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Well another not so competive tournament coming up. 2k, 1 LOW allowed, generally keep army fun and interesting rather than spamming broken stuff. Since last tournament I got myself bunch of scouts eager to put them on use so...Also want to finish painting on reavers so they get in to motivate me to paint.

ROW: recon company
Delegatus(charnabal blade, plasma pistol, artificer armour, refractor field, melta bomb, bolter w/bane strike rounds)
Vigilator(power axe, volkite serenta, refractor field, scout armour, bolter w/bane strike rounds)

3x5 recon marines(scout armour, cameleonine, sniper rifles)
10xrecon marines(scout armour, cameleonine, bp&ccw, sergeant w/combi-melta&power fist)
reaver attack squad(2xchainaxe, 2xpower fist, power sword&hand flamer sergeant, 3xvolkite charger, plasma gun)+rhino
3xjetbikes w/multi-melta
sicaran w/lascannon sponsons

errant knight w/occular augmetics&stormspear rocket pods

There. Reaver squad is big weakness. Got overboard with equipment but love the models. Delegatus joins them for some outflanking. Hopefully I can keep them away from anything TOO nasty.

General plan is to try to avoid combat since that's not where I'm at strongest. Tournament has this additional tournament scoring objective where you have various things to choose 1(secretly) which nets you additional 3 tournament points if you do. Think warlord+2 other non-vehicle archieve line breaker would be most appropriate for that. Reaver+warlord alone is 2 plus I have plenty of infiltrators and even jetbikes can work for that.

Deployment is funny in that only knight begins on board normally. I might actually want to go second with this army.

Knight is actually one thing I'm not particularly happy since he's basically big target for any anti-tank in enemy army but I just have got that painted and I like it so...Urgh. This list almost decided itself by what I have been painting or have unpainted!

Not bad at all. So depending on what you run into things could be a bit rough.

In my experience, jet bikes get focused down fast. I run 5 with the multi meltas and I am lucky if they survive a turn.

Reavers, God I love them but yeah they are not super great. A rhino is not the best Transport since they are not able to assault and that is their strong suit. I would recommend jump packs.

Why bother having the Banestrike Bolts on the Vigilator when he comes with the strictly better Special Issue Ammo?

 VictorVonTzeentch wrote:
Why bother having the Banestrike Bolts on the Vigilator when he comes with the strictly better Special Issue Ammo?

Hmm good point. Forgot the special ammo and had extra points but realized melta bombs were forgotten so switch to that instead.

A good swap, never know when you might get the chance to use that MB. I think it looks like a fun list. With the Knight and the Sicaran you should be able to keep one of them alive long enough to do damage, as long as the enemy didnt bring all the AT, since two dangerous things will make them have to think. Plus while they focus on that, your Jetbikes can get in position.

I like wise am a fan of the Reavers, but like LWL pointed out you cant assault from the Rhino so you'll lose a turn there.

Looks great! Really fits under the parameters of the tournament. Hope your opponents freak out over the Knight and focus fire on it, or the Recon guys are going to be in for a rough time. I love the 3x5 Recons with Sniper Rifles. Pinning Tests for all my friends!

I concur on losing the Banestrike ammo. They are only good for fishing.

There are probably 10 other units I'd take before Reavers, but in this case, Rule of Cool (and Reavers just have awesome fluff, look great, but not so good rules). I'd swap out one of the P-fists for Lightning Claws though. Maximize wounds on I4 so you get extra attacks on i1. Love Reavers with Lightning Claws! Or it's just Claw singular, right? Can't remember off the top of my head. Anyways...

Please come back and tell us how you did!

As for jump packs on reavers I\m somewhat stuck on that due to models clearly NOT having jump packs. Set doesn't come with option for that so...

Lightning claw or two could be option. I think I have enough bits but would involve some remodeling on assembled and mostly painted models :-(

But how do you destroy enemy armor with that list?
1 sicarian is not enough