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Playing a local tourney with a buddy of mine and I would like to get some suggestions on what to bring.

Here are some of the rules I know.

2v2
Each player brings 1000 points
One detachment/formation per person

Now this last one I find pretty stupid as I run a mixed Admech/Skitarii force and the fact that I have to pick a single detachment in a single codex is just dumb. Anyways I just felt I had to complain about this.

Now onto the actual tactics part of this. My partner is running Dark Eldar. He will be bringing lots of Venoms with Trueborn and normal troops. He has a raider and a ravager as well. So lost of poison/blasters/and dark lances.

Here is where I am stuck.

I could bring my Skitarii which would help with some AA in the form of my Onagers, some fast units in the form of my chicken walkers, and some foot sloggers with plasma and arc rifles. Or I could bring my Cult Mech which consists of 6 Kastelans, a Dominus and 6 destroyers with Grav guns. I am not sure what to take. I feel like he will be fast enough with DE that I dont need chicken walkers or objective holders. However Skitarii have the AA in the form of the Iccarus Array. If I bring Cult Mech I have some super durability in the robots as well as a way to deal with any GCs or MCs in the form of the Grav servitors.

Thoughts? I feel like the Cult mech will be better but I cant get over the AA of the dune crawler.

Thanks for the help!


Edit: All missions will be Maelstrom 1-3

Damn too bad its one detachment, I had a doubles last weekend and my partner ran drop pod skitarii which were outstandingly good! They would drop in and plasma whatever they wanted off the field. My advice is take what you think will do the most damage as it seems like your partner has speed and obj grabbing. I doubt you will see more than one flyer in any given match and if you do they usually are not enough to cause issues, I say go with cult.