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There is a 1500 tournament coming up here in a little over a month and I am putting together a list to try to be competitive in this tourny. here is what I have come up with. Any suggestions to make this list more lethal would be greatly accepted!

HQ
Coteaz

Troops
2x acolyte w/ plasma gun, 1 psyker in psybolt razorback

2x acolyte w/ plasma gun, 1 psyker in psybolt razorback

Fast attack
10x Grey Knight Interceptor Squad. 2 psycannons. 1 hammer, justicar with halberd. psybolt ammo

Heavy support
5x Purgation squad w/ 4 psycannons. Justicar with halberd.

Dreadknight w/ sword, heavy incinerator, and personal teleporter

Astra Militarum
Pask in a punisher leman russ with a lascannon hull mounted
Executioner leman russ w/ plasma sponsons and heavy bolter hull mounted

squad of veterans with no upgrades.

coteaz typically rolls divination and the 2 psykers roll telepathy for psychic shriek and possibility of invisibility.

The tournament area I play in is a VERY competitive community with some players who are among the best in the U.S.
Looking for tweaks. Can't really think of a work around for the veterans and they feel very out of place in this list.
The idea with this list is to bring a lot of very threatening units to the table and be a fairly durable army while still being able to use a bit of mobility. this is a rendition of my 1850 list which i dropped a stormraven and a chimera, and turned a 10x purifier squad with 4 psycannons into a 5x purgation squad with the 4 psycannons.

How can I make this list more lethal and harder to deal with?

You seem to have a mix of strategies. You have fast units ideal for jumping forward and dealing damage (DK and Interceptors), gunline units that are not very mobile (purgation squad, veterans, russes) and medium ranged units that are mildly mobile (razorbacks with plasma guns). What kind of missions are you expecting to play? If you're looking to play with objectives then you're going to be hurting for mobile scorers.

Purgations are not worthwhile anymore since they lost their ability to ignore LOS. IMO you should probably replace them with more acolytes or a psybolt dreadnought.

The veterans need a transport or should be removed for something else. Maybe just an old-fashioned IG blob to bubblewrap your russes?

Maybe fit in a Wyvern or two somewhere? Those are pretty OP at the moment. Also you don't have a whole lot of dedicated ranged AT that can deal with AV14, you might have problems with RussRush. Maybe fit in a Vendetta instead of Wyverns if you think its important.

 ultimentra wrote:
Maybe fit in a Wyvern or two somewhere? Those are pretty OP at the moment. Also you don't have a whole lot of dedicated ranged AT that can deal with AV14, you might have problems with RussRush. Maybe fit in a Vendetta instead of Wyverns if you think its important.

With the limited points I don't know where to squeeze in the wyverns. Also not too big of a fan of them. My gks don't struggle to often with cover. Don't own the vendetta either.


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Zimko wrote:
You seem to have a mix of strategies. You have fast units ideal for jumping forward and dealing damage (DK and Interceptors), gunline units that are not very mobile (purgation squad, veterans, russes) and medium ranged units that are mildly mobile (razorbacks with plasma guns). What kind of missions are you expecting to play? If you're looking to play with objectives then you're going to be hurting for mobile scorers.

Purgations are not worthwhile anymore since they lost their ability to ignore LOS. IMO you should probably replace them with more acolytes or a psybolt dreadnought.

The veterans need a transport or should be removed for something else. Maybe just an old-fashioned IG blob to bubblewrap your russes?

I am just a big fan of Psycannons. The more Psycannons the better.

The dreadnought are you talking auto cannon or assault cannon?

Trying to think of more uses for the acolytes. I am out of rhino models. I could make the squads a little bigger. 3 plasma acolytes and psyker. What to do with the rest.

Dreadnoughts with 2 tl autocannons and psybolt ammo are a mainstay in my army. With 7th they don't go pop quite as easily either

Ok updated list...

Coteaz

Elite
10x purifiers 4 psycannon
5x purifiers 2 psycannon

Troops
2 plasma aco with psyker in psyback
2 plasma aco with psyker in psyback

Heavy
Psydread with autocannons
Psydread with autocannons

AM
Pask in punisher lascannon
Executioner with plasma sponsons

Veterans in chimera

That looks better. HOWEVER, the Purifiers need a ride. Rhinos/Chimeras work best--it allows both their Cleansing Flame and Psycannons to go off. T1 Cruise forward, maybe Flat Out, T2 Combat forward.

in order to make room for transports i had to clear one of the purifiers. this gave me a condrum. I could go this way with the list.

coteaz

5x purifiers w/2 psycannon in rhino. knight with halberd
5x purifiers w/2 psycannon in rhino. knight with halberd

3x plasma acolyte 1x psyker in psyback
3x plasma acolyte 1x psyker in psyback

psyfleman dreadnought
psyfleman dreadnought

pask in punisher
executioner

veterans in a chimera w/ 2 meltaguns


with 12 points leftover. maybe for weapon upgrades for purifiers

issue now is...

Where do i put coteaz? how do i get pask his prescience

Coteaz should be able to cast prescience out of the chimera hatch, right?

Otherwise just hide him between any two vehicles/ruins.

I believe the faq'd it that psykers can't cast from within vehicles any more.

Psykers can only cast witchfires out of vehicles (Assuming a firepoint on the vehicle). Because these attacks happen in the psychic phase, you can also shoot from the firepoint in the shooting phase, which is nice.