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My army has 2 Librarians, 2 x 5-man squads of GK terminators, 2 x 5-man squads of interceptors, 2 NDKs and a Vindicare assassin as my baseline army, and I have an Imperial Knight Crusader and a Stormraven that I'm still in the process of painting so I haven't really used them yet.

My strategy so far has been to deep strike the terminator squads and shunt the interceptors and NDKs turn one, the amount of flamer templates, possible cleansing flame(s) and psycannon shots hopefully are enough to thin down any army so I don't get tarpitted too hard. But where do I go from there? turn 2 is usually me getting assaulted, so what's the best way to play GKs on the defensive once the enemy closes in?

Also if you GK players have any other cool strategies, I'd love to hear them! I also have no clue how to play Draigo properly or if it's even worth buying the model (I've postponed it so far because I hate finecast).

Librarian lvl 3 daemonica halberd with a unit of termies kitted out with hammer and psycannon and your weapon of choice (I prefer swords or halberd) 2 dreadknights kitted out to needs maybe maybe a second termie squad.

If playing higher points another librarian. Add in allies to taste. Tempestus, imperial knights, inquisition, skitarii, mechanicus, sisters are my favorite to see allied. Personally I do scions knights or inqistion.

The best way to play a Nemesis Strike Force is aggressively, with your models on your opponent's side of the table, in their zone, killing their dudes. You achieve this via Jump, Shunt, Gate, and Deep Strike. Draigo is your Land Raider, load him up with GKT, Gate him wherever you need that unit to be, and let that unit do their job while Draigo tanks hits for them. I prefer to augment Draigo's passengers with a Liber toting Librarian Warlord rolling on Sanctic, because the D and the Cleansing Flame are outstanding. Use your Jumpers to clear soft targets, use your Deep Strikers to Bully objectives.

SJ

So should I run a Lib in both GKT squad with Draigo attached to whichever one rolls cleansing flame (hopefully) or should I roll with one squad using Draigo and a Lib and just have the other squad go by themselves?

Our local GK player will always split up his units if he can. Splitting a unit will grant him the extra dice for the psychic phase. Try it out.

Mr ghoti wrote:
Our local GK player will always split up his units if he can. Splitting a unit will grant him the extra dice for the psychic phase. Try it out.

Do this with purifiers and your warp charge dice will add up quick!

Pretty much always take full squads and then combat squad for the game. As to the Libby, I always run mine with Draigo unless him rolls Gate, the I will run him attached to the other squad with Draigo in his own squad.

SJ

I almost always run a NSF alongside a SM CAD. Here's my general GK list:

HQ
Lib (110)

Elites
5 Purifiers w/ 2 Incinerators (135) [I put these in a droppod taken as FA from the SM CAD]

Troops
SS (110) [Not because they are good; bc they are cheap]

Hvy Support
NDK w/ Personal Tele. Greatsword, Hvy Incinerator (190)
NDK w/ Personal Tele. Greatsword, Hvy Incinerator (190)

Total: 735pts.

If you're running GK solo, this isn't the best list bc you can't DS purifiers. Gk is best as allies.

GK as allies is definitely something I'll play around with more when I expand to other armies in the future, but for now I've been mostly doing GK by themselves. Part of the reason I like the shunting/deep striking playstyle so far is that it leads to quicker games when you're up in your opponents deployment zone first turn. Maybe it's just me, but I'm not a fan of playing 3+ hour games at the hobby shop. Might just be an anxiety thing. But for my next army I'll probably go for something a bit different.