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Gk/daemons want to deep strike a whole army and charge? Fine. Doesn't sound all that fun, but how is it different from an entire sm army dropping and shooting everything?

Oh, right. The space marine player doesn't need to care about scattering into enemy units, gets to move 6" after the deep strike, doesn't have random shooting range, and doesn't get shot by the enemy units he wants to attack.

Want tactics against it? Use your army's shared overwatch, bubble wrap, position to force him into taking dangerous terrain/mishaps, upgrade some of your dudes to interceptor....

Full DS assault is not the boogeyman it was before assault got heavily (justifiably) Nerfed since 4th. It's not a very fun strategy but neither are a TON (maybe all) of the tournament viable 40k strategies (invisible Death Stars, Superheavy spam, FMC spam, etc)

Casualty removal, look out sir, challenges, the psychic phase, overwatch. Basically all the stuff that disrupt's the flow of the game. it used to be so much faster to play.

I've said it before I'll say it again, skirmish game or mass battle. PICK ONE.

As it is the game has superheavies and fliers and 100+ models in what would be considered an average points game, but then you treat each individual line grunt like he is his own unit as you would in a skirmish game.