Anti-Tank Weapons

Equipping a Battle squad or Celestian squad or two with two meltaguns is a flexible and cheaper alternative to the quad melta Domins.

Seraphim can be deadly AT'ers when fitted out with any of Inferno Pistols, Eviscerators or Melta Bombs. Small squads work best for this as they don't need the numbers for assaults so much. The same goes for Jump Pack equipped Canonesses.

Immolators with MM aren't that effective. They have to get within 12" to be able to reliably penetrate armour, which is difficult for such a lightly armored vehicle.

Above all though the Exorcist is your AT with Sisters. I've seen battles where one has knocked out 3 or 4 enemy tanks. It is particularly deadly against medium armored vehicles because it can easily penetrate their armour (penetrates on the same roll as a Lascannon) but gets multiple hits, so has more opportunity to get a destroyed result when rolling for damage. It also has the ability to move and fire at full effect, so be sure to use this to duck in and out of cover and acquire firing lanes.

Multimeltas used to be deadly way back in 2ed days, but are now useless. They simply lack the range of lascannons, and don't even quite equal them in hitting power really. Getting a heavy weapon within 12" of a tank and then firing it is a tall order, and past 12" they aren't too hot. Meltaguns in practice work better. The old MM never turns up in Space Marine lists, not even Salamanders.

Exorcist has to be our number one AT.

I use two other options in my list as well as an Exorcist.

1./ Canoness with jump-pack, Cloak of St. Aspira and master-crafted eviscerator. S6 + 2d6 dam vs vehicle or Faith(+2 Str) for S8 + 2d6. 4x attks on the charge with a re-roll almost always gets you a hit. +2 save (faith for invulnerable) if she's left hanging in the breeze afterwards. S8 is also great for IC killing.

2./ Sera unit of 5x models with 1x flamer, 1x inferno, 2x BP's, VSS with 2xBP's and melta bomb's. Cheap unit thats very anti-tank and a great objective gatherer.

IMHO meltas in the troops iarn't worth the points. If a tank is 12" away, you're in trouble.
Doms, with meltas...they are better off with flamers.

Multi-meltas in any unit are very expensive...I'd only consider them as an Immy upgrade where you get a re-roll to hit or with retribs in a 3x HB, 1xMM config, but this is not my preffered retrib config...you got to love the 4x HB's.

My 2 cents.

Cheers
Mark:ninja:

long range AT is really the main weakness of th e SOB. But who care? We are close range fighters.

I use one or two exorcist(s) of course, but do not rely on them. although they are powerfull, with strenght 8 it can be long to shot down tanks with 13+ armor (once, fired 4 turns on a hammerhead without having it, darn antigrav!).

So my main force is AT equiped. Sisters with melta, cannoness with inferno, seraphims with infernos. Since I use my sisters as an motorized assault force, it works: as soon as my sisters are close to tanks, bye bye.

I don't like the eviscerator because my opponents tends to have antigrav and its a pain to catch them in CC. But its a personnal choise.

I liketo take an immolator with meltas sometimes too, rushing with rhinos to close range. Note that it is toasted everytime but it drives away heavy fire from my precious sisters in rhino or my exorcists.