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Hey y'all,

I'm splitting the Forgebane box w my buddy and would like Admech players input on what to add to it.

Kinda thinking the start collecting box, a pack of Castellan robots, either fulgerite or corpuscarii priests, and maybe some kataphron destroyers.

thoughts and ideas?

thanks

A Start Collecting Skitarii and a Knight-Warden.

I'm honestly not joking about the Knight. The point of the two Knight Armigers is that they're supposed to allow for you to field a Superheavy Detachment(3x Superheavies) and get the +3 Command Points for doing so.

I'd recommend Skitarii Rangers/Vanguard, Kastellan Robots, Sydonian Dragoons and Onager Dunecrawlers above anything else. A couple+ of Start Collecting! boxes will cover the Dunecrawlers and Skitarii infantry but will give you excess Tech-Priests, the Dunecrawlers can fill the role of long range anti-vehicle while the infantry provide your screen and some anti-infantry. The Kastellan Robots are great anti-everything but particularly so with Cawl in a Mars detachment, if you aren't going with Mars then they're less essential and can be replaced with Kataphron Destroyers - this is most true if you're thinking of going Ryza because of the pretty powerful stratagem that improves their plasma culverins quite significantly. Sydonian Dragoons add to your vehicle saturation and can keep up with your Knights and also double up as a screening unit - they're even better at this if you choose Stygies VIII because of the infiltrate strategem.

I'm planning on doing Metallica, just for the metalhead in me.

the knight is unfortunately a little ways out but fosho on the list. Just wanted to be able to get playing. My Salamanders are in a good place so I'm looking to branch out to the machine god.

The Robots look sooo cool and I've already worked out a color scheme in my head for the army.

I had thought about doing Cawl w mars. I just wish the forgeworld stuff(archmagos, ursarax, castellax, & domitars)was legit in 40k. I guess I'll have to wait for it.

thanks for the input.

 Kanluwen wrote:
A Start Collecting Skitarii and a Knight-Warden.

I'm honestly not joking about the Knight. The point of the two Knight Armigers is that they're supposed to allow for you to field a Superheavy Detachment(3x Superheavies) and get the +3 Command Points for doing so.

Yep. GW laying the foundations for what is hopefully a Knight Codex in the near future.

The only AdMech specific stuff in the box is the skitarii unit and the dominus, so you wamt to start an AdMech army the same way as everyone else, with two Start Collecting boxes.

Admech Start collecting box get two along with the new forge box. This will give you 3 TPD (you'll only need two but I often run three), you'll have 30 skitari/rangers. Build 10 rangers with 3 snipers, build 20 skitarri with 3 plasma and 3 haywire and two sergeants with arc mauls and arc pistols (KEEP YOUR SPURES!). Build your two dunecrawlers, DO NOT GLUE ON the guns. They push fit and you'll often want to swap them out. With your Onagers, you'll have a sizable and decent'y flexable Admech force.

Things to consider: Imperial Knight. Nuff said, fully, looks cool and they are designed to work alongside admech.

2 squads of Breachers or Destroyers, based on what you want them to be. Arc weapons on the breachers and Grav on the destroyers.

One more dunecrawler. Heavily consider getting a third start collecting box as its only like $15 more than the dunecrawler alone. Keep the models or sell them.

Robots are cool and fun. Get at least one squad.

 Tsol wrote:
Admech Start collecting box get two along with the new forge box. This will give you 3 TPD (you'll only need two but I often run three), you'll have 30 skitari/rangers. Build 10 rangers with 3 snipers, build 20 skitarri with 3 plasma and 3 haywire and two sergeants with arc mauls and arc pistols (KEEP YOUR SPURES!). Build your two dunecrawlers, DO NOT GLUE ON the guns. They push fit and you'll often want to swap them out. With your Onagers, you'll have a sizable and decent'y flexable Admech force.

When I get around to finally starting my Admech, this is exactly what I'd be doing.

I've been looking at the forgeworld Cerastus Archeron knight altho £185 would get me a Knight Errant and a SC box.

I might pick up a couple more Armigers (ebay) and maybe 2 total SC boxes.

I just really like robots and the design of the Castellans. Really looking forward to a different playstyle. Giant automatons are basically my favorite (Big O, Gundam, Macross, etc).