Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Brainstorm: Why don't I like Loganwing?

Or, a thought experiment.

Lets say I were to start logan wing. If you don't know, Loganwing is the term for Wolf Guard heavy space wolf armies (with Logan Grimnar as the HQ) if you take five man squads you can have a terminator with a cyclone launcher in those squads, quite strong for 5th edition. As a friend put it, "It's an army that excels at killing mech, without having any mech of it's own."

My problem is, if I played loganwing, all the majority of my army would do, would be wander around and shoot missiles. I happen to like high mobility. So, what is highly mobile and can still make loganwing quite strong....DROP PODS! So, my logan wing would probably involve a lot of drop pods and combi-weapon wolf guard, I may actually trade-down a few CMLs for Assault cannons in this case, to make sure I have suppression fire (especially against AV14).

But why would I do this? Podding down takes away one of their big advantages, which is being able to open fire on you from turn 1, and keep the pressure up. The reason? My playstyle. Everyone has a playstyle it seems, they have builds that they like, and playstyles that they like. Personally, I like charging up and jumping out of my transport to go kill something. (note: this is a pretty bad tactic most of the time) I think there's also something about me not wanting to do things that other people have done. I want to do new things, to explore new territory. I'm not interested in tried and tested tactics, I want to try something new and unique. If I do use tried and true tactics, I do it in my own way.

So this is why I don't play Loganwing.

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