2k infantry heavy list

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Doctrine: Iron Disapline, Conscripts, Ratlings, harden vetrans, drop troops.


HQ- Junior officer- honorifica imperialis, Iron disapline
retinue- Mortar

Support Squads- 2 Las Cannon teams, 2 Mortar Teams


Heavy Support- Leman Russ- Lascannon

Elite- 7 Harden Vets (including officer)- 3 plasma guns, heavy bolter
7 Harden Vets (including officer)- 3 plasma guns, heavy bolter
10 Ratlings

Troops- Junior Officer- Iron Displine
Retinue- 2 melta guns, 2 flamers
Junior Officer- Iron Displine
Retinue- 2 melta guns, 2 flamers

4 units of 10 Guard- autocannons, grenade launchers
6 units of 10 guard- missile launcher, grenade launchers

20 Conscripts- flamers


This is my take on a gunline. Its probably pretty common, but I think it can be effective. The officers will hide in the back until the enemy surges forward where they counter with flamers and meltas. The vets and ratling will take up forward positions and put some heavy hitting on there most expensive troops. I dont expect the harden veterans to live past round 3, but it should be a great at drawing firepower. The lascannon batteries will target tanks while the rest of the firepower will be dedicated to hurting their scoring units. On turn 4-5 depending I will begin to surge forward with my troops to capture and contest objectives. The grenade launchers can be extremely pesky with their low strength pie plates.

The leman russ is there more for intimidation and to draw fire away from my regular squads.

The mortars should be great at hitting those targets hiding behind cover.

I gave myself the drop troops doctrine so that if it looks desirable I can drop half my squads via deepstrike. This might be useful but i'm hesitant to split my forces.

What improvements could I make to this list?

[Rolling Thunder]

How do you plan to take objectives?

[genilyenovick]

Gun line is cool and your list looks solid I do have a question on the "6 units of 10 guard- missile launcher, grenade launchers" is that one platoon or do you mix it with the other and second why put heavy weapons in a Vts squad, they are best suited for a more mobile role with the three special weapons a heavy weapon just seems like a waste if you gotta shoot on the run. The other thing that you have to look at is the balance of anti infantry and anti tank fire but you really won't know its effectiveness until you've gotten a couple of games in with this list. Let me know how it plays.

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I guess I'm wondering why you might take a Junior Officer in the Command Platoons command squad with HI. An actual HSO only costs 5 points more than what you're paying for the JO with the upgrade. Personally, I'd change it by upgrading the command platoons JO to either a SO or HSO, and use the HI with one of the JO's in one of the platoon command squads where they are more likely to see close combat, or possibly with a vet sergeant in one of the hardened vet units.

My other concern would be in how you plan on making them stay put with no Standard, Commissars, or Vox network. ID will be helpful, but I have my doubts about the ability of 3 officers to cover so many troops effectively, especially if you loose one.