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Made in us
Grim Dark Angels Interrogator-Chaplain






A Protoss colony world

Here's a list I've put together to run on Saturday (May 7) at a local tournament:
Detachment 1: Combined Arms Detachment
HQ:
Commander: 2x Missile Pod, Target Lock, Drone Controller, Iridium Suit, Neuroweb Jammer, 2x Marker Drone
Elites:
XV104 Riptide: Ion Accelerator, TL Smart Missile System, EWO, Stim Injector
Troops:
Breacher Team: 7 men, Shas'ui upgrade, Guardian Drone, dedicated Devilfish w/Sensor Spines and D-pod
Kroot Squad: 10 men, Sniper Rounds
Heavy Support:
Sky Ray: TL Smart Missile System, D-pod, Blacksun Filter
Lord of War:
KV128 Stormsurge: Pulse Driver Cannon, TL Frag Projector, Advanced Targeting System, EWO, Shield Generator
Detachment 2: Optimized Stealth Cadre
XV95 Ghostkeel: Cyclic Ion Raker, TL Fusion Blaster, EWO, Stim Injector
Stealth Team: Shas'vre upgrade, Fusion Blaster and ML+Target Lock on Shas'vre
Stealth Team: Shas'vre upgrade, Fusion Blaster and ML+Target Lock on Shas'vre
Detachment 3: Drone-Net VX1-0
4 units of 4 Marker Drones
The Commander attaches to one unit of Marker Drones, making them more accurate. The Breachers are there mainly for some mobile ObSec, as the D-fish is harder than it looks to shoot down since it can jink for a 3+ save in the open. The Guardian Drone is mainly to keep the Breachers from being instakilled by a Hellturkey or NDK with heavy incinerator. My main question is if I have actually taken too many Markerlights and not enough actual firepower. I counted 22 lights in the list. I'm tired of having my Marker units shot up in the first couple of turns, especially by Ad Mech War Convocation and their double use Canticle nonsense. I went with the Drone Net to get more markers instead of including a Pathfinder team, as I haven't had much luck with Pathfinders. Any advice is appreciated.

My armies (re-counted and updated on 11/7/24, including modeled wargear options):
Dark Angels: ~16000 Astra Militarum: ~1200 | Imperial Knights: ~2300 | Leagues of Votann: ~1300 | Tyranids: ~3400 | Stormcast Eternals: ~5000 | Kruleboyz: ~3500 | Lumineth Realm-Lords: ~700
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Made in us
Sneaky Sniper Drone




Oklahoma

You could quite easily wrap that CAD up into a huntre cadre and then run either a hunter contingent or dawn blade getting some army wide bonuses - using the drone net as the auxiliary.

my thoughts would be you have a lot of similar firepower and most of it is either str 7 ap 4 or str 5. The only ap2 or better you have are the blast templates.

I'd try and fit the CAD into the dawn blade giving you rerolls to wound/pen against a chosen target just because while your list has a lot of variety and versatility you need to be able to remove things from the board without just relying on the stormsurge.

I aren't think that.



 
   
 
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