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Later this month I'll be entering my first small 40k tournament and I was hoping to get some input on my 1500 list. I'm expecting a somewhat high amount of elites and armor in other players' lineups. The plan is to have Mephiston, the scouts, and librarian dread embark in the stormraven and tie up heavy range weapon crews while. After this the stormraven, baal, and speeders are free to target other threats. The other units that I have available to modify the list are: 15 death co, death co dread, lemartes/chaplain 10 tac marines, 10 assault squad, 5 powerfist terminators, 5 sanguinary guard, Dante, 2 captains, and 1 standard or furioso dread. Thanks for the help.


++ Battalion Detachment +3CP (Imperium - Blood Angels) [79 PL, 1495pts] ++

Chief Librarian Mephiston [8 PL, 145pts]

Librarian Dreadnought [10 PL, 192pts]: Furioso fist, Storm bolter

Scout Squad [10 PL, 118pts]
. 9 Scout: Bolt pistol, Combat knife
. Scout Sergeant: Combat knife, Hand flamer

Tactical Squad [5 PL, 90pts]
. 3x Space Marine
. Space Marine (Heavy weapon): Missile launcher
. Space Marine Sergeant: Bolt pistol and boltgun

Tactical Squad [5 PL, 90pts]
. 3x Space Marine
. Space Marine (Heavy weapon): Missile launcher
. Space Marine Sergeant: Bolt pistol and boltgun

Land Speeders [18 PL, 391pts]
. Land Speeder: Heavy bolter, Typhoon missile launcher
. Land Speeder: Heavy bolter, Typhoon missile launcher
. Land Speeder: Assault cannon, Heavy bolter

Baal Predator [8 PL, 162pts]: Twin assault cannon
2x Heavy bolter

Stormraven Gunship [15 PL, 307pts]: 2x Stormstrike missile launcher, Twin assault cannon, Typhoon missile launcher
2x Hurricane bolter

For anyone wondering how the list fared here it is. The tournament was a while ago so I only remember general details. Mephiston, the scouts, and the librarian dread will be collectively refered to as the melee team.

Round 1
Opponent Army: Ultramarine army with a lascannon razorback, biker squad, bunch of primaris intercessors, primaris lieutenant and captain.
How the match went: Overall this one was a cakewalk. Got first turn because the dread, mephiston, and the scouts all deploy as one in the stormraven so I was able to finish deployment first. Moved stormraven right up to intercessor squads to prepare to disembark next turn. Use stormstrike missiles and typoon launchers from stormraven as well as the typhoons from the land speeders on the razorback and it falls for first blood. With the only real anti armor on the guy's army down it was just a matter of hitting everything with assault cannons and psychic powers (he had no psykers).

Round 2
Opponent Army: Deathguard army with 2 lascannon hellbrutes, 2 autocannon predators, and the rest of the army consisted rhinos with a chaos lord, sorcerer, and deathguard marines.
How the match went: Once again got turn one because of stormraven shenanigans. Moved stormraven to the center of the field to take central objective that I needed to protect and that he needed to take. Made the mistake of targeting a predator first turn instead of a hellbrute with focused typhoon and krak launcher fire from the tactical marines and it goes down. On his turns he moves the rhinos up to various objectives and then proceeds to throw the kitchen sink at the stormraven, literally every weapon he could fire except a storm bolter on a rhino that was out of range. Stormraven survives with one wound with the majority of damage coming from the hellbrute lascannons.
On turn 2 I bail everything out of the stormraven on the central objective alter. Use the psychic phase to hit the nearby rhino with double smite and cast shield of sanguinius for a 4+ invul on my land speeder squad. Focus down a hellbrute and scrached the other in the shooting phase. Melee team minus mephiston charges the smited rhino and splash it. Out pops some DG marines and the sorcerer. On his turn the remaining predator finished the storm raven and the combined fire from a hellbrute lascannon and a rhino stormbolter taken down a land speeder while he managed to also complete a capture and kill a high wound model objective.
After this point the game mainly consisted of capturing various objectives with only a kill here or there. I won the match by a single point. Moral of this story is lascannon units needs to be the first priority.

Round 3
Opponent Army: Luna wolves army with a leviathan dreadnought, a contemptor dreadnought, an assault terminator (AT) squad, standard terminator squad, some tactical marines, and a captain.
How the match went: The map was a heavily covered city map which made the game entirely different than the first 2 more lightly covered maps and presented a problem for the landspeeders and the baal predator. Once again got turn one because of stormraven shenanigans even though this time the scouts used concealed deployment to start in the central building. My first turn largely consisted of me taking out the contemptor. When his turn rolled around the assault terminators deep struck 9 inches from the scouts and the other terminators deep strucked 9 inches from the land speeders. During his shooting phase the tacticals scratched the stormraven, the terminators brought a landspeeder down to 1 wound, and the AT squad manages to charge to the scouts but only take out 3.
On turn 2 Mephiston and the librarian disembark while the landspeeders put some much need distance between themselves and the terminators. Mephiston fails to cast shield of sanguinius on the stormraven and only manages to smite down one AT. During the shooting phase his captain manages to only take 2 wounds from 24 hurricane bolter rounds while missile fire only puts a dent in the leviathan. Mephiston assaults the AT squad still engaged with the scout and once again only manages to kill 1. On his move the the butcher cannon, grav flux bombard, and cyclonic melta lance*** from the leviathan take down the storm ravens remaining 13 wounds. The 3 remaining AT rip mephiston to pieces.
On turn 3 the the baal predator and landspeeders take out the normal termy squad. Once again a total of 5 krak missiles fired at the leviathan have little effect an only end up doing 3 damage. The librarian dread starts to rip through a tactical squad. During his move the leviathan once again reeks havoc and takes down the damaged land speeder as well as another full health one. His captain enters melee combat in an attempt to take out the librarian dread and does a couple wounds but gets taken out easily by the force halberd.
On turn 4 the baal predator finishes the AT squad and the librarian dread finishes the tactical squad. The remaining landspeeder once again fires at the leviathan to 2 damage. During his shooting phase the leviathan kills off the heavily wounded librarian and takes out the last landspeeder
By turn 5 the only things left on the board were the baal predator with 6 wounds left and the levaithan with 6. Unsuprisingly the baal got wrecked. By the end of the match the leviathan had a total of 13 missiles and 24 assault cannon rounds fired at and it only ended up losing 8 of its 14 wound. No amount of anti armor matters when your rolls are terrible.
***I've been looking around and can only find the cyclonic melta lance for the leviathan in the old rules and not the new ones in the Forgeworld index, any ideas if it even exists this edition?

How did the speeder squad performed ? It's a rather big investement no ?

The speeders were indeed a large investment with the 2 typhoon speced ones costing 140 points a piece and the assault varient at 111 points. That being said I think they were very effective, doing significant damage in the first and second matches to both enemy armor and infantry. I think a big part of this came from having them sitting still most of the time so they would hit on 3+ instead of 4+ and people believing the stormraven was a bigger threat.