Editing Warhammer 40,000/8th Edition Tactics/Renegades And Heretics (section)

===Army Building===

Your troops are lackluster compared to guard, so make sure you have a strategy in mind for what troops choices you will use before you have an army built.

Elites are quite good for you, so taking minimum troops or Vanguard detachments is a good idea if you want to make the most of the available points to spend on them.

Heavy Support Teams are trash, so make sure you have other ways to deal with enemy vehicles built into your list. Sentinels are a good alternative.

On that last note, most of your Anti-Vehicle firepower seems to be range 24 or less if you don't play for the artillery. Chimera-based Elite melta squads with rogue psykers and Malefic Lords can quickly stack up wounds on vehicles, and only cost 237 points to fill one vehicle (10 Marauders, 2 Malefic Lords, Chimera with Multilaser and Heavy Bolter). That total is quite low for a good infantry unit that can deal 4.5d6 damage (Melta, Warp Flux, Krak Grenade) to a vehicle in a turn of shooting, and then still have 9 Autogun/Shotgun/Pistols to attack with, and Carapace armor or Camo-cloaks, as well as the Chimera itself's attacks. Meanwhile two basilisks that deal between 2-12 D3 damage cost about the same, but lack the reliable chance to hit and number of shots. Not to mention the lower AP.

<s>Finally, the sauce of the whole thing is the great boon of 8th edition: '''FACTION KEYWORDS.''' You can splice anything with a {{Template:W40kKeyword|CHAOS}} keyword into the relevant FOC slot and build that fluffy, crunchy Lost and the Damned army you've been craving since it was discontinued after the fall of 3rd edition and haphazardly re-attempted with the Siege of Vraks. See below for conversion ideas...</s> The big March FAQ has prevented using CHAOS as a Faction Keyword when adding units to a detachment. This means your Renegade Detachment will need to be completely from Renegades.