Who to kill first, General or BSB...??
Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 12:24 am
One of the most important rules that I think we are going to have to learn to combat effectively is the Steadfast rule. Essentially, an opponent who outranks us can take break tests on their (or their general's if in range) unmodified leadership, and if they are also in range of the BSB, they may be re-rolled. This makes even puny gobbos hard to deal with, as we druchii do not strive in protracted slog-fests.
So, we quickly realise that we need to take out either a) the general, or b) the BSB. But, which to do first? Is it better to negate the leadership bonus given to the troops by the general, or the re-roll from the BSB? Of course, ideally BOTH will die, but I'm just being a lil pesimistic here
Of course, there are a million different answers to this, more or less based on the relative tough-to-killness of the generals and BSBs in question, however for the purposes of this discussion I'm going to assume that either is just as easy to kill as the other.
With the outline above, we must consider for each whether or not a difference in leadership or the re-roll is most effective. Rather than give an exhaustive list of numbers to work it out, I thought I would just give a summary, though I'm happy to show the maths to those that want it.
NB: All the following statements are purely statistically based.
For a difference in leadership of 1 between the troop type and the general, it is more efficient to take out the BSB rather than the general if a troop has a leadership of 2 or greater.
For a difference in leadership of 2 between the troop type and the general, it is more efficient to take out the BSB rather than the general if a troop has a leadership of 3 or greater.
For a difference in leadership of 3 between the troop type and the general, it is ALWAYS more efficient to take out the general rather than the BSB (except if the troop's ld is 6 and general's is 9, in which case either is the same).
For any greater difference in leadership, it's always worth taking out the general.
As I said before, this does not take into account the relative difficulties of killing the general or the BSB, but hopefully now you have a rough idea of what is more effective in causeing your opponent to fail his leadership tests.
Cheers
So, we quickly realise that we need to take out either a) the general, or b) the BSB. But, which to do first? Is it better to negate the leadership bonus given to the troops by the general, or the re-roll from the BSB? Of course, ideally BOTH will die, but I'm just being a lil pesimistic here
Of course, there are a million different answers to this, more or less based on the relative tough-to-killness of the generals and BSBs in question, however for the purposes of this discussion I'm going to assume that either is just as easy to kill as the other.
With the outline above, we must consider for each whether or not a difference in leadership or the re-roll is most effective. Rather than give an exhaustive list of numbers to work it out, I thought I would just give a summary, though I'm happy to show the maths to those that want it.
NB: All the following statements are purely statistically based.
For a difference in leadership of 1 between the troop type and the general, it is more efficient to take out the BSB rather than the general if a troop has a leadership of 2 or greater.
For a difference in leadership of 2 between the troop type and the general, it is more efficient to take out the BSB rather than the general if a troop has a leadership of 3 or greater.
For a difference in leadership of 3 between the troop type and the general, it is ALWAYS more efficient to take out the general rather than the BSB (except if the troop's ld is 6 and general's is 9, in which case either is the same).
For any greater difference in leadership, it's always worth taking out the general.
As I said before, this does not take into account the relative difficulties of killing the general or the BSB, but hopefully now you have a rough idea of what is more effective in causeing your opponent to fail his leadership tests.
Cheers