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My favorite trick is a Ravenwing rush dropping Deathwing Terminators along the line with the teleport homers, but Manticores aren't very tough, anything that can Outflank or Deep Strike will utterly ruin their day.

My last game vs IG i ran my Doomscythe along the back of the table and killed both manticores in 2 turns (my normal IG opponent likes to put them in opposit corners of the table).

My next game i'm goign to try putting a StormTek with his haywire staff and 5 warriors in a Nightscythe. Fly up, jump out, blast tank. The downside of this is that it will take 2 tunrs for my single nightscythe to wheel around and pick the unit back up again.

I have a mate who runs necrons and he uses 3 crypteks with the haywire things & 1 cryptek with the deep strike across the board thing if he gets first turn he sets them up on the board and deep strikes them at me as his first move and kills what ever tank he likes they ultimatly die next turn but he will usually take out what ever he wants before they do. If he goes second they stay in reserve and drop in turn 2+

But that relies on having a decent deep strike roll. I NEVER (ever) have good deep Strike rolls - maybe i'm cursed.

He always takes two and one always mishaps and always roll a 1 and they die lol. He played another guard player the other day though and pull the deep strike off with them both and took out both excutioners turn 1. Turn two he had lost one squad and a lone haywire dude in the second squad and took out the manticore. So that proves they can either win or lose big.