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True. I remember being in an apocalypse mega battle (All the other team members kinda bowed down to me when I unloaded all of my models) I deep struck my monolith right next to a building that was an objective, then proceeded to unload a twenty-count unit that was also in reserves into it. I slaughtered everything inside. Of course, then the guy marched his thousand sons inside and killed off my whole unit in a round of shooting.

AP3 bolters FTL.

Generally I follow the good old phalanx strategy, by keeping my units tightly knit together so the res orb keeps them strong as well as being close to their units. However, with the recent additions of tomb spyders I have a little more room to get fancy, and fancy I shall get. I plan on continuing to increase my ranks until I have the strength of a whole tomb world at my disposal. twisted

Oh yeah. On top of that rapid fire weapons dominate CoD games, so gauss flayers ftw. Another great thing to do is phase jump with monoliths. If you're playing an assault army like Khorne. They charge your lines only for your unit to get warped out of close combat and they get ripped apart by massed fire from your ENTIRE army. I've done that so many times. The look on their faces amuses me after we have the standard argument that I can't warp out of combat while the codex clearly says i can.

I'll have to double check my codex to see whether or not that rule applies to the entire army or just the models on the table, but I'm inclined to consider the latter. Also, for monoliths, the Living Metal special rule is probably the best part about it. Only thing that gets an extra d6 to penetrate is ordinance blasts and monstrous creatures.

Well Oryn in truth, not all armies sport lascannons as they are so damn static, and depend on melta guns or similair weapons to do tank popping, which is where a monolith is truly scary.

Anyway, just to point out; Monsterous creautures do not get an additional d6 armor penetration on living metal, atleast, the codex says so.

Well, a missle launcher needs a 6 to glance which is kind of bad. Most MEQ melee armies come across bring either a dev / havoc squad with 1-3 lascannons, some obliterators or even a pred, other then that they sport power / chain fists, melta bombs and krak grenades and meltas / plasmas;

Sure, you have lascannons available, but more than 1 unit usually doesnt sync with a CC force, if such an army is made to face all commers, putting down that second heavy support squad will make necrons easier and all other armies harder. Dont missunderstand me, Im not calling the monolith "OP" or anything, just that armies made to face allcommers dont always bring lascannons en masse.

Most marine (loyal and chaos) I face have infantry based lascannons somewhere, and occasionally missile launchers. I actually see more of them than meltaguns (for whatever reason a lot of people seem to like plasma guns). Not so much IG and inquisition armies though. But even with them I dont see to many meltaguns. And chainfists i see even rarer, Ive maybe seen chainfists played twice since Ive been in the hobby.

Most people I meet seem to rely on heavy weapons and/or CC like monstrous creatures or P fists. Me personally I like meltas, but thats me.

Interesting scenario I found with destroyers...

if you have a single destroyer and a single heavy destroyer, and both are within range of a rhino and a land raider. it is actually better to have the heavy D take out the rhino and leave the normal destroyer to take on the land raider. This is because the two weapons have similar penetration likelihood against the raider, (Gauss weapons rule and AP roll propability) but the normal destroyer has three shots, incresing the likelyhood of destruction.

Eh.... well, it's true the Regular D has a greater chance to affect the target, but I'm pretty sure the Heavy D retains a greater chance to destroy.

I'm pull a little Mathhammer here as I try and figure it.

D vs. AV14:
3 shots x BS4 = 2 hits
2 hits x .16 (6's) = ~33% chance of affecting AV 14
.33 x .16 (chance to destroy) = 0.0528 or 5.28% chance of a single D destroying an AV14 vehicle with one round of shooting.

Heavy D vs. AV14
1 shot x BS4 = .666
.666 hits x .333(glance/pen) = ~22% chance to affect AV14
Figure this as 11% chance to glance, 11% for pen.
.11 glances x .16 = .0176 to destroy by glancing
.11 pens x .5 = .055 to destroy by penning
.55 + .0176 = .0726 or a 7.26% chance of a single Heavy D destroying an AV14 vehicle with one round of shooting.

So yeah, If all you need is for the Land Raider to not shoot, or maybe it's badly damaged and you just need one more Weapon Destroyed, Immobilized or Vehicle Destroyed result, then yes, shoot the regular D at it. But if you need that LR dead, the Heavy D has a better chance to kill it.