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Hey guys!

I have a 2v1 coming up against DE/Harlequins and Necrons. They can field pretty much anything (up to 4 flyers, gunboats, truckload of jetbikes, venoms, barges, arks, praetorians, etc.). I was gonna surprise them with flyers using proxies! Toy planes found on amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Halloween-Trick-Treat-Gliders-Planes/dp/B001FT027Q. I know there are new flyers rules, like you get bonuses if you have air superiority and stuff. It could be interesting. I need to read theses... So here's what I came up with:

Combined Arms Detachment:

Warboss w/ Mega Armour, Da Finkin' Kap, Bosspole [115]
Mek [15]

10x Grots w/ Runtherd [35]
10x Grots w/ Runtherd [35]

6x Warbikers w/ PK BP Nob [166]
Kopta w/ TL Rokkit [30]
Kopta w/ TL ROkkit [30]

10x Lootas [140]
3x Kannon & 2x Traktor w/ 5x Runts 6x Extra Grot [147]

Air Armada Formation:
Dakkajet w/ Flyboss and 3 Supa Shoota [145]
Dakkajet w/ Flyboss and 3 Supa Shoota [145]
Dakkajet w/ Flyboss and 3 Supa Shoota [145]
Burna-Bommer w/ 3 Skorcha Missiles [145]
Blitza-Bommer [135]

Fortification Detachment:
Aegis Defense Line w/ Comms Relay [70]

Total [1498]

MA Warboss goes with Mek Gunz and Mek with Lootas, or vice-versa, depending on terrain. One of these squads goes in the ADL, or a squad of grots. The idea is to roll for the 2 reserve manipulation traits so my flyers all arrive on T2 (with traits, Comms Relay and Air Superiority) to wreck havoc and then go into ongoing reserve when hurt, and come back at full HP afterwards. MA Warboss can WAAAGH when the flyers have good targets.

Lootas and mek gunz are there because I need long range durable units. Ok lootas are not durable but behing an ADL they can do some good, with 2+ cover when they GTG. Traktor Kannons might be overkill with all these flyers but they fire normally at skimmers and jetbikes, so. Lone koptas are there because they are awesome. Grots are there because I need troops.

Warbikers squadron is there because... I don't know. I had the points, I wanted something a bit durable, shooty, mobile, etc. Could do the job, even though they feel kinda lonely in this list.

So, what do you guys think?

Since you have another free heavy support slot I'd suggest to split the lootas into two min squads or the mek gunz into a unit of 3 kannons and another unit of 2 traktor kannons.

You're very weak on the ground with just six bikes and two single deffkoptas as the only units that have some decent movement. The warboss is probably better with the bikes as mek gunz already have T7, 3+ armour, 2W and the ADL, he seems wasted there. Those 5 planes seems to be a huge tax, necrons are tough and DE/Harlequins very mobile.

 Blackie wrote:
Since you have another free heavy support slot I'd suggest to split the lootas into two min squads or the mek gunz into a unit of 3 kannons and another unit of 2 traktor kannons.

You're very weak on the ground with just six bikes and two single deffkoptas as the only units that have some decent movement. The warboss is probably better with the bikes as mek gunz already have T7, 3+ armour, 2W and the ADL, he seems wasted there. Those 5 planes seems to be a huge tax, necrons are tough and DE/Harlequins very mobile.

If I keep the ADL w/ Comms Relay and put lootas in it, I would prefer having a 10 loota squad with a character to ensure they survive first turn. However, I could also put grots behind and GTG if someone sees them. So, if I don't put my lootas in the ADL, 2 min squads would be the way to go, that's for sure. We play with quite a bit of ruins so 4+ cover is really easy to find for small squads. So let's split the lootas!

ADL is a 70 pts tax to ensure my reserves arrive on T2... Is it worth it? I don't know yet if we'll play with Death from the Skies rules (±1 to reserve rolls if the enemy has no flyers). I also might get the reroll trait...

Puting the WB with the bikes could be nice, however I would need a painboy to give them FNP... I don't really want to make a bikestar but a WB in a bike squad pretty much demands a painboy...

I'll tweak the list a bit...