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So my FLGS is doing a campaign soon, Imperium vs Chaos vs Xenos. Because there's a large difference in Imperium and Chaos numbers we've houseruled that I'll play Admec on the Chaos side, with all instances of the Imperium keyword replaced by Chaos.

Now this unlocks a whole different variety of allied units and tactics, are there any particular strategies or allies I could take now I've got access to Chaos? I'm thinking Mortarion somewhere, or maybe Daemons.

Unfortunately no, chaos has nothing that benefits the chaos keyword. Most psychic powers are for heretic astartes key word or demon keyword. So no true synergy beyond straight up units. Having said That typhus behind a huge pox walker unit will allow your admdch to blast most things off the board

Admech doesn't have a lot of good melee units (and what it has are not cheap).

One thing I wonder about is trying to coordinate a charge with a few Skitaari vanguard (just enough so be confident at least one will make it in) plus some fighty daemons (bloodletters, or even daemonettes). The -1T inflicted by the vanguard might actually be useful for something in that case (and if you could add in the Nurgle psychic power that drains ANOTHER T point from the target unit you are getting MEQ down to T2 and snapping them like twigs...)

This is theory though. I play daemons and want to collect AdMech at a time in the future when I have both time and money...

Mark.

<edit> a potential problem with this idea:- you can generally deliver daemons to where they need to be. The same cannot be said for the Vanguard...

You could use cultists to form a screen, Imperium lists use Guards instead to protect the Kastellan Robots and Onagers, do the same with cultists.