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So since i have 9 now whats the general consensus on them?
Best tactics for them?

They look too slow

They're solid but only when they're backed up by consistent use of Whirling Onslaught to deal with the dakka in the current meta and protection via Chronomancer for the charge rerolls and the sweet, sweet 5++ save.

You more or less have to leverage terrain and move them into position to challenge central objectives, they're certainly not bad but I don't feel like they're a must-take, you have to have an army build that already supports their use.

Didn't the charge rerolls only apply to CORE units or am I misremembering?

I was thinking about running them with the dynasty that lets them fly with an auto 6 advance.
Translocation beams i think?

I think the general view is to line up to go after an objective. If you go first you can advance on to it and force people to attack them.

If you go second, and your opponent moves on to the objective then great, as you should be looking at an easy charge and they should make a mess of most things on average luck.

With 8" movement you should definitely be hitting something valuable turn 2 unless your opponent has completely abandoned the field in which case... just max out the primary and win.

I don't think they are mad overpowered take 18 and auto-win, but they are respectable for their points cost. "they die though" - sure, but again, at 35 points this isn't apocalyptic, and you should hopefully have a load of other units that are going to mess up your opponent if they focus on these.

Unfortunately 9 is a bit of an odd number - I'd go with 2 units of 5. There is potentially an argument for 6, as you get 2 reap-blades (and in terms of actual models wysiwyg it gets awkward) - but there are some nasty blast weapons out there that hurt 6 man elite units much more than hordes, so I'm not sure the full 6 is advisable.

 usernamesareannoying wrote:
I was thinking about running them with the dynasty that lets them fly with an auto 6 advance.
Translocation beams i think?

I would suggest Novokh over Nephrekh, simply because you get some useful extra AP in CC to completely ignore power armour AND you get the 1CP +1A strat that can be very clutch when you really need to guarantee a unit dead or if you're handling hordes.

 Grimskul wrote:

 usernamesareannoying wrote:
I was thinking about running them with the dynasty that lets them fly with an auto 6 advance.
Translocation beams i think?

I would suggest Novokh over Nephrekh, simply because you get some useful extra AP in CC to completely ignore power armour AND you get the 1CP +1A strat that can be very clutch when you really need to guarantee a unit dead or if you're handling hordes.

Yeah, but with Nephrekh you get to paint your guys bright shiny gold!

Plus the inherent 6++ ain’t bad.

 AduroT wrote:

 Grimskul wrote:

 usernamesareannoying wrote:
I was thinking about running them with the dynasty that lets them fly with an auto 6 advance.
Translocation beams i think?

I would suggest Novokh over Nephrekh, simply because you get some useful extra AP in CC to completely ignore power armour AND you get the 1CP +1A strat that can be very clutch when you really need to guarantee a unit dead or if you're handling hordes.

Yeah, but with Nephrekh you get to paint your guys bright shiny gold!

Plus the inherent 6++ ain’t bad.

The 6++ ain't bad on Warriors but it's limited in use for a 3+ model.

 AduroT wrote:

 Grimskul wrote:

 usernamesareannoying wrote:
I was thinking about running them with the dynasty that lets them fly with an auto 6 advance.
Translocation beams i think?

I would suggest Novokh over Nephrekh, simply because you get some useful extra AP in CC to completely ignore power armour AND you get the 1CP +1A strat that can be very clutch when you really need to guarantee a unit dead or if you're handling hordes.

Yeah, but with Nephrekh you get to paint your guys bright shiny gold!

Plus the inherent 6++ ain’t bad.

It's not bad but you're already likely to keep the Chronomancer as support behind the Skorpekh so they're likely to have a 5++ save anyways, making the 6++ save redundant.

Skorpekhs are pretty good, though depending on your meta I would suggest bringing them in groups of 5. While losing out the second reap blade sucks, it helps them dodge stuff like Plasma Inceptors which dunk on them.

Novokh is usually the best dynasty to run them in, the extra AP on the charge/charged and even more importantly the +1 to charge is pretty huge. It also has the +1 attacks stratagem which is amazing in a unit of these.

The Chronomancer has been mentioned a few times, but the 5++ from the Chronometron isn't that big of a deal. it only comes into effect at AP 3, which is not that common. It does however allow you to reroll charged, which has been the big selling point for me. The reroll charges+ 1' from Novokh has ensured that they almost always get where they need to be. Saving a CP for Whirling Onslaught is really great. Do keep in mind that Whirling Onslaught lasts the whole phase as well!

 Grimskul wrote:

 AduroT wrote:

 Grimskul wrote:

 usernamesareannoying wrote:
I was thinking about running them with the dynasty that lets them fly with an auto 6 advance.
Translocation beams i think?

I would suggest Novokh over Nephrekh, simply because you get some useful extra AP in CC to completely ignore power armour AND you get the 1CP +1A strat that can be very clutch when you really need to guarantee a unit dead or if you're handling hordes.

Yeah, but with Nephrekh you get to paint your guys bright shiny gold!

Plus the inherent 6++ ain’t bad.

It's not bad but you're already likely to keep the Chronomancer as support behind the Skorpekh so they're likely to have a 5++ save anyways, making the 6++ save redundant.

If all you care about is that one unit, sure. Or take a chronomancer per unit in your army. And again, I didn’t say it was Good, I said it Wasn’t Bad.

Destroyer and Canoptek heavy armies are probably one of the biggest beneficiaries of the Eternal Conquerors + Relentless Expansionist combo as it gives them a bit of extra movement to start getting into peoples faces while also overcoming the lack of obsec issue. Obviously Novokh is amazing on them but in my albeit limited experience with the Codex (thanks 2nd national lockdown!) that trait is more impactful on units that aren't already amazing in CC.

Well, I'd use it as a counter strike unit in the center of the battle field as they are decent in cc.
While Wraiths can step forward rather fast and take on enemy units in the enemy zone, the Skorpekh's are able to hold the center.

 wuestenfux wrote:
Well, I'd use it as a counter strike unit in the center of the battle field as they are decent in cc.
While Wraiths can step forward rather fast and take on enemy units in the enemy zone, the Skorpekh's are able to hold the center.

Then why not just take more Wraiths for that added flexibility and durability of the 4++?

Slayer-Fan123 wrote:

 wuestenfux wrote:
Well, I'd use it as a counter strike unit in the center of the battle field as they are decent in cc.
While Wraiths can step forward rather fast and take on enemy units in the enemy zone, the Skorpekh's are able to hold the center.

Then why not just take more Wraiths for that added flexibility and durability of the 4++?

It gives some variety to your army.
Wraiths are decent when it comes to stay power due to their 4++ save.
But Skorpekhs have more bang for the bucks when it comes to cc.

 Sasori wrote:
Skorpekhs are pretty good, though depending on your meta I would suggest bringing them in groups of 5. While losing out the second reap blade sucks, it helps them dodge stuff like Plasma Inceptors which dunk on them.

Novokh is usually the best dynasty to run them in, the extra AP on the charge/charged and even more importantly the +1 to charge is pretty huge. It also has the +1 attacks stratagem which is amazing in a unit of these.

The Chronomancer has been mentioned a few times, but the 5++ from the Chronometron isn't that big of a deal. it only comes into effect at AP 3, which is not that common. It does however allow you to reroll charged, which has been the big selling point for me. The reroll charges+ 1' from Novokh has ensured that they almost always get where they need to be. Saving a CP for Whirling Onslaught is really great. Do keep in mind that Whirling Onslaught lasts the whole phase as well!

Nah, best Dynasty is actually 6" pre-game movement and the Rad thing since you can at least try charging something starting from turn 1 (6"+8"+2D6" which doesn't guarantee a charge but if a unit is placed 24" away a rerollable 9"-10" charge could do that)