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Hey guys, new-ish Retribution player here. A friend recently challenged me to put a 25pt Adeptis Rahn tier list together. The following meets tier 1-3 requirements. Is there any way I can improve on it?

Adeptis Rahn
-Phoenix
-Sphinx
-Sylys Wyshnalyrr, The Seeker

Arcanist
Arcanist

House Shyeel Battle Mages
House Shyeel Battle Mages

I didn't really want two arcanists. but found myself with a single point left over. Guessing I can repair the Phoenix twice a turn, at least, even if I can't stack the other abilities.

The sphinx makes stuff easier to hit, while the Phoenix deals with heavies and does its big arc node thing, especially with the huge amounts of focus Rahn will have available thanks to the arcanists and Sylys.

The Battle Mages on the other hand should provide a decent firebase, with plenty of enemy manipulation, and some decent damage on feat turn.

Tbh I'm not sure that either of Rahn's tier lists are a good idea at 25pts - two Heavies or a Hyperion are a huge chunk of your points and you are only just getting to T2 with this not T3. T3 is Mage solos not units (T4 is units, but you need 4 of them which is nuts). Double Mittens + Sphinx means you will have a great feat turn, but thats really all this list has to work with.

You really need something other than Battle Mages in the list to give you a solid front line, which will let you reliably do stuff outside of the feat turn. Basically this means Halberdiers if you are running in tier, its not uncommon to see only a single unit of Mittens even at 50pts. Its pretty tough though in this list, you can drop Sylys and one unit of Mages to get a basic unit, but you will miss the UA.

Double Arcanists is absolutely fine (I'm assuming you are factoring in the free one?), in fact in a list with two heavies I would be surprised not to see two of them. They make our warjacks much much better.