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Fighter Pilot




Toronto

I've been playing a few games with my foot guard recently and have usually combined my infantry squads into squads of 20- mainly to take advantage of BiD and multiple lascannons/autocannons.

I've seen some talk recently of not combining infantry squads. Have people found this to be a much better way of running their foot guard? I would think that the orders work better- especially when you can put 4 BiD lascannons on a monstrous creature instead of 2.

So what say you all? Combining, not combining?

I've been mainly playing against an opponent with Tyranids and have found that most of the lascannons in the first few turns are targeting a hive tyrant/tervigon/monstrous creature- so what may work for me in this context, may not work in a vehicle heavy context.

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Blobs are all about force multipliers. Unless you've got some major buff like prescience, invisibility, or precognition; don't bother.

Edit: Remember to give them ATSKNF, too. A swept squad is a waste.

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Killpoints=combine.
Otherwise i prefer them separate so that a squad of boyz or assault marines cant make 20+ men run of the board or get wasted after they loose the assault.
   
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Yeah, unless you have a specific reason, like playing a purge game, or if you've got people huddled around a space marine HQ, or you've got something strange going on with psychic powers, don't bother.

The small benefit you get to orders efficiency is no where near the liability of having larger squads run off the table or get eaten in close combat, or the loss of flexibility with being able to target things independently, or claim separate objectives.


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It can be very effective as long as its not a kill point mission. It used to my favorite way to go. Lots of fun to run, just make sure you have your squads easily seperated in some way, for you and your opponent's sake.

For book missions it works really well, and on the 1/6 mission where killpoints are a liability, all you need to do is blob up.

If you play in an area where they love to run tourney scenarios though, good luck. Tourney scenarios are pretty much designed to break that list style over its knee.

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So long as you are using MEQ allies, blobbing is totally worth it.
Just dont over do it and bring some other units to claim more objectives

 
   
 
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