Bro, do you even alpha?

I should mention that as relatively new players we are not straying far from the Scenario “annihilation”. So there was no scenario win option open to me besides assassination.

Vlad1 is about as fast as we go. Strakhov1 can go faster, but that requires unreliable Overrun proc.
You can go with Hark and tank the alpha (or Kodiak cloud against Circle at least).
You can go with Karchev and make opponent's alpha harder to do via countercharges.

Circle and Legion are the designated alpha factions, you won't alpha them without shooting.

Devastator is a jack that can tank pretty much any of their beasts 1-on-1 meaning they will have to commit 2 to it making the trade in your favor if you kill them afterward.

High def can be negated with slams/throws in case of Circle and boosting those attack rolls hoping for crit freezes against Legion. Crit freeze isn't reliable, but if it goes off they are screwed, if it doesn't you are screwed, very random.

Elims can negate the Admonition by bodyblocking, but against flying beasts that won't usually work.
Countercharge on Karchev is a good way to negate Admonition.

I recommend less Yuri and Ashley and more Malakov and Seers. Fury mechanic is skewed against us, we need empowers and journeyman to catch up.

Your MAT on your jacks is MAT 7.  That is a high MAT.  Your speed on your Jacks is 8 on pVlad's feat turn (total of up to a 14" threat range with your list).  Those are not slow jacks.

So...wth are you talking about?

Khador doesn't have low MAT 'jacks. We have average to decent MAT, especially with the update to Berserker chassis. We do have slow 'jacks, but with plenty of speed buffs at least some of them will be average speed. It costs resources to make them average speed, but that is supposed to be trade off for having high ARM and box count.

This does mean that against average speed lists with threat extenders we will be slower. Both Cirlce and Legion have a lot of threat extenders, so getting the alpha against them is unlikely.

I will just quickly talk about the Legion match up you mentioned: Your forces can EASILY hit the DEF 17/18 beasts. It should go down something like this: Legion charges in mangles some 'jacks, feats and puts Admonition up. You feat and cast S&P. You charge the Admonition model with your infantry or try to block its movement by running stuff, because of your feat you should still be in change range after it moves. You then charge your 'jacks into the beasts (for free because of feat) and boost your attack rolls. Hitting DEF 17 is already an average boosted roll, thanks to S&P you will hit most attacks.

Both Circle and Legion beasts are pretty expensive, if you only trade one 'jack for each of their beasts you're laughing!