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Hi I am looking at potentially building a fun Sanguinary Guard army.
The ideal list I have come up with is at 2000 points and it would make full use of 6 sanguinary Guard boxes (+ Sanguinor)
What do you think?

275 - Sanguinor

225 - Commander Dante
250 - Sanguinary Guard - 5x Infernus Pistols

100 - Sanguinary Priest - JumpPack PowerFist
250 - Sanguinary Guard - 5x Plasma Pistols

100 - Sanguinary Priest - JumpPack PowerFist
200 - Sanguinary Guard

100 - Sanguinary Priest - JumpPack PowerFist
200 - Sanguinary Guard

100 - Sanguinary Priest - JumpPack PowerFist
200 - Sanguinary Guard

Dante can make good use of the infernus pistols through precision deep striking. The Plasma pistols can be either in a hunting squad of their own or spread amongst the squads.
With their 2+ armour saves and mobility they should be able to get around the board, do some reliable shoting and then assault with their master crafted power weapons...

Is this a fantasy or would this make an extremely fun army to play? (I would be happy if it won games at a least 50%)
All feedback and opinions appreciated - Thanks

Fun to play? Maybe.

Well, I played an all-jump pack BA army in the 5th ed. It was indeed fun to play but the army sometimes fell apart too quickly.

You need units that are able to silence guns in order to reduce return fire. A unit of this type is Vanguard. Three 5 men squads with a power fist can pop tanks or charge devastators upon arrival.

Maybe you should try a 2000pt at vanguard RG army after the new codex comes out. If the rumors are true, vanguard will be cheaper and it will costs less to give them jumpacks too. And also if you have shrike, I think it was that all jumppack units get stealth and mobility if memory serves me properly...

Senortaco wrote:
Maybe you should try a 2000pt at vanguard RG army after the new codex comes out. If the rumors are true, vanguard will be cheaper and it will costs less to give them jumpacks too. And also if you have shrike, I think it was that all jumppack units get stealth and mobility if memory serves me properly...

This sounds good. The Apo formation Wings of Sanguinius also gives stealth to a full company of Assault Marines. Mobility is what?