New inceptor ability idea

[DemonGSides]

I think 20 man blobs are neat.

 

Hell, I even like 25 man blobs.

Edited Wednesday at 10:39 PM by DemonGSides

[Inquisitor_Lensoven]

On 4/23/2025 at 6:39 PM, DemonGSides said:

I think 20 man blobs are neat.

 

Hell, I even like 25 man blobs.

Until you hand out extra attacks to blast weapons, and can’t hide the unit sufficiently.

[Helias_Tancred]

Assault bolters or plasma incinerators?

 

 

[HeadlessCross]

1 hour ago, Helias_Tancred said:

Assault bolters or plasma incinerators?

 

 

Depends what you need them to do. No straight answer for this one. 

2 hours ago, Inquisitor_Lensoven said:

Until you hand out extra attacks to blast weapons, and can’t hide the unit sufficiently.

But your claim is 20 man blobs of anything aren't used, and that's strictly untrue. 

[Tacitus]

4 hours ago, Inquisitor_Lensoven said:

Until you hand out extra attacks to blast weapons, and can’t hide the unit sufficiently.

That's what Grots and Guards are for.

[Helias_Tancred]

22 hours ago, HeadlessCross said:

Depends what you need them to do. No straight answer for this one. 

But your claim is 20 man blobs of anything aren't used, and that's strictly untrue. 

 

Yeah, for what I normally have them do the rules and stats of the assault boaters is winning me over versus the plasma incinerators. 

 

 

[Inquisitor_Lensoven]

On 4/25/2025 at 5:43 PM, HeadlessCross said:

Depends what you need them to do. No straight answer for this one. 

But your claim is 20 man blobs of anything aren't used, and that's strictly untrue. 

I didn’t say no one used them, I said they’re not commonly used.

 

On 4/25/2025 at 7:16 PM, Tacitus said:

That's what Grots and Guards are for.

Or…and stick with me…you take 2 10 man squads and get the same number of everything without giving away free attacks to blast weapons.

[Tacitus]

4 hours ago, Inquisitor_Lensoven said:

I didn’t say no one used them, I said they’re not commonly used.

 

Or…and stick with me…you take 2 10 man squads and get the same number of everything without giving away free attacks to blast weapons.

You're saying 10 man squads don't give up extra Blast attacks?

 

Hey aren't you the guy who said VGV were better than Inceptors?

[Karhedron]

7 hours ago, Inquisitor_Lensoven said:

Or…and stick with me…you take 2 10 man squads and get the same number of everything without giving away free attacks to blast weapons.

 

Big squads have the advantage that they get more value out of stratagems and attached characters.

[DemonGSides]

Yeah it's not just a black and white thing, which makes sense and should be true; sometimes you'll want just 5 guys because you're snagging objectives or doing missions.  Other times you'll want to be able to boost a big unit of guys to do some damage (Not that Guard blobs are doing that, but once again, the third reason is because sometimes fielding lots of guys is just fun!).