Thursday, February 24, 2011

Pronounced Veterans not "Vetchrans"

So one of the things I set out to do when I first made my imperial guard army, was to field a very elite force of guardsmen. I wanted the best no matter the price, and I got that. We had good BS we could infiltrate, we got 3+ coversaves, we were space marines, only lacking in the str and T departments, everything else, we were on par, and we could infiltrate. People did not expect that, not at all. Nowadays, I'm stuck with fielding either large platoons, or veterans. The veterans I field are a supplement to the remainder of my army. For each of my three platoons, I have one veteran squad, to bolster the line. Two of my veteran squads have cameleoline, and are just shootier versions of my line squads. One is a suicide squad, sent to outflank and just hold their position/contest objectives. I can often make people shoot at my veterans, and with their 3+ coversave, I'm happy with that. Too much flak comes in, I might just go to ground. But in order to make people shoot them, I just point out, they have three special weapons, and a heavy weapon, or two if they have harker. Naturally, they want to take out the more bang for their buck, leaving my weaker squads alone, in favor of shooting the bigger threat.

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