Tactix skaven vs ONG
My regular sparring partner has a cheesy little trick. There might be more to it but from memory he likes to bring a big horde of night goblin archers with a spider banner bsb. Only a small difference with the poison affect but the horde means the law of averages really catches up with me. I can never deal with the tar pit because of screening units employed against me that demand a response like mangler squigs and the like. This means they get several vollys off and often remain out of reach the whole game, decimating my units.
Im very much a rookie and he is a few levels above me in terms of grasp and tactics.
I would like to appeal to the community for ideas to deal with this.
Im not quite sure how crush embedded BSBs that are out of reach but since he loves this tactic and will most certainly do it again next game.
I imagine the go is to bring an assassin and try my luck?
Does anyone have an idea to help me counter this??
If something i have said doesnt make sense then i am probably wrong fyi. I have only ever played like 4 or so games and really struggle with the flow Ta
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An assassin might work to deal with the BSB but have you considered just trying to kill the unit from range instead?
Try look at bringing some artillery to deal with the unit outside of their range. Something like a plague claw or some poison wind mortars to just mess with the unit from range. Given how squishy goblins are one or two decent hits will decimate the unit and drastically reduce how much damage they can put out
Working_Bass3785 [OP] 1 points · Feb 2024
Isnt it a shame i built both of my artillery units as WLCs then! Haha i do have plenty of poison wind weapons teams though i thought they were better reserved for armored matchups. I have very much leaned away from pestilens. I have a heap of monks all in sprue still.
Jurassic_Red 2 points · Feb 2024
Cannons might work, you’ll just need to ensure you have a clean LoS to them and you might be getting a bit close for comfort with an average of just ~28 inches in range. Even then you might not get enough hits on the unit to properly make a dent.
Maybe look at using magic to try and bring the unit down, there’s a fair few decent blasting spells that can mess up a unit and the cloud of corruption blocks LoS so will also help reduce the damage they do with ranged attacks