simple units

so I was playing the other day, with some vendettas, and I was just in awe of how little skill it took to use. It was just, zip around the board, and blow up whatever I hit. 3 twinlinked lascannons make for a very, very, potent shooting phase. for only 150 (I run mine with bolter sponsons, because door gunners are sooooo cool) I get a powerhouse. Now not that I haven't used them before, or that I haven't heard the hype, it was just particularly effective against my friends black templar army. Then that got me thinking of other units that just require hardly any skill. Now, some of the pessimists out there will sneer and say, you play imperial guard, everythings a simple unit >:I while I disagree, I will save that for another article.

So other simple units:
vindicator
leman russ
devastator squad
any apocalypse unit
and ork boyz or similar horde rush armies.

These all share one common factor: extremes. There's no middle ground. And that focus of what to do, makes them so effective. With a tac squad people don't know if they are gunna hold objectives, or assault, or anything in between. So they lose clarity, while a unit like a vindicator is straight up. Ork boyz are probably the least flexible of all of these. But that also makes them one of the best. Get enough boyz, you WILL win. I've played games with orks, that I literally couldn't kill all of them even though I had two great turns of shooting before they broke my lines, and even though I had straken, priests, commissars, and every other trick in the book to make my men good in close combat, nothing worked, and we lost. There were just too many boyz.

Now these simple units are often ridiculed, for example thunderwolf cavalry, nob bikers, both are infamous and truly hated. As well as the vendetta and valkyrie. Every single army has that one simple unit, that is truly hated. Even tau... well... maybe not. Anywho, the thing with simple units is, when you're getting your ass kicked by them, just remember, you're smarter than them... weak punchline, but one I will stand by none the less.