slip wrote:
Your friends are playing tournament level competition lists. If you dump all of your multi lasers and melta into your friends wraithknight every turn, it would take six turns assuming you don't lose any of them over the course of the battle. Consider replacing the Eradicator with an Executioner. The Executioner's biggest weakness is wounding itself by rolling a 1 to hit, but pask's preferred enemy ability lets you reroll those. The Eradicator could still be useful, as it's own HS slot maybe, it just doesn't have any synergy with Pask. Other good Russes to take would be the basic battle tank, which will get instakill vs all of those races, vanquisher in pask's unit to negate it's low BS, or the Exterminator in a HS slot. A Vendetta or two... or three... with their 3 TL lascannons will be immensely helpful. Hydras would be good vs the WK. I also like the psykana division alot. Stick 'em in chimeras and roll divination for awesome bonuses like rerolling misses, rending, and ignore cover which give great synergy with squads of russes. Battle tanks ignoring cover? Punishers rerolling all hits? Rending vs that WK? Yes please.

Look into the Emperor's Fist or The Steel Host Formations when you're looking to beef up to a higher point values.

 Drasius wrote:

- The eradicator can split fire with orders on Ld 9
- He's going to be struggling for points to get the executioner at 1k
- Vanilla Russes are never good
- Vendettas are too expensive for 1k, especially if people aren't running armour
- Hydras are terrible against WK, 4 shots twin linked hitting on 6's, wounding on 5's, allowing 3+ armour and 5+++ FNP it'd take you ... 146 rounds of shooting for a hydra to inflict 6 wounds on a wraithknight. If you took an unbound army of nothing but 26 hydras (the most you can fit in 1850), after 5 turns of shooting at a wraithknight with average rolls on both sides, it'd still be alive.
- Units in transports or buildings can only cast witchfires from firepoints, so no buffing anything unless you get out (at which point you're pretty much dead, because barrage and ignores LOS is a thing)

 slip wrote:

1- The point is that its just as good by itself than it is with Pask. Your point only reinforces that.
2- Yeah, those 20 points are really going to put him in the poor house.
3- Except being able to wipe any infantry in the game aside from Terminators and Cents.
4- A vendetta is basically unkillable at 1k, and which army doesn't take vehicles? Nids? It's also a starter army he's posting, he's probably going to expand it at some point!
5- Yeah, you're right here.
6- You can block LOS with the chimeras to keep them alive, that's mechanized troops 101. You also get to pick where you drop them, so if you dropped them out in the open away from any terrain, yeah, like any other AM squad they'd be toast! Barrage is actually pretty uncommon outside of AM, especially with competitive builds.

morfydd wrote:
Well done this list Looks solid and should win more often than not..As you grow it give some consideration anti air and a bubble wrap for your artillery section ..