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I'm trying to make this army with what I have + what I can easily find on ebay. I'm starting from the BaC box and plan to get another dreadnaught and tactical squad off ebay to build the majority of this list. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

1500 Points
Rite of War: Covenant of Fire

Praetor
-Artificer Armor/Iron Halo
-Digital Lasers
-Dragonscale storm shield
-Thunderhammer (Mastercrafted)
-Mantle of Elder Drake

Legion Tactical Squad
-14 Marines
-Segeant with Artificer Armor + MC Powerfist

Legion Tactical Squad
-14 Marines
-Segeant with Artificer Armor + MC Powerfist

Legion Support Squad
-9 Marines + Sergeant with flamers
-Rhino with heavy flamer

Apothercarion Detachment
-2 Apothecaries with Artificer Armor(one for each tac blob)

Contemptor Dreadnaught
-Multi-melta + CC/heavyflamer

Contemptor-Mortis Dreadnaught
2x Kheres Assault Cannons

Legion Vindicator
-Dozer Blade

Honestly, fluffy but pretty poor, you lack any meaningful anti tank, any real way to get to the enemy before you are shot down, as flamers are incredibly short ranged, the covenant of fire rite doesn't really work at such low points, try orbital assault and pod up, take a heavy flamer heavy support squad, 2 tac squads and some melta support squads, even then points probably won't allow it.

Thanks for the reply. I'm trying to avoid using drop pods/orbital assault because the main army I will be facing is a night lords drop pod/terror assault list and I want to keep a different playstyle. Is there a way to make a more infantry army work with salamanders?


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I tried making another list based on your feedback, trying to keep the fluffy part and add a longer ranged/ anti-tank component.

1500 Points - Pride of the Legion Salamanders

Praetor
-Artificer Armor/Iron Halo
-Digital Lasers
-Dragonscale storm shield
-Thunderhammer (Mastercrafted)
-Mantle of Elder Drake

Legion Tactical Squad
-19 Marines
-Segeant with Artificer Armor + MC Powerfist

Legion Veteren Tactical Squad
-9 Marines
-2 Meltaguns
-Segeant with Artificer Armor + MC Powerfist + Combi-melta
-Rhino

Apothercarion Detachment
-1 Apothecary with Artificer Armor(one the tac blob)

Contemptor Dreadnaught
-Multi-melta + CC/heavyflamer

Heavy Support Squad
-4 Marines + Sergeant w/ Missile Launchers

Sicarian Venator Tank Destroyer (or a normal Sicarian?)

I am also thinking that I could drop the Vindicator for a Master of Signals and put him with the Missile Launchers for his ordinance on turn 1 then the squad is hitting on 2s.
Legion Vindicator
-Dozer Blade

Swap the sicarion for a vindicator laser destroyer, that thing is amazing at killing tanks, the Venator is great for stun locking super heavies, only thing that can as far as I know, the vets are nice but expensive, so I'd suggest dropping them, splitting the tacs into 2 squads jn rhinos and upping the heavy weapons team, issue is the very low points game though, but got to start somewhere lol

Also, with pride of the legion all compulsory troops have to be vets/termies I think. I could be wrong, but I'm 85% sure.

One thing you'll want to consider taking whenever possible is a vexilla. There is no ATSKNF in 30k and being able to reroll morale checks is a big deal.

Another piece of wargear you might consider is the scanner. The 18" interceptor bubble can help with deep strikers.

At a low points level like 1500 I try to keep my HQ slot cheap and cheerful. You might consider the several of the consul options for the centurion to do this. One of my favourites is a siege breaker to hang out with a heavy support squad.

 Zuul wrote:
Also, with pride of the legion all compulsory troops have to be vets/termies I think. I could be wrong, but I'm 85% sure.

100% true.

HH Book 1: Betrayal wrote:Veteran and Terminator squads are Troops choices in the force, and units of either of these types must be selected as the force's compulsory Troops selections.

Pyroclasts. Salamander Terminator things. Vulcan.

Get those. And more MC weapons

 Zuul wrote:


One thing you'll want to consider taking whenever possible is a vexilla. There is no ATSKNF in 30k and being able to reroll morale checks is a big deal.

Salamanders have a leadership re-roll built in their Legion Astartes rule, so we don't need a vexilla.

 EmberlordofFire8 wrote:
Pyroclasts. Salamander Terminator things. Vulcan.

Get those. And more MC weapons

Can't run LoW in games of less than 2000pts, so Vulcan is out in a 1500pt list. Firedrakes are cool but with the Thunderhammers and Dragons Scale shields the models come with are 350pts so again, probably not such a good idea in such a small list. Pyroclasts could definitely be useful though.