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Seeing as the Alpha Legion can steal enemy unique units (very useful) obviously some will be more worth it than others. With Mutable tactics this could make for some very interesting units. Which units are the best to steal in your opinion? I'm thinking infiltrating pyroclasts....

Personally speaking, pyroclasts really aren't great, and I run salamanders.

If you want high impact units, grab fire drakes or tyrant terminators.
These will give you solid units.

counter-attack grave wardens. Take away their charge bonuses, gain your own, ON TOP of being the same price as p. fist terminators AND getting the ability to overwatch (as cataphractii) with a single Poison 3+ flamer

Depends what you need in your army, i would always be a fan of taking imperial fist templars iron warrior tyrants or iron warrior havocs.

The best to Steal?
A 5 Man Squad of Iron Circle...
Or 20 Grave Wardens Infiltrating in a Spartan Assault Tank

commander dante wrote:
The best to Steal?
A 5 Man Squad of Iron Circle...
Or 20 Grave Wardens Infiltrating in a Spartan Assault Tank

grave wardens are Terminators, you could only put 10 or so in a tank. Also, them being in the tank would kinda ruin the fun of their guns Go the route that would complement your army the best. Play against world eaters/raven guard? Go grave warden and take their charge bonuses away. Play lots of low strength shooting? Go IC and have an unkillable ball on the field.

 Brennonjw wrote:

commander dante wrote:
The best to Steal?
A 5 Man Squad of Iron Circle...
Or 20 Grave Wardens Infiltrating in a Spartan Assault Tank

grave wardens are Terminators, you could only put 10 or so in a tank. Also, them being in the tank would kinda ruin the fun of their guns Go the route that would complement your army the best. Play against world eaters/raven guard? Go grave warden and take their charge bonuses away. Play lots of low strength shooting? Go IC and have an unkillable ball on the field.

The Spartan is only there to take fire for a turn before i roll it up, disembark, fire my Grenades and then charge (as it is an Assault vehicle)

commander dante wrote:

 Brennonjw wrote:

commander dante wrote:
The best to Steal?
A 5 Man Squad of Iron Circle...
Or 20 Grave Wardens Infiltrating in a Spartan Assault Tank

grave wardens are Terminators, you could only put 10 or so in a tank. Also, them being in the tank would kinda ruin the fun of their guns Go the route that would complement your army the best. Play against world eaters/raven guard? Go grave warden and take their charge bonuses away. Play lots of low strength shooting? Go IC and have an unkillable ball on the field.

The Spartan is only there to take fire for a turn before i roll it up, disembark, fire my Grenades and then charge (as it is an Assault vehicle)

stop that. if you're charging with your grave wardens you're being silly.

They FORCE disorganized charges AND can overwatch with a single poison 3+ heavy flamer (despite being in cataphractii). Charging with them misses the point of them entirely (factoring out that grave warden cost the same as a normal termi squad) you would be better off stealing a World eater unit if you wanted to charge things. These guys are there to ruin the days of anyone who is dumb enough to charge them, more-so with counter attack run something like 5 of them in a dreadclaw (or walk them up, they are durrable enough to make it most of the time) as a Spartan is kinda wasted on them (since you WANT them to get charged).

Listen to Brennonjw with that advice as spartans are awesome but for a lot of units they just dont provide any benefit at all. I would add that to Iron Tyrants, its a unit of up to ten guys in cata plate with 20 Krak missiles and either 10 or 20 twin linked bolter shots per turn and the sergeant has split fire any time you spend not shooting is a waste especially since if they can hit the side armour that unit turns a spartan into an expensive flaming wreck.