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Forgive my newbie-ness.

I have read this a couple of times, what is "Deathstar"?

one REALLY REALLY REALLY nasty unit that can take on almost the entire army but if you lose it you will lose the game.

There's a "Deathstar tactics" thread somewhere on here - search the Warhammer Tactics section. But basically it's like the above poster described - a huge, point-heavy unit with lots of characters in it. It wins primarily by victory point denial - it's just too big to kill.

The down-side is that it quite literally puts "all your eggs in one basket." Some unit-killing spells are absolute MURDER for "death star" tactics.

VADER!!!!!!

The one really awesome unit which will eat anyone it sees for breakfast = Deffstar

The little dudes who are around only to hold up everyone else and slow down the enemies = Stormtroopers

The guy who got assigned with you in that 2vs2 game = Vader

You = Emperor Palpatine

That dude you're fighting against = Luke Skywalker

That dude who's back-seat playing for that dude you're fighting against = Yoda

Can I build my units without the ventilation shaft?

Whatever you do, you will always have that 'no more than 2 meters in diameter' hole that that dude you're fighting against (consult table above) could fire a proton torpedo into that will inevitably blow up your core.
/run-on sentence

Edit: Fixed the photon/proton thing. Now calm down.

PRoton torpedo you mean

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/226311.page

Nofasse 'Eadhunta wrote:Whatever you do, you will always have that 'no more than 2 meters in diameter' hole that that dude you're fighting against (consult table above) could fire a photon torpedo into that will inevitably blow up your core.
/run-on sentence

photons are in star trek man


but yeah, the deathstar tactic is fun, but fairly basic

Sorry for not being fanatics like you.

Fixed it.