Orks, Tyranids, and GSC beware.

@Gunslinger I told him I'd take the deal

So next week I'll have a bunch of Hoplites for almost nothing cost wise

Veddy nice

They're nasty

9pts for 4+ invul and S6 -1AP

They'd be perfect candidates for Strogg Berzerkers

The Q4 ones literally had a lightning weapon they could shoot/melee you with

Yeah I was planning on getting one of those Termite Assault Drills (the 60 buck 3rd party 3D printed copies) and loading 10 of them up into it with an Enginseer and letting them loose

And the Secutarii Hoplites do have that

It's their spear

12inch range attack and then it's also a melee attack

It functions decently in both situations as far as I've been told

Yeah I'm looking at their datasheet

It stats out to S6 -1AP in both applications

Yeet

They're actually scary as fuck for hunting Dreadnoughts

Max squad size is 20 IIRC
So I'm gonna have a squad of 10 and a squad of 20

Yeah I plan on using them to bully characters/HVTs or being an anti-bully bully force

Problem is their spears are only D3 damage against vehicles but you could still bury characters in attacks

Dreads/kans/etc they get D3 damage each and laugh off the klaws/fists because they've got a 4+ Invul and only 1 Wound each

Max size is 20 yeah

9ppm is CRAZY

No Forge World perks but who tf cares

I *should* be able to follow them around with this Tech Priest Manipulus and buff the shit out of them

That might work

Sadly no

His buffs target [FORGE WORLD] keyword units

That's kinda ass-backwards then though coz IIRC all of our units have the <Forge World> tag except for Hoplites and Peltasts then

I don't have a CA2018 codex to check but in my 2017 AdMech codex it says all of our units have the <Forge World> tag it seems

Well minus Belisarius Cawl

@Gunslinger that makes me curious, why do our actual FW units not have the <Forge World> keyword tag?

Makes me of the intrigued. Secutarii are the "Titan Guard" and operate more with Questoris Knights and Titan Legions, but Legios and Houses pledge themselves to FWs and/or greater organizations

So it confuses me that they aren't allowed to follow the tag of the Forge World like other AdMech units

I think because they're titan guard

They're allied with a Forge World but don't directly benefit from their design quirks?

It's nice that they were smart enough to give them a rule that says "they don't benefit from forge world dogmas but they don't break battle forged either"

Lowkey kinda mad at GW right now

So they made a case back in '16 called the 'Ard Case. Was 135 dollars. Had that new fangled foam shit with the waves in it, and pressure seals for protecting your shit while flying.

Apparently they were a commercial failure and not supported at all, so if you got fucked up foam you can't replace it.

GW realized they can't compete with guys like battlefoam at that price level so they went back to cheap ass mid/starter level cases for under 100 bucks.