IG Combo 3: Manticores and Psyker Battle Squads

When you are looking at IG, what is it they have lots of that everybody else doesn't?

Why yes, it's called Barrage weapons.

As the Manticore gets D3 blasts at S10 Ap4 (and cover can be negated) it can be used to not only knock out enemy tanks (it's ordnance, so it rolls 2 dice and takes the highest), but any enemy infantry nearby can also be zapped.

Against say Marines or Terminators though, so what? Lots of things wound Marines on 2+, but don't get past their armor save.

So hit them with weaken resolve, then plaster them with Manticore fire.

2 of each should do it, letting you pin specific units that are a threat to you--and also letting you run a different elite (cough Rambo) and another heavy (goodness...anything really).

Put your Psykers in Chimeras in the middle of the board (so they can zap most infantry) and put the 2 Manticores in the corners. Don't forget to give them heavy flamers! lol

Anyway, the great thing about this combo is--if you place your Psykers out of range of Librarians (and you can due to your range) they can't stop you from weakening their resolve.

If they aren't out of their transport, you can at least zap the crap out of them with the shooting attack (from the Psykers).

So you don't lose anything, it's just a neat little combo.

Why the Manticore instead of say a battery of basilisks?

Look at the Manticore review and you'll know. ;)