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Hello all! I just came into a few units of admech. Cawl, one dune crawler and 20 rangers. I love the model's and advice where to go from here? What are some must have units in a competitive sense?

I'm thinking of doing gunline are close combat units even worth it?

Most ad mech lists run

Cawl
Shooty robots (the 1920's looking ones)


Thats all you need. Wrath of mars with cawl and a full squad of max robots can take anything down. And thats just with mortal wounds...

I would definetely get some Robots, fistellans are especially fun to use

If you are looking into Electro Priests, I would recommend getting Kairic Acolytes and do some conversion. Otherwise they cost a ridiculous amounts.

Other than that start collecting box is good value.

IF you run the Stygies VIII forgeworld, CC units can be used well.

Thinking Fulgrite priests, infiltrators (Goads) and Dragoons, priests in particular can be devastating if you can get them "in" and if you have a reasonable size unit and they get a kill they become very hardy after that.
when CC units are used with a solid backfield gun line, Shooty Robots (Not fisty) and maybe a crawler, it can work well.

Since the points drops people are now using breachers and destroyers to good effect too. It's become a pretty solid list, I believe.

Rangers with the sniper rifle are another good troop. HQs will tend to be Cawl and maybe one of the new manipulatus guys (or whatever they are called). Or just cheap tech priests to save points.

I'm actually in a similar place. I've got 40 skitarii, Cawl, a couple of dominus and a dunecrawler, all on sprues. I won most of that stuff but Cawl comes from the triumvirate box and I (probably foolishly) bought the admech/necron box for the warglaives. I occasionally think about making an army but I'm not sure I'd enjoy it really. The things I don't have are Kataphrons and robots, and those are what I think I'd mostly want to field.