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3rksum wrote:I'm just starting to build AdMech and have picked up a box of these guys. I am building them and looking at their weapons and have a few questions:

1. What seems to be the most popular way to build them out?
2. I kinda like 3 shooty weapons, so no fists, is this a mistake for melee? Am I missing something very powerful about the fists?

I am very new to the army so any help or suggestions for these guys is very much appreciated.

Cheers!

The three Heavy Phosphor Blasters is probably the most popular as it gets three shots each with no bonus from cover and if you got the protector protocol on they get to shoot twice so that is 18 strength 6 AP -2 shots in the shooting phase each. I do like the fists though as I recently has a small game against some space wolves and I brought to Kastelans one with fists one without and during the game it got into melee against some thunder wolf cavalry and the one with fists just wrecked them, especially after giving them the protocol that allows them to fight twice in the fight phase. Release it is up to you how you intend to use them. I like variety so I did a mix.
Also look at this:

don't you want a robot that can strut it stuff like it can.

verticalgain wrote:I feel like my Admech army is missing a Close Combat winner and I was wondering about the punchy robots.

I have:
4x TechPriests Dominus
6x Kataphron Destroyers
30x Vanguard
20x Rangers
3x Sydonian Dragoons
5x Sicarian Infiltrators
4x Onager Dunecrawler

So far in 8th the Infiltrators failed to impress me. I need a fighty unit that can survive vs MEQ, are any of the electropriests better than punchy robots? Ruststalkers?

The infiltrators are lacking in this ed and with the resent rule change they lost an attack which is even worst. I can't really see either the electro priests or the ruststalkers being better then the robots in melee. The ruststalkers got nerfed like the infiltrators and though the priests got a good buff it would take a good amount of them to really be effective.