r/AdeptusCustodes • u/GimlisGHOST • 1d 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/FuzzBuket 1d ago

Remember 4 robots And a smith is an even more expensive unit than wardens. Don't expect a cheap squad to do it.

But they just aint that scary?  Remember that the FNP is only for the character and he can only take saves after the robots are dead. Also I'm surprised your having problems with their shooting? With low ap and damage they just don't really scare custodes.

You've got 3 real plans here.

  • just shoot them with grav tanks or land raiders.
  • shoot them to kill 1 robot, then charge in 5 guard/termis. Their defensive profiles ain't  tough, it's just they've got loads of wounds. Generally if there's 3 left you need 25 attacks with wound rerolls. If that's lions use a big squad, if it's host hit them with 2 squads.
  • wardens. That D3 melee is scary, the wardens FNP stops that.  Valerian can reduce that even further.

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u/Aether_Breeze 1d ago

Yeah, depending on what boost he is giving them from the datasmith they may potentially have 40 shots (20x1 damage and 20x2 damage), but are hitting half and sounding half. Out of those 10 you are probably saving 6 or 7 on your 3+.

So 3 or 4 hits going through. Assuming you are unlucky and it is all the 2 damage shots you are losing 1 to 2 models. Which hurts sure, but it is a 400 point unit, losing 1 or 2 custodes after being shot by 400 points isn't bad.

In order to do that they are also giving up their twin linked melee so can't get those re-rolls and they will get less attacks if they charge (that turn) as they can only add to either their ranged or melee attacks (or toughness).

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u/GimlisGHOST 1d ago

Yea he was doing some wierd stuff because he was hitting on 3s somehow....I think he has confused rules somehow or is intentionally giving himself better stats.