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I am having to decide on flamers or bolters and i wanted the opinion of the Dakka Legio Cybernetica representatives - what do you find most useful and why?

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I personally stick with just bolters to save points. I go with shooty Castellax, so they're already expensive enough with targeting arrays and any shoulder weapon upgrades I go with. I can see flamers being useful on Castellax that are going to be used as assault units, where you probably haven't bothered upgrading the shoulder weapon or taking the targeting array.

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There's some amount of wudfil going on there with those two options; choose them depending on what you're lacking.

If I'm going all-rounded, and I've got Vorax zipping about the place, I'll forgo the flamers and don the bolters, to get something with more punch. Vorax will be quite tidy against Auxilia Infantry and the like.
Likewise, on Tann's point, I wouldn't take flamers if I've got an ETA and/or Darkfire lance. Wasting some of the value of the ETA if you do, or fail to synergise with the range of the Darkfire unless you expect to get charged.

Very similiar to the Kastellans with their Fist and Flamer loadout, really.

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