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This is my first attempt at making a pod list.  Just wondering what y'all think
Not planning on deepstriking the speeders, but keeping them behind cover until the pods start arriving.  Granted that we'll be using alot of the old RTT missions, so they'll start offboard alot of the time regardless.

 

Master (Bolt Pistol/Power Weapon, Termie Honors)
Epistolary (CCW, Fear/Fury, Termie Honors)
6 man Command Squad (2 plasma guns)
Drop Pod

Epistolary (Termie armor, Storm Bolter, Fear/Fury)
4 Termie command squad (2 Assault Cannons)
Drop Pod

5 Termies (2 Assault cannons)

Dreadnaught (Heavy Flamer)
Drop Pod

3x8 man Tactical Squad (Lascannon/Plasma Gun in Drop Pod)

Squadron of 2 Tornadoes

Looks okay. I always think of the Fear librarians as a bit gimmicky. Against some armies and in some games they may practically win the game by themselves. Against Fearless armies the whole trick is useless. 

I was all fired up to try one of them out when I first tried podding my army, but I didn’t have the model painted, and the army worked so reliably without him that I felt like he’d be overkill.

The Dread in the pod with HF is great. Termies in a pod are great. If you get tired of Rending everything to death, a squad in a pod is the only time I would ever consider giving Termies a HF. Being able to drop right next to an enemy squad and place the HF model/s anywhere within 2” of the pod allows some righteous toasting of the enemy. Very nice against 4+ or 5+ save armies in cover.

I’d give every Tac squad a vet with Fist or LC, and might consider bumping them up to 10 models. You’d have to decide what to cut to do it. If it were me I’d get rid of at least one of the ICs.

I'm not so sure about putting las cannons in pod squads is a good idea. Those cannons are going to fire on turn 3 at the earliest and will probably be in assault range shortly. Otherwise looks pretty standard.
cheers
Oh, and get tank hunters for all of your assault cannon squads.

The lascannons are there as anti-skimmer weapons basically. Falcons/Serpesnt/hammerheads can get out of range of my guns and start hammering me unless I have long-range firepower.

I'd love to get a fist in every squad, problem is I'm not sure what to drop to get it. I'm trying to keep my comp score somewhat moderate, so I can't drop to 6 man squads. Also, all my power fist models currently have bolters (I typically would run True Grit) Though, I could just use them with fist/bolter...Have one less attack.

For the cost of the Epistolary in the command squad and one of the Tornadoes, you could afford three vets with Fists and three more marines. You?d keep the same number of scoring units, but add durability and more HtH punch (no pun intended).

What about this:
Epistolary (CCW, Fear/Fury, Termie Honors, Frags)
6 man Command Squad (2 plasma guns)
Drop Pod

Epistolary (Termie armor, Storm Bolter, Fear/Fury)
4 Termie command squad (2 Assault Cannons)
Drop Pod

5 Termies (2 Assault cannons, Tank hunters)

Dreadnaught (Heavy Flamer)
Drop Pod

3x8 man Tactical Squad (Lascannon/Plasma Gun, Vet w/PF in Drop Pod)

Squadron of 2 Tornadoes