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Hey all, I'm a primarily DA player looking to get some games with the more competitive SM codex. Want to harness the awesomeness of IH bike Chapter Master and experimenting with some allied synergies. Would this list be at least somewhat competitive?


Primary Detachment Iron Hands

HQ

Chapter Master
Bike
Artificer Armor
Shield Eternal
Thunder Hammer

Honor Guard
6x Veterans
Champion
Chapter Banner

Troops

5x Bike Squad
2x Grav Gun
Attack bike (MM)

5x Bike Squad
2x Grav Gun
Attack Bike (MM)

Heavy Support

Stormraven Gunship

Thunderfire Cannon


Allied Detachment Dark Angels

HQ

Librarian
Bike
Power Field Generator

Ravenwing Command Squad

4x Ravenwing Black Knights
Apothecary
Ravenwing Grenade Launcher

Troops

Scout Squad
5x Sniper Rifles
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1500


This is the core list. Chapter Master goes with RWBK and gets Scouts, Skilled Rider and Hit&Run to add to his already considerable power. Honor guard go into Stormraven and once they're on the field Librarian joins them with PFG to give them invuln save (and Fearless and Preferred Enemy: CSM). I can play around with it a bit, for example dropping attack bikes and maybe one honor guard and squeeze enough points to take TriLas Predator for Anti-Tank.

Another idea I like is trying to utilize that Dreadnought loading space in Stormraven and drop one along with Honor guard for fire support (maybe give it Assault Cannon/Missile Launcher?). It's pretty fluffy for IH but again I'd have to drop something (most likely Attack Bikes) to fit it in. What do you think?

This list also expands nicely to 1850-2000 but that's another story.

I think a few grav centurions are scarier coming out of the raven with the PFG. T5, 2W, 2+/4++, and they can spam grav even if they're kicked out the door of a zooming flier.

Also, have you considered using Clan Raukan in lieu of regular IH? They have some nifty wargear, most notably something called Gorgon's Chain. If you haven't taken wounds it gives you something like 3++, FNP and 4+ IWND. I forget exactly, my buddy runs it. And it's like a chainmail cape or something so it can go over Artificier lol.

Otherwise looks good.

Yeah actually this is meant to be Clan Raukaan force I just said IH for simplicity sake. Not a fan of centurion I think they're overpriced and I have decent grav platforms with my bike squads.

You cant take shield eternal if its clan raukaan. Just count it as normal IH since you are not taking advantage of CR. Gorgans chain is awsome. It gets weaker with each wound taken but still great.