Blasts or Stingers?

[XDVincent]

Originally Posted by orcelfarmyone

No way are they better than 4th Mass! And they're not better than Stingers or Trons. Stingers have 3 defense, which goes a long way against range, and a better attack of starting with 3, and have drain. The Trons have board control, Glads stop opposing range, and boost the Blasts. Also, the 2nd in most people's opinion part is incorrect. The 4th, Trons, and Stingers are rated A, and 10th are rated A-. The 4th, Trons, and Stingers are Tier 1, while 10th are Tier 2, but may be boosted up to the BOTTOM of Tier 1.

I don't know, I never gotten the glad and blasts to work all to well, it's a good combo, but really the blasts are only as good as your opponent allows. The stingers are too dice reliant for me to say they are better than the 10th, power rankings include how good they are with other units, so I don't really think they should be relied on in this situation. I'd agree with Major, they are a close 2nd, and really compete with 4th for best. Especially on their own. If you gave me equal points of each unit, I'd take the 10th, then 4th, then stingers then blasts.

[Major Q23]

Originally Posted by orcelfarmyone

No way are they better than 4th Mass! And they're not better than Stingers or Trons. Stingers have 3 defense, which goes a long way against range, and a better attack of starting with 3, and have drain. The Trons have board control, Glads stop opposing range, and boost the Blasts. Also, the 2nd in most people's opinion part is incorrect. The 4th, Trons, and Stingers are rated A, and 10th are rated A-. The 4th, Trons, and Stingers are Tier 1, while 10th are Tier 2, but may be boosted up to the BOTTOM of Tier 1.

I've been thinking about the 10th/4th debate a lot lately, and I have decided to agree with much of the Herscspe community in saying the 4th are(slightly) better then the 10th. GenCon really opened my eyes to that argument. But back to what the thread is about. I think Stingers are better than the Trons. When ever I play vs Trons I just concentrate on completely taking out either their Blast or their Glads. That army is severely hurt with out their counterpart, rendering them significantly weakend. Singers have 1 more defense dice and their ability to easily get 3 attacks of 5(drain+height) is hard to over look. Also, a Stinger army consist of more attackers then a Glad/Bast build, example:
2 Glads and 2 Blast: 280 points, 8 attackers
4 Stingers: 240 points(less), 12 attackers(more)