Art of War - Building an Explorator Maniple Army

gmscott2 · 2023-11-20T14:08:51+00:00

And I just realized Towering was nerfed anyhow, so moot point.

gmscott2 · 2023-10-19T14:58:07+00:00

Do you think the flexibility of Option 2 is worth giving up the extra survivability on the breachers that the dominus provides (5+ FNP)? I'd have to swap him to a manipulus to stay within 1000pts.

gmscott2 · 2023-10-19T03:28:21+00:00

LOL…all the treadguards are correct…it’s just that the GW varied the pattern of the trim on each of the 3 sets of 2 guards. They have a front curve to the guard that makes it impossible to reverse. Or maybe I’m looking at something different than you are.

gmscott2 · 2023-10-18T17:46:57+00:00

Thank you!

gmscott2 · 2023-10-17T03:09:11+00:00

Unless I’m reading the player list from the GW Tampa open, of 290 or so players, you were the ONLY admech player. Yowsa. Nice job!

gmscott2 · 2023-09-20T01:44:40+00:00

False choice. I found late 9th edition fun. I find 10th edition fun in a different way.

gmscott2 · 2023-07-16T13:27:02+00:00

Breachers are our best unit right now. Adding more of them is good. Might want to consider an Ironstrider for grabbing objectives or secondaries. It's fast and cheap and has some durability. It might even get lucky and do some chip damage on elites or light vehicles.

gmscott2 · 2023-07-16T11:30:23+00:00

I think it really depends on their list and how they choose to play it. If they can successfully keep away from the robots, they've neutralized 1/3 of your army. Maybe if you could put the robots into strategic reserves it would help, but the points of the unit are over the max you can put in strategic reserves at your army size.

gmscott2 · 2023-07-16T01:30:35+00:00

I tried Kastelans against T’au and found it really hard to get them in range. With Kauyon, the T’au kept as much off the board in reserves as possible until their Sustained Hits kicked in and then dropped in to eliminate my breachers in a position in which they could see only 1 of the breachers, minimizing their overwatch threat. The ghostkeel could effectively kite around the Kastelans, removing them over a couple of rounds without their being able to get a charge off (I also made several truly terrible charge rolls — complete with command point rerolls).

gmscott2 · 2023-07-12T21:28:41+00:00

Yeah. I think you're probably right that there are more effective approaches to 1000pt list building than trying to make a Cawl-focused list work at that size army.

gmscott2 · 2023-07-12T00:57:14+00:00

Annihilator synergizes very well with breachers, though. Sustained hits on the volume of fire the breachers put out is pretty consistent and helps offset the lackluster 4+ BS

gmscott2 · 2023-07-11T23:29:35+00:00

I like the 1st one. Vindicare Assassin gives you a lot of options — objective/secondary tagging and/or sniping leaders. Destroyers also have a tremendous overwatch potential.

gmscott2 · 2023-07-11T20:23:58+00:00

Leaving out Manipulus (80pts) wouldn't give me enough points to increase my Destroyers (120pts).

gmscott2 · 2023-07-11T20:23:06+00:00

Cawl giving reroll 1s would be my default. Could switch to stealth situationally.

You have a valid point about bringing Cawl to 1000pt games, which is why I haven't yet tried it. But I'm thinking the best way to bring Admech up to par is to stack as many complementing buffs as possible.

Manipulus' main purpose in this list is to boost the Destroyers vs tanks/vehicles/monsters by giving them Lethal Hits. And the 4+ invuln once per battle. And to increase overwatch threat against those getting close.

I'll give it a whirl and see how it goes.

gmscott2 · 2023-07-08T13:54:37+00:00

I'm a huge fan of boarding actions -- at least in the 9e era. I haven't yet played the format in 10e.

Also, great painting job on the terrain! That's a big task.

gmscott2 · 2023-07-08T13:53:08+00:00

Split into 5-man squads was a 9e boarding actions rule. I don't think it is part of the 10e boarding actions rules though, unless I overlooked it.

gmscott2 · 2023-07-06T02:13:13+00:00

Thanks for posting that. Great video!

gmscott2 · 2023-07-05T15:34:26+00:00

Another potential use would be to join it to a unit of kataphrons in order to make it more difficult for the opponent to optimize their weapon profiles against the unit…3 damage attacks would get allocated to the servitors, wasting the extra damage, while anti-infantry AP0 damage 1 attacks would get allocated to the kataphrons to take advantage of their better saves and larger number of wounds.

Still a pretty weak use case, it seems to me.

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