I’ve just lucked into the halfling halves of three Storm in the Shire boxes at a price I couldn’t resist. Now I have to figure out how to build them, though. I’ll do at least one troop, possibly more, of rifles, but for the rest I’m stuck between Spearspikes and Braves. At the regiment size, it looks like 10 points buys me phalanx and three attacks, which seems like a great deal. Am I missing something? The one potential advantage I see to braves is the ability to take the legion, and I’m not sure how often I’d want to do that.
I’ve only played one game of 4th, and did a demo of 3rd a couple years ago, so I’m not sure how useful things are. Any advice would be appreciated!
no, you dont miss anthying here. It is a choise, allmost every army must make. Do i take the bonus of spears or do you save some points there. If you want to field just more, the the braves are your best choise. Because over an army with 4 or more units, this adds up and can mean you have to leave a spell for you caster at home.
The extra attacks aren’t a massive amount of use, even in hordes, given me5+, but Phalanx definitely is handy - especially as most cavalry got their TC bumped up.
It massively increases the chance of a regiment taking a cavalry charge from a knight reg and still being there (needing 4+ to rout braves to needing 9+ to rout spearspikes).
However, the extra points do add up and with all terrain being hindering you could just partially hide braves in woods
I think I’m leaning in the direction of assembling half of them as braves and half as spears, and just see what works. Or maybe play a couple games with them blue-tacked to the base and with no arms. That might be easiest.
One option is to do “troops” of braves and spears and then put them together for a regiment with the front “troop” the one you’re using in that game. This can allow some flexibility and is useful if you may be expanding further. Downside is that it’s easier to do cool basing on a full regiment size base rather than a troop size one.
Yeah, I think I’m building as troops rather than regiments just for convenience. I like the flexibility for smaller games. I’m figuring to do everything in troops, and do regimental and horde bases that I can attach the troops to with magnets. It only adds a few millimeters to the height, and as I said, I like the flexibility. Also it’s nice to see completed bases when painting. I’m not into building super-detailed bases anyway, I mostly just want to get things on the table. (Though I’ve got to say I seriously admire people who put the work in to make fantastic bases… I wish I had that kind of patience!)
