A lot of people have been discussing the benefits of small detatchments
lately. I've enjoyed reading this thread, as I have generally taken
the opposite view when building my armies. I can immediately spot
the flexibility benefit from having numerous, small detatchments. (Especially
with the IG, whose command-hosing makes numerous small detatchments no more
expensive than a few big ones.)
There are two points I wonder about, though. Small detatchments were
presented as the best way to play the "morale game." I've a question
about survivability, however. I've found casualties to be horrendous
in the firing phase. It seems to me that a small detatchment built
to grant 5-7 firepower is simply going to cease to exist in the
firing phase, and thus give you an immediate hit to morale with no
chance to remove any blast markers.
Have you had problems with this? This thread seemed to come up in
the midst of a Chaos vs. Tyranids battle, so perhaps massive firepower
wasn't a concern.
Anyway, I'll probably split all my detatchments in half for my next battle
and see if they work any better that way. I'll see just how much more
mobile it makes me. I like being mobile.
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Received on Wed Sep 10 1997 - 19:30:37 UTC