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I'm planning out an infantry-heavy infiltrating list which should hold its own in a close-range firefight but I don't have much that'll work against tanks. It's a low-points army (1250) so I'm considering getting a contemptor with chainfist and CCW for tankbusting and then sticking it in a dreadclaw. But that runs me ~300 points, and I'm not sure if it'll be reliable enough to get in on enemy tanks, and since it can only kill a max of 1 tank/turn startign turn 2 I'm not sure if it's enough oomph either. Anyone have experience with contemptors in drop pods? Would I be better served with multiple boxnaughts, or possible a couple of vindicator laser destroyers or a Sicaran?

Everything’s different at 1250; at those points levels I see Centurion style games (no tanks - the rules are probably on the Eye of Horus Podcast’s Facebook page) more often than unrestricted lists. In Centurion, a Contemptor (and I’d use this one as a Cortus) on foot is fine.

Against unrestricted but small lists, I think I’d rather have two cheaper Dreadnoughts with mixed arms (at least one shooty weapon each). Having just one unit with an AV value causes it to take a lot of fire.

I run two melee Contemptors at 2,500 in Alpha Legion (in that context they Infiltrate themselves rather than coming out of a drop pod), I find once they get to melee range they'll credibly remove a unit a turn (not perfectly, they don't do well against daemons or Terminators, but they'll wreck most anything else).

Can they Infiltrate? They don’t have Legiones Astartes (Alpha Legion).

Carlisimo wrote:
Can they Infiltrate? They don’t have Legiones Astartes (Alpha Legion).

Unless they gain the ability to do so from something else (ex: Warlord Trait), they can't use it from Mutable Tactics.