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PapaNurgle wrote:

Stelek wrote:Alot of people talk about how troops armies are essential. They are not essential, if you don't base your army around taking objectives but instead base your army around killing scoring units.

I've been having the same thought about army lists. With contesting being a function of anything alive and holding objectives a function of troops only, you don't necessarily have to have hordes of troops - rather enough firepower/assault units to push your opponent off of theirs and enough troops to be able to hold your own objectives.

I've used the concept more in conjunction with Eldar elite choices seizing objectives rather than their Fast units killing everything, but the concept has some merit.

I think this merits discussion.

With the fact that one man can score this can be difficult.

Are you talking about basing your army around holding one or two objectives and blowing away the opponent's troops. If this is the case I think it is very risky as most opponents will be gunning for your fragil troops.

If you are talking about having a plethora of units to deny the opponent from scoring anything (contesting all objectives) then it could work but you still need your troops to score something to win. Less risky than above though.

Its sounds definently doable, giving up almost on troops (except for the 2 you are forced to have) and concentrating on contesting.

But it will be abit of a gamle vs armies that have good troops, esp if you roll 5 objectives. It will also require that you win on VPs instead or just tables the opponent. The senario might play some role too, depending on what type of army you will run.

One problem might be if someone clogs up one objective so you cant get within 3" I guess, thinking hordes of gaunts within synapse for example during the last round.