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Any of you guys flex with these? They seem stupid expensive, especially with scout armor, snipers and camo. BUT, a melee squad, lead by a vigilator, they get the stealth without paying for it, can infiltrate, scout, unload on a tank with an inferno pistol or two turn 1 (not to mentions sabotage). Or outflank if there's light terrain. And they'd provide some backup to my assault squad, cap points, and be a solid melee threat (power fist for the serg, power axe or charnable saber for the vigilator).

keep them shooty, give them a nuncio vox, I generally left mine in power armour. This way they can act as a point for the rest of your army to land around without needing to worry about scattering

personally, to me, if these guys are charging, they should be charging stuff that can't hit back hard (artillery, back field tanks or rapier batteries)

Didn't even consider the nuncio vox. That'll help me reliably get my inferno pistols where they need to be. Def going melee though, if these guys are going to be operating that close to the enemy, they're going to be charging stuff. As a blood angel player they're effectively S5, and plus one I on the charge, so they'll do alright against just about anything.

Charnable sabre is a good call for the vigilator. With so much bloody artificer plate, randing is probably more worth the points than AP3, and the +1 initiative means he can at least have a fighting chance of getting to swing before dying against a character.

Getting within effective inferno pistol range is unlikely. Firstly inferno pistols have a damn close range, but more importantly there are plenty of ways to push infiltrators back out of easy range for close-quarter attack - augury scanners create an 18" no-go bubble, whilst Thallax have a 24" one - expect any gun-line which doesn't want to deal with you up close to have a few of these providing a defensive grid. As a result, you're likely to be 18" away - meaning a move won't put you in inferno pistol range, and frankly won't put enough models in rapid fire or shotgun range either.

Moving up behind cover is sensible - you won't be able to do much on turn 1, so your primary job is to survive. As noted, a Nuncio-Vox can let you bring in large assault squads accurately, and that should give your opponent something far more important to deal with than a recon squad!

Shoot, excellent point with the augury scanner. I need to play a few more games and see how common these are...

well, being that they are 5 points, and can be taken on apothecaries, probably pretty common depending on your local meta.

as for the charnabal sabre, I have mixed feelings on them. Yeah, rending is nice, but outside of challenges or the lucky '6' (since most characters have so few attacks) it's just a costly CCW :(

Well, I need him to bust up vehicles, so meltabombs and a power axe are ideal, or a saber to keep things a bit cheaper