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I'm going to fight agains an donkey-cave and I know he will (more or less) bring this list. I'd like to know the best way to counter it with my greenwing. Unfortunately I have no flyers =(

His list is:

HQ: Tigurius (in his words: invisiblity is the best power)

Troops: he doesn't have, he goes unbound.
Elites: 3 centurions with grav-cannons (that will be tigurius meatshields)

Formations:

10th company force: 3x MSU scouts with snipers and camocloaks.
1st company task force: 3xMSU Sternguard, two of them with two combi plasmas.

If someone is essentially using grav-cannon centurions with psykers, it's a classic 'deathstar' because when invisible it's nigh impossible to attack, incredibly tough, and thanks to grav-cannons being flat out better than any other astartes weapon in 99% of situations, can just erase most opponents.

With regular battle company dark angels, taking many combat squads and just rushing objectives works. Anything Tigurius' unit turns its attention to probably gets vapourised, but he'll struggle to chase after ten or more separate objective secured units. Don't even try to kill him unless he's in your way - run to the objectives and score the maelstrom points.

Option two..... would you consider allies? 1 model, the same price as a tactical squad, and it's own detachment so not affecting battleforged status:

The Culexus assassin. This guy is the centurion deathstar killer. Grav cannons are next to useless - needing 6's to hit and 6's to wound (he has no armour) and facing a 4+ invulnerable save.

If he gets within 12", tigurius' psychic powers essentially implode. Any existing blessings (e.g. invisibility) stop immediately, he'll need a 6 to cast anything new, he doesn't generate warp charge and tigurius can't attack him with any powers himself.

Plus, he has AP2 Instant Death attacks with preferred enemy psykers and a much better statline than tigurius.

And in case he decides to bring terminators? He likes to bring them from time to time (babyssiting tigurius)

Same logic would apply, I guess. Terminators trade firepower for melee power, but they're no faster and they can't deep strike with Tigurius in tow (unless he takes a drop pod for them)

If you've got an invisible unit, the culexus is the 'off switch'. At which point, smack them around with plasma cannon fire and you should be fine.