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I am wondering how this list would do in competitive play and if anything needs to be changed. I like the imperial fists a lot and I want to make the best list I can with them. I tried to make this list as TAC as possible by having 15 potential blast templates to deal with hordes, plasma to deal with power/termie armor, tank hunter missile launchers to deal with tanks, and a Tank Hunter BS:5 quad-gun for anti-flyer. The Tac squads will combat squad down with the plasma cannon marines on home objectives. Any help is appreciated, thanks!

Points: 1500
Chapter Tactics: Imperial Fists

HQ: 255
Chapter Master
+ Artificer armor
+ Power Fist
+ The Shield Eternal
+ Combi-grav
+ Space Marine bike

Troops: 750
10 Tactical Marines
+ Plasma gun
+ Heavy Bolter
+ Rhino
10 Tactical Marines
+ Plasma gun
+ Heavy Bolter
+ Rhino
10 Tactical Marines
+ Plasma gun
+ Heavy Bolter
+ Rhino
5 Bikers
+ 2 Grav-guns
+ Combi-grav
+ Melta bombs

Heavy Support: 390 (they all have Tank Hunter)
Devastator Squad
+ 4 Missile Launchers
Devastator Squad
+ 4 Missile Launchers
Devastator Squad
+ 4 Missile Launchers

Fortification: 100
Aegis Defence Line
+ quad-gun

So will this list do okay in a competition?

2 things:

the CM cannot have the PF, Shield Eternal AND combi-grav. He's gotta swap one weapon for the Shield.

at the competitive level you're gonna have a hard time dealing with flyer-heavy lists (Cron-Air and such) and I'm afraid a strong assault list might give you a hard time too (Daemons).

It's a solid list overall, I'm just not sure about its merit in a tough competitive environment.

You would be better off taking a command squad with bikes for your CM and for their weapons I'm guessing combi gravs and apothecary. Other then that looks good, for extra points drop the rhinos because all they do is give first blood, just camp everyone behind the aegis defense line.

 Arbiter wrote:
You would be better off taking a command squad with bikes for your CM and for their weapons I'm guessing combi gravs and apothecary.

Except he has no HQ listed that can take a command squad. He'd have to drop the CM to a Captain perhaps, or add another HQ to take a Command Squad.

Other then that looks good, for extra points drop the rhinos because all they do is give first blood, just camp everyone behind the aegis defense line.

And not have scoring troops moving to objectives?? The Rhinos *may* give first blood (not always), but they'll get his scoring troops to their objective faster than them walking across the board will.

@grimgunman - As mentioned, the CM can't take both weapons + shield eternal. You're going to have to either make him a close combat monster or a ranged threat. With SE, close combat monster is the typical choice. If you're doing ranged perhaps drop SE and use a StormShield instead, then you can take both a CCW + Ranged weapon.

I like the triple dev squad idea but I'd consider giving one of them Lascannons instead of ML for the really though AV.