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What do you think of fielding a demolisher and leman russ so that they sit together and A) scare off meltas and melee from destroying them and B) can still ground pound at range.

What sponsons should each tank have?

Before anyone asks, General opponents are chaos, blood angels and nidasaurus (MC nids with a bit of hoard)

I think it works well, keeping them both alive unless some serious long range firepower is aimed at them, and keeping in mind they are NOT squadded.

thoughts? is there a better way?

Why would sitting together scare off meltas and melee? If anything, you're just begging to be multi-assaulted with meltabombs.

I don't think it's necessary to field them together. If you do use LR tanks as a sort of firebase, take long ranged variants only, and surround them with platoon infantry. This prevents people getting into melta/melee range, which are the only things that can really reliably hurt AV14.

Im perplexed as to why theres only one reply in a number of hours...uncharacteristic of dakka!

Well yeah, but you cant actually assault without at least running the risk of eating a demolisher in the face. Demolisher (at least on my friends) has a very bad psychological effect, specially the nids. Now i realise deepstriking is another thing entirely, but being multiassaulted? I dont really see that happening?

I see what you meant, but using a 165-point tank as insurance to discourage people from assaulting your 150-point tank is a bit inefficient. If you have plenty of infantry, why not have 2 LRBT in the backfield safely surrounded by one platoon. Then have another platoon moving up the field surrounding a LR demolisher? Seems like a better use of your assets.

But over all, I think all IG tanks are best protected by infantry, not by other ordnance-throwing tanks. And this trick probably works better with stationary (and thus long-range) tanks than with things like demolishers.