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Our FLGS has an upcoming tournament with the following restrictions:
-Max. 750pts
-No 2+ Saves
-No more than 3W/model
-No Fliers
-No vehicle with total AV more than 34
-Only one unit from Elite/Fast Attack/Heavy Support

I've put together two potential lists, but am not sure which way to go...

#1 - Dreadnought Support

HQ
-Librarian (lvl.1) w/ FS & BP

Troops
-10 man Tac. Squad
-1 PG, 1 PC, Sgt. w/ PP & CS

-10 man Tac. Squad
-1 Flamer, Sgt. w/ BP & CS
-Rhino as Dedicated Transport

Elite
-Venerable Dreadnought w/ Assault Cannon & ML

Fast Attack
-RW Attack Squad
-3 bikes, 1 PG, Sgt. w/ CS & PP

#2 - Sniper Support

HQ
-Librarian (lvl.1) w/ FS & BP

Troops
-10 man Tac. Squad
-1 PG, 1 PC, Sgt. w/ BP & CS

-10 man Tac. Squad
-1 Flamer, Sgt. w/ BP & CS
-Rhino as Dedicated Transport

-5 man Sniper Scouts w/ Camo Cloaks

Fast Attack
-RW Attack Squad
-3 bikes, 1 PG, Sgt. w/ CS & PP

Fortifications
-Aegis Defense Line w/ Quad-Gun

Both are 750 on the dot. In either case I plan to combat squad out the heavy plasma from the one tac squad to keep greater mobility. The Ven. Dread I like for the BS/WS 5, so I can more likely smack things with it. The Scouts w/ Aegis are for backfield scoring and long range covering fire. The RW are DV models, and the tourney is WYSIWG, but I'm still not sure about their need for plasma....however, I did melt some faces the last few times I fielded them. Thoughts?

Bumping from page 4 limbo...

May I suggest dumping the ravenwing and go for a stand and shoot section.

You want a librarian so I gave you one and a command squad with all bolters and the Standard of devastation.

The Venerable dread armed with ML and assault cannon

18 Tactical marines, or you could swap that out for 18 scouts with camo cloaks, split how you want, all of them armed with bolters.

Take an ADL with quadgun for cover if you think you are going against something that will remove your save, plus the quadgun and dread will act as your heavy support.

You have 13 points left with both set ups to tweak as you wish.


But I would take your second army as the scouts can be quite surprising on a mostly infantry board. I have lost many a model to my other half and her DA scouts.

Interesting idea! Since the board is skirmish size, the loss in speed/mobility is still covered by the range of the snipers or Dread ML, but volume of fire is greatly increased. Attach the Librarian to the full tac squad and with Prescience the banner becomes very effective. Thanks for the suggestion!