>>96333500
The Ashen Boys are competing with Phosphex which can do the routing job more effectively from a far greater range.
>but you need a siege breaker for that.
You need a character to bring ashen boys too, 1 siege breaker can bring 2 phosphex rapier and 2 phosphex arquitors. 1 cent can bring 4 ashen circle.
>but ashen circle can melee.
They're 20 points for an assault marine statline with what are usually bad power axes, phase (M) is fun but it'll almost never matter.