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Specifically the Hydra? It's mostly because I have one, rather than I need it, but it seems like an okay use of points in a friendly game and could earn its keep against jump troops or weak flyers, and maybe against light ground vehicles with the right aura buffs. Anyone used any fixed artillery platforms or any version of the Hydra to good effect?

Somewhat related: I've used Earthshaker batteries in power level lists. Mostly because it is so very undercosted at 3PL.

Imho, hydras are decent if they have flyers to shoot at, if they do not, they are a bit underwhelming.

I do think the model is awesome though!

 MacPhail wrote:
Specifically the Hydra? It's mostly because I have one, rather than I need it, but it seems like an okay use of points in a friendly game and could earn its keep against jump troops or weak flyers, and maybe against light ground vehicles with the right aura buffs. Anyone used any fixed artillery platforms or any version of the Hydra to good effect?

Don't put your faith in the personal experiences of one or two people, look at tournament statistics and where that fails, do the math and try to get some personal experience. Tank Commanders are used, often even outside of just filling out HQ choices. Tank Commanders are much more versatile but I'd wager the Hydra Battery is actually better when it comes to units with Fly, it hitting on 5s against non-FLY units is pretty bad and it's terrible against Knights compared to a battle cannon. Exactly how much worse depends on your playgroup, but just taking 1 isn't going to make your army much better or worse, I'd reckon that any Astra Militarum that won a tournament could still win that tournament after finding 75 pts for one of these.