>>96360289
K,
So the most important thing to remember when playing the Solar auxilia is that you do not have an armour save. You may be thinking "yes I do the datasheet says 4+ SAV" but you do not understand how many AP4 weapons are in the game.
Go open up your liber and count the number of AP5 or worse guns in the game, there aren't that many. Like, 80% of all ranged weapons are AP4 or better. Aux are unironically tougher in melee than they are at range against most things because most units only have an AP0 CCW and the chainsword is only AP5.
How do we deal with this? We do it in layers.
Transports are the first layer. The Aurox and Arvus are pretty good at delivering small veletaris squads where they wanna go while the Draco is your go to for shifting big veletaris blocks and lasrifles.
Cover is the second layer, if its out of a transport it should be claiming some kind of cover save or its not gonna last.
Our special reactions are the third layer, Lasrifles aren't scary in return fire but supporting fire lets you move them a little and return fire with nearby artillery which IS scary. While aux also have a movement phase reaction that gives you a 5++ if you blob up. Do NOT do this if your opponents artillery still lives, you're asking to get shot at.
4th and most important layer is straight up redundancy. "So what if you wiped 20 lasrifles, thats literally less than a minimum tac squad, I have like 140 more."
All your shit is extremely points efficient for what you get, lasrifles are paying 4 points per wound while at best marines are paying 10.
Biggest threat to aux infantry is volume of fire so if your running lots of infantry you'll want thst dead first, your tanks are tougher than marine equivalents anyway so they'll last a little longer to most enemy shooting, your grunts REALLY won't.
Especially against HBs, do not fuck with those things they kill auxilia more effectively than almost any other weapon and are dirt cheap for what they do to you.