One art that seems to be falling by the wayside but is of incredible importance: When attacking a point, move up to the point and form a blockade to shield the capping teammate. It doesn't matter if you die doing that, getting the cap running is of much more importance. A running cap switches the "Zugzwang" of the encounter from you the attacker towards the defender. It increases the respawn->defense time tremendously for the defenders (and actually channels them towards certain entrances on different maps). So even if you're a heavy, move up to the cap point (not melee close but close) and try to stand between the enemy and your capping buddy and block everything thrown at him, with your face if need be.

If you're defending, DON'T try to stand next to the cap point or on the direct routes from door towards it. Only rule here: ALWAYS have a line of sight on the cap point or only move around a corner shortly so you can get back to watching the point within 5 seconds. If you're on a balcony and 3 corner turns away from the cap point, you're not defending. If you can guess which direction the enemy is coming from, try to position at a 90 degree to the cap point. Even better, position the cap point between you and the coming enemy. Why? Because more often than not, the enemy coming in doesn't notice you and starts capping. That's a standing target ready to catch headshots from the bolter magic (doubly good against Eldar). Play on the enemies greediness. If you're lucky, you take out their only class capable of capping, rendering the rest of the attacking team useless for one respawn cycle.

Additions to weapons.

Grav Cannon is highly effective against Orks with the Damage amplifier. Most Orks want to close to Melee so if you can hold the beam on them, all they can do is try to shoot you with a pistol which will likely not help before they are downed.

Also. Vengeance Storm Bolter (Storm Bolter with High Pen) is utterly lethal against orks. If you can get one, USE IT AGAINST THEM. Hell the Vengeance is lethal to CSM, Elderp, and Orks its a really good gun.

the main thing - do not be idiots eyeless

Don't get too attached to the VSB. That's gonna be up on the nerf list.

Stick with the regular SB and mod it, you can get better performance out of it anyways.

Why would it be up on the nerf list, it's literally the only competitive gun the LSMs have and the CSMs have the exact same gun with the added benefit of having 50% less recoil while moving and 100 pen instead of 110.
And the basic twin shuriken catapult of the Eldar already has a higher dps than the stormbolter.

Got the worst score in a full game today... 2nd from bottom on the score board.... but in a way had sooo much fun.

As the norm join a elder game and all the rinos are sitting in the transport pool as every ones given up on them as they dont last more than a few seconds as soon as the enemy know where they are. So this game i stayed in the rino... and trying to shoot the many firedragons that are coming to kill it is almost impossible in the end... so made them chase me.... platoon leader said what cap they wanted to attack, and i would have to make a few runs past to drop the guys off and would stay as close as i could. but the enemy did not kill my ride... and it made attacking caps a little better than running to them.... also help stopping the ole lawnmower just chocking up the kill rate.

Question for the Elder guys do you fight over the transports as they seem to be your highest kill scoring weapon!

BTW we won that game to

We almost always have 2 or 3 spare in the games I play, people never spawn them which I find annoying since I like spawning near the fight, at the start of games we do but afterwards people tend to forget in my games

How to win as LSM: Vengeance Stormbolter, JPA Powerfist, and I-frames.

From my experience, that's pretty much it.

If you're a Wolfy Wolf-wolf, you can throw in that wolf-cheap wolf-crozius and go to wolf-town. Russ will be so wolf-proud of you.

VSB i hope it gets nerfed sooner.

Also the amount of armor LSM gets is too much. Especailly those shield melee classes. too many hits to die.

The vengeance storm bolter is great, if you're lucky enough not to die of old age by the time the 30k box gives one up.