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Hey guys. Working toward collecting this list. Would love to hear thoughts. It's the formation with a cult Mechanicus congregation, a skitarii battle maniple and a knight, and all upgrades a free!!. Thanks!

1 Imperial Knight Crusader, melta gun, avenger Gatling cannon, thermal cannon, rockets on top

1 skitarii battle maniple:

10 skitarii vanguard, 3 plasma Caliver, saergant had plasma pistol.
5 skitarii Rangers, 2 of the armorbane snipers

5 sicarian rust stalkers
5 sicarian infiltrators

4 sydonian dragoons

2 onager dune strider w/ Icarus array

Cult Mechanicus congregation:

Tech priest w/ whatever free upgrades are good

3 kataphron destroyers, heavy grav cannon, flamer
3 kataphron destroyers, heavy grav cannon, flamer
3 kataphron destroyers, heavy grav cannon, flamer
3 kataphron destroyers, heavy grav cannon, flamer

If you're collecting the convocation(I am, too!) all wargear is free, so I'd say you're missing out on some things. I'll go one unit at a time.

What does your Vanguard Alpha really have? There isn't a plasma pistol in AdMech. Hopefully it's the similar-looking Arc Pistol. Give him an Arc Maul or Taser Prod depending on whether you want to bumrush vehicles or have good better defense against enemy assault infantry. Also, may as well throw on a data tether or omnispex since those are free.

Give your Rangers a third Transuranic Arquebus. I converted an extra one using the Radium Jezzail from the Sydonian Dragoon box, so you from the looks of things you should have plenty. Oh, and why don't they have an omnispex? This is a must-take even when you do have to pay for it. Same goes for a melee weapon on the Ranger Alpha. He should never have to fight in melee, but if he's forced to he may as well be doing so with a free Power Sword and Digital Weapons. Between those and an Imperative he may really do some damage.

The Sicarian Principes(yes, that's the correct Latin plural of the word) could respectively have an Infoslave Skull and Dataspike. Also, on the subject of character upgrades, you could be slapping free Digital Weapons and Conversion Fields on ALL of your squad leaders. This is an invisible upgrade so you wouldn't even have to change anything for this.

I assume you'll be Outflanking the Dragoons. Make sure they all get their free Serpentas.

I'd rethink Icarus Arrays on BOTH Dunestriders. It may be the most expensive upgrade but that doesn't mean a Neutron Laser wouldn't help you. Between that an the Rangers you would no longer have all your long-range AT firepower in one basket. You want an army list that still functions if any given squad is knocked out.

For the Cult Mechanicus, the Kataphron spam should work fine. It's a well-priced Relentless gunline, not much to be said about it. Granted, I haven't done the math on your point costs so I don't know how much you have left to spend at this point. Kastelans are silly looking but there are plenty of easy conversions to be done to make them a bit more reasonable. They may seem underwhelming on their own but they'll let you play all sorts of wacky mind games with your opponents if you place them carefully.

All in all it doesn't look like you put much work--or math--into this. It looks more like a shopping list than an army list. You have all the requirements, but are you actually thinking about how you're going to use all these units in concert? How will this all be deployed on the table? Which units will be trying to grab objectives and which will be hunting for specific enemy types? What's your plan if the Titan gets downed by a lucky shot? I know the Convocation is broken as hell but you still have to put some thought into how you use it.

Of course I've put thought.

The sicarians and the dragoons will be picking CC battles, and moving quickly Roth the knight. Fast threat saturation. The onagers control the sky and skimmers, the vanguard can move towards an objective and the Rangers can hold another. Kataphron lay immense support Fire, can hold objectives etc. I may just dump the flamer in favor of phosphor. More shots for scatter bike control.

Any other thoughts?

I would place an Icarus array on the Knight to help with AA.

Add all the upgrades to the Onagers and leave them as AA.

4 Skitarii Alphas means 4 Relics.
Rust get the Zealot Mask
Plasma get the Phosphoenix
Infiltrators get the Skull so when they show up mid to late game in the enemy back field they can pop it.
Rangers ...

Also you might leave a Phosphor gun in each Destroyer unit to reduce cover saves and or mark them for other units to charge.