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HQ - Overlord w/ whatever you want
RC - Harbinger of the Storm
RC - Harbinger of the Storm
RC - Harbinger of the Storm
RC - Harbinger of the Storm
RC - Harbinger of the Storm
Transport - Ghost Ark

5x Warriors

Buy a vanilla group of 5 warriors with a ghost ark but deploy them outside of it. Deploy the Overlord and 5 stormteks next to the empty ghost ark, embark and speed off. 20 Haywire shots from an AV 13 fast skimmer... Statistically will completely overkill a tank every turn, and is even more destructive if they can target a unit of multiple tanks, like Leman Russ!!!

Don't really need the ghost ark there; just attach a despair-tek with a veil of darkness to that group, and deepstrike them reasonably close to your target.

Sure, that would be cool, but after you take out your first target you would be foot slogging, the ark keeps your guys buzzing all over the field for the game, or for as long as the ark is operational.


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Oh, can the Veil of Darkness be used every turn?

peteralmo wrote:
HQ - Overlord w/ whatever you want
RC - Harbinger of the Storm
RC - Harbinger of the Storm
RC - Harbinger of the Storm
RC - Harbinger of the Storm
RC - Harbinger of the Storm
Transport - Ghost Ark

5x Warriors

Buy a vanilla group of 5 warriors with a ghost ark but deploy them outside of it. Deploy the Overlord and 5 stormteks next to the empty ghost ark, embark and speed off. 20 Haywire shots from an AV 13 fast skimmer... Statistically will completely overkill a tank every turn, and is even more destructive if they can target a unit of multiple tanks, like Leman Russ!!!

But what if...I only have monstrous creatures?

I was under the impression you could only take one cryptek of each type per court?

You can take up to 5 of the same type if you wish, and they will all have there unique weapon, like abyssal staff or eldritch lance. The limitation comes on there other two gear choices, you can never get multiples of those.

peteralmo wrote:
Sure, that would be cool, but after you take out your first target you would be foot slogging, the ark keeps your guys buzzing all over the field for the game, or for as long as the ark is operational.

Oh, can the Veil of Darkness be used every turn?

Yes, yes it can, so deepstrike away.

The Ghost Ark is fast now?

Well, turn one you have 12" on your ark ( which means you can only snapfire if you don't decided to flat out) flatout 6" in your shooting. You have already left the warrior group in the dust back there looking around.(can't join the RC to the warriors so only one of the units are getting on the ark) The range on the staff is 12", so it will be turn two before you even get a chance to use it. In the mean time whatever tank you are chasing gets a chance to punch a hole in your ark. Most tanks have the firepower to do so. If your lucky you only lose a hull point on a glance.. unlucky you splode and some of your teks die.. then the rest of their army has fun playing wack-a-cron.

If you have two royal courts.. I would stick a 10man gauss immortal squad with two stormteks in a night scythe. Drop them off 12" away.. in most cases you will wreck pretty much anything with this group.. then use the tesla destructor on the scythe to shoot up what gets out. Want to get real cheeky, take a stalker with the TL heavy gauss cannon.. hit the tank for TL goodness for the rest of your army. On top of the str9 ap2 shot the tank just took from the stalker you can bank of 6 to 7 hits from the stormteks and 15ish from the immortal rapid fire.

Provided they survive, embark them back onto the scythe and move to another target or fly off the board and come back on for the next turn.

That is a lot of points... I usually just use my Destroyer Lord for that job.

5-10 Gauss Immortals.
Harbinger of Storm.
Veiltek.

Cheaper, more mobile, and probably more reliable.

Oh, I know it is a ton of points. I was just going with the "ultimate tank wrecking" theme.

My general set up is the same as riven but no veil and Iput them in a scythe, simply so I can better control the drop and shoot. Plus it gives me more tesla nom noms on the board.