1500 Crimsom Fists Infantry Drop Pod: Fun/Semi-Competitive (Starting)

hey buddy,

HQ

• I'd put some thought into what your doing with Kantor. The turn he drop pods in he'll be a huge target so you'll need to combat this. Normally I'd have my expensive main character in a landraider to enable an effective charge(s). In a drop pod themed army you need some points effective distractions I'd suggest dreadnought(s) in drop pods...

Elites

• Neither Dreadnoughts or terminators are massively Crimson Fist themed as the chapter is trying to revive from near extinction but are theme-passable in small quantities. I'd swap a dread in for the terms though. Probably just a basic dread to keep it cheap opposed to a venerable or ironclad one though. I'd give it an assault or plasmacannon and possible a heavy flamer and chase troops with it haha.
• The sternguard are awesome tank hunters so I'd go 2 meltaguns plus whatever melta-combi's you can afford to one unit. Maybe some heavy flamers and flamer-combi's in the other??? boosting the squad numbers could be handy for at least one squad too.

Troops and Fast Attack

• I'd consider some scouts. Not only is a rebuilding chapter going to need them (applying some theme) but they add more scoring units. Landspeeder-storm's are also a good addition to compliment them.

Heavy Support

• Plenty more vehicles would help here Predators, Whirlwinds and vindicators are all worth a mention.
• Consider adding a master of the forge as a cheap HQ so you can add some drop pod dreads here too if you want (even though they are a bit out of theme). He can shoot when arriving by drop pod reasonably well as a bonus.

Hope some of this is helpful.

Hey, happy to see you've picked a nicer shade of blue (i have a few companies of ultramarines myself haha)

What drops first will depend on the opponents army composition and deployment. But I'd generally say 2 dreadnoughts and kantor (and possibly with the master of the forge as well) with some tactical marines or the sternguard.

The dreadnoughts are important because they are destructive and survivable, be careful though because against a melta heavy armies you'd be better off to take more troops if you can't keep the dreads from being blasted at half range or on the rear armour.

Kantor and the sternguard are needed because its risky to leave them in reserve incase they arrive too late to get much use out of them. Its really important to get them in cover or a position where they enemy has limited lines of fire though as they're a lot of points to loose.

In some cases it might be worth having a gamble on dropping the 3 dreads first to weaken a shooty opponents fire base before dropping the infantry in or against armies like demons that might struggle to destroy them..

Three key tactical points that I'd think a bit about are;

• which unit(s) your characters join.
• which units break into combat squads (this is especially important when playing games based on kill points).
• which units hold objective(s) and which others behave more aggressively in games where this is relevant