Imperial Guard artillery unit review | Astra Militarum indirect unit tactics | Warhammer 40,000 10e

[@TankCommanderWatchdog]

Love the long stream of consciousness! Very insightful to how you think as a commander and how you view units

[@GuardsmanHanan]

Many thanks Watchdog!

[@ASOIAF-Henrik]

I have only had 2 real games with medusas so far but I want to come to their "defence" a bit: First of all D6 shots suck, obviously. But its also relatively cheap, so you can take multiple, so the number of shots should even out somewhat. I copied a tournament winning list which has 3 of them, so overall you usually get a decent ammount of shots. 36 inches of range may not sound that much, but I felt like it was usually enough. I dont find myself trying to shoot the enemies home objective that often. For shooting into the midfield objectives its absolutely enough. BS of 5+ is nothing to celebrate as well but with orders and expert bombadiers (or scout sentinel) you get a 3+, which is decent. Btw since they are infantry, anyone can order them which is really cool. And then ofc the 10S, -3, 3 is just lovely. Im probably biased but my last game was against custodians and every failed save was just a deleted model, absolutely ridiculous.

[@GuardsmanHanan]

Totally fair mate. They are dirt cheap at 110 so you are getting 3 for the price of 2 Manticores with 30pt spare. As u say its probably either none of them or 3, nothing in between

[@chriscook6547]

Pointswise the basilisk is still the best value artillery piece we have for damage output.

[@Tehquall]

Top tier breakdown as usual sir!

[@GuardsmanHanan]

Much love good sir!

[@muffinman6048]

There is a guy on ebay that sells 3d printed basilisk / medusa carriges for only £25. So you could nab a battery of 3 for under the cost of a single FW one.

[@johnmossfordmacgregor973]

And the Medusa main gun is strength 12 damage 4😮

[@GuardsmanHanan]

Hmmm they are S10 damage 3 no?

[@FrostandFists]

Really great video, my man! Loved hearing your thoughts on all this artillery goodness! My 195th Cadian Fireflies never leave home without a full 3 squads of Mortar Heavy Weapons Teams! Unfortunately, it looks like I'll be benching my Manticore for a while, but I'm excited to finally be putting his brother the Basilisk into my list. Keep up the awesome work!

[@GuardsmanHanan]

Super thanks mate, real nice of you. 9 tubes will do work into pretty much any infantry targets, tasty

[@warmaster_will2982]

just a little thing you can use the reinforcement strat on the earth shaker cannon

[@nathangreig5884]

Malleus rocket launcher should be indirect but then it would make the wyvern even more redundant

[@TheTaoZun]

I am super new to 40k and have no idea about most everything. I am super interested in guard. Can you explain what people mean and how it works when people say "Just add a leader to your cadians" "just add heavy weapons to your cadians" I do not understand how that works and cant find videos explaining it

[@GuardsmanHanan]

So the concept of leaders is new to 10e. It basically means a character can join another unit. Ie a cadian Castellan can join a Cadian squad or some Kasrkins. Which units they can join is indicated on the characters data card. Usually only none character can be attached to a unit amd they may benefit from additional rules. (Ie a cadian castellan gives the attached units sustained hits) Cadians can't take heavy weapons as a weapon choice. However an infantry Sqaud can. Its two different units where an infantry squad can take a heavy Weapon Team however cadians can take 2 special weapons instead. Hopefully this helps!

[@TankCommanderWatchdog]

Love the new platoon sound off as well

[@GuardsmanHanan]

Thanks homie

[@TankCommanderWatchdog]

With custodes getting buffed, we're likely ginna see them on the table a lot more. Tgat means the stock for a basilisk is going uo as well, slow them down and hurt them with tanks, beautiful. The only thing it wouldnt work on is trajan and his swuad and similar units i think kaldor draigo ignores modifiers too.

[@GuardsmanHanan]

Agreed, they may be the new meta so dealing with choppy squads of infantry will be key and as you say slowing them down will be a key tool

[@the_vb8666]

i've run 2 preators with a lord solar giving them orders they tend to pop tanks, as for size its the same as the macharius tank or about 20cm long by 10cm wide so a fairly large profile

[@GuardsmanHanan]

Awesome, thanks dude. Do u run any other artillery of just the double Paraetors?

[@the_vb8666]

@@GuardsmanHanan in a 2k game i just run the praetors I'll throw my list below hq: lord solar 2xdeath korps marshal battle line: 3x 20man dkok other: 2x 5man squad rough riders 2x russ exterminators 3xrapier battery 3xscout sent 2x praetor and cyclops demo totalling to 1995pts

[@richardellis4583]

I got a local rtt first weekend in march and I'm taking 10 leman Russ 😂 I got two cyclops so I score some secondary 🤣 I'm hoping I table all three games and still lose 🤣

[@GuardsmanHanan]

Glory for the golden throne! (And the omnisiah too)

[@TheKarofaar]

2:21 we could say it issss Dakkademic 🕶uuuuu oh u

[@GuardsmanHanan]

Haha thats brilliant, will definitely use that in other videoes. Thank you fellow scholar

[@grimfist_one]

Got a link for the china preator?

[@GuardsmanHanan]

Sure thing: zackgame5.com/praetor-armoured-assault-launcher_p1389.html

[@hpenvy1106]

I honestly stopped playing because 10th edition feels just bad to me. My Detachment Rule punishes me for playing an active game.

[@GuardsmanHanan]

Yeah it's tough for Guard atm. This army can be very competitive however it takes very very skillful play. (Something I haven't yet mastered) as you say out detachment rule is garbage if u actually want to interact in the game

[@DiceandGlory]

FOB is great but over costed

[@joelwashere5382]

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