group event army help

[The_Oni_of_Hindsight]

playing a group event with my steel legion army. looking at what to add/feild 

restrictions are 1000pts, must have either a patrol or battalion detachment, and one detachment only

missions are generated by open war cards.

 

My collection includes:

Captain: Plasma pistol, Power maul

Commissar: Plasma pistol, power sword

primaris psyker

command squad: medic, commo, 2 flamers

Ogryn Body guard: ripper gun, slab shield, carapace armor

infantry squad: plasma rifle,commo, Sgt with plasma pistol, power sword

infantry squad: sniper rifle, commo, Sgt with bolt pistol, power sword

Tempestus squad: 2 volley guns, Sgt with helpistol power sword (full squad)

Hellhound: track guards, dozer blade

Armored sentinel: Autocannon H-K

Leman Russ battle tank, 3 heavy bolters

Leman Russ battle tank, 3 heavy bolters, stubber, dozer blade

Chimera: Multilaser, Heavy bolter, stubber, H-K, dozer blade

Gryph Chimera: autocannon, heavy bolter, H-K

Taurox prime: Gatling, storm bolter, volley guns.

 

intel on opponents:

Nurgle deamon army: will field a GUO

Death guard: zombie and drone spam

Raptors: scouts and placement shenanigans

Space wolves: very new player, character heavy

Catachans: infantry spam, marbo, deathstrike (why?)

Tyranids: psyker heavy, tervigon and gaunt party

Necrons: large gun heavy (ark, and smaller skiff thingy)

 

looking for advice on tactics and maybe what to add to the collection, 

Edited January 30, 2018 by The_Oni_of_Hindsight

[Halfpint100]

Go for the battalion, 2 officers, 3 infantry squads are always a good start. 

 

Depends where you want to go from there, I always vote hellhounds cause they are great and there looks to be a lot of infantry for you to deal with. Russes would be good for dakka and survivability. More infantry always works as well, depends how you want to work it.

 

The taurox prime and the scions could be a good combo as well for some dakka and speed. 

 

Lascannons are not great against necrons as a warning, there shield can ignore any high damage weapons, so D3 weapons are the way forward. 

[zero88]

Two Company Commanders, three infantry squads with plasma, three dual Heavy Flamer Chimeras, two LRBTs and one Leman Russ Eradicator. Comes to just under 1000 points of pure mechanized Steel Legion. Something like this I think could be fun. There's enough tanks to give most people worries, and all the flames are a good counter to all the -1 to hit shenanigans going on, not to mention it looks like a lot of those opponents are going to be going for infantry spam. The battle cannons should hopefully have enough punch for big things, and the Eradicator is awesome for nuking scout squads camping on objectives out of cover. Alternatively you could run all Gryphonne triple HB Chimeras. Just an idea. Good luck