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My meta is 9/10 players play MEQ and Necrons. Everything is 4+ since no one wants to paint hordes of models some players even run all TEQs.

To support my gunline which artillery piece is more competitive against killing space marines and CSM? Is the bombard worth it? The model looks really great!

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I have no idea what the Bombard is unfortunately, but I've been using wyverns in all of my IG lists and they do great damage against pretty much anything that isn't an MC, vehicle or 2+sv. Can't recommend them enough.

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Warhammer-40000/Imperial_Guard/Astra_Militarum_Tanks/IMPERIAL-BOMBARD.html

Cool model

The bombard is too expensive. For the price of 1 Colossus Bombard you get 2 Wyverns and 10 pts change.

So you get 1 S8 ap3 blast that ignore covers will probably only kill 3-4 marines at best (assuming you don't scatter)

Where with 2 Wyverns you should easily get about 16 hits (2 per blast, and they Twin-linked so reliable) and then with shred that should be 12 wounds which on average kills 4 marines as well. But you get 6HPs vs 3HP for the points, better reliability because of all the rerolls, and its a much more versatile (such as against units with 2+ armor or an invul save) and scales up damage way better when fighting non-MEQs.

Wyverns are far better than bombards. The quad guns are more comparable to the wyvern. In that comparison the only real change is if you want artillery, or mechanized artillery.