Upcoming Tournament: Oct 27, 2012

Coming up on Saturday at my friendly local games workshop is a 1500pt Warhammer 40k tourney.

I've been running permutations of different lists through my head for the past several days, and have finally chosen an army roster!

First though, I REALLY wanted to run a mono-tau list, something along the lines of:

HQ:
Shas'el w/ MP+PR+VRT+HWMT-97

Elites:
6x Stealth Suits, 2x FB-184
3x Crisis Suits w/ MP+PR+MT-186
3x Crisis Suits w/ PR+BC+MT-174

Troops:
10x Firewarriors-100
10x Firewarriors-100
10x Firewarriors-100

Heavy Support:
1x Hammerhead w/ railgun, Burst Cannons, Multi-tracker, Disruption Pod-165
1x Hammerhead w/ railgun, Burst Cannons, Multi-tracker, Disruption Pod-165
2x Broadsides w/ TA, Team Leader w/ 2x Shield Drones-195

Total: 1456.  Would have thrown in some hard-wired blacksun filters for a few units, maybe another shield drone somewhere.  The commander would have joined the scouts for a 2+ save and to give them H&R.

However, I decided that while that list may suit me well in terms of what I like to field, it wasn't quite a tournament list.  I decided to bring along SM allies, for psychic powers and stormtalons!

HQ:
Shas'el w/MP+PR+MT-87
Terminator Librarian-125

Elites:
6x Stealthsuits w/ 2x FB-184
3x Crisis Suits w/ TLMP, Flamers-141
2x Crisis Suits w/ MP+BC+MT-100

Troops:
10x Firewarriors-100
10x Firewarriors-100
10x Firewarriors-100
5x Scouts w/ Sniper Rifles-75

Fast Attack:
Stormtalon w/ TL Lascannons-150

Heavy Support:
2x Broadsides, 2x TA, 2x Shield Drones-190
1x Hammerhead w/ Plasma Cannons, Burst Cannons, Multi-tracker, Disruption Pod-130

This list has a lot more anti-flyer firepower, between the deathrains, hammerhead, broadsides and stormtalon. Once again, the commander is going with the stealthsuits.  Terminator with the broadsides [to make sure they never, ever die...biomancy is great ;)]

Another thing I was thinking of maybe doing, due to the poor anti-meq/teq of this list, was to put plasma rifles on the broadsides and give one an A.S.S, put them with the librarian and select the powers 'gate of infinity' and 'null zone'.  Alternatively, I could swap out the three deathrains to two fireknives, and use the extra points to upgrade the second crisis unit's missile pods to plasma rifles.

So much to consider!  I'll post the results once the tournament is done.