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I know I need a proper photo setup to truly praise their glory but I was too eager to share with the community😇

So, it was my 1st try of 11th edition against Admech.

My list was:

Detachment: Banishers, Argent Assault

Disposition: Purge the Foe

Brotherhood Chaplain + Psychic Celerity (80 points)
Brotherhood Librarian + 66th Seal (115 points)
Castellan Crowe (100 points)
Grand Master + Sigil of the Hunt (105 points)
Paladin Squad (475 points)
Paladin Squad (475 points)
Paladin Squad (245 points)
Purifier Squad (280 points)
Strike Squad (120 points)

My opponent’s list was:

Detachment: Lords of The Forge, Cohort Cybernetica

Disposition: Take and Hold

Belisarius Cawl (220 points)
Cybernetica Datasmith (25 points)
Kastelan Robots (320 points)
Kataphron Breachers (320 points)
Kataphron Destroyers (210 points)
Sicarian Infiltrators (75 points)
Skitarii Rangers (85 points)
Skitarii Rangers (85 points)
Skitarii Vanguard (90 points)
Skorpius Disintegrator (160 points)
Sydonian Dragoons With Radium Jezzails (55 points)
Sydonian Dragoons With Taser Lances (60 points)
Tech-priest Enginseer (75 points)
Tech-priest Enginseer (55 points)
Tech-priest Manipulus (75 points)
Tech-priest Manipulus (90 points)

Battle review

So, first of all, I am really glad I took Purge the Foe as it was simply easier to do than my opponent’s primary. To do this better my whole army was just 5 units (3 pallies + Crowe brick + 1 strikes). And for the same purpose I chose to max out psycannons on all pf the units. Yes, I paid extra like 85 pts but they would anyway not give me any value (even solo libby is not an option for these points…)

I was going first and, perhaps, due to it I didn’t suffer too much from lack of 1st turn Gate of Infinity. Yet, I managed to almost snipe my opponent’s infiltrators (leaving 1 lonely body who lived until the end of the game😂) and do a good round of psycannons shooting at Kataphrons from my 66th Seal brick maxing out the advantage of hidden and Libby’s lone-op.

Second turn I started getting into melee… and Holy Lord we are the hammer indeed! +1 to wound from Argent Assault made attacking Scorpeus Disintegrator and Kastellan robots not a torture but quite reliable thing. Unfortunately, robots managed to survive due to lots of buffs (fnp, cancelling 1 failed save, invul and so on) so Chaplain’s unit of 5 couldn’t kill them all and was slain in the next round. Yet he tanked almost all of opponent’s shooting. I also managed to get 1 last wound left from Scorpeus Disintegrator thanks to the stratagem making opponent’s melee attacks hazardous and him failing hazardous check. That was fun!
Crowe’s brick almost annihilated Kataphrons that were left after the first round of my shooting and was left in a ruin as a bait.

Next round’s remarkable things were:

1. Using Shadow of Anarch spread out my models in 66th Seal Pallies brick which resulted in my opponent being not able to move his Kataphron Breachers out from reserves seeing my pallies so he had to move out at his home objective almost and the only viable target was Crowe’s brick.
2. Free rapid ingress for my GM’s pallies brick in opponent’s deployment near his expansion (he had to stretch his forces to try to control more objectives for his primary yet it left his rear open).
3. Kataphron breachers firing at Crowes brick resulted in only killing 4 (!) I rolled hot on saves and it was the moment when we understood how my seriously my shooting was more reliable than my opponent’s. Even with lower volume of psycannons per brick of 10 paladins I managed to trigger equal or bigger amount of saves on my opponent than he would on me while his army was much more potent in shooting. Hitting on 4+ due to cover was a nightmare for him.
4. Chaplain’s unit was killed due to a gotcha from my opponent about Kastellan Robots shooting and charging after fallback when I already used my Shadow of Anarch (I was chill, as I was ready to say goodbye to these boys when they couldn’t kill Kastellans).

Third round was the last for us because my opponent decided not to continue. It had already taken us about 4,5 hours due to long terrain setup and a lot of consulting with the rules during the game.
Yet the situation in the end of this round was:
I killed a lot of Admech valuable assets an Opponent was left with Cawl, 2 breachers, 2 techpriests and 1 skitarii unit at his home objective. A small highlight: one of Kastellan robots blew up and got last wound from his brother destroying a unit. At the same time I had 2 bricks of paladins at almost full strength + Crowes brick at 2/3 strength. I would be able to score primary (at least by killing his units) and, perhaps, even some secondaries while my opponent was mostly stuck in combat with me somewhere around his deployment and was out of options for primary scoring.

To sum up

We concluded that the game was tight in terms of lethality but Admech’s disposition was hard to execute with my opponent’s roster. I was surprised, actually, that he didn’t choose another detachment to get access to Purge the Foe but even for that case I would have too few units that he would be able to destroy🤔
I have many more matchups ahead and wish everyone to have fun in 11th edition❤️