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There's a miniature tournament coming up, 750pts each and using the allies' force organisation chart (except that for some reason another troops choice can be taken as well). Are there any glaringly obvious problems with this list?

HQ
Shas'el - CIB, Plasma Rifle, Targeting Array, HW MT, Shield Drone - 115pts

Elites
3 Crisis suits - Missile Pods, Plasma Rifles, 2 with Multi-Trackers, Team Leader with Targetting Array, HW MT + HW BSF, 2 Shield Drones - 231pts

Troops
6 Fire Warriors, Shas'ui with Target Lock - 75
6 Fire Warriors - 60

Heavy Support
Hammerhead - Railgun, Burst Cannons, Disruption Pod, Multi-Tracker - 165

Fortifications
Aegis Defence Line - Quad-gun - 100


I'm hoping that the tactics are fairly simple. I Start off with everything behind the defence line, With the fire warrior 'ui controlling the quad-gun. I then shoot stuff.

Only thing I would suggest is that your Troops are really fragile. Even behind the line a little bit of focused fire will completely wreck any chance you have at holding an objective. Basically your options are to:
- Increase the size of your FW teams
or
- Buy a Devilfish.

Id drop a crisis suit, a shield drone, the Targeting Array on your Crisis sergeant, and the FW Shas'ui/TL upgrades. If you still need more points drop the Multi-Tracker on the HH.

Fire Warriors are not very good at taking punishment, all it takes is a slightly lower than average roll for leadership to send them running and with 6E missions being so objective heavy, you need to protect your troops more than ever.

Yeah, good points. I'll drop a crisis for another 6 FW. I'd like to have a devilfish, but I could do with as much firepower out in the open as possible, and I think I've probably got enough anti heavy infantry stuff already. I might drop the FW 'ui as well, and change a shield drone to a gun drone for a devilfish instead, I'm not sure. I'll do some playtesting and see what works the best.

 p_gray99 wrote:
There's a miniature tournament coming up, 750pts each and using the allies' force organisation chart. Are there any glaringly obvious problems with this list?

HQ
Shas'el - CIB, Plasma Rifle, Targeting Array, HW MT, Shield Drone - 115pts

Elites
3 Crisis suits - Missile Pods, Plasma Rifles, 2 with Multi-Trackers, Team Leader with Targetting Array, HW MT + HW BSF, 2 Shield Drones - 231pts

Troops
6 Fire Warriors, Shas'ui with Target Lock - 75
6 Fire Warriors - 60

Heavy Support
Hammerhead - Railgun, Burst Cannons, Disruption Pod, Multi-Tracker - 165

Fortifications
Aegis Defence Line - Quad-gun - 100


I'm hoping that the tactics are fairly simple. I Start off with everything behind the defence line, With the fire warrior 'ui controlling the quad-gun. I then shoot stuff.

Personally, I wouldn't bother with the Shield Drones at this points level, and I would take a Sniper Drone Team, using the spotter to fire the Quad Gun.

HQ
Shas'el w/ CIB, Plasma Rifle, Multi-Tracker, HW Blacksun Filter 93

Elites
2x Crisis suits w/ Missile Pod, Plasma Rifle 132

Troops
3x 6 Fire Warriors 180

Heavy Support
Sniper Drone Team 80
Hammerhead - Railgun, Burst Cannons, Disruption Pod, Multi-Tracker 165

Fortifications
Aegis Defence Line - Quad-gun 100
750pts on the nose.

While you lose the 1 suit, BS5 on the Shas'ui, the BS4 Team Leader and the Shield Drones
You gain an extra squad of Firewarriors, a BS4 model to fire the Quadgun and 3 Rail Rifles, that also leaves all 3 squads of warriors free to chase objectives and by putting the Shas'el with the Suits, they retain their BSF, without having to pay the extra 5pts.

Unfortunately, the army's got to fit the strange force organisation chart for this tournament for some reason, and I'm not entirely convinced about sniper drones anyway (although I've seen them do Ok in the past).

I'd also drop the shield drones as well, but there's generally quite a bit of anti-tank fire pointed at them.

Other than that though, all your ideas were great
But thanks for the input, even if it can't be used.

What's the FOC for this then?
Ah, missed that before -_-;
Allies with +1 Troops +Fort.?
So 1 HQ, 0-1 Elites, 1-3 Troops, 0-1 Fast Attack, 0-1 Heavy Support, 0-1 Fortification?

1-3 troops, but yeah.
Otherwise I'd probably have more heavy support and the crisis suits would be single squads.