Good call, pati. You are right. Six stands sounds great. So, 300 for six teleporting assault stands and a chappie? I like it!!
Dobbsy, let's make this happen!!!
Thanks, Jimmy for the peace-maker post. Yes, you are right - I truly have spent a lot of time and energy on this, and then to have my comments dismissed out of hand by someone in the peanut gallery is demoralizing and frustrating. Writing those batreps takes me about two hours, not to mention the time spent taking pictures during the game, writing notes, etc.
The reason for the big formations was that I was running a list very close to a list that Dobbsy specifically asked me to use. The BTS unit, in particular, is a unit that Dobbsy requested I use. I would not normally have taken a list like this.
As far as the supporting / crossfiring of the Ork BTS, again, I think it's hard to understand unless you were actually there. That Big Warband was close by, which meant lots of potential supporting Ork fire, and I was very limited in what units I had available to dedicate to taking the Stompa Mob out. I had to at least make feints at his objectives to take some of the heat off of the units in my half of the table, which, as you can see, worked out when he pulled his big warband and Stompa mob away to deal with them, thus giving me TSNP. When I am making feints at enemy objectives and trying to protect my own at the same time, with seven activations, it becomes very difficult to do much else.
very good idea -the best since the start of the discussion about Assault Marines! just need to be balanced well -with Termies+Commanders, they can be devastating..
good for megageddon/big battles!