<![CDATA[Latest posts for the thread "[1500]

<![CDATA[Latest posts for the thread "[1500] - Adeptus Mechanicus"]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/14.page JForum - http://www.jforum.net [1500] - Adeptus Mechanicus 40k, thought I'd try my hand at making a solid all around army.

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I'm very open to suggestions on improvement, I know my army is low mobility and susceptible to CC and deep strikes, but very shooty and could probably handle most targets well. I feel like I could probably replace a Dunecrawler with a Sicarian Infiltrator squad to at least mitigate my lack of CC or at least provide some screening for my Kastelan Robots and Dunecrawlers. Or maybe a pair of Sydonian Dragoons? I've also considered Fulgurite Electro-Priests and while I feel like they're great when they can get in melee range, I feel like they're too slow and will most likely get shot up before they can do much. Any advice on tactics is appreciated!]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/733087/9497972.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/733087/9497972.page GMT Re:[1500] - Adeptus Mechanicus
If you insist on going shooty remember lascannon ironstriders are rather good value for points, I usually rock two instead of a third dunecrawler.

Final suggestion is the lovely models that are....electro-priests. Excellent meat shield if your opponent knows what they are capable of, they just cant ignore them! Plus if you get into combat intercepting the deep striking units you have a high chance of dishing out those lovely mortal wounds and obtaning yourself a 3++ save!

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I've heard mixed things about infiltrators and how they got nerfed from 7th, but it seems like with the role they play they're still valuable even if they don't do it quite as well as they used to. Also while I've heard nothing but good things about the electro priests, how is everyone's experience with them? Do they usually do enough before dying to justify their spot? Same question for the infiltrators and dragoons/ironstriders.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/733087/9498812.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/733087/9498812.page GMT Re:[1500] - Adeptus Mechanicus
With your dunecrawlers if you field 2 take one with a neutron and one with an icarrus array. The sheer amount of shots it puts out plus the amount of units it hits on twos these days makes it almost an auto take. (remember jump infantry have the fly keyword!) Its also much more likely to be hurting Necron vehicles as they are less likely to prevent your 2 damage instead of D6 with quantum shielding. With the addition of hitting on +2!! Yay!!

Electro priests are awesome, but need to be used cleverly. Though they can be a distraction carnifex at times! As ad mech this is a good thing because your artillery (robots and crawlers) are your main workhorses'.

As for the ironstriders, both flavours have been very usefull to me. Remember lascannon balistarii, although squishy compared to a dunecrawler, actually put out more shots overall. (2 lascannon shots each compared to D3). They are also faster which again is unique in an admech army. Plus to ice the cake, much cheaper! Dragoons have saved me on more than one occasion also, putting a stop to horde armies advance giving you much needed time to aimyour dakka and turn them into mince meat! PEW PEW! ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/733087/9501201.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/733087/9501201.page GMT Re:[1500] - Adeptus Mechanicus Also what would be best against space marines? Around here they're fairly popular and I'm expecting twin assault cannon razorback spam, double twin autocannon venerable dreadnoughts, and stormravens/other scary space marine flyers, not to mention the possibility of terminators deep striking into my backline or even them dropping wulfen on my head if they play space wolves. Best recommendations against those?]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/733087/9501285.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/733087/9501285.page GMT Re:[1500] - Adeptus Mechanicus
Its a difficult one to be sure, but your vanguard should be able to protect your artillery for a turn or so, remember to get your spacing bang on to cover as much of your line as possible while denying any spaces behind you for that 9' termie teleport. You can more or less guess what they will aim for, so use this to make them arrive where you want them so your mini vanguard squads can slow them up.

May the Omnissiah bless your big guns with good dice roles!

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Essentially I traded one kastelan robot and a dunecrawler for a lascannon ironstrider and two dragoons. I can have the ironstrider take potshots and harass any vehicle or important targets from range and the dragoons can tie up ranged units in combat and provide screening for my artillery. Might even take out some models in the process, all while having the mobility and board presence for objective based games. I'll lose some shootiness compared to my first list, but at least my backline will be more survivable and I won't lose too much in the AV department. I'll even get an extra command point for the trouble for going outrider instead of patrol!]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/733087/9501557.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/733087/9501557.page GMT Re:[1500] - Adeptus Mechanicus ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/733087/9501571.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/733087/9501571.page GMT Re:[1500] - Adeptus Mechanicus ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/733087/9521174.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/733087/9521174.page GMT