What are our anti-Flyer options?

[Battybattybats]

So, my Mechanicum with Knight force met a Helldrake for the first time the other day, and luckily it showed up late in the game as it took off five of my Knight's hullpoints in one turn and set half my Thallax squads on fire.

So that has me thinking I need some anti-air.
So what are our anti-air options?

I could grab an Aegis defence line with it's quad-gun and sit a backfield objective camper unit with it (usually that's Unit 0, my Thallax with Photon Thruster squad).

I could take another unit as compulsory troops (if i Take a Magos with Macrotek i can take my Techpriest Auxilia as troops) and take the Icarian upgrade for a Thallax unit giving them skyfire.

What else are our anti-air options and what do people think of them?

[Kilofix]

Are you using a 30K list?

 

The 30K Lightning thats available for Ad Mech is incredible.

 

Otherwise, Thallax with Icarian or the Firestorm Redoubt.

 

If not 30K which list are you using for Ad Mech?

[MindOfMetal]

If you take a Macrotek then you can take 2 fortifications.

[Battybattybats]

I'm using the Heresy book 3 extermination Taghmata Omnissiah list playing against 40k lists.

I've been thinking of getting some fortifications, but don't want to rely on them all the time as they don't make narrative sense in battles where i'm the attacker.

[MindOfMetal]

Then you could go for the lightning primaris.

 

Or some helios missile batteries as they seem easier to deploy than fortifications.

[Pascalnz]

how on earth did you lose 5 hull points in one turn, it can at most do 5 to be fair, but that is with rolling a 6 then a 6 then a 5+for the vector and then another 6 in the shooting phase

[Kilofix]

But also, Vector Strike is only 1 (ONE) hit in 7th Ed against ground Units.

 

It is NOT D6 anymore against ground Units.

[Battybattybats]

He was indeed lucky and we were playing 6th.

Also it might have been 4 from the helldrake and one from another unit, i'm not sure i may be misremembering it as all being from the helldrake.

[jeffersonian000]

A duel Mega Bolter Wargound can pump out 30 S6 AP3 shots each turn, of which 5 will hit a flyer, dealing up to 4 wounds or 2 hull points on average. A complete waste of points, sure, but no one will be worried about your Knights while that thing is pumping lead at the skies.

 

SJ