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2x Company Commanders -60

3x Infantry squads w/GL & Mortar
2x Infantry squads w/GL & Autocannon

2x Leman Russ w/ Battlecannon, Lascannon hull, Heavy bolted sponsors
Manticore

Baneblade- with one pair of Lascannon/Twin Heavy Bolter sponsons.

Still have 100 points ish left over.
Not really sure what to put, think maybe some conscripts and bumping the commander to the Lord commissar.

My pair of pennies:

You probably do want commissars of some sort to help with leadership, but I might take regular ones instead of replacing a commander so that you have enough orders for your infantry.

How much are you willing to play with the loadout of the Leman Russes? I personally don't think the battlecannon is as flexible as the punisher, but it does a bit better against T6-7 targets (1.5 vs 1.1 wounds), so I can see the argument.

Overall, Russes seem tough but with low damage output, so if you wanted a bit more punch, you could add some heavy weapons teams, which have good damage output, but are fragile.

All this is just personal preference though. Take what you have for a spin and let us know how it works out!

Well I love heavy weapon squads. But with the limit of 3 per heavy support choice. Which is stupid they can be squared further but Leman russes, basilisk and such can be.

That is true I just want to go with the Battlecannon at the moment to remove vehicles and high T targets.
But really trying to get a solid 1.5k list that I can just add some more infantry and heavy wep squads to for 2k.
I think this does a decent enough job. Maybe add pask with a publisher at 2k.

Fair enough

Tank commanders/Pask do improve the performance of IG tanks a bit, and they themselves do reasonable damage, so that sounds like it could definitely work.

I can't help but feel like the Mortars are going to waste in Infantry Squads. Three of them in their own HWT cost a mere 27pts and means they can stay out of line-of-sight. A Lord-Commissar or Commissar would go down a treat with those five Infantry Squads as well. if you have any points left over (I think they're +35pts?) you could probably squeeze a Tank Commander into one of those Leman Russ'.