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 Krusha wrote:



IMHO the issue here is more that you are putting lascannons in your blob-squad, which is a massive waste.
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Disagree strongly

 Jancoran wrote:

 Krusha wrote:



IMHO the issue here is more that you are putting lascannons in your blob-squad, which is a massive waste.
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Disagree strongly

I think he means it's a waste in that you are wasting your lasguns when you fire the cannons at any kind of armor, which is true. However blobs are probably the best place to hide infantry based lascannons, and this is evidenced by the fact that the only IG list to win a tournament in recent memory included them to good effect (https://www.frontlinegaming.org/2015/10/30/mr-moretanks-harvester-of-souls-gt-report/).

Well I ended up playing 2 games today. A 1500pt game against crons which ended in a tie where I had barely any units left and then I played against a war convocation mechanicus list at 2k pts where I had a priest and a handful of conscripts left which resulted in me losing 10-13.

In both lists I ran 2 platoons. Each pcs was in a chimera with ML/HB combo and equipped with an autocannon. Then I had 4 infantry squads, 3 of which were In tauroxs and the last was in a chimera and all 4 squads were equipped with autocannons. Now it seemed that the first game was going well Against the crons because I outnumbered them and I had plenty of vehicles to the point that their guass wasn't able to strip enough hull points fastly. But he quickly caught back up as my squads did little to no damage.

The war convocation was a different story as with all his free upgrades I wasn't able to really keep up with his bonuses and all the free crap they got lol. It was an uphill battle for me the second game as he was able to quickly make work of my vehicles and able to drop squads really fast.

Now I'm thinking of just running 2- 30man autocannon blobs with their transports zipping around to pick up objectives or just ally some scions to msu some squads and pick up other objectives. In general the msu spam seemed to have some positive results.