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I was wondering what people out there prefer with the new LOS rules in 5th edition, Infiltrating guard armies or Drop troop guard armies?
I am leaning towards Infiltrate because it still lets me pick my ground when I set up plus I have heard of infiltrating guard covering the table to hose out daemon players. But drop troops could come in handy with kill point denial and also getting close enough to vehicles to use a melta to its fullest. anyway let me know what you think.

A little off-topic but since it came up, and I play guard..

I'm a little confused by this "new LOS" stuff. My understanding is there's no such thing as area terrain, which is.. well, confusing.

Like, if I'm playing a game from the short table edges, and there's a 2x4-foot wide section of trees across the middle of the table, unless I've got something like 500 flocked little plastic trees with which to physically block actual line of sight, you can see through it.

I seriously hope this is not the case, as I'm trying to play a game here, not build a model railroad diorama.

To answer your question though, seems like the light inf/cameleoline combo is pretty nice. I haven't played a droptroop list because it seems kinda like dropping gift-wrapped meat packs, with all the CC armies out there.

Infiltrate is the win.

You always setup last.

Always.

Yep, for the most part you want to Infiltrate. I do generally have a couple of Hardened Vet squads with meltas tho, just for that dropping in with melta love experience.

Infiltrate is the way to go 99% of the time.

Drop troops get singled out and destroyed the turn they come in almost always.

Its a sad thing to see a whole squad wiped in one turn because you opponent didn't have anything better to shoot.

Nyarlathotep wrote:I'm a little confused by this "new LOS" stuff. My understanding is there's no such thing as area terrain, which is.. well, confusing.

Like, if I'm playing a game from the short table edges, and there's a 2x4-foot wide section of trees across the middle of the table, unless I've got something like 500 flocked little plastic trees with which to physically block actual line of sight, you can see through it.

I seriously hope this is not the case, as I'm trying to play a game here, not build a model railroad diorama.

Well the LOS rules allow you to see through the tree terrain, but shooting through said terrain grants a cover save to units behind the terrain. It's like you can't see them very well or your bullets get blocked by the terrain. Most of the time you're going to be getting cover saves as opposed to being totally obscured. (hopefully that answers your confusion?)