1000pt army, its harder than it seems..:(

[person5]

hey guys, cheers to the ppl who can be bothered reading, but recently, and its been a while, my and my bro picked up our 40k with all the 5ed talk goin around, so we thought itd be fun to play test them ourselves. 1000points, and this is what i came up with, (by the way, he plays dark angels space marines and is havin trouble making a list himself)

doctrines: iron discipline, close order drill, conscript platoons, drop troops, veterans
HQ - Junior Officer
- Veteran with standard
- Iron Discipline
- Heavy Weapon team: Heavy Bolter/Mortar(not sure which one to chose but same points cost)

Total - 136 points

Elites - Veteran Squad x5
- 3 plasma guns

Total - 75 points

Elites - Veteran Squad x5
- 3 plasma guns

Total - 75 points

Troops - Delta Command
- Iron Discipline
Delta #1 - Heavy Bolter
Delta #2 - Heavy Bolter
Delta #3 - Heavy Bolter
Delta #4 - Heavy Bolter

Total - 325 points

Troops - conscripts x20 - Flamer x2

Total - 98 points

Leman Russ Battle Tank - Hull heavy bolter

Total - 145 points

Leman Russ Battle Tank - Hull heavy bolter

Total - 145 points

Total - 999 so i can add a bolt pistol or sumthing?

the basic strat is i use leman russ' to provide support (near or far obviously). Because i'll probably face something quick, i loaded up on heavy bolters to shoot at him for a turn and when lasguns can hit, throw them in aswell. Im not sure on the HQ support squad, mortars and heavy bolters cost the same, but i never tried mortars before, so probably heavy bolter, then the veteran squads are for light vehicle hunting and tougher opponents, termies, commander guy etc, and MEQ killing, they can infiltrate so i'll get some rapid fire going.

any suggestions are welcome, and feel free to critisize my wrong doings, its been a while so i dont know if strategies have changes and what not

also, i read somewhere that a standard gives a leadership bubble of 18'' which i think is wrong cos my codex says 12'', so if somebody could let me know which one it is, that would be great, thanks.

[Deleted]

No real Anti-Tank in the list. Changing the Vets to have melta's could fix that up though ;D

[person5]

well the list is mainly against my bro, but if you think that adding meltas would help to make it an all rounder list then im prepared to do it, thanks for the suggestion.

[angelusmortis]

Need to know what doctrines your using. I see Iron Discipline, Veterans and Conscripts. What else? Also, Conscripts are best used in huge platoons with an attached Commisar. Without a Commisar or at least an Officer within command influence radius they will run pretty easy as they are only Ld 5.

[Deleted]

If any troops are outside the radius of an officer, you'z mukkin' about, humie.

[person5]

ok...well how about this list...

hq - junior officer, iron discipline, veteran with standard - 56 points

support squad x3 lascannons - 110 points

troops - junior officer
squad #1 - heavy bolter
squad #2 - heavy bolter
squad #3 - heavy bolter
squad #4 - heavy bolter points - 320

conscripts x20 with commisar with power weapon - 125 points

heavy - leman russ battle, hull heavy bolter - 145

heavy - leman russ battle, hull heavy bolter - 145

Heavy - basalisk - 100

total - 1001

i know its tank cheesy, but think about it, 1 basalisk has a good change at vehicle killing, as well as good troop killing, so itll help out the lascannon squad untill tank threats are gone (the battle tanks can join in aswell) then the squads are for troop killing as well as the tanks dropping pie plates where the troops clean the leftovers, the large squad of consripts is held together by the commissar who can run and fetch objectives and tie up opponents.

i was thinkin that 2 squads can easily replace HBs for plasma to be objective holders aswell, or melta, anything for 10 points...


i think while slightly over the top, the list is fairly competative, enough support for swarms (lascannons go for monstrous creatures or vehicles) is a rhino rush in a 1000 point battle, all the tanks can focus on them, (thats why in thinkin 2 squads take plasma so they can help out)

76 infantry models, 7 heavy weapon platforms, 3 tanks

i think it might work...

[angelusmortis]

Still dont see what doctrines your using. When you post a list, its always a good idea to put them at the beginning something like this.

[/b][li]Iron Discipline
[/li][li]Conscripts
[/li][li]Vetereans
[/li][li]Etc...
[/li][/ul]

Other than that, it doesnt look too bad for 1k pts.