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A list I've always wanted to run was ;

Kharn
Berserkers
Berserkers
Berserkers
Land Raider
Land Raider
Land Raider

in 1500, with a pair of Heldrakes to bring it up to 1850, but that was back in the days before grav made land raiders completely obsolete as even Crons and haywire generally struggle with stopping 3 land raiders before at least 1, if not 2 of them get where they were going.

Still, if you're in that odd meta where grav is non-existant and nobody owns multiple wraithknights, a bunch of raiders with dirge casters, extra armour and a dozer blade can do some work. Can be especially funny against the odd tau player if they're not bringing a stormsurge for whatever reason.

Fortunately, I could never bring myself to buy the terrible berserker models to make it work and continued on with other (equally terrible) projects instead, not to mention how I loathe the idea of painting a pair of heldrakes.

Actually, Necrons would likely thank you. A Ghost Ark with Warriors at Rapid Fire Range can likely HP the Land raider out, and with the unreliability of Lascannons doing anything to the Ghost Ark means that I won't elect to jink.

Then your Berserker Marines won't be able to do anything to the Ghost Ark, and then the Warriors rapid fire the squad out for the most part and then charge at you instead.

The other problem of that plan, is that zerkers really aren't very good right now.

Though they CAN wreck the ghost ark. a storm of S5 attacks does that. even with 4HP the rear of the ark is 11.
And each zerker has 4 S5 attacks on the charge, so even if FAQ grenade nerf really kicks in, they can still drown it in attacks. (they actually do more damage by regular hits than by grenades anyway)

So hitting on 3, glancing on 6, 4 attacks each means that even an unharmed ark should fall to 9 zerkers punching it on average (each dealing 0.4444 glances),
An axed leader will make the work shorter (5 S6 AP2 attacks deals 0.5555 glances and 0.5555 AP2 pens)

And as you did not jink, there is a fair chance the ark is already damaged from the raiders, because while lascannons doing serious harm is unlikely, it will happen every so often. a raider should score 0.2222 glances and 0.4444 pens on the ark. not much, but not neglectible. especially if its 3 arks versus 3 raiders-you can expect at least ONE to pull off a good shot, and if it lucked to be the first, you might drop the quantum shield and allow the other two to have a decent shooting opportunity. (once the quantum is down, its 0.2222 glances and 0.8888 pens)



All this does not change the fact the zerkeraider is inferior to the dakkark-especially once you factor the zerkeraider cost over the dakkark, but its not as one-sided as you claim. the zerkers will at least drop SOME of the arks, and has an oddball chance of winning.

Land Raiders aren't quick enough to make sure Berserker Marines can reach the rear armor, and with those stats of the Las Cannon being a total of .67 HP being stripped, there is little reason to Jink, and therefore I keep the firepower.

So yeah, it IS as one sided as I'm making it to be.

Dude. CC rules, if it's not a walkers all attacks hit the rear regardless of facing. It's been that way since at least fifth edition.

Rework your understanding of basic game rules before you go into scenario analysis.

I've never had a Ghost Ark hit in melee before, so there you go.