MrMoustaffa wrote:I don't know if you've looked at some of Ailaros's battle reports, but he puts Chenkov to shame. He'll often field over a hundred guys in a 1500-1850 game, not counting support, and it works better than you think it would. As far as I can tell, his method of thinking is "If they have this much trouble killing one blob, imagine how much trouble they'll have killing 5!
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Read this one and you'll see what I mean. He beats down an army of terminators with literally nothing but guardsmen, it's a pretty hilarious read
http://www.ailarian.com/folera/batreps/blood-conquers-all/blood-conquers-22.html Basically what I'm saying is, yes, one 20 man blob won't last long, but when your opponent has to focus on 4 to 5 twenty one man blobs (don't forget the commissar) along with various smaller units like
PCS and stormtroopers, you'd be amazed how much staying power they have. I often only field three, and it'll take the opponent all game to kill them. That's the rationale behind this strategy. It's like how mech commanders take 6 Leman Russes and 10-12 chimeras. You literally have too many targets for the enemy to kill, aka "more bodies than they've got bullets". Now add 2 plasma guns and 3 plasma pistols to each of those blobs, and you have a Space Marine player's worst nightmare. More bodies than he can ever hope to kill, and they're all packing power weapons and
AP 2...
I've read all of Ailros's battle reports. They're pretty good, and he does credence to his experience when he talks about tactics. While I, unfortunately, cannot take photos or camcorders within my
GW Local Gaming Store because someone was an idiot, I do respect his sharing of tactics. That said, I have alot of
BA,
BT, Tyranid, and Ork players that would eat a foot list like no tomorrow (A
BT Deathstar of a Marshal, Chaplain, Honor Guard, and another Character ate through fifty Orks in one setting), and being an experienced Guard player, I know a couple holes in a foot list, just like their is in a Mech List.
Of course his tactics of bodies bested the Terminator list because of the sheer amount of bodies against a serious lack of firepower from the other side. Sure Terminators look scary to other
MSU armies, but hordes just laugh.
I'm not saying blobs are bad, it's just that you really can't compare the potency of an Executioner to 15 Angry Wounds to protect 6 Plasma Weapons. It would be like me trying to compare a Vanquisher being as potent as Melta Vets.
Joey wrote:51 man power blob with plasma guns is 250+60+75+35=420 points.
Chaplain+ 16 DC=420
DC do 64 attacks, 56 hit, 47 wound, 31 dead. The Chaplain's attacks cause 2.2 dead.
That's 32 dead after the first round of combat. Difficult to tell how many attacks the IG would get back. Presumably spread out to minimise template risk, they may not get more than 20 or so troops into the fray during the first turn, and they'll have to get through Power Armour and FNP.
They'd probably finish them off the turn after.
Of course. It's a dedicated assault unit plowing into Guardsmen. That's one of the finer balances of Blobs, being a multi-charge pin cushion...
