Editing Warhammer 40,000/Tactics/Mechanicum (30k) (section)

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*'''Mechanicum [[Land Raider]]:''' The "Build Your Land Raider" construction kit™. Starting at 195 points you pay for a basic Land Raider chassis, which being Mechanicum comes stock with Blessed Autosimulacra, Anbaric Claw and placeholder weapons (2 Lascannons and a Heavy Bolter, none of them twin linked). Then you can choose any of the dozens of options to kit it out. You can make any and all type of pre- and post-heresy LR's, except Terminus Ultra, Ares or Achilles, and even some homebrew patterns that [[Heresy|don't exist on any sacred blueprints]] (you filthy Heretek). Yes, even [[Awesome|Crusader and Redeemers]]. Sadly, your own troops, being Jet Pack units don't really need transports, and become capped to only 5 models (thus only 1 special weapon), and your allies can't use them. Adding insult to injury, you can't bring standalone Land Raiders like freaking Thagmata can, but ''only take them as DTs''. Better make up for the lost firepower by fielding the very best Land Raiders, like no others ever were.
**You seriously have a broad range of options, though being limited in capacity you'll gravitate to make your Land Raider as tough as possible - 5 thallax can't really use assault launchers (not even Ferrox), and the Explorator Augury Web takes away yet another precious transport slot. Instead, take Armoured Ceramite and Flare shield base, and maybe Extra armour if you feel like it: A neat tactic with the Land Raider is to use it as a mobile wall for Thallax, pop out, shoot, then use your assault move to dash behind it again and grab popcorn as you watch your enemy try to deal with what effectively is AV15/AV16. As for your weapons, you'll need to decide what kind of enemies you want to target and how specialized or tactical you want your Land Raider to be (e.g. Multi-melta + Flamestorm able to tackle both Fortifications and their Marine garrisons). You can't take pintle weapons, that's heresy too.
***Against ''light infantry blobs'' you can not only upgrade your Heavy bolter to twin-linked, but instead buy a Volkite Culverin (Heavy 4|S6|''Deflagrate''). Too bad it's not twin-linked. Phased plasma fusils and Graviton cannons, being TL+AP3/AP4+Dangerous-terrain they will also deliver. As for sponsons, you can mount [[Land_Raider#Crusader_Pattern|Quad-Heavy Bolters]] or [[Land_Raider#Redeemer_Pattern|Flamestorm cannons]] ''absolutely free'', the former being a little better for being twin-linked, having more range and being able to fire them even at Cruising speed - 12 TL shots having to hit something. This means you'll either park it and shoot or dash it forward and burn stuff, Armored Ceramite making it fear nothing.
***Against heavy infantry, namely ''Marines'', the best weapons are the TL Phased plasma fusil and Flamestorm cannon, all those being AP3 and wounding on 2+. Vs ''Terminators'', grab the Plasma cannons and don't move any faster than Combat speed. None of your hull weapons shoots enough AP2 to be a menace, so aim at something else.
***Against ''armored targets'' your hull weapon will be either the tried-and-true Lascannon (long range S9), versatile Graviton cannon (Haywire + Dangerous terrain) or fort-killer Multi-melta (forts can't get Armoured Ceramite). As for sponsons, it's either TL Lascannons or TL Multi-meltas, both hideously expensive at 40 pts. That's too much for upgrading to TL, and Multi-meltas are much cheaper on Thallax, so you might as well just keep your normal Lascannons and have a very tough tank killer.
**Caleb can bring one as a DT, so make it resilient AND tactical. This is the one where you'll be installing that Exploratory Augury Web, rerolling your reserves or screwing the enemy's, while also gaining Scout. And if you roll Master of Mechanisms, that's [[Troll|3 separate chances of regaining an HP]]. Not to mention he can grant Master of Destruction to any of its weapons. So you can Scout 12", Cruise Speed another 12" and fire a Tank Hunter|Sunder|Wrecker Multimelta. This doesn't mean you should ride all the way into the enemy deployment zone in turn one (which you totally can), but that you can probably fire a [[Just_as_planned|Multimelta at half range on something of value]], maybe a fort, while being able to tank the fire [[DISTRACTION_CARNIFEX|you're going to recieve]].