If you want to shoot than focus on shooting units, if you want to assault than focus on that, but mixing two will make your squad mediocre at best at any of these two tasks… If you are poised to take the =][= to unlock Assassins for example, I say got for the shooty one. Assaulting with T3 models is not such a good idea. Of course, you could get a =][= Lord, buy gear for your squad and tool it up pretty nicely with items from our armory, but things would get expensive really fast… Plus, you would have to take a LandRaider to enable them to unload and assault in the same turn – with a Chimera/Rhino you would be a sitting duck for one turn – not good when almost any weapon has a fair chance of wounding you, plus you only save on 4+…
So if you want a Chimera with lots of high-powered shots, I would take:
Chimera with MLaser, HBolter, Pintle mounted SBolter, Xtra Armor, Smoke
=][= with Combi Bolter/Plasma Gun
3x Warriors with Combi Bolter/Plasma Guns
3X Acolytes with Combi Bolter/Plasma Guns
That gives you 14 plasma shots within 12 inches on one turn. After that it is 6 plasma shots and 8 Bolter shots (in the unlikely case that you will take no casualties). Think of it as a suicide squad - you get one round of shooting, after which you will get shot back and/or assaulted. If you could coordinate with other squads to charge into your targets so that you can load up into the Chimera and drive off maybe you would survive…. Anyway – that is probably the most Plasmas you can take with this squads (QUESTION: Can other IC join in with that retinue/Squad – like Priest, or Palatine for example?)
Anyhow – the squad above will cost you 257 points…
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