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Guard that want to punch things. Organised into 2 battalions and s brigade.

Straken
3x company commnaders with bolter and power fist
3x platoon commanders with bolter and power fist
Astropath (maelstrom)
Harker
Ogryn bodyguard with death mask of olanius
24 infantry squads with plasma gun and power sword
2 priests
3 squads of rough riders with 2 plasma guns
3 squads of mortars

Platoon commanders are elites so you appear to be short of the 7 HQs required for those detachments.

Ah you're right - I'll drop two infantry squads and the astropath for 3 primaris psykers. Can help with psychic denial and throw some mortal wounds around.

This looks utterly insane, if you ever get around of playing a match with such an army against another choppy army i'd seriously like to hear the news.

Tried to run something similar with R&H with a khorne covenant, albeit i have a question, are Energy swirds worth it?

Can Guard still take power axes? S5 is a pretty big threshold for melee.

 akaean wrote:
Can Guard still take power axes? S5 is a pretty big threshold for melee.

Nope regular AM has no acess to Energy axes, unlike R&H

Not Online!!! wrote:
Nope regular AM has no acess to Energy axes, unlike R&H

Actually most, including infantry squads, do through the Index.

If this list is intended to be used in any competitive/timed environment I would recommend getting movement trays for the infantry squads. That keeps the count of things you to move individually down to around 60.

That's too bad. I played Vostroya a few years ago and converted most of my sergeants to have power axes.

I sold the army a while ago. Somebody is stuck with some axe dudes haha

Sounds fun. I would certainly like to hear how this works out.

Have you considered the lord commissar? He seems to have better melee stats, and I think it might be worth it.

Also consider include some of the melee relics, they are quite awesome - at least on paper.

One final thing I've been considering: a vostroyan lord commissar in a patrol. Make him warlord with the vostroyan warlord trait for rerolls. Give him the vostroyan relic for OP saves and a powerfist. Keep a priest nearby.

Alpharius Walks wrote:

Not Online!!! wrote:
Nope regular AM has no acess to Energy axes, unlike R&H

Actually most, including infantry squads, do through the Index.

If this list is intended to be used in any competitive/timed environment I would recommend getting movement trays for the infantry squads. That keeps the count of things you to move individually down to around 60.

Gak that's right, you get only half your options with only the Codex, my bad.
You get access to energy axes. Should be 5 pts instead of the 4 for energy swords.
At this point i'd wish that GW would actually publish all the rules for free and on their site cohesive for downloads and of course updated......

I like the sound of all the melee characters to be honest - both regular and Lord commissars seem great. I think a balance needs to be struck between characters and infantry though - infantry are generally stronger so it probably makes sense to focus on them. Went for officers first as theyre S4, get orders and also provide a LD buff. Went for psykers second as mortal wounds compliment the horde well and can help deal with targets I can't touch.

The power axe suggestion is great - might need to convert up a batch at some point...

If I used allies, a couple of BA smash captains would work so well with this - they could just go to town with all the CP available!