IG Armor List for 1850

I took the plunge this holiday season and started my IG tank list. Had the first game with Wildeyedjester yesterday and he gave me some good pointers. So after some tweaking here is what I came up with. The idea is to put tanks on the board (otherwise it wouldn't be a tank army now would it) and have the flexibility to be able to bring things on from reserve quickly. I don't like the idea of having to sit still to shoot so this list should still be able to spit out a lot of fire moving 6" each turn.

HQ
Comp Cmd Sqd
Chimera
Astropath
2 meltaguns
2 plasmaguns

Troops
Veteran Sqd
Chimera
2 flamers

Veteran Sqd
Chimera
3 meltaguns

Veteran Sqd
Chimera
3 meltaguns

Penal Legion

Fast Attack
Vendetta

Vendetta

Heavy
2 Leman Russes

2 Leman Russes

2 Medusas
2 bastian breachers

Nice list. 12 tanks

I approve of the choices in your list!

If the Penal Legion is just for scoring, I'd swap the first Vet squad for a platoon command squad and the penal legion for 2 platoon squads and put them in the Vendettas.

My original list had a Plat command and two infantry squads (all in Chimeras). They didn't do much in the playtest match (two Death Comp dreds jumping on your Chimeras will do that), but that is not to say I couldn't give it a try if this vet sqd version runs into objective grabbing difficulty. Wildeyed swears by his penal legion (taking out Monoliths and curing world hunger or some silliness like that), so I included a unit. :D