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Kor'sarro Khan (Moondrakkan) – 150 {Attached to the Command Squad}
Command Squad (Space Marine Bikes, Apothecary, 4 Space Marine Veterans, 3 Storm Shields, 4x Grav Guns) – 240

Space Marine Bike Squad (Sergeant with Combi-Grav & Melta Bombs, 4 Space Marine Bikers, 2 Grav Guns) – 150
Space Marine Bike Squad (Sergeant with Combi-Grav & Melta Bombs, 4 Space Marine Bikers, 2 Grav Guns) – 150
Space Marine Bike Squad (Sergeant with Combi-Melta & Melta Bombs, 4 Space Marine Bikers, 2 Melta Guns) – 140
Space Marine Bike Squad (Sergeant with Combi-Melta & Melta Bombs, 4 Space Marine Bikers, 2 Melta Guns) – 140
Space Marine Bike Squad (Sergeant with Combi-Melta & Melta Bombs, 4 Space Marine Bikers, 2 Melta Guns) – 140
Space Marine Bike Squad (Sergeant with Combi-Melta & Melta Bombs, 4 Space Marine Bikers, 2 Melta Guns) – 140

Stormtalon Gunship (Skyhammer Missile Launcher) – 125
Stormtalon Gunship (Skyhammer Missile Launcher) – 125

= 1500

Thoughts?

I think it is a lot of bikes.. which I'm always a fan of.. however, I would likely drop one of the units and pick up a TFC..

Do you face a lot of tanks? That is an awful lot of melta in your list. You could get the TFC and do another grav unit with the left over points.

Grav will also make tanks cower - or they should. After one grav hit, any following grav gun is about as effective at bringing down a 3HP vehicle as a melta.

 obsidiankatana wrote:
After one grav hit, any following grav gun is about as effective at bringing down a 3HP vehicle as a melta.

Why do you say that? At best you'll just glance away more HP.

 DanielBeaver wrote:

 obsidiankatana wrote:
After one grav hit, any following grav gun is about as effective at bringing down a 3HP vehicle as a melta.

Why do you say that? At best you'll just glance away more HP.

I think all tourneys and most people go with the
First grav gun shot causes Immo and 1 HP and the 2nd shot causes 1hp (from immo) and then 1 HP (so 3 HP removed with 2 6's and 5 HP removed with 3 6's)

the advantage the grav guns bring is being fully effective at 18 inches on a relentless platform while the meltas have to get in under 6 inches to be the most effective.

I would honestly drop the Storm shields from the command squad, change 3 of the metla squads to grav gun squads and with any extra points add more bikers.

you could also drop the storm shields + 1 Melta biker squad to add in a CM with TH EWS a bike and have a Powerful beat stick driving around. extra points for a TFC or extra bikes

I find the main problem with Bike horde is that your main advantage (mobility) is limited by the sheer nunber of models on the board. I tend to choke myself and playing denied flank is very hard, also hard to spread out if the enemy brings allot of pie.

@roci - I was thinking about adding in TFC's going up to 1850-2000 point games.

There is a decent bit of mech in my meta, and with the TL bolt gun as a side option they really don't lose much - half grav / melta equipped should work out pretty well, I did toy with the idea of adding some flamer bikes instead of melta but idk.

@ninjacommando - With Khan and a 4 grav squad + apothecary I feel that the storm shields are justified.

Any other comments or advice?

Thanks