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Im slowly building a Heresy IF army, I have a large collection of space marines based around a homebrew chapter of Templar/Fists descendants. I wanted to own a small 30k IF collection to represent the founders of my 40k chapter.

I've only played 1 30k game so far, using IF rules, I've read the heresy books thoroughly and overall I like the Fists special rules but find the special RoW and Warders a bit underwhelming.

Here's the list I'm thinking of building at the 2000pts scale:

HEADQUARTERS:

Sigismund, 1st Captain of the Imperial Fists, 230
Centurion, primus medicae, artificer armor, combat shield, power axe, 115

TROOPS:

Templars (x8), champ with combat shield and solarite gauntlet, 2 extra combat shields in the squad, melta bombs, 300
Land Raider Phobos dedicated transport, armored ceramite, dozer blade, extra armor, multi melta, 305
Legion tacticals (x10), srgt with artificer armor, combi-melta, power fist, vexilla, squad has extra CCW, 215
Rhino dedicated transport, dozer blade, combi-bolter, 45

ELITES:

Legion veteran tacticals (x10), srgt with artificer armor, combi-melta, power fist, vexilla, 2 HBs with suspensor webs, sniper USR, 285
Rhino dedicated transport, dozer blade, combi-bolter, 45
Contemptor Mortis dread, dual kheres assault cannons, 180
Legion rapier thudd gun, 60

HEAVY SUPPORT:

Legion heavy support squad (x5), srgt with nuncio vox, augury scanner, 4x lascannons, 220

The legion vets were my MVPs in my last game, they can score and shoot hard, hitting on 2s and wounding on 4s at worse.

The Templars are MEQs blenders, Sigismund gives them a nice assault buff and the medic a bit more resilience.

The heavy weapon legionnaires are always nice and a familiar carry over from 40k.

I'm also thinking of building a breacher squad (I love the models) and adding some Warder bits to make them Fistier, I also like that they have the option of carrying MBs over the Warders' very situational special rule. I feel the Gauntlet is way too constraining point-wise (specially at the scale I'll play at) and needs a bigger list to mesh in properly.

To the Heresy veteran Fist players: are there any good Fists units or combos that do well on the tabletop that I haven't thought of? Libbies? Jet bikes? Some useful RoWs?

Thanks for your help.

I wouldn't opt for the Librarians, Nikea being what it was an all.

Quad mortars would be a nice addition with a Master of Signal

Have you had any games this weekend? How's the list going for you? I'm planning on running something similar but I'm working with what I can make from the 2 BaC boxes and a few assorted bits and pieces

Sigismund
20 man Tactical Squad
5 man Terminator Squad with Teleporter/fists
2 x 10 man Vet Squads with HBs in Rhinos
6 man Templar Squad with Shields in a Land Raider
1 Apothecary in the Tactical Blob
1 Contemptor with Melta/Fist
1 Contemptor Mortis with dual Kheres
5 man Heavy Support Squad with Missile Launchers

This with upgrades is about 2500 which is as good as I can get without buying all the expensive Forgeworld Toys. I chose 6 Templars because I only have 6 power swords from the BaC sets, but I might try to fiddle around with converting some Grey Knight swords...I don't know, I like having everything look uniform.

No games yet, sorry. I tried something similar a while back (without Sigi) against a regular 40k army to decent effect.

And I agree with you, as much as I'm trying to get stuff from eBay and other cheaper means, I can't help but drool over the FW stuff...

I did get Sigismund for Xmas. Just gotta find a head swap for him.