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So after watching some Dwarf players and their gun lines I am thinking, can Empire do a decent gun line? What do you all think? List would probably look like this:


Lords-lvl4 of heavens/light

Heroes-BSB and 2 engineers

Core-how ever many points worth of crossbowmen and archers for chaff/redirectors

Special-3 cannons and 3 mortars

Rare-2 helblasters and 2 rocket batteries and if points allow a stank

I am thinking of several units archers to redirect for all the other shooting, 3 large template, up to 9 small templates, 3 cannons, and 2 blasters plus any Cbows and then heavens for comet/lightning and rerolls of 1s.

Any comments are welcomed.

well, personally, if your'e going gunline, you want a few spearmen for defending.

example: you have archers, high elf spearmen are closing in on your archers, you have spearmen directly behind the archers therefore you swap them round, then when the high elves charge they will face not 2, but 3 ranks because your'e spearmen.

so yeah i would probably get rid of steam tank, some archers/crossbowmen, and instead get a bunch of 2-3 smallish spearmen units (say 15-20 men) just because there is almost 100% chance of being charged at some point and gunline gets owned in combat, so you want to balance it out a bit by having the spearmen.

Well I figured cbows are better because you can shoot with them and they both suck at CC as 15/20 spearman on average do nothing to a chaos warrior and get murdered in return would make them wasted points.

Also if you have the points in rares, why would you drop a steam tank?