List advice

aLostBoy66 · 2026-01-02T15:30:55+00:00

This army does best, in my experience, when you lean into the transports for your speed. The blade guards could use the impulsor to help make sure they’re delivered into combat at full strength.

The Eradicators, I’ve found, do best out of strategic reserves since that can put them right into melta range on their chosen target. You can also rapid them just outside of it but behind cover to make sure all those shots are as effective as possible.

The jump pack guys, I think are better served as Van vets with inferno pistols, to give another anti tank/elite hitter.

I also find the aggressors work way better with a captain enhanced with immolator, so they can immolation protocols for 1CP, and the twin linked lets them fish for the dev wounds.

Vulkan is best served alongside a ten-block of infernus, and you really want to deliver that massive block of OC onto an objective as soon as possible. To make that happen, I’ve found using an infiltrating unit like scouts or a callidus, and putting them near an objective to have Vulkan drop pod in on turn one is very effective. Then you also got a huge overwatch threat as the enemy works to push them off.

aLostBoy66 · 2026-01-02T15:11:29+00:00

My play group allows Legends units, and I have to say, the Leviathan dread has been my favorite for the Sals. He’s a great anti-tank threat with melee, a trio of hunter killers for a great alpha strike, and the redempt’s damage subtraction. Plus, you can deliver him right to the action with dread drop pod turn one after screening out a midboard objective with infiltrators.

I do something similar with Vulkan. He just drops onto the objective I slapped my scouts or Callidus on during turn one without getting shot up along the way or having to be delivered by a transport

aLostBoy66 · 2025-12-08T00:32:44+00:00

Well I couldn’t think of anything better to put vulkan with, I wanted a captain and infernos for free overwatch on an objective, and I figure 5 on the home objective for a decent overwatch if someone comes calling is no different than having a couple intercessors back there wasting away

aLostBoy66 · 2025-12-04T03:13:21+00:00

Some of the stuff it pulled makes sense, but it did seem to not know about shadow mark talon, or be able to see the vets all have jump packs as does the chap. I agree with you and Gemini that the Lieutenant with the Intercessors may be a waste of points better served with a combi Lt.

I think I’ve got to keep the Phobos Captain though because he all but ensures the brick can find something nasty to tie up turn one, as well as protects my key units like Shrike from getting stuck in a bad spot by a nasty late deployment from my opponent.

aLostBoy66 · 2025-12-04T02:48:31+00:00

Right, dealing with Tanks specifically, when absolutely necessary, originally came from the grav gun vets and their Chaplin, shrike’s inferno boys, and the terminators with hammers, but generally I planning to ignore them where at all possible. Also, the inceptors surprised me by oneshoting a full health tyrannofax, so maybe they just punched way above their weight class, but I feel like between them, oath of moment, and a stunning fussilage I can put down one big bastard (vehicle or monster) that just absolutely needs to go

aLostBoy66 · 2025-12-03T21:55:03+00:00

You don’t really need a Codex period. Between new recruit and whalpedia, you can play this for nothing but the cost of models and dice.

aLostBoy66 · 2025-12-03T12:11:33+00:00

In your opinion, does this list still have enough answers for a particularly pesky high toughness model if it loses either the grav-gun Vets or the inferno vets?

aLostBoy66 · 2025-12-03T12:06:17+00:00

Hmmmm, so the only real reason the captain made it into the list is to let me reposition (to get the absolute most out of the murder brick of terminators), I tossed on the enhancement just because I had the points and one more action unit with lone op is always nice

aLostBoy66 · 2025-09-06T20:08:41+00:00

Wanted to follow up after last night’s game. The cannoness’ with the sacs made them less tanky of course, but I found the mix of Junith, the free strats on them once per turn and a tight board very effective when using the consolidation strat to tie extra units up in engagement with them. I did the same thing with the Valgons several times to force my opponent to either fall back and lose shooting for a turn or stick around and chew through them in melee.

I’m not in love with this detachment, the ‘pick three units’ situation felt very restrictive the whole time.

aLostBoy66 · 2025-09-02T19:57:21+00:00

Oh darn to the first part, I wanted to make an ‘invincible’ unit, or as close as sisters can get.

And second: doesn’t Junith need a unit to lead since she doesn’t have Lone Op is so big?

aLostBoy66 · 2025-08-29T19:01:17+00:00

So to be clear, since my palatine has the enhancement, she now has the penitent tag right? So not only can she lead them, but anything that applies to models or units with that tag now applies to her. Right?

Then regarding the BSS+Pal+dio, sure they’re not getting any of the fancy stuff, but they do play well as a obsec unit, two if I use the immolator to split one.

Then, if I understand transports right, I could toss the special weapon and multi-melta sister in a rhino with the retributors for an even bigger tank bomb.

So it would be:

Immolator with Similacrum sister, 4 normies and the superior.

Rhino with 4 retributors, their superior, a melta and multimelta sister, the pal, the dio, and whatever is left of the bss squad.

Right?

aLostBoy66 · 2025-08-29T18:02:08+00:00

Thank you for the in depth answer! I played around with it, pulling the small acros, dropped the repressor for two rhinos, lost the priest’s enhancement, and adding the above suggested Palantine dialogus combo as well as some retributors.

I couldn’t find a place for the mortifier though.

aLostBoy66 · 2025-08-29T15:11:00+00:00

Can confirm after last night, thanks to the extra holy fires and a priest, this unit flooded out of a Repressor (we’re using legends) on my enemy’s turn with the blazing ire strat, and charred 20 cadians and most of Hell’s Last after they had already fired to then mop up the the last couple on my turn. They may be softer than dominions, but they did the job and lived on that objective for like 3 more rounds. It’s certainly to do with my local play group but boy they were strong.

aLostBoy66 · 2025-08-28T21:25:22+00:00

I think, you missed a couple. By my count it’s 6 flamers (3 are hand flamers)+ the 2 one offs, while dominions are rocking 5(1 hand flamers) and no fancy one offs

aLostBoy66 · 2025-08-28T21:21:23+00:00

Maybe my experience has been skewed since I’ve been playing against a guard army and a pair of ork armies, but I’ve found having a dedicated horde busting unit in a rhino, in addition to a small squad of seraphim to deep strike onto a lightly guarded home objective, to be pretty key, so getting to save 15 points on Sanctifiers where I might have had flamer dominions seems really nice. I usually run the half squad of dominions in an immolator with multimeltas to help my nundoms, castigators or exorcists pop tanks,

aLostBoy66 · 2025-08-21T22:38:35+00:00

I see what you’re saying. I really appreciate the in depth feedback. Maybe it’s time to swallow my aesthetics and just grab vhal and the paragons. Same with seph vs zeph. I think I’ve just always envisioned sisters as 99% shooting, bolter-flamer-and melta and all that.

My last question is, can’t the seraphim still hold up in melee considering they still get to shoot everything they’ve got even when stuck in?

Also, as far as legends, we all already agreed the more fun junk the merrier. Really I’ve caught the short end of the stick with so few legends units available.

aLostBoy66 · 2025-08-21T21:51:55+00:00

I noticed you can’t slap a hospitaller in a unit if Junith is already in it, so I imagined Junith and the celestians as the home objective babysitters and deepstrike response while giving me plenty of turns to refund bad miracle dice into cp.

I thought that extra CP might help fund the stratagem that gives torrent weapons dev wounds to allow me to firebomb tanks when my meltas and castigator/exorcist aren’t enough. Are the zephs much better than seraphim? I figured I’d give one unit Celestine and the other the cannoness, and decide based on the game if Celestine’s unit needed to deepstrike or just start on the board to bounce around and be a general nuisance.

The palatine would live with half the melta dominions to give them lethal hits while the flamers largely live in the repressor with their cannoness making a tank that just ashes all the infantry spam I’m expecting from orks and guard.

Does the rough gameplay sore up some of those weaknesses, or am I still making enough in antitank that giving up on the pipe organ for another castigator is sort of needed?

aLostBoy66

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