1850 AM tourney

[jaysic]

I really need to give my other armies some love, and i want to be competitive without running a static gun line and eldar are too powerful for my tastes.

HQ
pask punisher, HB sponsors
-2x executioners with plasma sponsors

Troop
vets w/ flamer in chimera

Platoon cs, 2xflamers, chimera
2xinf squads, flamer, chimera for each

Fast

Vendetta

Heavy
demolisher
demolisher
2x Wyvern

Culexus assassin

C&C welcome

[tylertt]

A good friend of mine plays AM and runs a similar list for his competitive builds. The only difference between his and yours is basically the demolishers and he runs a few more chimeras with vets instead of the platoon. He usually rolls with two Vendettas and manticores too. With the amount of blasts already in the list, I would stay away from the flamers IMO, and maybe do plasma or Melta? Gives a nice option for taking out elite infantry and also another anti-tank option.

He also uses some primaris psylers amd rolls on divination. The +4 inv can work wonders when used on pasks unit, and getting prescience is a huge boost too.

[Kark]

The most competitive AM list is AM+Inquisition. It is rather gunline army, but I think it is worth consideration. It consists of:

-Commander Pask in punishers + 2 additional punishers all with lascannons and sponson meltaguns. Lascannons can fire when miniguns are out of range, meltaguns are extra anti AV factor.

-infantry platoons with combined squads (30+ unit) and conscripts (around 50). Infantry platoons may have autocannons.

-minstorium priests (attached to infantry) for fearless, primaris psykers for divination powers and better deny the witch rolls (also attached to infantry).

-wyverns for anti horde and harassing enemy from afar.

Inquisition:

-Coteaz or inquisitor for ld10 for better chance at issuing orders. Also additional WC dice.
-psykers for additional WC dice and powers.

Now conscripts are the key. They form a line in front of rest of the army. They are joined by ministorium priest, primaris psyker and coteaz/inquisitor. In this way they are fearless and can be buffed by divination: 4++, full ballistic overwatch and counter attack, perfect timing, prescience or their attacks can have rending. Combine that with first rank fire second rank fire and You receive tons of twinlinked shots (maybe rending, maybe ignoring cover) that can take out almost every non vehicle unit (including FMCs). Prescience can be cast on punishers too. Combined that with split fire and pask has 20 twinlinked shots with rending and preferred enemy and rest tanks have 40 twinlinked shots (with possible rending from misfortune). If Your enemy want to assault conscripts they may have foreboding, combined with prescience (reroll both to hit in shooting and CC attacks) and priest's war hymnes that can additionally reroll to wound or reroll 4++.

This list has actually won last ETC and the player (Skark) was devastating all opponents. Almost every game end by 20-0 or close.