[Levin]

I really like the in depth thought in this last post. Good work Raziel. In terms of a marine type army, assault is usually going to be nasty. Most units that actually want to assault marines are going to be brutal in cc. For this reason I suggest really tooling up your counter assault unit. You have to assume there's going to be a few power weapons in your opponents squad, so be careful. Squads with furious charge do really well in a counter assault scenario. In most cases you get to go first, meaning that your power weapons stand a good chance of killing his power weapons.

Assuming you're not a marine player, my prefered strategy is to stagger assault screens. We've already talked about some good ways to do this, but I think the best way is to space your front unit roughly 4" in front of the unit behind it. If all goes well, then they'll breeze through you on their assault phase, only to be left standing an inch away... That means its full auto mode for them. In most cases, this does the trick, but always have a 3rd line waiting close by to repeat this tactic. Sometimes it just goes wrong though, so it never hurts to bring some nasty CC units to the table. Sometimes that's just not an option, as most shooty armies don't take too many of these types of squads so it pays to play smart and consider what your opponent might, and can do worse case scenario.