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Since units cannon regroup after falling back if there is a unit within 6 inches, cant you just drop a line of pods from the opponents board edge twards the middle, and take some hard targets like dreads to stand near the line? The dreads tarpit, or if they win a round, send them packing all the way home. Combine this with Telion scouts to shoot out boss poles/commisars, etc. and a thunderfire cannon or two to cause as many horde LD checks as possible. The rest of the army focused on anti-tank etc, and let the pods walk the infantry off the board.

Would this work?

Isn't this presuming that the entire enemy advances in a column towards you within 6" of the pods? I can't imagine a scenario where on a 6x4 board an enemy would put their entire army within range of your pods...

Vs a horde footslogging it, they have to come to me, and every pod contained an Ironclad Dread with a HF and MM, meaning he can hold them down until they break, assuming the scouts were able to take out the Bosspole/Klaw.

Similar idea in most cases, that most of what they can shoot at either has 2+ or 3+ cover saves and is far away, or is these really tempting dreads right dead centre. Other option is with a MotF I can get 6 Ironclad Dreads and do two lines of pods, giving me far more killy zone.

Combie this with a bit of terrain synergy for 'funnels' and I think it might work.


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Also, with the DP assault, I just put the line as close to where he already is, and stick the dreads in his face, within the 6"


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The reason this came up was I am looking at going as the SM half of a SM/IG team, and the Psyker Battle Squad's LD penalizing power looked really tempting, and I was trying to find a way to compliment it with the SM side.