London GT

[Jack Shrapnel]

some take aways from the London GT army spread from Nick Navananti - interesting read:

thebrownmagic.com/2018/05/22/london-gt-results-breakdown/

[Frosty the Pirate]

I found it really useful to get rough list breakdowns within the factions, because not all lists are built the same way.

It's pretty easy to see why Guard/DE/Eldar all did very well in context of his explanation, heavy alpha-strike armies like Elves & Guard are going to pound you into dust in the first couple turns and then don't have to worry about catching up to you on a progressive scoring mission due to the tabling rule. You can see why the ITC favors progressive scoring missions.

[Frosty the Pirate]

Interesting post-report from London GT by Reece

www.frontlinegaming.org/2018/06/11/astra-militarum-go-5-0-at-the-london-gt-part-1/

The title is a bit misleading, as he was playing ~1600 points of guard and 400pts of custodes (through maybe not what units or why you think)

I think this is starting to show why some builds like the Cadian Gunline aren't necessarily the way to go. I'd like to see the version that doesn't have Custodes added to it as it would be quite interesting imo. I've seen quite a few battle reports showing that heavily infantry based guard supported by tanks can work really well rather than the "normal" mindset of tanks + bubble wrap, and Blob Up and playing Catchans is such a key part of having that work.

Reece mentions in the article one of his suggested uses of Blob Up is to move a depleted squad's heavy/special weapons into a full strength squad to prevent giving up KP and losing said heavy/specials, which is a neat use of it I haven't seen in other bat reps featuring guard yet. I've mostly seen it to bubble wrap a heavy weapons team.

[thesanityassassin]

Any list that stars Bullgryns is a winner in my book.

[Jack Shrapnel]

Jun 11, 2018 12:50:44 GMT -5 thesanityassassin said:

Any list that stars Bullgryns is a winner in my book.

Reece LOVES Bullgryns...