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The main idea here is to have a bunch of small-medium potent units to overwhelm my opponent by giving him/her tough decisions about what to shoot or assault.

IMPERIAL FISTS

HQ
-Librarian ML2 on a bike w/power maul and "bones of ozrak" 135
("bones of ozrak" gives and extra warp charge point and lets him reroll psychic tests)

TROOPS
-10-man tactical in droppod w/deathwind and beacon 200 (combat squaded)

-5-man tactical in rhino 105

-10-man tactical in rhino 180 (probably combat squaded)

-5-man tactical in rhino 105

-5 sniper scouts w/camo 70

-5 scouts w/bolters, heavy bolter, camo 73

ELITES
-5-man sterguard w/5 combimeltas in rhino 195

-Ironclad dreadnought w/Heavy flamer,melta and chainfist 145

FAST
-3 bikes w/2 melta,combi 93

-2 attack bikes 80

-3 scout bikes w/2 grenade launchers, beacon 74

HEAVY
-6-man devastator squad w/4 lascannons 164

-6-man devastator squad w4 missile launchers 144

TEMPESTUS SCIONS

HQ
-command squad w/2 melta,2 plasma, prime w/powermaul and bolt pistol 150

TROOPS
-Scions w/2 volleyguns 90

TOTAL=1998

So overall I am looking to get things across the field in a sort of staggered wave, that is why I am not drop-podding a bunch of things. Also, I want my opponent to waste their time shooting at my tacticals from the pod (combat squaded) and the 2 units of scouts while things move up. The pod and scout bikes have a beacon to give my deep-striking scions a bit of control when they arrive. There are lots of bolters to deal with infantry. They re-roll ones of course. The sterngaurd, scions, devastators and bikers with melta deal with armored threats (vehicle and armored infantry alike) and my librarian backs up the bikes. The scions are equipped the way they are because of the models I have. That is my i did not go for melta only or something like that. The attack bikes are a sort of harassment unit and the ironclad says "shoot me!" and if no one does he wrecks just about anything.

Let me know what you think!

I only have authority on the very small scions part and I understand why their equipment is so but command squads work best with either 4 meltas and deep strike for a suicide mission or 3 volley guns andd a med-pack if you want them to hold an objective since they can order themselves to get TL and with Ld 9 that rarely fails. So you get 12 AP-3 shots at whatever's attacking you and another 12 TL shots if they somehow decide to charge you. I personally play my other scions in groups of 5 with either plasmas or meltas and then deep strike them but since you only run two units of those that doesn't seem like a good idea.

Thanks for the input! I only have those models at this point unfortunately, so 4 meltas are not an option. I was hoping they can come in by deepstrike to add to the things that are already in my opponent's face. Also maybe I am just used to playing marines, but I wish the sarge could take a hotshot lasgun and wasn't restricted to pistol and melee. Any idea why they do that?