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I've seen in several places that these are a favored unit for summoning, and I was curious as to why. I've seen them touted as one of the better summoning options in battle reports.

They seem pretty comparable to ordinary plaguebearers if being summoned to shroud on a point and have touch of rust.

And Screamers seems superior as far as "goes fast".

Its a mixture of speed and durability.

Like all summoning, Plague Drones are another tool in the a conjuring tool box. They the hardest to kill unit you can summon being t5 and easy 2+ cover and their jet move makes up for their inability to run so can adjust for deep strike scatter and make it to cover and objectives easier. They also can take advantage of the conjured darmon rule and get free command items such as an icon and champion. And plague swords makes them a versitile combat threat to a variety of unit types.

But they aren't the end all be all summon. You should be summoning completely base off of what you need in a game such as when you need to kill a bunch of power armor you summon bloodcrushers/letters and if you really need to get to a far off objective this turn you summon screamers/seekers so on and so forth. Drones are just capable of doing multiple roles they just aren't the best at them.