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2011/06/03 03:44:56
Subject: How do you play fantasy?
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Paingiver
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In my experience it mostly consists of hoarded infantry blocks of 30-50, where 1 person makes a death star and decimates every unit they touch. How do you counter this? I am mostly a dwarf player so the big magic spells are out. I read Red Zeke's battle reports and I see a lot of units 10-30 strong which I like, more tactics and screening units. How do I counter the death stars of my area?
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Thus, After having thus successively taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp and fashioned him at will, the supreme power then extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the surface of society with a network of small complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided; men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting. Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd
-Alexis de Tocqueville. |
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2011/06/03 03:56:32
Subject: How do you play fantasy?
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Lurking Gaunt
Melbourne, Australia
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Hit it with all the shooting you have and don't let it engage you for as long as possible. Gets it's ranks down, then try to pin it in combat, flank.
More details such as what you're against and what you're using would be great - then we can give you more detdiled advice.
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2011/06/03 14:38:26
Subject: How do you play fantasy?
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Scouting Shade
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Grudge throwers are nasty, and I've yet to see a reliable way to kill a dwarf lord with shield bearers, and all the runes of ward saves and armor saves you can fit in. I think 1+/4++ no greater than S5 or something. Really annoying. Flaming cannons work pretty well too. Other than that, screening units to try to get it facing the wrong direction or held up for a turn, to let more war machines go to town. The all points in one deathstar approach usually means the rest of the army is less than stellar.
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2011/06/03 17:19:56
Subject: How do you play fantasy?
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Killer Klaivex
Oceanside, CA
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Anvil + long beard rangers with rune of slowness.
You can block his path, and he will only charge very short distances. M4 units average a charge of 4". If the long beards stay in front, and keep backing up, you can bring the death stars advance to a crawl, giving you ample time to pummel it with warmachines.
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