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So i'm an ad mech player and after the GW faq becomes official I can't take Droppods in my army anymore. So my question becomes what it good to take in this list instead of drop pods? WAR CONVOCATION
SKITARII
+5 Vanguard –
-Omnispex (Alpha)
-Plasma Caliver x2
-Power Mace (Alpha)
-Conversion Field (Alpha)
-Digital Weapons (Alpha)
-Pater Radium

+5 Rangers –
-Transuranic aquebus x2
-Omnispex (Alpha)
-Conversion Field (Alpha)
-Digital Weapons (Alpha)
-Arkhan’s Divinator (Alpha)
-Power Mace (Alpha)

+5 Ruststalkers –
-Conversion Field (Princeps)
-Digital Weapons (Princeps)
-prehensile Data spike (Princeps)
-The Omniscient Mask (Princeps) (Zealot)

+5 Infiltratrors –
-Infoslave skull
-Conversion Field (Princeps)
-Digital Weapons (Princeps)
-Elder Scroll of Nikola(Princeps)
+1 Ballistarii –
-Twin linked Cognis Lascannon

+1 Dunecrawler
-Icarus Array
-Cognis Manipulator
-Mindscanner Probe
-Cognis Heavy stubber

Cult Mechanicus
+1 Tech-Priest Dominus –
-Eradication Ray
-Phosphur Serpenta
-Stasis Field
-Digital Weapons
-Infoslave skull
-The Scryerskull Perspicatus

+3 Kataphron Destroyers
-Cognis Flamers x3
-grav-cannon x3
+3 Kataphron Destroyers
-Cognis Flamers x3
-grav-cannon x3

Imperial Knight
+1 Knight Warden
-Storm Spear rocket Pod
-Carapace Melta gun

Imperial Assassin
+1 Culexus Assassin

Total 1560


Now I play 1850 games and I'm looking for what to take for around 290 pts that can fill the void now left by not being able to take drop pods. Anyone have any good ideas? I need somthing to claim/contest objectives late in games or deep strike with good weapons to do precision damage to dangerous threats. What's good for 290 pts?

The electo priests with beat sticks and an allied gk Libby. Psychic fun, good save, and can dish lots of hurt, getting a 3++ once they kill something.

A walking wall of Erad Beamer Dunecrawlers is the only thing that comes to mind, exclusively 40k. I feel there needs to be a wall of armour with the Convocation, which is why I take a couple Triaros from my Taghmata.

An Inquisitor with 3 Servo Skulls to stop Infiltrators and Deep Strikers? Fill out the remaing points with more Kataphrons.

Seriously fit in Kastelans if you can. They are so good and take a tremendous amount of fire to bring down.

 thekerrick wrote:
Seriously fit in Kastelans if you can. They are so good and take a tremendous amount of fire to bring down.

Not to mention a stormsurge actually has a chance to kill itself, by having all its rockets reflect off the Kastelan.
A slim chance, but a chance none-the-less.

Looks like you could really do with some Breachers, though. Some reliable anti-tank, that won't take up your Destroyers and their anti MC capabilities.

Not sure if it was counted in the points already, but your list doesn't include the required robo-chickens (dragoons or ballistarii).

Fhionnuisce wrote:
Not sure if it was counted in the points already, but your list doesn't include the required robo-chickens (dragoons or ballistarii).

It's there under the infiltrators look again


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 Buddingsquaw wrote:

 thekerrick wrote:
Seriously fit in Kastelans if you can. They are so good and take a tremendous amount of fire to bring down.

Not to mention a stormsurge actually has a chance to kill itself, by having all its rockets reflect off the Kastelan.
A slim chance, but a chance none-the-less.

Looks like you could really do with some Breachers, though. Some reliable anti-tank, that won't take up your Destroyers and their anti MC capabilities.

I really feel like I need something with infiltrate or deep strike or outflank to grab objectives late in game or alpha on something dangerous. Leaning towards a 10th company formation with telion or Deepstriking Tempests, with meltaguns.