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hello I'm planing on starting a BFG army
I'm making it the Adeptus Mechanicus since I personally love the Adeptus Mechanicus, and the list i have come up with so far is as follows
1 Mechanicus ark 415pts
3 Gothic cruisers 645pts
1 endeavor light cruiser 135pts
1 endurance light cruiser 135pts
6 cobra destroyers 180

Is this a descent list? any help is welcome, I don't want to go making a army that sucks

Sincerely
Xblackdog

Well, I thing you have a decent start, but you might want to select some different cruisers than just 3 gothics. Your two biggest weaknesses right now is that you lack weapons batteries and launch bays. So, I would say take a Tyrant or a Dominator, a Gothic, and a Dictator for your three cruisers, dropping Cobras as necessary to make up the points.

Also, you have 1510 points worth of stuff with no Admiral yet. The admiral part won't be a problem if you are planning on using this fleet for a campaign (where your fleet commander is free), but for one-off games you will need to drop more of the destroyers or a light cruiser to pay for an Admiral.

ah, thanks for the feedback i have redone the list so here it is.
1 Mechanicus ark 415
1 Archmagos Explorator 50
1 Gothic cruisers 215
1 endeavor light cruiser 135
1 endurance light cruiser 135
3 cobra destroyers 90
1 tyrant cruiser 220
1 dictator cruiser 255

Heya,

welcome. Cool fleet, I have one as well.

The Dictator = 255 pts.

Something which makes the AdMech cool is the 45cm batteries it can get. The Endeavour benefits a lot from this.

When you take the Ark Mechanicus you must take the expenisive Magos (100pts), therefor I prefer the Retribution as my battleship. With the Magos I take the AWR upgrade and the ship becomes lethal, perhaps slightly under the Ark but therefor more then 80pts cheaper.

ah, ya i was looking at the ships and i noticed the emperor class BS and i think i may get one of those until i have around 3000pts worth of ships to make bringing a Ark worth the points. was also thinking about getting a ramilis (sorry if misspelt.) class starfort, now that thing looks like a beast! but being new I'm not completely sure... how good are the fury intersepters at any rate are they worth the added effort to get?

well their about as good as any other fighter as close range ordnance defense. and if your worried about how they'll do you can copy a few markers off of the torpedo marker pdf here http://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m1300006_BFG_Torpedo_Markers.pdf you can try them out and then grab the models if you want.

my 2 cents.