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Personally haven't had any real issues with mine. I've used them since 8th and see them as a decent AT platform since I tend to set up for a hit roll of 2 or 3 and it's wounding on 3s with re-roll. Add in a lascannon and HK and I tend to take out or at least heavily damage the target. Generally I'm getting it into position turn 1 then it guards an objective for the rest of the game. The HB sponsons help with infantry. If your looking for pure damage output the Demolisher is the way to go. Take the vanquisher if you want a cheap(ish) AT tank for the back/mid field. Also I just like the look of mine as I have the old Stygies VIII turret so it looks like an oversized lascannon.

The core of my 10th ed Tau force is the old CP. The new one does fit into the fish of fury playstyle which the mont'ka detachment fits nicely. So the new CP is a decent one to purchase at least twice if your just starting out or even if your pivoting to the possible next step in the meta.

Ok, this is an improvement cause the sentinels will allow your basilisks to ignore the indirect penalty and if you give them Take Aim they will hit on 2s (4+ base, +1 BS from order, +1 to hit from heavy) and re-roll 1s. Outside of that the list looks good for what you want to do. Last thing would be which TC to give the enhancement to. Either the demo to work the front line or the executioner for back/mid field support. happy hunting.

Got in a game with the new dex over the weekend. Did a 1K versus Custodes with my standard tau list. 2 Strike squads, riptide, ghostkeel, stealth suit team, hammerhead (rail), skyray, Fireblade and ethreal. He had 3 bikes, 2 squads of SoS, 2 captains, 1 squad of guard and 1 2 man team of termies. It was a blood bath and he was down to one unit by turn 3. I lost 75% of my firewarriors and a stealth suit. Was using Mont'Ka and it did help. The extra wounding via Lethal meant he was rolling saves against ~half my shots, which was a lot of shots. Going to see how the Retaliation Cadre works with my old battlesuit heavy list. But need to check on some re-organization of the units first. Liking the idea of a double bombing run with the grenade pack.

Noticed this too when i saw his list. Honestly I'd drop 1 squad of cadians and their transport to add in 2 cadian castellans and a commissar for some orders. Or drop the commissar for drill commander. This gives you some order options for the infantry.

As a fan of all of these this will be an interesting read. Haven't seen Gasaraki in over a decade though. edit: As one anime inspired house to another, not a bad start. I can see the Gasaraki reference on your sleeve via the Gowan dance. Could here the chanting and drums as I read. Few things: In the intro you mention cross training with the other military elements of the IX but it is not mentioned later in the Training section. This seems to be a fleet based Knight house which is a neat idea. A little more detail on that would be great in a Homeworld section. Now 'normally' once your bonded to a throne (Questorius or higher) your stuck there as trying to bond with another throne requires the same chance if not greater chance of rejection. I'm guessing this is kind of midigated by the gene-lock but it isn't made clear. Few grammer suggestions: Should be knights I would suggest using either knight frames or hulls just to give some variety in terms. Keep up the good work, you got a nice thing started here.

Over the weekend I got my FOB for my CP force mostly done. Just a few details to add. The rocket pods are removable so I can swap it to another bomblast later down the line. I need to mag lock the bomblast though. Also started on my version of Leonatus and Nork deddog (pictured protecting commander)

Armigars are Battleline in a knight army. So yeah, your list is more then enough for a gold as you have over 3K in points there.

Might try this for my planned sisters force as it has the least done for it, or the new regiment I'm building for the guard. Depends on which I think I can get done.

I have some, one unit is CIB/MP?Sheild, the other is BC/MPx2 and I was working on a BC/MP/Shield squad. I haven't changed thier load out since I built the first two in late 8th but that's cause their not meta builds. I choose the gear (and the gear on 3 commanders) based on the mecha they were designed to emulate. For this I'm fine swapping the CIB for a PR. What I need to know is if the suits are down to 3 hard points again and if not can we still add a 3rd weapon.

Well the base suits don't have access to CIB or AFP anymore it seems. I'm holding out hope that you can add a 3rd weapon to the basic suits, but will have to wait til the codex drop later this month or WHC previewing the full datasheet.

You give Marvel too much credit, the army blob has been a thing in Hollywood large battle sequences for decades.

Welp I know what I'm adding to my list this winter. That interior is nice. Going to be a little bit of a pain to paint, but worth it.

Ok, since I finally built her. Here's my custom Lord Solar. Just need a little shifting and some glue and she sits right in the saddle. Also looking into using Fenrisian wolves for rough rider mounts.

Your welcome to try it, though the hardest part would be the wounding system as 40K and AoS are totally different in this aspect and I hate the AoS version. Same for how damage to dealt, that is a coin flip. The alternating first turn is also a coin toss as you can get what is know as a double turn. IE the one that went last in the prior turn goes first in the next round and therefor goes twice. Most tournaments drop that cause it's way too swingy. Also like the morale system for 40k better now as it doesn't just delete units like it used to do in 40k and still does in AoS.