Snrub wrote:Yeah as JNA said, if you want to run only Dreadnoughts, then you can run a Fury of the Ancients Rite of War. But you won't win yourself any friends.
If you want to run a Tank heavy list you can use Armoured Spearhead Rite of War. This lets you take Predators as troops choices and Sicarans as Elites. However since they don't count the predators as compulsory troops choices, you will still need to have a minimum of two tactical/despoiler/etc squads to fill those compulsory slots. The RoW does however require them to be mounted in rhinos. So if you choose never to disembark those squads, you can pretend they're not there!
...Do they not count the Predators as compulsory Troops? The copy of the book I'm looking at says that they're "Troops choices", nothing about them being non-compulsory or gaining Support Squad?
Sky-Hunter Phalanx (jetbikes and Land Speeders in Troops) is another infantry-less generic option, Dark Angels, White Scars, and Night Lords all have a cavalry Rite allowing bikes or jetbikes in Troops, and Dark Angels also have an Armoured Spearhead variant that allows Kratoses in Elites.
Outside of
SM both Knights and Mechanicum are...actually kind of
less cheese than Fury of the Ancients; Castellax and Armigers are similar in size and capability to Contemptors, but they've only got 3+ armor, which makes them a lot easier to deal with. Solar Auxilia can get close with an Armored Fist Cohort (Leman Russes as non-compulsory Troops), but you do still need twenty mechanized infantrymen for the compulsory slots.
Though do keep in mind that skipping infantry sometimes means you skip the Line sub-type, and then you've got a hard time scoring objectives in some missions.