sniper Rifle, Guardsman w/ Vox-caster, Heavy Bolter Team
Chimera,Heavy Bolter, Multi-laser
Sergeant, Bolter, Close Combat Weapon

Infantry Squad
Guardsman w/ Sniper Rifle, Guardsman w/ Vox-caster, Heavy Bolter Team
Chimera,Heavy Bolter, Multi-laser
Sergeant, Bolter, Close Combat Weapon

Infantry Squad
Guardsman w/ Sniper Rifle, Guardsman w/ Vox-caster, Heavy Bolter Team
Chimera,Heavy Bolter, Multi-laser
Sergeant, Bolter, Close Combat Weapon

Platoon Command Squad
Guardsman w/ Sniper Rifle
Chimera, Heavy Bolter, Multi-laser
Guardsman w/ Medi-pack
Guardsman w/ Platoon Standard
Guardsman w/ Vox-caster
Platoon Commander, Bolter, Close Combat Weapon, Orders

Infantry Platoon

Infantry Squad
Guardsman w/ Sniper Rifle, Guardsman w/ Vox-caster, Heavy Bolter Team
Chimera,Heavy Bolter, Multi-laser
Sergeant, Bolter, Close Combat Weapon

Infantry Squad
Guardsman w/ Sniper Rifle, Guardsman w/ Vox-caster, Heavy Bolter Team
Chimera,Heavy Bolter, Multi-laser
Sergeant, Bolter, Close Combat Weapon

Infantry Squad
Guardsman w/ Sniper Rifle, Guardsman w/ Vox-caster, Heavy Bolter Team
Chimera,Heavy Bolter, Multi-laser
Sergeant, Bolter, Close Combat Weapon

Infantry Squad
Guardsman w/ Sniper Rifle, Guardsman w/ Vox-caster, Heavy Bolter Team
Chimera,Heavy Bolter, Multi-laser
Sergeant, Bolter, Close Combat Weapon

Infantry Squad
Guardsman w/ Sniper Rifle, Guardsman w/ Vox-caster, Heavy Bolter Team
Chimera,Heavy Bolter, Multi-laser
Sergeant, Bolter, Close Combat Weapon

Platoon Command Squad
Guardsman w/ Sniper Rifle
Chimera, Heavy Bolter, Multi-laser
Guardsman w/ Medi-pack
Guardsman w/ Platoon Standard
Guardsman w/ Vox-caster
Platoon Commander, Bolter, Close Combat Weapon, Orders

Veterans
Grenadiers, 5x Veteran w/ Lasgun, 3x Veteran w/ Sniper Rifle
Veteran Sergeant, Bolter, Close Combat Weapon
Veteran w/ Vox-caster

Edit: Tidied it up a little bit, still not great though

The format makes this nearly impossible to read mate, cut out all the unesseary gak, we know guardsmen have lasguns. also skip a line inbetween units.

But from what i can see from a skim read, heavy bolters are a waste of points, either go autocannon or dont bother imo.

Sniper rifles arent great but theyre so cheap it doesnt really matter.

Something must be missing. No way 2 platoons and a vet squad is 1850 points

Couple of things.

One platoon standards are useless and the platoon medics aren't worth the points.
Second you have nothing to kill a heavy tank.

Just went back and double checked, all told the Army is 1849 points.

Nothing to kill a tank is an obvious thing for me as well. A little tweaking with the heavy weapons could solve that, and it would be possible fluff wise.


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If I dropped the standards, the medics and possibly the vet squad, I might be able to squeeze a heavy weapons squad with las cannons and/or a couple in the command squads

Second look I didn't see all the chimera on every unit.

This looks a lot like the 5th ed chimera mobs people used to run. Main difference is meltas in the platoons so you could take care of heave tanks. Also they benefit from being an assault weapons from the firepoints of the chimera while on the move. I know your going for fluff theme but a few meltas won't be to far out and mixing in a few other heavy weapons would still work. The Guard knows they have to have some big guns in a platoon just incase.

still working on the fluff, by the end, it will be perfectly viable. But as I am also learning the rules, I would rather not jump in with every different rule under the sun. But played my first game with a variation on this (the variation was in numbers, not weapon selections). Made a lot of tactical mistakes as well, but a good learning experience

I wouldn't buy heavy weapons squads, I don't like them for the most part as is, and even more for your list as the number of chimera you have mean they won't be able to see anything. Just swap the heavy billers on a few units to bigger guns

That's actually something I have considered during a couple of test games I have had