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If you start with 6 CP in a 2000 army list, how much should you use in your army and save for the battles?

 IwinUlose wrote:
If you start with 6 CP in a 2000 army list, how much should you use in your army and save for the battles?

Depends upon a few factors;

A) How do you like to build your armies?
Me? I love the fact that I can build elite/fast/heavy/LoW focused armies here in 8e/9e. I've got no qualms about CP to achieve that. So after spending on Detachment, + WL Trait & (often) a relic? I've generally got a whole whopping 1cp left. And sometimes I spend that as well.....

B) Do you have some stratagem plan that requires CP? Either pre-game or during?

 IwinUlose wrote:
If you start with 6 CP in a 2000 army list, how much should you use in your army and save for the battles?

What army you are talking about? Different armies, different CP usage.

It depends entirely on your army. If you have good warlortd traits and relics but poor stratagems you're probably better off spending more CP at army creation. If the opposite is true you want to save CP at army creation.

The best approach is to figure out which strats you're likely to use on each turn, then calculate how many CPs you need, allowing a few more for re-rolls etc.

in an ideal world cp does not exist, as the game currently exists it depends on the army. some armies have gak strats (orks as an example) others have amazing ones (tyranids as an example)

I guess my question would be “how much does your proposed army rely on stratagems?”

If you’ve used CP to assemble an army light on Stratagem powered synergies, it’s going to be different from one which only works off the back of further CP expenditure.

I’m not up on the modern game, but consider the old Smash Captain cheese of yesteryear. That relied quite heavily on appropriate CP spending. So, if you had to sacrifice CP to get that list combo in the first place? Probably not worth your while.

I do appreciate things have somewhat moved on since then, but limited frame of personal reference is limited.