Belac Ynnead wrote:
Draigo + Invisibility is overkill. Heck, stern is probably overkill. It's a sick unit, but one that can only hurt something the turn after it gates. And then it just hopes that there's something else worth charging close by the turn after that. It's mechanically awesome, but totally avoidable. Just a regular squad of 5 hammernators and the priest are probably more bang for your buck. Just stick them in a land raider or storm raven or something.

This is why good deathstars are either jump infantry or shooting based. It lets you kill something with your 900+ point unit every turn instead of every other turn.

Still, pretty sick though. More than enough for any sort of casual play. Kind of along the op's original idea to bring Dark Angels in - I've been trying to think of a way to make their 4++ force field work with sanctuary. It's just really not worth it though. The best I could think of is a gating squad with shunting dreadknights getting in really close to have a 3++ to weather the fire for a turn before assaulting. Probably not worth the trouble because of how much you'd have to bunch everything up. [/quote}

While it is true that the Draigo + Invis etc star is primarily a threat via charging into melee, let's not be too quick to discount the sheer amount of hurt that the combination of offensive psychic powers and shooting can put out. Even with only the inevitable psychic shriek courtesy of the telepathy rolling libby and purge soul from draigo, you are potentially swamping a low to moderate Ld enemy with wounds that can only be saved via Invulnerable saves. When you add in stormbolter and psycannon fire, you can potentially be quite a large threat even on the turn that you gate in.