Land Raider Excelsior Ideas

[theJoeMan]

Hi All,

 

Been creeping the forum for a while, but this is my first post (once I have a couple more painted Templars I'll make a post for my crusade). Anyway, I recently went to Warhammer World in Nottingham and purchased the exclusive Primaris Rhino/Land Raider Excelsior box and am wondering if you guys have any good ideas of how to fit them into a list.

 

I can see the LRE working well as an assault vehicle with TH/SS termies since it give re-rolls to 1's, but only having 10 transport capacity makes it hard to fit in the characters that I feel are needed for CC support. I guess keeping it in the backfield with some extra long range support and a Castellan could work too.

 

I'm very interested to hear other ideas

 

 

[Ciler]

The LRE seems to me like a terrible assault vehicle, actually. Sure its multi-melta and grav-cannon are rather short range weaponry, but it's main and most expensive armament (the twin lascanons) are medium/long range and you can't afford to have it's 400 pts disabled by a random CC unit. Furthermore, its aura favours shooting units and it's 5++ will help with shrugging away long-range high damage hits.

 

To transport only 10 models, i'd just as well take a rhino.