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I'm looking over my Blood Angels/Defenders of Terra units and think that I can nicely scale from 1000 - 3000 points with a handful of core units. Points at each tier need to be tweaked, but I think I can make it work. All are based on the Day of Revalation RoW

1000
- 10 man assault squad led by Praetor + apothocary
- 5 man recon squad in Rhino with assault cannon
- Contemptor Dreadnought with multi melta and chainfist in a Dreadclaw

1500, add custodes ally contingent to the 1000 point list
- 3 man custodes squad
- 3 man custodes squad
- Caladius grav tank

2000
- 10 man assault squad led by Praetor + apothocary
- 10 man assault squad led by Knight Errant with narthecium
- Legion Moritat with 2 x inferno pistols and jump pack
- 5 man recon squad in Rhino with assault cannon
- Contemptor Dreadnought with multi melta and chainfist in a dreadnought drop pod
- Leviathan Dreadnought with grav bombard and chainfist in a dreadnought drop pod

2500
- 15 man assault squad led by Praetor + apothocary
- 15 man assault squad led by Knight Errant with narthecium
- Legion Moritat with 2 x inferno pistols and jump pack
- 5 man recon squad in Rhino with assault cannon
- 5 man terminator squad in a Dreadclaw
- Contemptor Dreadnought with multi melta and chainfist in a dreadnought drop pod
- Leviathan Dreadnought with grav bombard and chainfist in a dreadnought drop pod

3000, add custodes ally contingent to the 1000 point list
- 3 man custodes squad
- 3 man custodes squad
- Caladius grav tank

Idea would be to drop everything turn 1, overwhelm with potential targets, and get turn 2 charges in. Grav tank should have to mobility to engage stuff pretty easily. Custodes (for now) are foot sloggers, but can take near side objectives. Latter turn deep strikers come in as they can and get allocated targets/missions as appropriate.

pretty sure both your 1000 and 1500pt lists are not legal (Recon squads can't be used as compulsary troops unless you take the Recon RoW).

Get a Blade of Perdition on that Praetor. The deathfire special rule is devastating.

I've been running my Praetor with artificer armour, jump pack, digital lasers, iron halo and the Blade of Perdition then teaming him up with a Chaplain and attaching them to an assault squad (adding in an apothecary if you've got the spare points).

Hope to get the Child of Terra (not sure that's the right name, it's the re-rolling 1s to wound in combat) warlord trait and with encarmine fury you are going to be wounding mosting things on a 3 rerolling the 1s. Not a lot, short of a primarch, is going to go toe to toe with him in combat, he's a beast!

In the last 3 games I've played he's killed all three opposing praetors in challenges, he also killed a entire 10 man assault squad in a single round of combat after they charged him.

Damn it sm3g, you are right.

Ran my Praetor in a ZM game with that, less the Blade of Perdition and got the Child of Terra trait. Very nasty.