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Something I am playing around with:

Tribune with gauntlet, shield, digital lasers, cyber familiar (270)
Haeterone Guard x 4: Vexilla, 1 x gauntlet, 2 x paragon blade (335)
Coronus Grav-Carrier (160)

6-man Custodian Guard Squad (33)

5-man Sentinal Guard Squads (2 x gauntlet, 3 x warblade) (330

4-man Sentinal Guard Squads (2 x gauntlet, 2 x warblade) (270)

3 x Pallas Grav-attack speeders (255)

Caladius Grav Tank (220)

Galatus-class contemptor (250)

Mechanicum allies:

Magos Dominus with conversion beamer (90)

Thanatar siege automata (290)

3 x Thallax (1 x phase plasma fusil, 2 x lighting gun) (160)

Total 2960

The extra 40 points will be spent on arae-shrikes, maybe teleport transponders or to convert some guardian spears to the pytherite version.

The thallax give me a 24" anti-infiltrator bubble and the arae shrikes mess with deep strikers. Thanatar gives me a nice template weapon that minimizes cover saves while the magos can beam stuff from afar.

Tribune and haeteron squad rides in Coronus and engages enemy HQ. Calidius and Pallas seeks out and destroy enemy armor/dreadnaughts. Focus on large strength templates first. squads and dread play mid-field with guardian squad hanging a bit further back to support tribune or defend objectives as appropriate.

The only thing i think could change is the conversion beamer on the magos dominus - try a photon thruster instead.

Blinding things can be pretty handy and is waaay more likely to hit - i have had a couple of epic conversion beamer shots over the years but ive had more epic shots with the photon thruster in a much shorter period of time.

I'll look at the rules for that. Thanks for the suggestion.

Are the haetaron guard a troops choice?

Elites I thin, if I sentinel guard aren't troops, I can split my 6 guardians into 2 x 3-man units.

UPDATE: Sentinal Guard are troops, so I have 3 Troops and 1 Elite