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I'm still waiting to receive my Riptide and Sunshark, so I'm not sure how this will play. Thoughts?

Commander (CIB, MP, TL, DC w/ 2 marker drones, PEN, Iridium Armor) 192 - JSJ markerlights or join Broadsides, Crisis, or kroot for PEN benefit
Ethereal - joins one FWx10 unit

Fire Warriors x8 (Devilfish)
Fire Warriors x10
Fire Warriors x10
Kroot x14 w/ 1 hound (Sniper Rounds) 103 -outflank to forest, objective, MC

Riptide (Ion Accelerator, TLFB, Stim Injector, EWO) 225
Crisis x3 (TLMP, PR) w/ 2 shield drones 195
Crisis x2 (PR, PR) w/ 3 gun drones 140 - deep strike

Pathfinders x5
Pathfinders x5
Sunshark Bomber (TLMP) 165

Hammerhead (Ion Cannon, SMS, BSF, Dpod) 141
Broadside x2 (Velocity Tracker) w/ 2 shield drones 194

Input welcome, thank you!

Its a nice list: but there are a couple of things that worry me. Firstly AV14 might be a serious issue as you already have the hammerhead I would recommend making it into a Railhead. I would advise making the 2 man crisis unit into one with 2x Fusion Blasters each. The other thing is that the lone Devilfish is going to be an easy target for Anti-Tank once the Hammerhead has been killed. As a general rule If I am using Devilfish I mount ALL my units in them for good target saturation.
I hope this helps.

 Invasive Rhamnus wrote:
Fire Warriors x8 (Devilfish)
Fire Warriors x10
Fire Warriors x10

Make 'em all 9. It takes 3 dead to cause a Morale Check. The one 8 man crew Morales on 2 dead.

 Invasive Rhamnus wrote:

Crisis x3 (TLMP, PR) w/ 2 shield drones 195
Crisis x2 (PR, PR) w/ 3 gun drones 140 - deep strike

I like the dual PR suits (Katana?), not the FireKnife7. I think XV8s should spam the AP2, not Missile Pods. Give the fish a Dispod.

The rest is okay.

Yeah, I played against a Nurgle Deamons army the other day I was really aching for some S10 shots on that soulgrinder.

I like to have as many PRs on my suits as possible, but I think its important to have the range of the MPs too. Hence, the two different unit types.

How about this....

Commander (CIB, MP, TL, DC w/ 2 marker drones, PEN, Iridium Armor) 192 - JSJ markerlights or join Broadsides, Crisis, or kroot for PEN benefit
Ethereal

Fire Warriors x9
Fire Warriors x9
Fire Warriors x9
Kroot x10 w/ 1 hound (Sniper Rounds) 75 -outflank to forest, objective, MC

Riptide (Ion Accelerator, TLFB, Stim Injector, EWO) 225
Crisis x3 (TLMP, PR) w/ 2 shield drones 195
Crisis x2 (PR, PR) w/ 2 gun drones 128 - deep strike

Pathfinders x5
Pathfinders x5
Sunshark Bomber (TLMP) 165

Hammerhead (Ion Cannon, SMS, BSF, Dpod) 141
Hammerhead (Railgun, SMS, BSF, Dpod) 141
Broadside x2 (Velocity Tracker) w/ 1 shield drone 182


Is the reduced kroot squad size, dropping a drone here and there, and dropping the dfish worth the railhead? Normally I'd pay for sub shots on it too, but im a few points short, and I already have a healthy number of blast sources (Ionhead, Riptide, Sunshark)

I find that to make the railgun more reliable and a bigger chance to do more damage you need to get long strike in there. I would probably ditch the markerlight aspect of your commander to make the points for longstrike. I think the Markerlight Commander only really shines when combined with a markerlight drone squad along with his own drones.

MathHammer wise the Ionhead is supposed to kill MEqs best ... But if the Soulgrinder continues to show, change some suits to Helios. Longer range FusionBs make me happy and opponents sad.

Swap the shield drones with anything that is not a shield drone. They're just useless in this edition because they don't share the same armor save as the units. This makes it really hard to set it up with the unit. Basically you can't put the drones up front since standard weapon fire becomes more effective against the unit due to single wound 4+ units. Putting them behind suits makes them useless. Really the only effective way to use them is putting an IC up front with the drones behind him, but even then it's probably more effective just to bring a marker/gun drone instead.

 Savageconvoy wrote:
Swap the shield drones with anything that is not a shield drone. They're just useless in this edition because they don't share the same armor save as the units. This makes it really hard to set it up with the unit. Basically you can't put the drones up front since standard weapon fire becomes more effective against the unit due to single wound 4+ units. Putting them behind suits makes them useless. Really the only effective way to use them is putting an IC up front with the drones behind him, but even then it's probably more effective just to bring a marker/gun drone instead.

Yeah, I wish shield drones could take LOS for any member of the unit. I'm on the fence about switching them out though, simply because they have that invul save if it comes up. That said, I'm not sure that insurance is worth giving up TL carbines, even if they are only BS2.

Commander (CIB, MP, TL, DC w/ 2 marker drones, PEN, Iridium Armor) 192 - JSJ markerlights or join Broadsides, Crisis, or kroot for PEN benefit
Ethereal

Fire Warriors x9
Fire Warriors x9
Fire Warriors x9
Kroot x10 w/ 1 hound (Sniper Rounds) 75 -outflank to forest, objective, MC
Devilfish

Riptide (Ion Accelerator, TLPR, Stim Injector, EWO) 225
Crisis x3 (TLMP, PR) w/ 2 Gun Drones 195
Crisis x3 (PR, FB) w/ 2 Gun Drones 128 - deep strike to TEQ or Vehicle

Pathfinders x5
Pathfinders x5
Sunshark Bomber (TLMP, Decoy Launchers) 168

Hammerhead (Ion Cannon, SMS, BSF, Dpod) 141
Broadside x2 (Velocity Tracker HYMP) w/ 2 Missile Drones 182

Total 1848