War Convocation - 1850

Hey AH

I'm a fellow AdMech player as well. Although, admittedly, I'm new since I've only got about 1000 pts of AdMech and I'm currently building up to a War Convocation. But, I've been doing a lot of thinking and play testing about how I want my army to go. Anyway, here are my thoughts, take them for what it's worth:

- Techpriest: Uncreator Gauntlet is too wonky. It's random effects are unreliable and more important, rules as written, it can only be used to repair friendly units (or attack enemy units) while in base to base contact and in close combat. How can you get into close combat with your own unit? You'd have to have your Imperial Knight charge in, and then charge in your Techpriest and during that battle, have your tech priest attack your Knight in order to repair him. And then there's still a risk that he will cause damage instead of healing. So, I'd say, too wonky and skip it.

- Stasis field only gives you benefit when he goes to ground. I like the Conversion field better. (I'd rather have a 4++ all the time than a 2++ only when I go to ground.)

- For the Rangers and Vanguard, Personally, I'd do the opposite. I'd take a full unit of Vanguard with 3x Plasma Calivers and then minimize the Rangers and take 2x Transauranic Arquebus. The rangers are going to be your backfield snipers, and you're not going to do a whole lot with their shooting. However the Vanguard, by the nature of their limited range, are going to be likely to be in the face of the enemy and so, since their guns are weak, but bring a LOT of weight of fire, I think you'd prefer maximizing that out as much as you can. Further, since the Vanguard are likely to be in the midfield, you have a better chance of sending them in to CC in order to support your other CC units (rust stalkers) with the -1 T that the Vanguard cause. Further, if you can get a lot of units into CC (your rust stalkers, Vanguard and say, your infiltrators) all on the same unit and in the same turn hit your Litany of the Electromancer... you could flood a whole lot of S4 auto hits. (Realistically, you could be talking 40+ auto hits). So, again, I'd maximize the Vanguard and minimize the Rangers. Also on the Vanguard, I'd give the Alpha a Radium Carbine like the rest of the unit has.

-This is just a matter of preference, but if it were me, I'd actually get rid of the 2nd IK. I'd give the Crusader an Icarus Stormcannon (for AA) and I'd give the Dune Crawler the Neutron Laser. Then with the points left over, I would increase the number of units in your Ironstriders. I'd have one Iron Strider with the Lascannon and the rest (however many you can buy) with the Autocannons. That will give you more fast moving units which is something AdMech needs, expecially for back field objective grabbing. And, the Ironstriders can assist with AA duties, since they have Cognis (firing Snapshots at BS 2 instead of BS 1) and they are twin linked. So, they would do decently enough anti-AA as well as against light vehicles and backfield units like artillery.

Lastly, you probably know this, but dont forget about the other benefits that come with the individual powers of the Skitarii Battle Maniple, which means all of your Skitarii have Scout and Crusader, and your Battle Congregation allows the reuse of one Canticle once per battle. So, there are lots of interesting ways you can stack these guys up.

Oh Definitely. I should have commented that if the primary intention with the gauntlet is offensive, then there is no wonky-ness.

It's just too bad the repair abilities of it aren't spelled out better.

Hey good news guys, this list is really good lol faced it with my DE/Eldar tonight, had 3 venoms and 6 jetbikes left after turn 2. Woof!

Highlight of the game for me - my WK d-weaponing his knight, and then immediately getting 36 grav cannon shots to the face and being deleted from existence.

"I'm surprised bringing TWO lords of war to a game turned out to be good" - this guy

Yeah this is good, you get a +1 to your dice rolls in the Godzilla phase (USR; Tagteam Folding Chair)

Well I got really lucky with the WK too - I had to have the rerolls to hit in order to hit the knight, and just happened to get lucky with a 6 on the table.

Statistically that should only happen once per game, given a 6 turn game and a hit every turn, which isn't a sure thing by any means. Its doubtful I would have been able to get the other knight on the next turn, but more importantly its not as if he just barely died from your grav guns haha it was complete and utter overkill, he ended up taking I think 6 wounds in that last round of shooting, when he only had 1 wound left. 

But thats the beauty of the War Convo, it has an answer to everything - and that answer is more often than not all but guaranteed to do what it says on the tin. Even if you lose a knight, or a unit of destroyers, or your vanguard, etc; you have enough in the list and enough redundancy to eliminate that threat utterly, upping the survival of the rest of the list exponentially.