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Hey guys,
looking for a change of pace from my Alpha Legion so thought Id try and build a small (2500 pt) Death Guard army.
I like terminators, I like dreadnoughts, I like blasts - Deathguard seem to be all about this gak.

I toyed around with PotL but couldn't quite find something I liked (want to avoid tank spam if I can).
After some time i settled with the following orbital assault list:

Typhon
10 Deathshroud Terminators

2x 10 Man Tactical Squads in Drop Pods
Additional CCW, Fist, Artificer

10x Grave Wardens (Scythe on the leader because they look cool), 2x Heavy Flamer with Chem Munitions.

1x Leviathan in dread drop pod w/ Cyclonic Melta Lance, Grav Flux Bombardment, Phosphex Discharger

1x Leviathan in dread drop pod w/Siege Claw, Siege Drill and Phosphex Discharger.

That comes to 2490 points.
Idea is the grave wardens start on the table (need something to right?).
Both dread drop in turn 1, the shrouded provided by the pods should also allow the grave wardens to advance a bit more easily.
I think it could be good fun - I also am not sure if is at all useful as a list, are the Grave Wardens going to be too slow? Are the deepstriking Deathshroud terminators going to die to a single pie plate? WIll the Leviathan be effective anti armour?

Any feedback would be great.

Drop the heavy flamers on the Grave Wardens. The grenade launchers are much better, as each suit has a built in 3+ poison template attack (and can be used to overwatch, despite them being cataphractii). Make each dreadnought half shooty/half stabby. You can combine them any way you want (melta/claw or melta/drill or flux/claw or flux/drill, etc.) because even without amourbane, they're still tank shredders, so you can keep them each half infantry eating/half tank eating and spread your threat out a little bit bitter than having one dedicated to shooting and one dedicated to ripping. I'd also drop the drop pods and use those points to fill your tactical squads to 15-20 each.

Chapter Master Zoidberg wrote:
Drop the heavy flamers on the Grave Wardens. The grenade launchers are much better, as each suit has a built in 3+ poison template attack (and can be used to overwatch, despite them being cataphractii). Make each dreadnought half shooty/half stabby. You can combine them any way you want (melta/claw or melta/drill or flux/claw or flux/drill, etc.) because even without amourbane, they're still tank shredders, so you can keep them each half infantry eating/half tank eating and spread your threat out a little bit bitter than having one dedicated to shooting and one dedicated to ripping. I'd also drop the drop pods and use those points to fill your tactical squads to 15-20 each.

If I drop the pods i cannot run orbital assault, and therefore don't get deep striking Terminators.
Didnt even notice the template attack on the wardens, will definitely drop the heavy flamers.
Also I plan on magnetizing leviathans (if I get them) so that I can swap out weapon options, so you think theyre better being aimed at a more all round kind of load out?

Good point on the pods, my bad! I have no experience with that RoW.

For the Leviathans, yes! I think they're insanely good generalist units. I just can't justify using a 270 point unit (base) as a shooting platform when there are so many other options out there; but if you stick a single CC option on it, you've kept some of its gnarlier stuff (I personally love that flux bombard; its a great way to erase tactical squads or peel down terminator units, particularly when combined with the phosphex discharger) while allowing it to easily dispatch anything that manages to tie it up in CC. If you don't, you're left with some high S attacks, but no AP to carry it home with, and you can easily get tarpitted. Now, i'm not saying you're WRONG for taking a shooty leviathan, I just personally find them to be more effective force multipliers if you spread the love out with them.

And yes, those clouds are badass, especially because they cause anyone charging to be disordered. RAW it looks like you can use them in the shooting phase, too, but i'm not sure its kind of vague IMO.

CML & Drill for one, Grav & Claw for the other. Gets you the best options for what they will be doing, imo. Tank Killer and infantry killer.