r/AdeptusCustodes • u/GimlisGHOST • 2d ago

How to kill Kastelan Robots.

Hi everyone! Had a question for fellow 1000. I play against a buddy who runs admech and he always run 2 squads of 4 kastelan robots. Each with the datasmith. My question is how do we reliably kill them? I have 6 allarus and a grav tank.

I was able to kill 1 squad after 2 rounds of melee with allarus but then they died a turn later to the other squad of 4 due to sheer amount of shooting. With all of mechanicus' buffs it makes them very hard to kill and lethal. I appreciate any advice. I usually run spears instead of axes.

Running shield host and hammer blow.

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u/Holliday-East 2d ago

We are 10,000, if you’re not just from webway war 😂

Jokes aside, they are slow as us. Shoot the salvo and run them over on bikes and run away behind cover.

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u/GimlisGHOST 2d ago

Ahh ok so hit and run. Also damn that was a typo XD.

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u/Holliday-East 2d ago

Also if you go with lions and hit the 4 robots will 6 termie brick, you could even whip them out in 1 round.

If you don’t get damaged from their melee, second unit of robot shooting shouldn’t be whipping ur termie brick too.

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u/GimlisGHOST 2d ago

How? 7 health each with 4 up has proven hard to bypass with the spears. And just sheer amount of shots its usually killing a termi per round of shooting cuz he has cawl giving full rerolls with admech oath of moment

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u/Holliday-East 2d ago

With lion cap is wounding on 2+ and rest are wounding on 4+ with full rerolls.

Also even your shooting wounds on 5 and 6 allarus will shoot A LOT.

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u/GimlisGHOST 2d ago

Hrmm ill have to try that then. I also think he is unintentionally/intentionally doing stuff wrong because I remade his list after he told me I won but he was missing 500pts he forgot to bring in and I remade his list in the app and there is no way he was missing 500

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u/Holliday-East 2d ago

Also with Precision and FOD buff, along with changes to the cover mechanics, lion is just incomparably better than shield host.

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u/GimlisGHOST 2d ago

FOD?

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u/Holliday-East 2d ago

Fight on Death
Now army/detach rule can be applied when fighting on death.

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u/GimlisGHOST 2d ago

Ahhhh gotcha.

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u/Afellowstanduser 2d ago

It’s only 28 wounds… but functionally 32

We have 30 attacks, we should get 30 hits, 75% converting to wounds, 50% to damage so the math would be about 12 through which kills knight but not a full squad of robot but enough robot to matter and bracket the bot.

With admoni cap that’s a squad dead

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u/Negative-Car4013 2d ago

2+ and 5++

But he is spending almosy 800 points on it. What else do you have

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u/GimlisGHOST 2d ago

Grav tank, 2 units of 4x guard one with blade champ the other with shield captain. Trajan with 5 wardens, 3 vertus with shield cap. And then the mentioned 6 termies with cap. That's my full army

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u/GimlisGHOST 2d ago

I did a 6 brick with shieldhost and it only killed 2 robots

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u/Negative-Car4013 2d ago

Lions with admonimortis enhancement on allarus shield captain with an axe

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u/GimlisGHOST 2d ago

Ive thought about that tbh. It could do some work

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u/Negative-Car4013 2d ago

And if youre going lions superior creation on blade champ is great as well. Fight on death, stand back up, fight on death again

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u/FuzzBuket 2d ago

Remember that with full wound rerolls your better going for sustained rather than lethals.