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So lets assume a unit of 30 pink horrors and you have 150-200 (could be less) pts for splitting. You obv take an icon in the unit.

Since the nerf to saves you now have brims on a 6+ save and blue on a 5+.

How do you guys manage splitting and wound assignment to best counter hefty ld tests?

e.g. you take 10 wounds on the unit what do you do?
- take em on one pink horror then if it dies split to blue then continue taking the other wounds on the blues, then do the same for brims
- take a few say 5 on the pinks to create a pool of blues or brims so when the ld test comes in you can remove them if you fail

In any case you are less likely to losse models for ld if you assign wounds to them to pinks (which you dont want to do as they are the most useful) if you spank you chaff blue and brims which die easier then its a heftier ld test.

I'm thinking there must be some kinda logic or sweetspot to this?

I always leave about 80 pts for my pinks to split and it's generally in the form of taking out 5 pinks first to get 10 blues. So if I were to take 10 wounds, I'd take off 5 pinks for 10 blues, then 5 blues for 5 brims. Take brims off for morale and blue if you roll bad.

The thing to remember though is if you roll 10 pink saves(4++) you lose 10 pinks. So the key here is only taking 5 saves at first for the pinks and then the rest on the split bodies.