Mech Guard - Mixing it up

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**Atheos**

Paradigm wrote:
Congrats on the win. Playing aggressively with Mech Guard is certainly something different, and if you enjoyed it, then it worked.

Mass reserves is always an interesting tactic, either you'll get half your army in the enemy DZ straight away, or you'll end up waiting for them to come in one at a time. I swear, most of the time I use Al'Rahem he ends up coming in on entirely the wrong side, but if you bring and astropath and get lucky with outflanking you can pull off some great stuff.

Have you considered adding Harker to a vet squad at all? With 3x plasma, a HB team and Harker, in a chimera, you get: 9 HB shots, 3 Multilaser shots, and 6 plasma shots at short range. Pretty fearsome to most light-medium infantry units. I think that infiltrating this into cover could give you very neat firebase early on. You'd need to protect it, but I can see it paying off.

Thanks, seems like if you hide your CCS well enough they should all come on fairly quickly with the astropath.

I was definitely considering the Harker squad you mentioned before. You can't infiltrate while in the Chimera though correct? I'll probably put it into my next list just to try it out.

**Paradigm**

I've not got my BRB handy, but I'm pretty sure there's no restrictions on infiltrating with a Chimera, so long as you obey the restrictions on distance from enemy units.

**Atheos**

Wow, I looked it up... the rule states if they're given a dedicated transport they actually -must- infiltrate/outflank with it. That was not what I expected to read, that's awesome.

Though I don't know if it'd be worth giving them a Chimera... if I could just plant them in some terrain.

**Da Kommizzar**

Plant them and the chimera in terrain with a dozer blade and then *Foom!* you shoot out at mach 70 and do mayehmic stuff.

**tankboy145**

A mech platoon with harker squad outflanking could truly put a lot of force on your opponents back field and could really mess their army up, maybe some stormies to deepstrike in to pop transports or armor.