Allen wrote :
>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.
I like small detachments.
First they are numerous : I think it's better to have 4 or 5 small
detachments instead of 2 or 3 big ones, your can set up a more
flexible strategy.
In addition, you can hide your small detachments much easier than
your big ones.
In top of that, if you lose one small detachment it won't be so
terrible as it's only a little part of your army.
But, there is a but :
Don't make too small detachments, I think that 200 to 300 points
detachments are the best. Under 200 points the detachment is very weak
and then must be a very specialised detachment.
I use one of 115 points :
2 Land Speeders (one is the HQ)
5 Attack Bikes
It's very fast and has a enough fire points : 14. I used this
detachment in suicide attacks to cover the advance of my other
detachments.
One example of one of my "small" detachments :
Space Marine Captain in Land Raider
2 squads of Devastators + Rhinos
1 squad of Tactical Space Marines + Rhino
1 Land Raider
This detachment worked good ; it doesn't look too big so my opponent
thinks that it's not dangerous... until I give it an Overwatch
order... :)
Francois Bruntz
Apprenti MIAGE (Universite Paris XII - IBM France)
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Received on Thu Sep 11 1997 - 07:41:17 UTC