botobeno wrote:I was thinking it's melee capacities were a downside but seems like the armored walker can indeed be used to lock down enemy squads you dont want to have running around or firing. They can run in the shooting phase so the scout walker could hold squads that are very poor in melee in my first turn (for example imperial guard heavvy weapon squads). But only if i go first, if the enemy goes first it problably wont survive till my movement phase. And the enemy will most likely deploy weak units like with some protection near them. The armoured walker has a much better chance of survival, good for getting into the melee and tieing them up longer. The armoured walker seems like the better choice but also costs more, certainly with a weapon improvement.

The Vendetta seems like the best fast attack choice with it's twinlinked lascannons, but it can only move 6" if it wants to fire everything. The armoured walker is about half the cost and is the only thing i can field with AV12 against melee, even the Leman Russ has at best AV11 against melee. With the extra armour that's standard on both the vendetta and the armoured sentinel the only bonus you get from squadrons is already on the units. The squadron rules dont really seem to make sense from a fluff point of view, certainly with IG being able to make squadrons of ordnance artillery that isnt going to move much.

I think i'll give armoured sentinels with the intent to tie them up in melee a try. Mostly because when a hellhound or vendetta blows up, it's 130+ points that i lose. The armoured sentinel without upgrades is the same price as the chimera. It fits better in my 'field lots of individually cheap units' general strategy.

For elites, i'm thinking of using chims with psyker battle squads (165 points, but the psykers have a good chance of surviving the chim being destroyed) which seems to be the best elite choice if there isnt too much anti-psyker going on. If everyone i happen to play against fields anti-psyker stuff, i'll problably change to storm troopers in chims. They're worse in terms of points-firepower ratio compared to veterans but they got BS4 and can have scout so it's still better then an infantry platoon.

For heavvy support i'm thinking medusa's with bastion breacher shell. In terms of damage of it's main gun it can compete with most of the leman russes variants and it gives me a way to reliable deal with enemy heavvy amour without having to rely on my melta's getting close. Besides Leman Russes it's the only heavvy support i see that doesnt lose much firepower when it moves.