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I've come up with two different lists at 1000 points. The first one i think might work, where as the seccond might just be destroyed too quickly.. but its cheeper money wise.

1)
Ordo Malleus Inquisitor: Terminator Armor, Psycannon. 80
Terminator Squad: Psycannon. 225
Strike Squad: 6x Halberd, 2x psycannons. 220
Strike Squad: 6x Halberd, 2x psylancer. 200
Purgation squad: 4x incinerators. 100
Dreadnought: Multi-Melta, storm bolter.

2)
Castellan Crowe: 150
Purifier Squad: 4xPsycannon, 5xHalberd, 1x Hammer. 295
Purifier Squad: 4xIncenerator, 5xHalberd, 1x Hammer. 255
Dreadnought: Plasma Cannon. 125
Dreadnought: Plasma Cannon. 125

With both lists i plan on combat squading the 10 man units.

Hey im new to grey knights and this is my list

HQ
Coteaz

Elites
Vindicare Assassin

Troops
10 Grey Knight SS
> 2 Psycannons, Psybolt Ammo

5 Crusaders
> Razorback with Lascannon

Heavy Support
Dreadknight
> Greatsword, Heavy Incinerator

Dreadnought
> 2 Twin-Linked Auto Cannons, Psybolt Ammo

Coteaz gies with the crusaders in the Razorback
SS deepstrikes and causes mayhem amongst infantry
Dreadnought sits at back and shoots at heavy infantry and light tanks
Dreadknight does whatever I like
Assassin just infiltrates in cover and shoots his 4D6 shot at tanks

Sound good or should I make some changes?

stratassj, your first army the point totals are wrong on the GKSS the first squad is 250 points and I'm not sure on the second because I don't know what a psylancer is.
I would drop the terminators they are too expensive for what you get. Buy a couple of Rhinos for the GKSS and some henchman in chimeras. 3x acolyte C/W plasma guns and 2X acolytes with bolters.
Psyfleman dreads are the way to go. More range Str 8.
I would also drop the Puragation squad as well for more henchmen, maybe 8 Psykers in a rhino and 1 acolyte.
Your right the second force would get crushed.

 stratassj wrote:
I've come up with two different lists at 1000 points. The first one i think might work, where as the seccond might just be destroyed too quickly.. but its cheeper money wise.

1)
Ordo Malleus Inquisitor: Terminator Armor, Psycannon. 80
Terminator Squad: Psycannon. 225
Strike Squad: 6x Halberd, 2x psycannons. 220
Strike Squad: 6x Halberd, 2x psylancer. 200
Purgation squad: 4x incinerators. 100
Dreadnought: Multi-Melta, storm bolter.

2)
Castellan Crowe: 150
Purifier Squad: 4xPsycannon, 5xHalberd, 1x Hammer. 295
Purifier Squad: 4xIncenerator, 5xHalberd, 1x Hammer. 255
Dreadnought: Plasma Cannon. 125
Dreadnought: Plasma Cannon. 125

With both lists i plan on combat squading the 10 man units.

The first list seems to be a good foundation for a friendly semi-competative list, but there are a few things I would change:

1) I don't think you need the halberds on the SS, they are primarily a shooting unit and the points spent on CC upgrades are wasted, you do not really want these guys in combat against anything the halberds would help against.

2) The dread seems out of place, and with only one vehicle at 1000 points, it will be quicly destroyed before the MM can get into position to threaten anything.

3) The termies are not bad, but at this points level i would recommend swapping them out for more strikes. At 1500+ you could consider them, but at this level the GK's lack of numbers really shows, so anything that can counter this is good.

4) the purgation squad with incinerators seems like a waste of their ability to shoot though cover, and a 5-man squad will die before they get to use them.

Here is my suggestion for a list based on the same sort of idea:

Ordo Malleus Inquisitor: Terminator Armor, Psycannon. 80

Strike squad, 10 men, 2x psycannon, Hammer on Justicar, psybolt ammo. 250
Strike squad, 10 men, 2x psycannon, Hammer on Justicar, psybolt ammo. 250
Strike squad, 10 men, 2x psycannon, psybolt ammo. 240

purgation squad, 4x psycannon. 180

1000 points.

With this kind of force you want to try and focus on force concentration, so try and deploy second and on only one flank, bringing your whole force against half the enemy. If you want you can DS one or two squads of strikes, but personally I wouldn't .

I usually run a list similar in style to your second list at higher points with some success, but at 1000 points strikes beat purifiers simply due to lower cost.

hope that helps

I don't like taking lists of exclusively strike marines. They're too vulnerable to the plethora of Anti-MeQ weapons all over the place. While I agree that it's hard to have a diverse GK list at 1000 points, I think that some terminators might be better than some strikes.

Personally, I'd probably take a few paladins instead of the terminators, just because it means you can play them more aggressively.

Something like this:

HQ ::: Ordo Malleus Inquisitor w/ Term, Psy, MLv1 - 110 points
Troops ::: Strike 10-man, 2x Psy, Halberd on justicar, Hammer on some dude, Psybolt - 255
Troops ::: Strike 10-man, 2x Psy, Halberd justicar, Hammer, Psybolt - 255

That's 620 points

With the remaining 380, I think you could take 3x Servo-Skulls (9), Dreadknight w/ incinerator (160), Stormraven (205), Psybolt on the Malleus (5).

If you want plasma cannons, take some plasma cannon Servitors, 2x Jokaero, and crusaders for your inquisitor henchmen. Put the malleus w/ divination in with them, and use the skulls smart, they reduce the blast scatter on the plascans.

I think the strikes vs termies decision is really based on local meta, as if you play against armies bring a lot of AP2, termies die just as easily as marines. Similarly, equal points of marines and termies die just as easily to small arms fire, and against bolters/lasguns/pulse rifles 5 terminators die as easily as 10 strikes. In that case, the strikes are a better choice as they can combat-squad to reduce damage/help with target satuation, and can take more wounds before guy with upgrades start dying.

For the price of 10 strikes with psybolt, 2x cannons and a hamer, you can get 5 GKT with any number of hammers or halberds, psybolt, 1 psycannon and 5 points left over, so really, it comes down to whether you want survivability (GKT) or more versatility and offensive power (SS). Paladins are again a different matter, but at 1000 points, I think the key is still maximising the number of scoring bodies. With most horde armies able to bring well over 100 models at this level, anything you can do to reduce the numbers deficit is good.

A DK would certainly bring a lot to the OP's list, but will take up a good portion of points, especilly if run with the Teleporter.