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Tournament late in January, 1850 pts.

The usual winners are some form of dogs with a cabal and either a sky chicken or knight, or dogs and knights, and there's also a mean Adeptus Mechanicus in our meta.

I have Marines and Guard and Deathwatch.

I was thinking a full Battle Company with a Culexus. I'd hate to go White Scars, because those have been done to death.

Thoughts and Comments? ( I can field Razorspam and drop pod spam, and any combo of Tactical Marines. I have no fliers).

Work in a conclave if you can. I've used it a lot against knights/dogs/mechanicum and had pretty decent success.

Two ML 1 and an ML 2 (or possibly Tigurius). Use the ML 2 as the channeler when you need to. Since your manifesting on two plus you should be able to overwhelm the psychic defense against a cabal, plus you just get that flexibility against whatever army your facing.

if your facing hellturkey or knights, pick technomancy. The primaris allows you to dice off, and if you win control a weapon, a tie leads snapfiring (ineffective against SHV). Three of the abilities would are good in this situation as well. -Warpmetal armor is almost always good
-Machine Curse for d3 auto hitting haywire
-Machine Flense for d3 auto-HP lost plus some horde control
-reforge is good with razor spam
-so is machine blessing

Against a cabal, librarius is not a bad bet. The primaris isnt that great, but you have
-Veil of time (Pretty damn decent if you have a unit with stormshields)
-Psychic fortress is pretty good because it essentially makes anyone within 12" of the psyker deny on a 4+ minimum (because of psychic hood), as well as a 4+ invuln against witchfire.
-Psychic scourge, reading the rule you choose a Psyker, so you can target a specific caster (say the one that has invisibility) and ruin his day
-Null zone will ruin khornedogs if they're out of cover.

Beyond that you can always fall back on telepathy for that psychic shriek or other primaris powers. I never used Geokinesis because of the wonkiness of it, it could work as well though.

How you field them is up to your army comp though.

Historically, when worried about assault units, I've done this: Get a marine character (preferably white scars) with many wounds and a 2+ save. Attach ministorum priests. Attach conscripts or bikes.

These days I've been experimenting with inquisition allies. Xenos inquisitor grenades make the above unit ridiculous.

In a similar vein, here's what I'm thinking of doing.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/712227.page

Thank you for the replies! Much thinking to be done....