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Which is better?

I think it really comes down to preference, but I would go 40 boyz in 2 bw.
All it takes is to lose combat and be under 12 models to fail morale after combat is lost, then get sweeped, 4+ armor doesn't help there. Having double the boyz and bw also makes your margin for error increase. In assault, 2 squads of 20 can take down a lot, considering you get the charge off.
Also with 2 squads you get more Nobz. Which help with the new challenge rules

Every problem can be solved with more boyz.

Absolutely correct

I like having standard boys. I am not all that in to having ard boys mobs really. Tactically? Boys, because more mobs of boys means: More powerklaws. More Targets. More attacks. More flexibility. More AV14 in this scenario. More Deffrollas in this scenario. Etc

Psydreads, Psycannons, Power Mauls, DWK, Autocannon spam, Quadguns, Assault Cannon Termies - all good reasons not to bother with a 4+ save.

Too much stuff is being put in Codexes with AP4 as though it were a compromise for massive + Strength and rerolls to hit.

You can get armywide 5+ cover save for a much more efficient Kustom Forcefield, and then pay up the difference by putting more bodies on the field to increase the force multiplier's coefficient.

Boyz with a 5+ cover cost 60% of a Boy with a 4+ armor save.

 TedNugent wrote:
Psydreads, Psycannons, Power Mauls, DWK, Autocannon spam, Quadguns, Assault Cannon Termies - all good reasons not to bother with a 4+ save.

Too much stuff is being put in Codexes with AP4 as though it were a compromise for massive + Strength and rerolls to hit.

I think the argument for ard boys is that the majority of ap4 weapons are guns, so if you can get the boys into assault, where there is less ap4, they can clean up.

However, given the overwhelming support for more boys, I'll probably go for the 2 mobs anyway.

2 boys squads backed by an ard boys squad. Ard boys get red paint and sit their battlewagon in the front of a V, making it harder for opponents to concentrate on the boyz' wagons. If they explode the ard boyz' wagon, they will take far fewer wounds. Despite the complaints of AP4, playing eldar i can tell you there are actually very few AP4+ weapons outside GK and guard that can deal with quantity of units. Most armies use bolter equivalent as their anti-horde, making 4+ quite resilient. Ard boys arent significantly more points for the survivability you get.

zephoid wrote:
Ard boys arent significantly more points for the survivability you get.

I would certainly call a 67% price hike "significant."

Only time I could see them being useful is in a battlewagon, as shoota boys escorting an IC, probably a warlord. If the wagon explodes, minimize losses and keep a few alive longer. Otherwise, more boyz.

Boyz without a question. I know it's stereotypical, but I go by the following maxim:

Eldar=More psychic powers
IG=More guns
DE=More poison
Orks=More attacks.

That's where the 'Ard Boyz fail to deliver.

the 4+ doesnt do jack all in the shooty phase. Majority of weapons go right through it anyway, 3+ is when it starts to really matter.

Odds are, you wouldnt get that group into charging range. Even if you put them in a BW i guarantee thats the focus fire target unless theres a MANZ missile trying to flank, which you probablywouldnt have points left for anyway. I'd rather him split his fire so i have multiple groups of meh boyz with more nobz than focus fire and take out one group completely even if its a hardier one.
Quite frankly unless im charging random infantry my boyz dont do much anyway, its the nob that does the krumpyness.