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After 10 years my old lgs has reopened and I can finally start playing games but a lot has changed in that time so I decided to start fresh with a new army here is my first draft of what im hoping for

this is a brigade ( i think)

we have
Hqs: 120
Han solo Company commander Las pistol chainsword
warlord
Laurels of command
bellowing voice

Leia Company commander Las pistol chainsword

Luke Primarus psyker Nightshroud

Troops: 330

6x infantry squad with grenade launchers

ELite: 264
3 bullgryn (wookies) 3 mauls 2 slab shield 1 brute shield

Chewbacca body guard
brute shield ripper gun

Veteren squad
grenade launcher
las cannon team

Fast attack 135
2 solo scout sentinels with heavy flamers
1 armoured sentinel with autocannon

Heavy support 153
heavy weapon squad
3 mortars
Heavy weapon squad
3Mortars
Heavy weapon squad
3 Autocannon

that's 997 points

As you can see I'm going for a star wars theme with the rebel alliance (Focusing on Endor Battle)

I'm not sure how efective guard is without all there heavy tanks but other then sentinels they don't really fit look I'm going for at least until I get more confident with my conversions .

small rules I'm aiming for with army
All Characters are from star wars universe
no tanks outside sentinels any tanks I add to list will be at higher point values

any advice for starting guard and 9th edition as a whole would be helpful

I like the teme. You gonna use some Star Wars minis for that? That would look nice. Btw I think you are lacking some anti tank power. Id take some more lascanons or atleast meltas on those infantry. If you face some transports or walkers or tanks you wont be able to take them down. Also, what are your regimental doctrines? They should be complementing the style of play you plan.

Also just one more thing that could add up to the star wars theme. Heirloom item Blade of Conquest (replace a power sword) is great for character killing and could be modeled as a lightsabre

Maybe you can use chimeras as ligth tanks. Unsure how it fits with the star wars theme but surely they can pass as speeders., as a lack of better idea.


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Maybe you can use chimeras as ligth tanks. Unsure how it fits with the star wars theme but surely they can pass as speeders., as a lack of better idea.

Ok I revised the list (one of the reasons I started thread before buying any models) to add more anti tank

we now have

4 Hqs

Company commander Han solo warlord
Relic: Laurels of command (not 100% on this the Cadia one looks cool too)
Trait: I'm thinking either bellowing voice or the Cadia one

Company commander Leia Organa

Primarus Psyker Luke Skywalker
Nightshroud (using the force to throw off enemy aim)

Tempestor Prime Sabine Wren
Command rod (will make it look like the dark saber)

6 troops

2x Infantry squad
10 men with meltagun special wepean

2x infantry squad
10 men with Grenade Launcher special

5 man scion squad with 2 melta guns

5 man scion squad with 2 plasma guns
3 elites

Ogryn Bodyguard Chewbacca
Bullgryn plate slab shield ripper gun

veteren squad with a lascannon hwt

5 Ratlings( ewoks)

3 Fast attack

scout sentinel
Heavy flamer

Scout sentinel
Heavy flamer

Armoured Sentinel
Autocannon

3 heavys

Mortar heavy weapon squad

Lascannon Heavy weapon squad

autocannon Heavy weapon squad

comes to 998

Loved the idea of adding mandolorians (the tempesters) and the bullgyrn where a bit off a point sink for1k

do the heavy weapon squad boxes come with 3 of each heavy weapon or only one of each? either way this loadout means i only need to buy the 3 sets (extra from start collecting box)

not too sure on the ratlings since Im not sure how good snipers are and I hate metal models other option would be a command squad with medipack and mortor(so it can shoot and be hidden) or maybe astropath (c3po maybe?) and platoon commander (Lando)

Note.
You could take a full on inquisitor and give him a blaster pistol (inferno, or plasma) and a force sword (or dual ended force staff) and the psyker powers "dominate and psychic pursuit" to make a REAL jedi.
That's a guy who can use the force to smite, but also to warp the brains of the weak minded to bend them to his will, and even use the force to pick out his singular target (a character) in the middle of a big firefight where normal soldiers wouldn't hav ethe opportunity.

Hah! I love the jedi idea

The theme would work better with a weird mix of rules for any Killteam game, or even a necromunda build.
And if you are going for a primaris Psyker. Just be more on the nose and them him after Darth Vader.

Make your Sentinel and Heavy weapon crews more uniform. Because just spreading their weapon choices out will make it to where they can't handle certain threats, or will just severely limit the groups effectiveness against any one target.

The Sentinels can be kept as scouts, loaded down with their heavy flamers and then spend the whole game flanking enemy formations with nothing but auto-hitting attacks. Or you can run them all as Armored Sentinels with plasma and support your Ogryn squad with them.

For your Heavy Weapon squads. Autocannons are your best friends, if you aren't taking them for their lascannon shots. They generally outperform both heavy bolters and the mortars on reliable damage. The only thing the mortar has going for it at this point is Blast, and that's pretty niche as it is.

ok after looking at suggestions I got another armylist

Hqs

Han Company commander laurels of command bellowing voice

Leia company commander

Sabine Tempestor prime rod of command (would prefer a pistol /chainsword so I could model it as duel pistols but the extra orders probably important)

Elites

Chewbacca ogryn bodyguard plate not sure what shield is better for a bodyguard or if I should just use nork's rules for the extra 5 points

veteren squad not sure if I want a lascannon heavy weapon team or 3 grenade launcher/flamers

command squad with a lascannon heavy weapon team

troops

2 infantry squad with grenade launchers or flamers

2 infantry squad with meltaguns

scion with 2 plasma gun

scion with 2 meltagun

fast attack

3 scout sentinels with heavy flamer

Heavy

3 heavy weapons squads with autocannons

last 75 points will go to either

an inquisitor with inferno pistol force sword and dominate (luke)

or a primarus psyker with nightshroud {luke} and an astropath (r2-d2)




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with above list a lot of things Im not sure about Like inquisitor while the idea sounds awsome and will actually do more then primarus shielding my heavy weapons dont have the book and rules for him so not sure on his rules

sentinels I decided on the flamer scouts since ogryns not going to be in my 1k list

the veterens not sure if a second lascannon shot a turn would be better then 3 extra grenades a turn

as for regiments I was intially planning cadian but with 9th rules wanting you to push forward that doesn't seem as viable and not sure what id change to