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Originally Posted by Gnr. Keil  I still don't like it. | Low armor save armies always have the meat shields they use to cause havoc in the enemy army with minimal casualties of useful personnel
look at the orcs... they use grots as a screen for their boyz so that the grotz take the casualties and the more costly boyz do not... essentialy you are paying the 4 pts per model to get more wounds for everyone else in the army the conscripts arn't good at shooting they are a force designed to get hit by the enemy and keep ticking... you run them right up the middle and they have the toughness and armor save of a regular guardsmen but are much cheaper (relatively... 1/3 less then a regular guardsmen) and if you take some flamers then they are extremely cheap yet effective against infantry in the extreme... 10 points for a model that has the ability to remove 5-6 other models from the enemy... 5 flamers firing on one marine unit then charging in will most likely destroy the marine unit also the dry rush from guardsmen up front is scary to shooting armies because you can lock thier shooting units into close combat because you can absorb most everything they throw at ya and still get there...
Personally i would take WS and BS of 1 if they lowered the points cost to about 2 or 3 points per model... i love the mass infantry guard army... i have one planned where i have 300 models in 1500 pts... i only cut out about 50 or so and take some vehicles... it is devistating...
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