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so ive been banding different ideas around for dealing with tanks in my army such vanquisher command squad with pask and lasscannon, all hull mounted lass cannon on my russ's, sentinel squad with lass cannons or auto cannons, vet squads with 3 meltaguns... not looked into devil dogs and will stear clear of blob squads and heavy weapon teams.
What are your most successful antitank unit and suggestions?

I've enjoyed using melta vets in either a chimera or Valkyrie. Drive up by enemy tank and melta it to death. Vendetta's are also great for stripping hull points off. 3 twin linked lascannons is pretty good, even with BS3. Haven't tried out sentinels with lascannons yet, but it could work. I would avoid Devil Dogs though, BS3 with a small blast means that it'll be missing most of the time.

 War Kitten wrote:
I've enjoyed using melta vets in either a chimera or Valkyrie. Drive up by enemy tank and melta it to death. Vendetta's are also great for stripping hull points off. 3 twin linked lascannons is pretty good, even with BS3. Haven't tried out sentinels with lascannons yet, but it could work. I would avoid Devil Dogs though, BS3 with a small blast means that it'll be missing most of the time.

Thanks, was going to put vets in turox' for the auto cannon, and 2 or 3 meltas?

 stonned_astartes wrote:
so ive been banding different ideas around for dealing with tanks in my army such vanquisher command squad with pask and lasscannon, all hull mounted lass cannon on my russ's, sentinel squad with lass cannons or auto cannons, vet squads with 3 meltaguns... not looked into devil dogs and will stear clear of blob squads and heavy weapon teams.
What are your most successful antitank unit and suggestions?

There are those that would argue that a Pask Punisher is overall statistically more likely to glance/mission kill vehicles. I generally don't face anything that's not av12-ish so I never run into many problems, but I like to have a Punisher around for AV10/11 as the sheer number of shots can generally do what the Vanquisher can't even with better BS and a higher strength weapon.

Also, Melta Vets, Melta Scions, and Vendetta's are decent options - as are ordered lascannon teams, if to a lesser extent.

 Frankenberry wrote:
There are those that would argue that a Pask Punisher is overall statistically more likely to glance/mission kill vehicles. I generally don't face anything that's not av12-ish so I never run into many problems, but I like to have a Punisher around for AV10/11 as the sheer number of shots can generally do what the Vanquisher can't even with better BS and a higher strength weapon.

Also, Melta Vets, Melta Scions, and Vendetta's are decent options - as are ordered lascannon teams, if to a lesser extent.

A punisher with pask would also have rending, that would decimate light armour, with some melta vets/scions for the heavy stuff.
only issue with the vendetta is the transport capacity?

5 man scion squads with 2 meltas in a vendetta is a decent option. Fly over a vehicle and suicide melta it.

 stonned_astartes wrote:

 Frankenberry wrote:
There are those that would argue that a Pask Punisher is overall statistically more likely to glance/mission kill vehicles. I generally don't face anything that's not av12-ish so I never run into many problems, but I like to have a Punisher around for AV10/11 as the sheer number of shots can generally do what the Vanquisher can't even with better BS and a higher strength weapon.

Also, Melta Vets, Melta Scions, and Vendetta's are decent options - as are ordered lascannon teams, if to a lesser extent.

A punisher with pask would also have rending, that would decimate light armour, with some melta vets/scions for the heavy stuff.
only issue with the vendetta is the transport capacity?

Pask in a punisher destroys all armor, even av13 and 14

War Kitten wrote:5 man scion squads with 2 meltas in a vendetta is a decent option. Fly over a vehicle and suicide melta it.

Haha! Get 'em! seems pricey though at 250pts
a Valkyrie with full scion squad fully upgraded with lasscannon and melta is only a bit dearer...

CrownAxe wrote:

 stonned_astartes wrote:

 Frankenberry wrote:
There are those that would argue that a Pask Punisher is overall statistically more likely to glance/mission kill vehicles. I generally don't face anything that's not av12-ish so I never run into many problems, but I like to have a Punisher around for AV10/11 as the sheer number of shots can generally do what the Vanquisher can't even with better BS and a higher strength weapon.

Also, Melta Vets, Melta Scions, and Vendetta's are decent options - as are ordered lascannon teams, if to a lesser extent.

A punisher with pask would also have rending, that would decimate light armour, with some melta vets/scions for the heavy stuff.
only issue with the vendetta is the transport capacity?

Pask in a punisher destroys all armor, even av13 and 14

Sold! cheers

Leman Russ Conqueror with Multi Melta Sponsons

Command Squad with 4 meltaguns, and Primaris Psyker in a allied Droppod. BS 4 Ignores cover Str 8+2d6 Ar Pen. with Rerolls. Astropath for killing infantry nearby.