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[Chaplain Ignazio]

Greetings Sword Brethren,

I will be waging war in the Blessed Emperor's name on May 12th at a tournament in Redding California, and wanted to toss my current list thoughts at the rest of you, and see what your comments and opinions might be. The tournament will be a standard 3 round affair, with awards aplenty, so I am really excited for the event. However, this is one of the first times (in perhaps 7 years) that I have played a game at 1250pts (most games I play are at least 1500, most 1750). My local meta has a Grey Knight player, 2 Dark Eldar, 2 Cron, 2 Imp Guard, 3 Space Wolves, 1 Eldar, 2 Ork, 1 Blood Angel, 2 Nid... that I know will probably show up... there are others, but as you can see, we actually field a nice spread of armies (of course, the top tier is usually Grey Knight, Space Wolves, Nids, Imp Guard, and of course, my Black Templars!)

Alright, Here are my thoughts:
HQ:
Emperor's Champion (AAC)
Marshal - Terminator Armor, Power Sword, Storm Shield, Adamantine Mantle

Elites:
Sword Brethren Terminator Assault Squad:
9x Thunder Hammer/Storm Shield

Troops:
Crusader Squad 1
8x Initiates with bolt pistol/ccw
1x Initiate with Meltagun
1x Initiate with Powerfist/pistol
6x Neophytes with bp/ccw
(All with Frag Grenades)

Crusader Squad 2
4x Initiates w/bolters
1x Initiate w/Plasma

Crusader Squad 3
4x Initiates w/bolters
1x Initiate w/Plasma

Fast Attack:
Land Speeder Typhoon
Land Speeder Typhoon

Alright, so that gives me three scoring units, 2 to hold ground, and one to charge forward, lead by the Emperor's Champion and Contest or take! Marching along side them will be the heinous wrecking ball of 9 TH/SS Terminators lead by the marshal, trying to destroy and contest as much as possible. (Now one thing I want to say is that I usually would like to run my marshal in this configuration, but armed with a Lightning Claw instead... the trouble is that I have a sweet model already painted, and he is armed with a sword... also, army appearance plays a big role, so I will be keeping him).

Also, I usually play mech, but with so little points, those Rhinos really begin to add up... and if I still mounted the units I had, the armor value would be so low, I fear that they would be quickly picked off in the opening salvo. (Ok, for any locals that might be reading this, the statement above is definitely understated... I ran three LRCs at Ard Boys last year, and 2 usually fit in all of my lists).

My one concern will actually be dealing with other high armor targets (like the Land Raiders that I am lacking) though I figure at this point level, there should really be few. Aside from Close Combat, I'm looking at my Typhoons, the two Plasma and the lone Melta gun to handle business.... of course, I also plan on sending the Terminator Wrecking ball screaming across the field, and they usually can handle most vehicles.

So, now I toss it to my esteemed brethren. What are my glaring weaknesses, what can I fine tune, and of course any other advice is welcome. I can definitely tweak my list as I own about 7k points of painted Templar, but this was my thought for a fun list at the moment.

All of your time and comments are appreciated!

[Emperor's Champion Lyon]

You might want to take a chaplain instead of a marshal since he will make the horde fearless all the time and zealing where you want, and it will allow the neophytes to reroll to hit when they charge and it will allow you to reroll against vehicles that dont have a WS when you charge as well

Edited by Emperor's Champion Lyon, 13 May 2012 - 08:06 PM.