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A friend is hosting a 'goodbye to 7th edition' mini tourney. It's a little unusual; modified Combat Patrol rules.

631 points
No Flyers, No Lords of War, No Superheavies, No Allies, No Gargantuan Creatures, No Invisibility
Choose your warlord trait

0-1 HQ
1+ Troops
0-2 Elites
0-2 Fast Attack
0-1 Heavy Support

first game everyone will play RELIC
second game everyone will play PURGE THE ALIEN
third game everyone will play EMPERORS WILL

So I have three possible lists at exactly the weird primary-number points value with the models I have. First two are Red Hunters SM, pretty plain, cover the field with scouts and DTs but highest in kill points

10x Tac Marines 210pts
plasma, combi-plas
rhino

6x sniper scouts 91
camo cloaks, 1x heavy bolter

5x bolter scouts 100
LSStorm

5x bolter scouts 100
LSStorm

Devastators 130
4x plasma cannon

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Next one. Dual dreadnoughts, should be pretty tough at low points values.

10x Tac Squad 220
plasma, combiplas, ML
rhino

6x sniper scouts 91
camo cloaks, 1x heavy bolter

Dreadnought 145
MM, heavy flamer
drop pod

Ven Dread 135
Assault Cannon

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Lastly, Grey Knights. Dreadknight doing ALL of the heavy lifting, probably with IWND Personal Warlord Trait.

5x GK Terminators 228
2x hammers, 2x halberds, psycannon
sergeant w/mc'd falchions, meltabombs

6x Incinerators 178
incinerator
falchions, meltabombs, teleport homer

Dreadknight 225
teleporter, greatsword,
HIncinerator, HPsycannon
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List building was very fun for this, but I can't narrow down which to take. Any thoughts?

your second and third list to me are the only ones that are viable.

i personally like the third list, DK gets up fast.

You can deep strike the terminators and move up with the strike squad.

All bases covered and you have a big baddy thats gonna draw fire for at least a turn in the DK.

Cool, that's the list I ended up bringing and really had fun with it.

First round vs a pair of Plague Marine-filled Rhinos + a Nurgle Lord in terminator armour. I sat back a bit first turn and blew up one rhino. He wiped out my termies with one volley of plasma/bolter fire. The NDK + Interceptors started mowing down the traitors. Meanwhile the cowardly Lord took the Relic into the other rhino and fled to the far corner of the board while I was locked in combat, winning the game for him.

Second round had me table a fairly traditional Iron Warriors force. Again, the terminators got one round of shooting and then left out of range while the jump troops chased down the Warpsmith.

Last game vs Space Wolves: Terminators failed to arrive T2 (not a great showing from that unit today lol), Interceptors wiped out by shooting, NDK killed by 2 rounds of combat with Thunderwolf cav + some unique mounted character. I am tabled at the top of T3.