Against Astra Militarum

[chillingworth]

Up against an Astra Tank army in my next battle. Anyone have anything in mind for a list? It's a lot of toughness to deal with.

[piersonsmuppet]

A Jorm Psyker list w/ Synaptic Ganglia is a pretty good answer to high T/Sv shooting armies.

[trashcan01]

Well, if you are playing with Armor of Contempt you are in for a tough time. I had 2 games against mechanised AM and won both of them, but we didn't play AoC.

Frontline vehicles got killed off by Smites. Backliners got taken down by Heavy Venom cannons (Carnifex) and Shardgullet. Even Warriors shooting from Venom cannons can help.
Mechanised Astra Militarum is a tougher cookie with their Tank Aces (5+++) and Psychic powers (transHit/transTank). If they include Techpriest they can heal their vehicles and grant them 5++.

But they still die like the old guard and are also very much alpha strike army. Deploy defensively. My advice is to trade T1 and T2. T3 you should see their firepower drop off and you start being more agressive then. T4 and T5 is just cleanup and scoring.