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So, When Skitarii first came out I wanted to build a AdMech army but I never got anywhere with it, I got 2 of their walker tanks, And 1 box of Vanguard/Rangers, One tank is assembled, 1 is partly assembled and the Vanguard I have built 4 guys.. Now, I still want to make a AdMech army, But it seems like the rumored combined codex for the two wont hapen so I might aswell continue now. So I wonder, What are the good parts of the two codexes? What bits are best avoided from them? I wanna build up a fun army to play against my friends (Chaos Marines, Chaos Daemons, Ultramarines, Necrons, Imperial Guard, Orks) preferably with close matches.

Squad of three dragoons with taser lances are devastating, had amazing success running it. Moves 9" plus and extra 3" on run and charges and the taser rule means your hit numbers are massive. They are surprisingly durable too with the 5+ cover save.

Squads of devestators with grav weapons are amazing in the ad mech side. Durable and with 6 shots no matter if you've moved it deals with so much.

Want to be competitive run the war convocation. It's fun!

I dont realy care much about playing competetive, Or running formations, So I wont worry about the War Convocation. I'm looking forwards to trying to run AdMech though! So far I only own the Skitarii codex so I gotta get Cult Mechanicus too.

Honestly when I read through the rules for the skitariii I NE er really saw anything that jumped out as bad. The Walker tanks have an awesome long range tank weapon and get harder to kill the more you put in a unit as well as a great anti air mode. The infantry work well as vanguard with the plasma or arc weapons, although the rangers have a place (a couple of the huge sniper rifles in a minimum strength squad would be good at picking off light vehicles and babysitting an objective.) The infiltrators are nasty in close combat, and I've been told the walkers even have a place, but the kit is far too expensive for me to ever consider one.

The big problem is it's not a full codex. You have no HQ, no transport, etc. And since you can't share allied transports, it's hard to move your 10 man squads up, forcing you to use an ally to project power. It's especially annoying since the starter boxes come with a dominus, who you can't even use in that army.

 MrMoustaffa wrote:


The big problem is it's not a full codex. You have no HQ, no transport, etc. And since you can't share allied transports, it's hard to move your 10 man squads up, forcing you to use an ally to project power. It's especially annoying since the starter boxes come with a dominus, who you can't even use in that army.

There are two books though, Cult Mech has an HQ, unkillable MC units and awesome devistator troops.

The suck units are the varieties of Electro Priests. Both are terrible.
The walker tanks are not great, although they look great and can be versitle.
The breachers are also not great, you would almost always want the grav cannons instead.

So when it comes down to it, you want tons of vanguard, tesla dragoons, the HQ, the gravcannon destroyers, and the MC unit.

 Exergy wrote:
The suck units are the varieties of Electro Priests. Both are terrible.

I keep seeing people say this, and I'm just curious as to what makes them so bad. I really like the models, though, and the Corpuscarii look like they could put out a ton of damage (I was thinking about fielding a full unit with a Dominus w/ the artifact that adds d6 attacks). Is it a durability issue? Lack of transports?

There's not much wrong with the Skitarii codex. Even Rangers are pretty cool for what they're worth.