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I was Toying around with my Army Builder a few nights ago and built a list I had thought of in the past but had never manifested itself. Heres what it looks like:

HQ
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Command Platoon
-Heroic Senior, Company Standard, Light infantry/Cameleoline

-Support Squad of 3x Sentinels /w Lascannons

Troop
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Infantry Platoon
-Junior officer /w Honorifica Imperialis, Cameleoline

-5x Infantry squads /w Light Infantry/Cameleoline, and 5x Sniper rifles total

Infantry Platoon

-Junior Officer
-5x Infantry Squads /w Light Infantry/Cameleoline, and 5x Sniper Rifles total

Elites
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9x Ratlings

Fast Attack
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1x 3 Sentinels /w Lascannons

2x Hellhounds

Heavy Support
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Leman Russ /w Heavy Bolters all around
- Smokes

As a side note I had played around with the idea of taking a Vindicar assassin due to him being able to pick off any model he wants and him just being a nice centerpiece for my army, but rationalized that his point cost + the cost of the inquisitor lord would be too steep, if anyone has any ideas how to make this work i'd love to hear them.

Uh...I wouldn't recommend taking it to anything you wanted to win. Your armies entire AT firepower is concentrated in two very soft targets...not good. You might do ok against a stand and shoot GEQ army list, like your previous IG list, but the sniper rifles won't put out enough shots to stop a horde.

The current hordes are unpinnable anyway.

LATD used to be able to do lots of sniper rifles effectively.

Can't now, and IG don't really do it well even maxed out on choices.

Wanna snipe? Play Marines or Eldar.

Sniper Rifles are junk. They don't kill anything. This army will not work. Period.

All Light Infantry is useful for is allowing you to deploy your important squads after the enemy has finished deploying.

BYE

If you are taking Cameleoline as a doctrine you should focus your army more on heavy weapons squads. There is only so much cover on the table and with over a 100 models Cameleoline is going to be a waste on more than half the army.

As said already sniper rifles are junk Las cannons aren't.

Agree with everything above and if you really wanted to maximize your snipers, why not SWS with sniper rifles? Two SWS's with 3 sniper rifles each is only 4 less, much cheaper and free's up your line squads for what they are supposed to do.

Do Sniper rifles have any utlity at all against all the Monstrous Creatures out there with high toughness and Inv Saves only? I remember a long time ago I had two scout squads with Snipers shoot up a Nightbringer pretty well. just wondering

Snipers are great only against high toughness models that have a low armor save. against most TMCs and Wraithlords they are not useful as they will get at most 1 wound I can't see them being effective is normal tournament game play.