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Looking for some input for an up coming kill team game.

Currently list is looking like

Tac squad
4x bolter
1x bolt pistol/combat knife
Vet Sergeant w/ chain sword and bolt pistol
In a rhino with a stormbolter

Attack bike w/ multi-melta

199 pts
any feedback or opinions welcomed. thanks!

Okay; there's no easy way of saying this; but I feel this list will fail. And it features a choice which is ambiguous...

The bolt pistol close combat weapon marine is technically all of them and that Marine is technically just another bolted marine; they are all equipped with all 3 by default.

The rhino is good protection for the infantry. Maybe wasted though? 35pts is a good proportion of the points allowance.

I'd lose the attack bike. A single shot; at BS4. Even with the plus.5"range trait: it's wasted. Big time.

I'd boost the squad to 10 and get some weapons on those marines; or consider a razorback and a line weapon upgrade for the tacticals. Make the squad 6; take a plasma and the preferred enemy trait....

Hope this helps?
GamerGuy

Attack bike with multimelta is not a complete waste of points. It has some advantages. It's relentless, so you can move and ignore cover if you take Sharpshooter, and you get to fire the twin-linked bolter as well as the heavy weapon. It's also harder to kill than a marine on foot since it's T5 and 2W.

That said, I agree with GamerGuy in general. You get more bang for you buck if you take more tactical marines. I would probably take 10 tacticals in a Rhino and plasma gun (with Preferred Enemy) on one marine. That's 200 points on the nose for Blood Angels. Keep the plasma gunner in the Rhino to keep him alive.