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Originally Posted by Pabst  cool, thanks for the advice ill definatly take it into consideration and do some revision.
Also I gotta say im surprised at Stitch! Las in line squads?? I thought you were with me on the sacred doctrine of inf squads kill infantry, not stand around and watch the las cannon miss a tank. haha  |
that is the general rule of thumb 99% of the time.
however, if you're going to build the guard's most effective power gamer list, then you do break that rule and go for the lascannons... the idea here is to create the 'SIGAFH' principle - the nastiest the guard can do! (SIGAFH = Shooty Imperial Guard Army From Hell.)
the idea in this build type is that you throw down as much ap2 fire as possible, while leaving the mass hoards to your 3 russes. (who only take the hull heavy bolter because they must have a hull-mounted weapon!)
a typical SIGAFH army should be able to fit in between 18-24 lascannons along with at least a dozen or more plasma guns.
granted this list is 100% boring to play with and against, but it's pretty much fool-proof in that each shooting phase you're throwing out a bucket load of high ap fire at long range...
normally you'd deploy as far back as possible and never move an inch for any reason! if the guard get the first turn, they can usually cripple most opponent's within that 1st turn. (i once saw this build take-out roughly 1100pts of blood angels in a single shooting phase!
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cheers!