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One of my local stores has these 1500pt tournaments and i wanted to bring a better aircav list than i did last time.

Ccs - fist, plasma pistol, kell, vox, melta, medic, Carapace, las pistol for the medic and vox

TROOPS
Vets - fist, 3x melta, vox, carapace
Vets - fist, 3x melta, vox, carapace
Vets - fist, plasma pistol, 3x plasma, vox, carapace
Vets - fist, plasma pistol, 3x plasma, vox, carapace

Fast attack
Valkyrie - MRP

Vendetta x 2

Vendetta x 2

This list leaves me with 20 extra points to play with and can probably free up more else where

Drop all the doctrines the plasma postols vox's the carapace kell etc add some plasma rifles in the CCS and add some hydras

Or swap out your carapace for demolitions and I'd just go with a basic CCS, say with Melta or plasma rifles. Though with this many vets, creed is a good option or straken if you'd rather have a good close combat unit.

I'm not a fan of melta spam, but the most effective aircav I've seen to date is all Valkyries (with MRL and heavy bolters) with melta vets+demolitions. You can scout, move flat out your first turn and get your +4 save, then you can move and still fire your MRL's, drop your vets, they can hit with the demo charge and then charge themselves. It's highly effective.

I personally like half valks, half dettas, half meltas (In the valks) and half plasma vets (in dettas). Start with valkyries, move in and then deep strike your dettas with the plasma behind enemy lines.

Now I like carapace armor on my vets, for fluff reasons and against SM it is effective, as bolters, flamers and frag missile are all AP5. But they are a huge point sink.


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1500 AirCav

HQ: CCS; x4 Melta, carapace -110
Troops:
x4 vets, 3x melta, carapace, demolitions (shotguns) -160
Fast:
2x Valkyries, MRL, heavy bolters -280
2x Valkyries, MRL, heavy bolters -280
Valkyrie, MRL, heavy bolters -140
-1450

Heres a hard hitting melta/valkyrie spam list that I'd enjoy.