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So for my 100th post I wanted to do something semi meaningful. But I'll settle for this.

Spam, here is how I see it. In my platoon (I'm in the Army) there are 4 squads, they are all the same. In my company there are 4 platoons, they are all the same sans the HQ platoon. Standardization is almost a must at a company level and even in many larger military formations. It's not like most armies are some sort of rebel formation (though there are those) So I fail to see the beef with spam. See what I did there?

Now I know there are some complaints with min/max las/plas. I run guard and love AC/GL combo, cheap, common, and not to techy in the fluf.

I eagerly await your thoughts.

I thought spam was pork?

I concur, doctor!

I do 2 platoons, 2 squads with flamers & voxes, command just has a vox and a bolt pistol on the officer, and 1 unit of lascannons for each. And I can throw a special weapon team in each unit, each one with 3 plasmas.

I have 2 units of vets, all armed with shotguns and 3 meltas each.

I run hellhounds in pairs, russes, whatever. I guess 2 is just better than 1.

Spam is as close to pork as you'd get driving past the farm.

I think for your 100th post you could have done better. 3 out of 10 for effort.

I play my SM with units of ten. Apart from the Dreadnought. And the Terminators. And the Rhino. And the Command Squad. And the....

Well, there's a big difference between real military and toy soldiers. While some redundancy is always good, having an army loaded with identical units is just dull for all involved.

When I was a kid i loved fried spam...

We used to take it with us on exercises, nothing like a fried spam sandwich for breakfast, set your blood vessels rock hard just in time for another frozen day in the forest.

Yummmmm....

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Enjoy