Same, it certainly speeds up list building on paper but there's at least one annoying case that impacts me where Custodian Wardens can be taken in squads of 3 or 6 but they come in boxes of 5...
Suddenly some Custodian Guards are going to get a loincloth upgrade.
Other than limited physical models, is there any reason you'd ever want to take less than max unit size if you still have to pay points for the max size?
I guess to fit some units into poorly optimized transports? Any other reason now?
I've definitely taken max-1 unit sizes in the past, when my list comes out to like 2,025 points lmao.
It's still a transport thing, but not a poorly optimised transport thing: You can fit 2 meganobz and an 8-man burna squad with 7 Burnas and only one Spanna in a Trukk. The extra burna and extra spanna might not matter much compared to having a second unit in the transport. (This is effected by the fact that spannas have been somehwat a downside of a mandatory upgrade - now that weapons are free I'm not sure how much a second kmb and a burna is worth vs the meganobz.)
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LambdaZero@kbin.social · 0 pts · 3y
Damn, beat me to it!
Interesting that they went the AoS way of pricing squads for min-max size in most cases with wargear options being free.
Sigismund@kbin.social · 0 pts · 3y
I both love and hate the squad size changes.
LambdaZero@kbin.social · 0 pts · 3y
Same, it certainly speeds up list building on paper but there's at least one annoying case that impacts me where Custodian Wardens can be taken in squads of 3 or 6 but they come in boxes of 5...
Suddenly some Custodian Guards are going to get a loincloth upgrade.
shepherd@kbin.social · 0 pts · 3y
Other than limited physical models, is there any reason you'd ever want to take less than max unit size if you still have to pay points for the max size?
I guess to fit some units into poorly optimized transports? Any other reason now?
I've definitely taken max-1 unit sizes in the past, when my list comes out to like 2,025 points lmao.
leftbower@kbin.social · 2 pts · 3y
It's still a transport thing, but not a poorly optimised transport thing: You can fit 2 meganobz and an 8-man burna squad with 7 Burnas and only one Spanna in a Trukk. The extra burna and extra spanna might not matter much compared to having a second unit in the transport. (This is effected by the fact that spannas have been somehwat a downside of a mandatory upgrade - now that weapons are free I'm not sure how much a second kmb and a burna is worth vs the meganobz.)