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The idea here was to go for a fast moving army that could deal out some serious hits as well as take objectives. Please let me know what you think and what I could do to revise it.

HQ:
Destroyer
Semp Weave

Troops:
10x Warriors
10x Warriors
10x Immortals
Tesla

Fast Attack:
3x wraiths
2x W.Coils
3x Destroyers

Heavy Support:
Anni Barge
Gauss Cannon
Anni Barge
Gauss Cannon

only criticism I have is maybe trade the gauss cannons for twin linked tesla on the annih. barges.

IIRC, you can trade the Gauss Cannon for Tesla Cannon, and it's not a smart trade, IMHO. Tesla is +1S, but has no AP (where Gauss has a juicy 3 for taking out MEQ), so infantry wise it's all around better. Against veichles it's better, too, because it glances on 6s on hit, and doesn't have the problems of being AP-.

supreme overlord wrote:only criticism I have is maybe trade the gauss cannons for twin linked tesla on the annih. barges.

The twin linked tesla is the Tesla Destructor that it comes with initally. On the under side it comes with a tesla cannon I can switch out for a gauss cannon

I am a little worried about your ability to force troops out of their armored shell to put your charges, small arms fire and tesla destructors to good use. I'm also not sure about how useful warrior bricks are, or why you've set them to 10 men. Without a way to help them get things into their threat range or making use of their cheap cost for something, I'd rather have a slightly smaller number of tesla immortals.

Nix wrote:IIRC, you can trade the Gauss Cannon for Tesla Cannon, and it's not a smart trade, IMHO. Tesla is +1S, but has no AP (where Gauss has a juicy 3 for taking out MEQ), so infantry wise it's all around better. Against veichles it's better, too, because it glances on 6s on hit, and doesn't have the problems of being AP-.

Actually the Tesla Cannon is +2S. The other problem you run into with using the gauss cannon is that it only ever gets 2 shots per turn. The tesla is eminently better for anti infantry purposes since it's assault 4, and has the tesla rule, AND gets the arc rule. With the fact that if you role even a single six on the to hit (a good chance of that) you now statistically are as good as the cannon at killing marines. Where the tesla really shines is in its use against tightly packed armies such as imperial guard and orks, as it has the ability to not only hit the first squad, but inflict hits on nearby squads as well.

Now that being said, as for the list, drop one of your troop choices. At 1000 points you don't need 30 scoring models, so I would suggest dropping the immortals and wraiths for a couple of ghost arks. The wraiths in my opinion don't bring a lot to the list. It seems like a CC unit thrown in at the last moment which means they typically won't do well, but if you are hellbent on keeping the wraiths I'd toss a ress orb on the destroyer lord then, and have the lord join the wraiths and then use the points from dropping the immortals to get a single ghost ark for a warrior squad.

Lone Dragoon wrote:

Nix wrote:IIRC, you can trade the Gauss Cannon for Tesla Cannon, and it's not a smart trade, IMHO. Tesla is +1S, but has no AP (where Gauss has a juicy 3 for taking out MEQ), so infantry wise it's all around better. Against veichles it's better, too, because it glances on 6s on hit, and doesn't have the problems of being AP-.

Actually the Tesla Cannon is +2S. The other problem you run into with using the gauss cannon is that it only ever gets 2 shots per turn. The tesla is eminently better for anti infantry purposes since it's assault 4, and has the tesla rule, AND gets the arc rule. With the fact that if you role even a single six on the to hit (a good chance of that) you now statistically are as good as the cannon at killing marines. Where the tesla really shines is in its use against tightly packed armies such as imperial guard and orks, as it has the ability to not only hit the first squad, but inflict hits on nearby squads as well.

Now that being said, as for the list, drop one of your troop choices. At 1000 points you don't need 30 scoring models, so I would suggest dropping the immortals and wraiths for a couple of ghost arks. The wraiths in my opinion don't bring a lot to the list. It seems like a CC unit thrown in at the last moment which means they typically won't do well, but if you are hellbent on keeping the wraiths I'd toss a ress orb on the destroyer lord then, and have the lord join the wraiths and then use the points from dropping the immortals to get a single ghost ark for a warrior squad.

You are wrong on the Tesla cannon, T.cannon is strength 6, gauss cannon is strength 5. The annihilation barge has 2 weapons The tesla destructor which is twin-linked, tesla, arc str 7, and either a tesla cannon or gauss cannon on the under side of the barge.

GaussGuy wrote:

You are wrong on the Tesla cannon, T.cannon is strength 6, gauss cannon is strength 5. The annihilation barge has 2 weapons The tesla destructor which is twin-linked, tesla, arc str 7, and either a tesla cannon or gauss cannon on the under side of the barge.

I stand corrected. Guess that's what happens when I think something is off, check into it, and only see what I want to see lol.

Lone Dragoon wrote:

GaussGuy wrote:

You are wrong on the Tesla cannon, T.cannon is strength 6, gauss cannon is strength 5. The annihilation barge has 2 weapons The tesla destructor which is twin-linked, tesla, arc str 7, and either a tesla cannon or gauss cannon on the under side of the barge.

I stand corrected. Guess that's what happens when I think something is off, check into it, and only see what I want to see lol.

It is all good man, But yeah the wraiths were thrown in to run with my destroyer lord so they can soak up some wounds that need invuln saves while my d.lord goes and cracks some vehicles open. As well the wraiths do not have reanimation protocols so no use from the res orb.

If you truly want those warrior blobs to be tough nuts to crack, combine them so you have a blob of 15 with a res orb lord, and then have the unit of 5 for objective holding. If you can find the points to field that lord, maybe shave off a few immortals.

iGuy91 wrote:If you truly want those warrior blobs to be tough nuts to crack, combine them so you have a blob of 15 with a res orb lord, and then have the unit of 5 for objective holding. If you can find the points to field that lord, maybe shave off a few immortals.

hmm 15 warriors, 5 immortals to run with the barges, Could get an overlord with phaeron and res orb so I my 15 blob can move and shoot