Shooty or choppy boyz?

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**Jidmah**

Oops sorry, didn't see that the forum doesn't explain TEQ.

Of course, I meant terminator equivalents.

**Mysticaria**

KingCracker wrote:
canadianone wrote:I dont really have an opinion, think both are useful, but just remember why devourers on gaunts aren't more popular, it comes down to math, say you get a full mob of boyz in range of a tactical squad, this happens 60 shots, 20 hit, 10 wound, 3.333 die. Personally i wouldn't want to fiddle around shooting too much, after all, you is an ork! but both builds do have their uses.

The only reason devourer gaunts arnt AS popular is because the regular boring one gets pooped out from a tervigon. I can tell you from MANY games against my wife, who is obsessed with everything devourer, they are deadly. She sticks 20 devourer gaunts into spods and lets it rip. 60str4 shots isnt anything to scoff at. Ive lost who boyz mobs to her volleys. Granted its been because the fail the LD and run away, but still thats just as effective as smoking the entire unit. Its not uncommon for her to kill 10-15 boyz in one shooting phase per unit.

Gurantee they would be a lot more popular if they weren't twice the points. This is a bad analogy unfortunately since shoota boys and slugga boys are the same point cost. If a shoota boy was twice the cost of a slugga boy it might make sense to take them all with sluggas, but honestly the only reason to do that now is because the black reach models are just sooooo cheap.

-Myst

**Tagboard Wizard**

So, GEQ means Guard equivalent (3's accross the board and a 4+ save), MEQ is Marine equivalent (4's across the board and 3+ save) and TEQ means Terminator equivalents (4's across the board and a 2+ save)...

So is there a catch all for the remainder? a XEQ (Xeno Equivalent) for things like orks and Tau who don't fit the typical builds?

**Jidmah**

Orks is as unique as it gets. We have boyz and nobz. Everything not a warboss or a gretchin in the codex has either statline

Armor for GEQ can be 4+ or 5+ though, and MEQ/TEQ usually refers to T4 in combination with either save, other stats don't really matter, as those shorthands are usually used when describing what you are shooting at.