Land Raider spear lance : a solution for electropriests?

[Master Avoghai]

Hi huys!

 

I was reading the corpuscarii/electropriests entry and thought "those guys look cool and have a nice potential of attack saturation once in CC but without transport they will be dead before ever see CC... Or at least not enough"

 

I've also read that lots of players regret the Mecha cannot field Mars Land Raiders.

Indeed this could be a solution to bring safely 10 corpuscarii in contact.

 

Then I've thought "inside the SM codex there's a nice formation of 3 LR"

 

Of course this is a costly option but it answers to 2 problems

- lack of transport

-additionnal mobile fire power

 

Moreover, the other solution is to play several squads of 20 in order to hope that enough corpuscarii will reach CC.

So points wise it's not that far, and money wise too.

Finally rather than only "paying for removable models" you pay for a transport that may shoot and therefore bring an additional attack potential.

 

Could this be an alternative solution ?

[Vel'Cona]

I like the concept and I think it's a reasonable attempt to put the EPs on the table, but I have to ask what the point is when 3 squads of Skitarii boxed in Rhinos would probably accomplish more for far less points (even with the tax on the allied detachment)?

[Master Avoghai]

Well I can see various reasons

 

1st You can use this formation as count as Admech LR and keep a "pure look army"

 

2nd Your LR are more resilient

 

3rd They bring firepower while rhinos arr just "transport paper box"

 

4th They are assault vehicles

 

5th the fire power of 10 corpuscarii electro priests is equal to 10 vanguards but combined with their CC A they are far superior.

 

6th taking vanguards means orientating your list on skitarii but taking electropriests means rather orentating your list on Cult Mechanicus.

[jeffersonian000]

Mechanicus use to have access to Land Raiders, before the whole Astartes only thing. Just call them "Crawls".

 

SJ

[Trokair]

I was having similar thoughts a while back. More for the transportation of Skitarii units or protecting Destroyers until they have a clear target.

 

However at around 750p that is a large chunk out of most army lists.

 

Say the formation and a CAD could be two Dominus, 2 destroyer units and unit of Elctro-priest, all start in a LR, the dominus are with the Elctro-priest and one of the destroyer units. so you would probably end up with one of each LR as well for varying transport capacity. So each has its own role.