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The reason that I'm asking is because I couldn't really decide if I was going with mostly tanks, blob mob, Artillery, Chimera mob, penal, like right now it's sort of a uneven mess.





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xxmatt85 wrote:The reason that I'm asking is because I couldn't really decide if I was going with mostly tanks, blob mob, Artillery, Chimera mob, penal, like right now it's sort of a uneven mess.

And thus, another one of my threads goes unanswer. The PDF tried to respond to this thread, but were killed to a man.

Well, unfortunately there is a reason most tournament armies spam. If you have all vehicles, then you make the enemies anti infantry firepower worthless. If you have all infantry, those melta guns aren't worth nearly the points spent when frying one 5 point guard at a time.

But on the other hand, it is definitely possible to run a more balanced list with success, it's just sometimes harder. I play a mech heavy guard, but I also have two giant power blobs to bubble wrap tanks.

I concur with fotta.

I do find it easier to play a balanced list, the infantry hole up in cover, shooting at targets of oppertuneity, while the mechvets charge forward, ready to storm the enemy lines. All the while leman russes support the charge and a manticore provides long range support.

It is very possible to run a competative list that is infantry, mech, tanks, artillery, and elites thrown in there. just play around with what you want and figure out how to work with it.

As long as you think the units you take aren't just there to die and can reasonably do some damage somewhere with other units to cover their weakness's then you shouldn't have a problem.

Not a tournament player, mind, but generally striking a balance works fairly well as long as you know you can get the most out of your army and cover as many different scenarios as possible. You're not always going to be playing KP and have the power to sweep an opponent off the board. Of course that depends on what you mean by balance: variety of units, not taking OP units, not spamming special weapons, being able to deal with objective and KP scenarios etc. Personally, taking my nids as an example, I make it as fiendish as possible with two trygons, blobs of stealers and the like; but, I also take twenty gargoyles because I like the models and they don't exactly become a major weakness in the army. I've even brought down bloodthirsters with the wily hawkmen. So you could take strong elements to compensate for more fluffy/eccentric units if thats your thing and you never know luck can always strike you.


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ObliviousBlueCaboose wrote:I concur with fotta.

I do find it easier to play a balanced list, the infantry hole up in cover, shooting at targets of oppertuneity, while the mechvets charge forward, ready to storm the enemy lines. All the while leman russes support the charge and a manticore provides long range support.

yeah this guy has the right idea. I basically use this 'tactic' every army from nids to dark eldar since you cover a lot of bases.

All infantry lists can work, I managed to do decently with them at a recent tournament, faced off vs 2 GK's, DW, orks, SM.

the mas sof bodies made for a fun event and i learnt alot about what vehicle can bring.

links to blob guard etc in my sg.