Okay im back home!
Plans changed and I got up against an IG player instead so the maximum number of players could play.
Anyways to sum up. I lost with one objective.
Reason:
I outflanked with my strike squad. They came in late and on the wrong side. It was a risk and i wont take it again.
My opponent played a very mild army with straken and some ogryns and not alot of tanks or stuff. It was nice. He also went offensive which was perfect.
The dreadknight was easily killed by his basilisk (only arty tank) and some 3 autocannons and 3 lascannons. It died in turn 3. Even in cover. But the heavy incinie was nice!
The purgation squad and 4 psycannons... and their 16 shots a turn.... did nothing else than shake and stun a chimera. Unlucky maybe. But they did make some veterans flee!
I also forgot the bonus from the brotherhood banner...
doh.
Aldaris is totally right about the shooting war. It cant be won.
The grandmaster was awesome. I forgot the psychotroke grenades in his first assault but in the second where he singlehandedly charged a small IG squad with commissar, it really rocked. I rolled a 6 so they had to take an I test or attack each other. Unfortunately, the grandmaster failed his armour saves and died. But damn those nades are staying in the list.
Now to answer phillys question.
The list wont be able to handle the battlewagons. Im not even sure how you are going to fit 4 of them into a 1500pts game? BUt! There are lots of tricks to deal with the passengers.
The Dreadknight is also a good bet. 3 attacks with S7 with reroll to hit and armour pen + monsterous creature is pretty good. If the target hasnt moved 12 ;.
My early estimate of the army:
Its balanced. Sure there are alot of nice goodies and weapons. But they all cost and the army is already expensive. It seems fairly balanced between cost and efficiency. The army seems hyped by the internet of the good things but people forget that you have to make choices of what to bring in the army. And it still suffers from its minimal numbers!
Im still not entirely sure if i would have preferred more strike squads over the termies.