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HoverBoy wrote:Points denial via deathstar is in fact worse than points denial via MSU, since you'r units are cheap sacrificing them for the eventual win is quite efective, a nuke spell however can gobble up them deathstar points quite quick.

Bingo. Agree totally. With an MSU style list, it's relatively easy to turn a 1000 point deathstar into a 600 point deficit for your opponent by simply feeding it chaff all game.

The more your opponent invests into one unit, the more he is banking that a) you can't take the points from that unit, which at a certain point becomes true and b) that that unit will earn enough points to win the game for him.

For example, at 2500 points, if I invest 400 points of troops to distract a 1500 point deathstar, I've effectively turned the game into 1000 points of his troops versus 2100 of my troops. With those kinds of odds, I should be able to concentrate enough force to take those points without suffering too many casualties. Even if I ignore that Deathstar all game, the result would be 1000 vs 400 in my favour. It's a simplistic example - it's never cut and dry like that - but it gets the point across.

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I'm toying with the idea of splitting my 80 available Marauders into small units with mark of Slaanesh so that I have a bunch of units which can't be paniced off and can deal a bit of damage (thanks to flails and such). My question is what size they should be since they're both squishy and pretty slow.

The issue here is I don't have large blocks of warriors for hammers. Do you need a few units that can take a beating or is MSU better as an all or nothing tactic?

Dunno for WoC but my MSU lizard army usually has two large saurus blocks for the inevitable grind, after all you need something to beat up the parts of the enemy army you aren't redirecting.