Why regular Terminators when you have access to some of the best Terminators in the game? Justarian! You don't get the benefit from Merciless Fighters with initiative 1 weapons. That's why SoH Terminators usually have a mix of Lightning Claws/Power Weapons and only 1-2 p-fists (or chain fists). Killing a couple models at initiative 4 helps to outnumber your opponent when you get to initiative step 1. Justarian are also scoring units in missions where Troops are scoring. You also didn't specify what kind of Terminators (Tartarous or Cataphracti). I'd suggest Tartarous so they could at least overwatch, run, and sweeping advance and use the squad to hunt down less armored infantry. Why bother with a Grenade Harness when the entire squad has initiative 1 weapons? A couple extra S3/AP - shots won't help you much at all against the type of targets these guys are likely to face. Final note about the squad- no heavy weapon? A Plasma Blaster would be the best thing here, but not even a Heavy Flamer? Just another reason why I like the Justarian- they can take a Multi-melta.
The Tactical Squads would be much, much more resilient with Apothecaries. Keep the Apothecaries cheap (I give mine Artificer Armor and that's it).
The charm in taking a Land Raider Proteus is that it can have three TL Lascannons.
How to pay for all this? I'd sack a Vindicator. A squad of vehicles is a terrible idea. They all have to shoot at the same target, and get no bonus for doing so. Thanks to the way damage allocation works in a squadron, it is possible to lose both tanks to a single volley of anti-tank fire due to the way you resolve hits on a squadron (1 at a time until the nearest tank blows up/wrecked, then move to the next one, and the next, an the next...). Multiple high strength anti-tank shots are pretty common in 30K. Look at your own Rapier Battery with laser destroyers for confirmation! You would be better off splitting the Vindi's up, so you could at least shoot at multiple targets and force your opponent to split up his anti-tank shots.
Overall, not a bad list. Even if you didn't take any of my suggestions, it would do well on the table.
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