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What the title says, I want to run a second Malcador in my Solar Auxilia army, so what main weapon should I go with?

The Malcador already in my army is equipped with a battle cannon, sponson-mounted autocannons, a hull-mounted Demolisher cannon, siege armour and a flare shield. For extra effect, I usually put a tank commander in there as well, for either Preferred Enemy (Infantry) or Tank Hunters, depending on what I'm up against.

Ideally, the second one will be identical, aside from whatever the main weapons mount will be.

The local meta is Iron Warriors with Mechanicum allies, pure Death Guard and potentially another player bringing Salamanders to the mix.

Before people say "Get an Infernus!", I already have one of those and they don't like it much around here, saying it makes me a TFG.

Definitely the battle cannon. A single lascannon shot just isn't enough firepower.

Battlecannon.
Aaand: Infernus!

 BrookM wrote:


Before people say "Get an Infernus!", I already have one of those and they don't like it much around here, saying it makes me a TFG.

You could always take the infernus without the chemical ammo....

Definitely the battle cannon. A single lascannon shot just isn't enough firepower.

I'd (probably) agree. Unless you've got a whole passel of dracosans and basilisks in the rest of your army, you can never have too many marine-killing pie plates in a heresy army. If just sticking with a general-purpose heavy tank, take the general-purpose gun.

If you want to take a lascannon barbette, then load out with all the lascannons - a tank commander Malcador with tankhunters on multiple lascannons starts to actually make sense - it's not got the firepower of an equivalent points worth of laser destroyer vindicators or rapiers, but it has got that lovely 12" per turn mobility without affecting firepower, and in a world of flare shielded heavy tanks a-go-go, getting side armour shots matters even more than in 40k.

My four regular Malcadors have: Battle cannon, Demolisher cannon, multilasers on three identically-armed vehicles and then one designed specifically for a tank commander with a twin linked lascannon, a hull lascannon, and sponson lascannons.

Looks like another battlecannon it is then.

There aren't any Basilisks in the army as of now, though I do plan on adding a complete battery of Solar pattern Medusas at some stage to really put the hate on all those marines.

As for chemical munitions in the Infernus, I usually go without, as I much prefer the ability to also hurt any light vehicles that my template may touch.

Inb4"Macharius Vanquisher, due to the fact that they are in an IA meaning SA get to use them"

But is the Option was open to you, a Macharius Vanquisher NEVER goes wrong

It is. But the problem is that it's a Lord Of War, whilst (for Imperial Army, anyway) the Malcador is a mere Heavy Support choice.

I'm not looking at the Macharius though, I'm looking at the Malcador and yeah, I can stow three of these in my army with room to spare for my Stormlord or Stormsword, which I can't do when I take the Macharius, which I don't even like.

I've got outflanking Vanquishers that do their job quite well, zankyuuuverrrymuch.