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Exactly. You don't assault enemy assault units... you shoot them to death. You use your assault units ideally to assault things that can't fight back particularly well, or as a coup de gras to a unt that is close to death.

TimmyTheNerd wrote:
I'm just wondering something. I made it clear I'll be playing DA, why is everyone telling me to go BA? I get it they can take assault marines as troops but in order to field BA, I'll have to buy a new HQ.

Because BA have Sanguinary Priests to buff them and DOA makes their Deep Strike more reliable. Scoring is great too ofcourse.
Play the chapter you like though.

What I particularly like about DA asm is that they can take 2 special weapons in a 5 man squad. I might run 5 with 2 flamers as again an area denial squad for someone's scoring or objective grabbing units.

95 points for 2 flamers on 5 jump dudes? Pretty nice. You can get the same thing roughly with RW bikers with 3 guys for 90 points, but they have T5 and scouts, and HoW guaranteed still keeping the 12" move, and teleport homers.

I might do mine DA Sarge with 2 PP, 2 PP in the squad of 5.