Carl Billen wrote:
>
> Wouldn't the following detachments be too cheesy ?
>
> Tyranids :
> 18 Tyranid Warrior units + 20 Biovores ?
A bitch. Antidote: Flyers and Artillery. OTOH this isn't exactly a cheap
unit.
> Chaos (The Classical Bloodthirster Detachment) :
> 25 Bloodthirsters
A bitch^2. Antidote: a replenished screen of crap (gretchin) and
firefighting him backwards, while piling on the BMs from the Pulsas in
the back line. Eventually he'll have killed off maybe 40 Gretchin at 5
pts each, but accumulated 30+ BMs.
> Orks :
> 1 Warboss in Stompa + 1 Weirdboy + 40 Nobz + (20 Pulsa Rokkits or 10
> Stompas)
A bit slow, and easy meat for LRs. With the Pulsas, again, use artillery
and airpower. Assault Marines in Rhinos hitting him from a starting
distance of 50cm would work well too. Eldar should have no trouble vs
this unit!
> Space Marines (Armour Det) :
> 1 Captain in LR + 1 Psyker in LR + 30 LR + 10 Terminators in a LR each
Anything with a lot of disrupts: 12 Pulsas, things like that. A Mycetic
Swarm.
These are powerful units. But, OTOH, they're fairly pricy. 42 LRs in one
unit will destroy anything, but at a cost of nearly 2000 pts for one
unit, is rather susceptible to a lot of Disruptors. Say 6 units, each of
6 Boyz, a Warboss and 12 Pulsas (about 260 pts each) putting 48 BMs on
it. Sure, they'll die, but 48+43+38+... means that the army won't
recover.
These are not "cheese", just grossly powerful and grossly expensive.
An army of 20 detachments, each of 2 LRs now, that just COULD be too
cheesy. But even that's vulnerable to the same tactic.
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