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So my final preperations are underway to purchase models and I'm stuck trying to decide whether to use two Dev squads with missles(8 t otal missles) or two predators with all las cannons. The rest of my army consist of Pedro, flamers podding sternguard x20 and two tac squads in pods with melta and HB. stormraven, and sniper/missle scouts. So, what do you think?...ML devs or lascannon preds?

Go with Preds with autocannons in the turrets and Side Sponson Las Cannons.
Thats 2 str7 ap4 and 2 str9 ap2 attacks for 120 pts

You can't beat that

Triple las preds are terrible why would you pay 60 points for 1 twinlinked shot from the turret? (which is the true cost when you factor in the loss of the autocannon)

take Preds because Devs are overcosted just don't take terrible options on the pred. Keep the autocannon turret and add lascannon sponsons does the same job for a fraction of the points. With those 90 points no longer wasted on the turrets you can take a Dakka pred (HB sponsons). Now you have some serious firepower. So instead of choosing between 6 S9 shots or swap 8 S8 shots you've got 4 S9, 6 S7 & 6 S5! And another AV13 hull and the ability to shoot 3 targets! And you're less points!

I'm concerned about lack of AT14, what about three speeders with duels MM

Well neither ml devs nor preds are good against AV14. But you've 20 sternguard probably the best anti AV14 unit in the codex so why the concern?

In this edition with hull points have you found that the preds are more or less survivable than before?

Less of course like all vehicles. They get to shoot more often though.

Ha lol, I had a very similar thread a while ago -

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/506827.page

Anyway from that I came to the conclusion of using the 3 lascannon pred. Yes 165pts is expensive but the TL turret is very useful. A/ turret position and B/ TL. Comes in handy in particular when shooting fliers. (Yeah or I could grab a talon or raven to deal to them, but I personally dont want fliers in my lists...). The S7 autocannon isn't so great against AV12 which a few fliers are so I'd rather have my hit on it come from a lascannon.

On a side note; shouldn't this be in more of the tactics or discussion area than list building?

There's a reason the TL lascannon is only 25 points in the DA and CSM codexes because it is massively overcosted in the Vanilla codex so they repointed it. Never ever that that option in the Vanilla codex it is terrible. Also the Predator is not a very good AA choice. Don't use it for that.