[Professor Dean]

Hi All,

Im new here and fresh back to 40k after about 5 years. So feel free to tell me if my thinking on my army list is way off as im yet to have a game in 7th Edition.

So here we go;

HQ
Chaplain
Techmarine, Servo Harness

TROOPS
10 Marines, 1 Plasma Cannon
10 Marines, 1 Plasma Cannon
10 Marines, 1 Plasma Cannon

ELITES
5 Terminators, TH / SS
1 Dreadnought, TL Lascannon

HEAVY SUPPORT
5 Devastators, 4 Plasma Cannons
5 Devastators, 4 Lascannons
1 Land Raider Redeemer

Now my plan was to just aggressively charge the landraider up the board with the Techmarine, Chaplain and 5 Terminators and let them charge out while the land raider carries on burning everything close. Anything hard to deal with will be targeted by my plasma devs sat in a fortified building (from techmarine). The troops I will combat squad and the 5 staying still will have my plasma marine in, the 5 moving will be capturing objectives or taking better positions on the board. The lascannon devs and lascannon dread will obviously be targeting tanks. I mainly going up against Chaos he tends to go with daemon prince, sorcerer, dreadnought, terminators, land raider and a couple of troops including some cultists.

My questions are:

1. What Chapter should I use that would benefit me more.
2. Will i struggle to kill anything he has above.
3. Are my Tacticals wasted by using them to get extra plasma cannons onto the field.

Any other help would be appreciated.

Cheers

 

[Professor Dean]

Hi ntaw,

Thanks for your reply. So I think I'll run imperial fists as it does sound really helpful especially for my devs. I was thinking that by combat squading my tacticals it was making them easier to deal with for my enemy which I would rather have 1 10 man squad. So I'll take out my plasma cannons and roll plasma guns which is a straight swap points wise. I'll also stick the missile launcher on my dread leaving me with 10 points spare.

I know it's a lot of points for my terminators in a land raider but I feel that if I have assault terminators that they need a land raider because they won't get anywhere at all. He doesn't seem to have much anti tank weapons in his army so I think I could probably deploy clear of his dread if he's armed it with anti tank weapons. Once it's close I'll try and get it between 2units and rain fire which hopefully will get it half its points back. I'll see how I get on with it, if I feel like I'm lacking sometching then the raider is the first thing to go and I'll have to deep strike my termies in maybe with a drop podded unit of veterans

Cheers

 

[Professor Dean]

Thanks for your advice squire. I will have a look into putting rhinos on 2 tactical squads and maybe cutting the 3rd unit down to 5 in a rhino or swapping it for bikes if the points allow me.

If i took out 10 marines and added 2 rhinos I know I could fit in a melta/ccw dread to maybe run up behind the land raider maybe that would cause more problems than a 10 man tac squad

Cheers