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Hey there, just curious what everyone's choices are these days for a single Dream Team Strike Force from a single Rhino. So a 10-man limit!

(If you actually run a Land Raider instead, then feel free to share that team, but I'm not actually sure anyone runs Land Raiders these days!)

My recent thinking of a potentially powerful squad is:

Death Guard:
7 Plague Marines - Plasma Gun, Balesword, 2x Blight Launcher, 2x Flail of Corruption, 2x Bubotic Axes, Plague Knives
Foul Blightspawn
Foul Blightspawn
Chaos Lord or a Malignant Plaguecaster

Maybe even swap the two Blight Launchers for two Plague Spewers. Loads of flamers, grenades, and rerolls of hits and wounds.

Edit:
Realised that there's a few rules-lawyer types on here that might ignore the spirit of the question, and instead go with something like "10 Chaos Lords"... Which is fine, if you can justify the points and detachments cost of it :p

Just bought a LR kit, planning to make an "Avenging Soulstorm" (custom LR using CA 2017 rules) w/ flamestorm sponsons and lascannon sponsons w/ assault cannon on top . That will give me a 7 man-capacity, which I intend to put a devastator squad (2 meltas, 2 heavy bolters). Probably will also stuff a medic and commander of some sort in the group to give it a little bit of survivability (I play 1,000 pt. games, so this ought to be a pretty tough nut).

If you are going to put ten men in a Rhino and rocket it upfield your best bang for your buck would most likely be Berzerkers.

Assuming the Rhino gets near the intended target.

A canoness, a mistress of repentance, an imagifier, a hospitaler and six repentia. That's five units- 22 wounds; four possible martyrs and the capacity to recycle the repentia, or even characters, who could then be martyred again.

If you prefer shooty, swap the mistress and repentia for a sister superior with a storm bolter and six dominions with 4 storm bolters. Retributors with heavy bolters or multimeltas are nice.

For psychic hunting, Greyfax + Cullexus + 8 Sisters of Silence. The stacking LD penalties and two deny the witch rolls are nice.

I have a 13 CP 1500 points fluffy list with my Ultras. 30 PA SM in 3 Rhinos accompanied by a contemptor (redemptor proxy, cuz redemptor is weak imo) and 5 man AS deepstriking. Almost all painted except for a rhino and a few bases. I love to run rhino lists when playing narrative or friendly games

 NoiseMarine with Tinnitus wrote:
If you are going to put ten men in a Rhino and rocket it upfield your best bang for your buck would most likely be Berzerkers.

Assuming the Rhino gets near the intended target.

Especially with self-destructing rhino.

If you aren't bound by rules of 3:

Dark Angels
9 Company Champions
Asmodai

In melee that's 36 attacks hitting on 2+ rerolling misses, S7, AP -3, d3 damage.

They are all characters, so keep the Rhino or something else slightly in front and they're safe from shooting. Also all have 3+/5++ (4++ on Asmodai). The champs have 4W each too.

598 points.

I put 5 or 6 Noise Marines kitted for Melee with a Champ with a Power Sword and Doom Siren in my Rhino. Are they great? No? Are they cheap? Yes. Can they do some damage if they close in with the enemy? Absolutely. They aren't a dream team, but they are small and practical and don't have a huge target over their head, and fit into most of my CSM games.

Usually the Rhino is more obnoxious then they are since its mainly used to soak overwatch, tie up shooty squads, and provide light fire support with Storm Bolters.

7 Berserkers with champion, chainsword/axe on everything champ has chainsword p.fist. Exalted Champion with p. Fist, dark apostle. That's pretty much my most deadly rhino squad. I run it most of the time, with 2 other Berserker units in rhinos.

 chimeara wrote:
7 Berserkers with champion, chainsword/axe on everything champ has chainsword p.fist. Exalted Champion with p. Fist, dark apostle. That's pretty much my most deadly rhino squad. I run it most of the time, with 2 other Berserker units in rhinos.

Run the same when I use my CSMs. Not gonna be good versus wraithguard but will chew threw QEQs like orks like a hot knife (chainsword?) through butter. Must be WE legion though.

 Stormonu wrote:
Just bought a LR kit, planning to make an "Avenging Soulstorm" (custom LR using CA 2017 rules) w/ flamestorm sponsons and lascannon sponsons w/ assault cannon on top . That will give me a 7 man-capacity, which I intend to put a devastator squad (2 meltas, 2 heavy bolters). Probably will also stuff a medic and commander of some sort in the group to give it a little bit of survivability (I play 1,000 pt. games, so this ought to be a pretty tough nut).

Yeh, it's unfortunate that Chaos doesn't get the option of a flamestorm cannon, as otherwise I would have been all over that!

8 possessd a lord and an exhalted champ all world eaters with the lord having axe of blind fury and the champ having the black mace (cp dependant) with flames of spite warlord trait.

Rocket up then bail out charge and murder things.

 chimeara wrote:
7 Berserkers with champion, chainsword/axe on everything champ has chainsword p.fist. Exalted Champion with p. Fist, dark apostle. That's pretty much my most deadly rhino squad. I run it most of the time, with 2 other Berserker units in rhinos.

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Nothing beats the idea of a rhino full or berserkers screeching upfield and firing its combi plasma at the hardest to hit target it can see to explode and release the berserkers for the CC phase...