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Rite of War: The Reaping

Chem Rounds

HQ

Mortburg

Siegebreaker Consul

Primus Medicae Consul

Elites

Rapier Artillery Battery: Phosphex
Rapier Artillery Battery: Phosphex

Troops

10x Legion Tactical Marines: Rhino
11x Legion Tactical Marines: Rhino

10x Legion Support Marines: Flamers, Rhino

6x Legion Heavy Support Marines: Volkite Culverins, Rhino

Land Speeder: Vulkite Culverin

Heavy Support

10x Grave Warden Terminators

Leviathan Siege Dreadnought: Volkite Calivers+Claws
Dreadnought Drop Pod

Predator: Magna-melta

Total: 1995

Again, this is my first list. What am I doing wrong? Right? What could be cool and different?

The Reaping allows Heavy Support squads as non-compulsory Troops. You still need two Tactical, Assault, or Breacher squads.

You may want to consider splitting up the Terminators (too many points in one basket without much in the way of delivery) and/or find some armour, this looks pretty fragile for 2,000pts.

This list is kind of strange and not in accordance with the rules. Beside the non valide troop choices. The Terminators in the heavy support slot are wrongly named. From the addition of the heavy flamer (which is useless by the way), I guess they shoud be Grave Warden. This leads to the next problem: you can't have Morturg and Grave Warden in the same list, as Morturg is loyal and Grave Warden traitor exklusiv.

Also on another note: Heresy is not about running Deathstars.

Ok, I think I need to internalize more of the rules before posting again. Thanks!

This leads to the next problem: you can't have Morturg and Grave Warden in the same list, as Morturg is loyal and Grave Warden traitor exklusiv.

This is 100% incorrect. Grave wardens aren't restricted to traitor armies, nor are Deathshrouds. Only the special characters have allegiance restrictions, as far as XIV go.

I ran Morturg with a unit of grave wardens to extreme effect in the past. 20 poison 3+ templates hitting your HQ squad or your taint punch specialist squad (thanks to infiltrating wardens) is quite effective.

Ok cool; so armed with that info I edited the above list. Again, not 100% sure it's legal because I'm still digesting all the rules for army construction; and I'm definitely not sure if it's any good. I'm reasonably certain it's somewhat fluffy though

I always assumed Grave Warden, being Thyphons personal Guard, to be traitor exclusiv as well.

The list is still not in accordance with the rules, as with The Reaping you must not use drop pods.

I also think the list lacks long-range AT firepower.

An other question: are the Primus Medicae and Siege Breaker without any equiment?

Somewhat fluffy. If you REALLY want to be DG-fluffy, you should make your tactical squads MINIMUM 15 strong, with extra CCWs. DG were not big on volkite weaponry, either, though I wouldn't shake a stick at you for using it. I'd drop the rhino on your heavy squad (and honestly change them to missile launchers), as they have heavy weapons and you don't want them to be carting around the board snapshooting all the livelong day. You're also not making use of the reaping as you haven't taken any rad grenades and you haven't used troops slots to fill out heavy support or veterans choices. This list honestly favors creeping death over the reaping; you'll get a 5+ cover save out in the open to help your (fluffily) footslogging marines, and if you take missile launchers, your frag missiles will be S5 (as your frag grenades will be as well). Also with the vast amount of amoured ceramite out there, a laser vindicator will likely be a better tank-popper than the magna-melta predator for comparable points.

Grave Wardens aren't traitor-exclusive in the rules; I tend to assume that means that they existed before Istvaan (as opposed to the Kakophoni, Red Butchers, etc. who were the product of secret/non-sanctioned modifications and didn't take the field until after the Heresy began) and that their equipment wasn't exclusive to Typhon's hand-picked bodyguard.