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Hey guys,
Just a quick one to ask how people feel about this guard list for pick up games/a wide array of opponents?

Creed -Warlord

4x Veterans (Chainsword & Laspistol, Heavy Flamer, Meltagun, Grenade Launcher, Plasmagun, 5x Lasguns)

4 x Taurox (2x Autocannon)

2 x 2 Armoured Sentinels (Missile Launcher)

Comes to 1k pts exactly... troops have mobility/protection, 8 light vehicles to cause problems, board should be saturated enough, good spread of anti tank/anti-infantry firepower...

Any comments/critiques lemme know ☺️

Cheers,
GamerGuy

As much as I love this list, I would suggest one "command chimera" and 3 taurox (you can swappo out a single sentinal for it) so that you can also carry creed inside. There would even be enough points left over, I think, to get a ministerium priest if you wanted, or even perhaps an astropath, or a second officer to saturate command use.

Hey Duke;

thanks for the tip and kind words; my plan for creed was to just pay the reserve cost to have him walk on a board edge depending on where i needed the orders most; thus keeping the extra autocannons and missile launcher sentinel as I do worry about the lists ranged capabilities?

when the list expands out I'll deffo have him riding in a transport, was eyeing a valkyrie as the command carrier, maybe with some special weapons squads & supporting officers

In your opinion, would the list suffer without those recommended changes? The chimera would be a fairly obvious target with it being distinct, and may struggle to keep up with the faster transports.

I've got 4 Achilles ridgerunners that I'm in the process of mounting autocannons on for a halo warthog-aesthetic that I've agreed with my local players will be my tauroxes, and I was trying to avoid tracked vehicles as my infantry platoons have many chimeras and russes already and wanted the two detachments to look distinctly different from one another on the board without changing colour scheme

thanks,
GamerGuy

That's a really good point and a good reason to do it the way you had it original.

Are you sure your opponents will let you violate rule of three on veterans? That's my only remaining observation (I missed that earlier.) People probably will but some folks around here are pretty uptight that way in the FLGSs.