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Armiger Squadrons and Sally Forth stratagem


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So, Armigers can be brought in squadrons of 3. If you do so, they are one unit until being set up within 6" of each other. Afterwards they count as 2 or 3 separate units. Sally Forth says you pick one unit during deployment, and you send that unit to outflank before they are deployed. You can only use it once per battle. But since the Armigers are still one unit (as they haven't yet been set up) it would outflank all three, correct?

t2 is not a big deal if you have another units on the board. I thought about warglaives in DS, and outflank on turn two, and if you want them you always can drop them in deployment zone. Protect form fire is nice, and there always will be "oh my he has two melta lances and two melta gun in reserve". It is nice psychological effect:).

 

BTW. I fought yesterday against warglaives and those 30" melta lance is soooo god.... 15" pick the highest, and 14"? of movement?. nice. Huge and nice distraction carnifex.

allied with running gallant is huge food for thought for your opponent:)

t2 is not a big deal if you have another units on the board. I thought about warglaives in DS, and outflank on turn two, and if you want them you always can drop them in deployment zone. Protect form fire is nice, and there always will be "oh my he has two melta lances and two melta gun in reserve". It is nice psychological effect:).

 

BTW. I fought yesterday against warglaives and those 30" melta lance is soooo god.... 15" pick the highest, and 14"? of movement?. nice. Huge and nice distraction carnifex.

allied with running gallant is huge food for thought for your opponent:)

I agree!  I tested out one Armiger warglaive yesterday alongside my AdMech and while my pilot obviously needs to practice his aim a bit more, the new melee sweep attack is a god-send.  I ran it as House Krast for the re-roll 1s in the Fight phase and it helped tremendously against a marine chapter master and 5-man marine squad.  And my Armiger even survived the game with 5 wounds left to hold an objective.

 

I ran it as House Krast for the re-roll 1s in the Fight phase and it helped tremendously against a marine chapter master and 5-man marine squad.

Krast isn't re-roll 1s. It's better than that it's re-roll all failed hits!

 

Correct!  I see I mistyped that, but I did play it correctly.  It also really helped when it started to get downgraded due to wounds, as I got more chances to hit!

I think the Sally Forth strat would be the biggest reason for me to run my Knights as Questor Imperialis to be honest. A squadron of 3 Warglaives from House Terryn outflanking like that, splitting up as soon as they hit the table, then getting an extra roll for their charges and dropping the lowest dice. Turn 2 or not, that's still pretty brutal. Plus you pop the Pack Hunters strat as well, your odds of getting all 3 Warglaives into combat just went up exponentially. 

I think the Sally Forth strat would be the biggest reason for me to run my Knights as Questor Imperialis to be honest. A squadron of 3 Warglaives from House Terryn outflanking like that, splitting up as soon as they hit the table, then getting an extra roll for their charges and dropping the lowest dice. Turn 2 or not, that's still pretty brutal. Plus you pop the Pack Hunters strat as well, your odds of getting all 3 Warglaives into combat just went up exponentially.

 

Or make them Hawkshroud so that people feel like they have to actually kill them. Having long range melta and decent crowd control that don't deterioriate in your lines will cause some stress!

I think the Sally Forth strat would be the biggest reason for me to run my Knights as Questor Imperialis to be honest.

 

This is what I enjoy the most about the updated IK codex: there are many builds possible given the few units available to IK, and while some seem overtly powerful there are subtler concepts to be had with a bit of ingenuity.  I have a feeling IK lists (especially those with a splash of Imperial Soup) are going to be changing significantly in the next few weeks.

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