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Well...lets look at it... DE get pain tokens from killing units, so MSU is out. They treat AV14 as AV12, so no leman russes (you're paying heaps of points for the av14, points that could be better used elsewhere)

They're usually pretty weak - t3 unless it's a haemonculous heavy army - and their vehicles arent even av12, so no need for lascannons or heaps of high strength stuff like meltas.

HQ
I'd take a CCS with an officer of the fleet and grenade launchers/sniper rifles in a chimera. Depending on points you could take creed and kell, but thats an optional extra and orders are pretty useless in a mechanised army

A lord commisar with a power fist

elites

Marbo if you want to be a dick about it
10 Stormtroopers DS'ing with plasma guns, grenade launchers, or melta guns if you want to make sure what you shoot at stays down
Ogryns if you want to be more CC
Ratlings if you're light on points

Troops

I'd take a maxed out blob - 5 squads, commisars, with flamers and PW, with chimeras. Take as many hvy weapon teams as you can, armed with either autocannon or hvy bolter and stick them in the chimeras you take for the blob. Add the lord commissar to the blob and just let it simmer

troops 2 I would go with either another, smaller platoon with chenkov and SITNW of conscripts (as many as you can afford), and a 20-30 man powerblob, or a vet squad with chimera, sniper rifles/grenade launchers and autocannon/hvy bolter

Alternatively, you could spam the vet squad with chimera, sniper rifles/grenade launchers and autocannon/hvy bolter, adding in Harker for fun.

Fast Attack

I'd go with a vendetta or two because hey, 3 tl lascannons will wreck whatever you want to shoot.

Maybe a couple of bane wolves or hellhounds could be fun.

A couple of sentinels with AC/ML could be useful tarpitters too, especially outflanking.

Hvy Support

I'll reiterate staying away from the LRBT and variants simply because of the lance weapons

Some Hydra's always go well if you think they'll take a lot of reavers, because of their special rules

For ordnance, I'd go with griffons against DE. S6 ap4 will instakill them and ignore their armour, and accurate bombardment will make sure it hits. It's also effective against their vehicles because lets face it, DE vehicles would probably lose in a head-on against a fly.

If you think they're going to take a lot of nightshields, take a basilisk or 3. Because even if you halve its range, its still the biggest dick on the table.

EDIT

After reading the 1000pts bit in the title...

CCS, 4 GL, Chimera

Infantry Platoon

pcs - chimera, AC, 2 GL

Blob - 5 squads, 5 commissars, 10 PW and either 4 flamers, 4 mortars, or 2 autocannons.

Vets in a chimera with GL and ML

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