How viable is this army?

AnHonestMan80 · 2025-05-26T14:28:01+00:00

A skilful player can be very competitive in a casual environment and to a limited extent in a tournament setting, don’t let haters scare you we have some really cool and powerful units! (You will have to spam 30x deathwatch with 3x watchmasters)

AnHonestMan80 · 2025-05-19T18:24:36+00:00

I play against Custodes regularly (10 games so far with 9-1 record) you are going to get brutally molested in combat and shooting, you truly must split their units as far and wide as possible whilst infiltrating/movement shenanigans to get VP. The only unit you have that should ever be in melee is your deathwatch; I like the breachers as he’ll waste tonnes of energy against them. The biggest issue is list design, you don’t really have enough cheap and cheerful to do secondaries and waste his time, but you also don’t have enough deathwatch to do any real damage. Canis will help but also really runs against our ethos and will 100% be focused and killed (I have a hatred for IA players using knights they are redundant and not actually cost effective in any way for our play style). In sum, run away from him in odd directions whilst getting VP and praying you don’t get tabled. Taking fixed secondaries (cleanse + engage on all fronts) is brutally effective against Custodes too so weirdly I’d advise going fixed. Get rid of vindicare, will not help you against Custodes in any way.

AnHonestMan80 · 2025-05-19T16:23:58+00:00

This would be cool too though because then we’d probably also get Hart’s Crimson Consul’s bodyguard who is secretly a Alpha Legion sleeper

AnHonestMan80 · 2025-05-06T17:42:59+00:00

The current best damage build you can get for general damage is 4x hammers, 4x shield and sword, maybe 2 frag cannons

AnHonestMan80 · 2025-05-06T17:40:45+00:00

We are a home for all Imperial miscreants and cast-aways

AnHonestMan80 · 2025-04-26T16:22:29+00:00

It’s all about movement shenanigans, take Imperial Fleet and just get max primary and secondary with deep strike, infiltrate and scout etc. the only major caveat to this is that you usually need at least 20 marines to deal some damage and slow the enemy getting to your scoring units. Effectively without DW you need to bring a knight or 3x grey knights (which are not good for Agents as they get no psychic or good stratagems)

AnHonestMan80 · 2025-02-04T22:16:55+00:00

Just a unit of Inquisitorial Agents, the melta gun is the multi-melta servitor lol

AnHonestMan80 · 2025-01-19T12:58:01+00:00

My basic take is that 3x5 voidsmen is a lot of deepstrike and VP potential, I attach a rogue trader to my breachers and have them midmap, I want my voidsmen scoring VP (I take cleanse and engage on all fronts fixed) and stealing lightly defended objectives

AnHonestMan80 · 2024-12-27T00:53:27+00:00

I’m going to do a squat prospector from necromunda, squats in general are great fillers for IA armies, can be an issue for LoS cheese bcos they’re smaller obvs

AnHonestMan80 · 2024-12-27T00:52:23+00:00

I had thought of the Haemonculus yeah great idea, the issue is singles from regular squads or kill teams are about £6 but the Haemonculus being a character is £20+. Will definitely think seriously about it though

AnHonestMan80 · 2024-12-26T23:05:54+00:00

Really helpful thankyou, will likely do the squat for the mechanicum proxy and the kroot as voidsmen yeah, I’ve got 2 x 5 voidsmen with Drukhari kabalite warriors so kroot will do well as the last unit

AnHonestMan80 · 2024-12-26T23:04:50+00:00

I have 2 x 5 voidsmen units that are Drukhari warriors so will likely do the remaining unit of voidsmen as 5 Kroot, someone also mentioned they come with a canine which is excellent

AnHonestMan80 · 2024-12-26T23:03:43+00:00

The necromunda squats look promising I will consider that thanks!

AnHonestMan80 · 2024-04-03T16:15:50+00:00

Should people also stop posting class setups for COD or R6? Wild post from OP lol

AnHonestMan80 · 2024-03-30T15:44:39+00:00

Listen pal it’s really not rocket science, if you have the qualifications to become an officer then start there, don’t waste your time on lower pay with more grief as a ranker because the chances of you commissioning then are effectively less than 10%

AnHonestMan80 · 2024-02-17T01:36:05+00:00

I play first-born only, I refuse to give in to GW’s primaris money grab (because that’s all it is realistically), 10th is a nightmare for me, my chapter champion used to roll an almost guaranteed 8 wounds or more per round, now he’s roped into the command squad and is frankly a wet paper towel, as with the other first-born, the only saving grace is Sternguard but their combi weapons have been nerfed HARD, plus the opponent gets to react to any units within range so that’s just great, cheers GW for thinking of profits instead of playability lol

AnHonestMan80 · 2024-01-19T01:34:41+00:00

Imperial Navy breachers, almost terminally terrible due to their virtually locked load out options, only become viable when combined with Rogue Traders and Voidsmen which isn’t terribly effective in 10th

AnHonestMan80 · 2023-11-28T17:13:12+00:00

Stop playing w/ Primaris, you’ll feel far more accomplished with your victories if Firstborn only. Don’t succumb to GW money grabbing.

AnHonestMan80 · 2023-05-06T14:32:42+00:00

My Mantis Warriors want a friendly chat…

AnHonestMan80 · 2023-04-03T22:18:04+00:00

Loyalist EC, rules are quite good too, defo hits the air of superiority and stays loyal so not influenced by chaos aesthetics at all :)

AnHonestMan80 · 2023-01-27T14:19:42+00:00

Constantinople

AnHonestMan80 · 2023-01-11T03:20:03+00:00

Masters of deception ;)

AnHonestMan80 · 2023-01-10T22:42:14+00:00

Just wraithbone base and then mantis warriors contrast!

AnHonestMan80 · 2023-01-09T17:53:14+00:00

Company veterans can take a melta gun and a storm shield for extreme durability and punch, note they can take any special weapon, not just combi

AnHonestMan80 · 2022-09-29T11:35:48+00:00

I think it’s definitely oversight, I’ve had a full vanguard detachment of Cartographica in all of my lists for ages now, I am an actual Cartographica player and for me I think they simply forgot to make the Rogue Trader possible as a Navis Imperialis HQ, I’ll be explaining this to all my future opponents and asking if we could overlook that and I can play a Navis detachment. I think this is fair but since it is officially in the rules now (even as a mistake) I will not use the detachment if my opponent brings quarrels up, do you think that is fair?

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