HughB wrote:Yeah fair point about the play style of what you face. A similar thing could be said of some ysian builds. If a lot of the stuff you're facing is big smash mouth frenzied units then attacking the chain of command wont have a huge effect - it would mean you've got more chance of going first though each turn (presuming you're not facing a tarvax tain as the general of course - battle drunes may be beefed up but not nearly enough to take on tarvax characters in single combat).
You're right about the battle drune not being as effective when not facing 30mm characters. Most kindreds would tend to use a human as a general however, particularly at reasonably large points totals so in a meta of several kindreds, you've got less chance of the assassin being useless. I think thats an important point about whatever unit you're using on assassin duty though. If it's something that is relatively cheap, losing it or having it not be particularly effective is less of a problem. It also means that if your assassin platform is cheap, there's scope for having a few of them. So a unit or two of ambushing bowmen and a character on a horse say. I hadn't thought of the lone wizard with a snipey spell. Not a bad shout but not particularly cheap and so probably a reasonable target themselves for character assassination.
Hmm. Food for thought. Thanks Jon.
No worries, the sniper wizard usually sits in an archer bunker in my experience and spear of ice as an example is a very long range spell. I'm not as clued up on all the pick a model spells whether they are sight and have decent range but its always an option to consider.
I think one of the two best options are ambushing waelwulfs with the claw upgrades or a unit of Guthwulfs coming out of a wood, howl then pick a target. Buckets of attack dice, massive threat range and if you get the ambush off the target can't react. It is terrain dependent though but as an Anglecynn player one wood at minimum should be on the board.
Very true regarding human generals, in my local meta I'm that guy where as with my two opponents one almost always uses a Gorgon with other 60mm characters and the other almost always uses a tarvax tain with a 30mm characters the general being more fluid. I suppose in a event or player rich environment the odds of having your death strike Ysian noble standing there going 'well my trick is void' is reduced. though I have been tempted to run more theme lists recently, all draigs as an example, so its a tricky one to balance.
I'd also suspect running into Infernii makes the whole how to assassinate a bit harder too.