Can an Army Survive without having a Special Attack?

[Buddy Lee]

Given the newest expansions (Nakita, Ninjas, Deathreavers) and some old ones (Drake, Samurai) can an army be effective without having a good Special Attack unit in its make-up?

Thoughts?

Buddy Lee

[justjohn]

I think so.

You can still rush those units. I think the ninjas are a bigger threat than the Nakita on their own, but I think the Nakita are the new must have support unit.

Either way, they can be dealt with without special attacks.

[CornPuff]

Special attacks are just more complicated ways to deal the pain. They still have percentage likelihoods of success and expected wounds caused.

There are a couple types of special attacks that I can think of:
Multi-Target: DW9k's explosion, Mimring's Fire Line, Nilfheim's Ice Shard
Straight Damage: Deadeye's Ullar Enhanced Rifle, Arrow Volley
MultiShot: Blood Hungry SA, Rapid Fire SA, Queglix gun

All of these can be recreated with a squad of attacking units, except for the explosions. Sometimes the enemy will bunched so that you can hit 6 or 7 targets with an explosion, but that is rare.

I think Special Attacks aren't necessary for a force to be effective, but there are many times when a special attack is the best counter to an enemies draft.

such as

Q9 vs Gorillinators
Deadeye vs Minions
DW8k vs Venocs

[BRUNAK]

Maybe-ish

[War Solves Everything]

Special attacks are what decrease figures like Sgt. Drake, Natika's and Ninja's. You should at least have one special attack in one army, but you could survive without them.

[BRUNAK]

True dat :)