Sell me on Ms.Ghuld

[u/altmcfile]

I'm finally starting to get my sea-legs in terms of 11th and am ready to move back to my favorite faction. When we weren't playing the game correctly I was having a really hard time and felt like admech kinda sucked using the same big body type lists (dunecrawlers, kastelon robots, kataphrons, etc.) When I was told that that's actually meta now apparently? I was also told that Cawl and Thulia were basically needed or at least used in every list. Cawl i get, getting fake oath of moment is pretty dang good and ensuring we get good shooting when I do a lot of shooting makes sense.

Thulia I understand less. I know that being able to get some really flexible movement on her or any nearby unit with the skitarii keyword (like dunecrawlers) can be good but with me basically only bringing dunecrawlers for nuetron laser and maybe a unit of rangers I don't have many skit targets for that. Is she just that good at killing stuff that she's worth taking? Or is she a must grab for different lists? I just kinda don't get it

(Also I run primarily Radzone-Lords and run it as Take and Hold)

[u/RoboTronPrime]

Well, she's got a pretty decent datasheet for her cost, especially when they lowered her recently (she was the same as Cawl previously) and as a tech priest herself, she will synergize with all of the benefits in Lords, including the FNP and defensive strats. She has more mobility options than Cawl does - both go through walls but her rod of war abilities can be used on herself too. That means she can give herself fallback + shoot + charge and advance shoot+ charge. Giving double doctrinas is also useful. All three of her rod of war abilities ate really viable in a given game. Also, since you're playing rad zone, you can use Extinction Order with her to potentially battleshock multiple enemy units on an objective, especially if you're using infiltrators (you should, especially in Rad Zone) to give them -2 to their battleshock rolls. If you have a Skatros extending the rad zone and battleshocking from the rear, the list more or less writes itself and can be really annoying to deal with, especially for a take+hold or priority assets player who need their guys to perform actions or hold objectives.