Advice for taking on a Syndicate/Psynumbra silver Landmark?

[mdoolitt]

I entered the landmark just to nose around. A Syndicate stack with Psynumbra mods. Two Tier 3 and 4 Tier 2, maxed mods, total strength 2200. My strongest stack is 1950.

Are there any counters to psionic attacks? My faction is Vanguard + Celestian. About 2/3 of the way down the tech tree.

[Prometheus]

Pretty much just shields and mods that increase psi resist (psifish offer a good one). Its also not nearly as hard as you think. I've beaten a Psynumbra landmark that had a Herald, Malictor and 4 Initiates with a party of 1 hero, 1 overseer and 4 indentured. Lost 2 of the indentured but it was worth it.

[sandman25dcsss]

As vanguard you can use machines, they have 4 resistance against psyonic damage.

[Jack]

I using vanguard too and I think using vanguard is easy to win landmark. I myself using only the 3 troopers, 1 Assault Bike and 1 PUG to win gold landmark.
Everyone equip with Nanite injector and Thermal targeting relay. The 3 troopers and hero use jetpack. While Assault Bike and PUG use incinerator module.
Since you are Celestian you might get other mod.

Best if you can get the 20% accuracy buff or other buff. (I like accuracy best though) With this buff and Thermal targeting relay at range 6-7 my troops can get 90+%accuracy easily. Oh my troops are all max level though.

First turn rearranged everyone to about 2-3 block away from dotted shooting line of all enemies. They will normally don't move with this.
Second turn I use deploy valkyrie on the enemies which can cause stagger and also help take a few hit from enemies instead of my main troops.
Then I warp all my troops in to kill low HP enemies first. normally can kill at least 1-2 units. Warp really help a lot since you get into firing range without losing any action points.
By 3rd turn I will kill another 2-3 enemies leaving only 1 or 2 at most for last turn.
Some of my enemies have very high armor and I did very little damage too, I normally leave it for last. Killing the easier target first is the best choice so they can reduce damage on your side.

I normally lost 1 or none with this methods.
I used this methods to win all 3 gold landmarks and 3 silver landmark.

PS. My hero is a Ruthless Killer though, so it might be different for you since after my hero kill I will get another 1 action points which I use to attack another enemy.
PS2. My game setting is normal, so if you have higher difficulty setup you might not be able to do what I did too.

[Thicc Mittens]

I find there's usually a Psi-Shrine on the world map close to the Psynumbra landmark - it's a structure that gives a buff to shields (+2) and psi resist (+4) on the next battle when you visit it. Bonus points if there's other similar buff structures (accuracy, damage, resists, morale) nearby to stack on top of it.

[Eclipse]

For vanguard it isn’t hard in my opinion.Even if you don’t want to spent energy on nanite fabricator operation you can just advance,hide behind cover and use defensive position.Next turn activate nanite injectors and focus most dangerous units.Even if you have no psy shrines nearby +3 psy defense is still good (for machines +7). With shrine it becomes +7 and +11 and you can’t lose with such advantage.

[Stardustfire]

vanguard machines are allmost broken strong, specialy when you got a talk with the neutral ex nobles faction and buyed the mod from them that restores 12 hp each combat turn on the modded machine. walker squad with the gauss barrel, the burning ae ballistic ammo and sayed restoration mod dozers over everything . the game underrates this beasty combod walkers by far and makes every combat rating look like you are on a big disadvantage when it is in truth an autowin.
when walkers are to latetech for you, lasertanks with the enflaming laser mod are nearly as deadly.

and celestial research has this nice mod that reflects 50% of all incoming dmg (matter why i paired my vanguard with that secret tech) and you can nail this mod on all unit types.