Drop Pod Marine Army List 1850 pts

[Inferno0429]

This is a marine list that I have played for quite a while. I just want to know what your responses are to this list. This has done fairly well in tournaments but often times fails because of bad reserve rolls. It is pretty devestating when in comes to escalation missions though. It completely kicks butt at escalation. I wanted to put this up and see what people think I should do with the list to make it better. Honestly I never played with the trust your battle brothers, but it would seriously make up for the shortcoming of my army (the assault phase). I think it would actually make my list quite a bit better. I don't know for sure though.

Here we go:

Traits:
-Cleanse and Purify
-Trust Your battle Brothers

Disadvantages:
-Aspire to Glory
-We Stand Alone

HQ:

Epistipolary Librarian (145)
-Fear of the Darkness
-Fury of the Ancients
-Bolt Pistol
-Terminator Honours
-Frag Grenades
Command Squad (215)
6x bp/ccw
2x Meltaguns
1x Vet with Powerfist
Drop Pod

Troops:

Drop Pod Squad 1 (229)
5x Marines with Bolters
2x Plasma Guns
1x Vet with Powerfist
All True Grit and Counter Attack
Drop Pod
Drop Pod

Drop Pod Squad 2 (229)
5x Marines with Bolters
2x Plasma Guns
1x Vet with Powerfist
All True Grit and Counter Attack
Drop Pod

Drop Pod Squad 3 (265)
7x Marines with Bolters
2x Plasma Guns
1x Vet with Powerfist
All True Grit and Counter Attack
Drop Pod

Drop Pod Squad 4 (265)
7x Marines with Bolters
2x Plasma Guns
1x Vet with Powerfist
All True Grit and Counter Attack
Drop Pod

Drop Pod Squad 5 (130)
3x Marines with Bolters
2x Marines with Meltaguns
Drop Pod

Drop Pod Squad 5 (130)
3x Marines with Bolters
2x Marines with Meltaguns
Drop Pod

Fast Attack:

Land Speeder Tornado (80)
- Heavy Bolter
- Assault Cannon

Land Speeder Tornado (80)
- Heavy Bolter
- Assault Cannon

Land Speeder Tornado (80)
- Heavy Bolter
- Assault Cannon

Total Points (1848)

Total Models
55 marines
1 Librarian
3 land speeders

The other way I use to play this would be to not have the true grit and have essentially 6 more models. I don't know for sure whether that is a good or a bad thing. I could also drop all 3 landspeeders but they also account for a lot of the mobility in this army. I use them to grab last minute quarters and take down light to heavy infantry at a distance. The problem is that they die too quickly and don't survive too long. I could possibly cut them out, and add an assault squad without jump packs in a drop pod. It would be a 10 man squad with 1x plasma pistol and a vet with a powerfist inside a drop pod. I would also have 12 points left over so I could actually buy frag grenades for my command squad. Which option do you think is better? The second one give me more models but cuts down on strategic flexability.

The third option is for me to turn it into a COMPLETELY assaulty list. It would actually work out quite well and would really be just contingent upon me getting the models for it. I would just change the trust your battle brothers trait to take the fight to them.

That particular list would look like this.

HQ:

Epistipolary Librarian (131)
-Fear of the Darkness
-Fury of the Ancients
-Bolt Pistol
-Frag Grenades
Command Squad (224)
6x bp/ccw
2x Meltaguns
1x Vet with Powerfist
Grag Grenades
Drop Pod

Troops:

Drop Pod Tactical Squad 1 (213)
5x bp/ccw
2x meltagun
1x vet with powerfist/bp
frag grenades
Drop Pod

Drop Pod Tactical Squad 2 (213)
5x bp/ccw
2x meltagun
1x vet with powerfist/bp
frag grenades
Drop Pod

Drop Pod Tactical Squad 3 (213)
5x bp/ccw
2x meltagun
1x vet with powerfist/bp
frag grenades
Drop Pod

Drop Pod Tactical Squad 4 (213)
5x bp/ccw
2x meltagun
1x vet with powerfist/bp
frag grenades
Drop Pod

Drop Pod Tactical Squad 5 (213)
5x bp/ccw
2x meltagun
1x vet with powerfist/bp
frag grenades
Drop Pod

Fast Attack:

Assault Squad 1 (215)
8x bp/ccw
1x plasma pistol/ccw
1x vet with powerfist/bp
(No Jump Packs)
Drop Pod

Assault Squad 2 (215)
8x bp/ccw
1x plasma pistol/ccw
1x vet with powerfist/bp
(No Jump Packs)
Drop Pod

Total Points (1850)

Total Models

70 space marines (including Librarian)
8 drop pods

A WHOPPING 10!! Meltaguns

Makes that Land raider quake in its boots. I have the models for the first army listed and would have to seriously revamp my army to get the 2nd one to work, but it may be worth it to do it. I think it may make for quite an assaulty army of doom, but who knows. LMK which list you guys like better. With this configuration, I end up losing out half of my firepower while shooting but I gain a million times more close combat potential. It also allows my guys to crack any tank on the table.

[Sanjuro]

Well, it's an optimized drop pod list. It's brutal. Absolutely terrifying. What more is there to say?

[Kennith]

Playing against this list is going to be painfull I think. There is not much you can do about it, except when you expect to play a droppod army. Both lists are equally brutal. I would keep the true grit and counterassault, six more models aren't going to make a difference.

[Jal'knock]

The only thing I would consider changing is giving one of the squads a pair of flamers instead of meltas, both for hordes and clearing out terrain huggers.

[Inferno0429]

What I can do is drop a plasma gun in the plasma squads and put a flamer in each of those. The reason I use plasma is it is more versatile, making it possible for me to crack a tank (up to AV 13). I suppose the PF's in the squad make it possible though.