Worth the points?

[Nick]

3 Leman Russ's are 450 points with no upgrades. It's lots of points to put into one basket, esspecially in smaller games, where a few stray lascannons or bright lances can see 450 points, almost a third of the army, go up in a rather large fireball. Infantry as a core gives me a cheap, flexible firebase, and because of the low core points cost of the basic units i take, i can add whatever i want as support. Veterans, tanks, artillery, storm troopers.......anything, the list i posted is not tailored to fight anything in particular, its just something Vince asked me to post. Don't forget that manticores are very expensive too, and an easy target for lots of anti tank weapons. I would take them vs orks maybe, or tyranids, where the really large blast areas would be usefull, but for everything else i'll stick with Basilisks, Griffons and Collossus Siege Mortars. And i think "First rank, FIRE! Second rank, FIRE!" only works with standard lasguns.