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I'm still in the slow process of building up my Imperial Fists but I mainly have the core of the army down. I'm trying to reach 3k or above but I seem to be lacking an overall theme aside from the individual fluff in my head about certain units or characters. What would you say are some must take units for the legion or which ones really add flavor to the army? Which rite of war best suits them? Even though I would love to, I don't see myself buying and fortifications as of yet but perhaps a little bit down the line as they do get some great benefits to using them.

I'm not sure about which rite best suits them, but both our legion rites are very thematic. I myself am working towards building a stone gauntlet force using the BaC marines and third party upgrades. As for our best units, Templars are certainly up there. Phalanx warders are ok, not many consider them to be worth the points (should've come with free axes). Our tacticals are good, due to hitting on 2s, as are our breachers.

As an IW player I always envy you your great special rules - 2+ hit with bolters, tankhunters on HSS and deapstrike on termies. (Even more because IW doesnt have any special rules, just special units. On the other go I have to admit that IW special units are better.)

If I would field IF, I would concentrate on units that get your free upgrades and are cheap and effective.
Thus I would field a stone gauntlet and field 2 blobs of breachers, one blob of tacticals, 3 full squads of heavy supprorts. All with apotecaries. Then add some rapiers. Man, that would be great