http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/69.page JForum - http://www.jforum.net Recently I've been taking two squads of 8 as opposed to 1 squad of 15. My reasoning being that instead of rolling bad once and only shooting 15 times I think have a higher possibility of rolling better amongst two squads and shooting more. I realize the lower numbers of models per unit make it so that I might have to take morale tests sooner per unit but I still have two units.
Here's how its broken down, a unit of 15 can either shoot 15, 30 or 45 shots 33% of the time.
Two units of 8 can shoot either 16, 24, 24, 32, 32, 48, 48 shots (not sure of the math on this one)
So what do you think?
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1x16 loota:
16 shot 1/3
32 shot 1/3
48 shot 1/3

Average 32 shots

2x8 loota:
16 shot 1/9
24 shot 2/9
32 shot 3/9
40 shot 2/9
48 shot 1/9

Average 32 shots
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In terms of list building, 2 units also reduces the amount of overkill and gives better shooting efficiency, because you don't gain anything killing a rhino three times over.

How much randomness you want in you list depends on your relative strength to opponent. If you are playing a stronger list and is a stronger player (win >>50%) than you want to minimized randomness to prevent bad rolls killing you. If you are playing a inferior list or is less skilled, you want a high randomness list to use it to edge out a few wins.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/240339/719496.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/240339/719496.page GMT
Also squads of 9 are much better than squads of 8 because they have to loose 3 casualties before taking their moral check (which they tend to fail a lot for me). ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/240339/719536.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/240339/719536.page GMT