Hello all,
I wanted to start a thread for Daemons concerned with Deep Strike only and how to go about it. Having experimented with different styles I have come to the following conclusions:
1. By DS away from the enemy and amassing your forces you put yourself in their crosshairs for a minimum of 2 turns. This tactic involves DS in the center or your table edge away from the enemy. Despite trying to amass, the shear volumn of firepower that most armies can put out will often decimate that measly half of an army you deploy with. This tactic has worked for me (and still testing) in games of capture and control where the enemy is fast and coming at you. Specifically I used this against DE raider force and made him forgo shooting to close with me. Later turns allowed me to DS on his obj while he fought over my home obj. USE RARELY
2. DS in the enemy's face. This can be risky with mishaps, but the end result is to saturate the enemy's fronts with enough deadly units that something will survive to assualt the next turn. Combine this with several Breath attacks and you may do some serious damage. This is a tactic I see, and use most often. The goal is to only weather one round of shooting from the opponent before massing your charge. Theoritically units that arrive in subsequent turns will reinforcing the combats you have committed and further block the movement of the enemy. USE AGAINST MOST OPPONENTS
3. Nothing is more annoying than seeing your prized monster or unit blown away via shooting before it even had a chance to move. But this happens often esp for Greater Daemons and banner units. Try taking the attention away from your opponent by 'selling' another target unit. For instance, when I send in my BT and BL w/ banner in the same wave you better believe that the enemy will light up the BT. But by DS the BLs close and talking up the threat they, and their banner, pose in subsequent turns you might be able to keep the fire away from the big fellow. This also works very well with large units of PB. Either the opponent will try everything to get rid of them bc they can tie up a large amount of units; or ignore them completely and suffer from the ulitmate tarpit.
I know this is a large rant but Im on the run and wanted to spit this out for some feedback. Please post any comments, questions or additional tactics here so we can have a working library to use against the enemy. DS is both our greatest tool and foe and by learning it and utilizing it effectively we can scare the pants off of our enemies!