Typical pawn spam. Yawn.

>>14586338
It's a pretty standard army, usually for white in tournies.

Unless op is running Chaos White in which case wtf r u doin

I'm only upset that I've been browsing this board for ~3 years, and have not seen this before.

I really feel like i should have seen this much sooner.

ditch the king, it's not worth the points. It's worse than just leaving the points empty... Any good player will try to kill it and just watch your army flee off the board

really why the fuck would you take a king? Even another pawn would be more useful since you can use that retarded promotion mechanic

>>14586323


>1 Troop

Your list is illegal.

What's the funniest is when an opponent runs an all-queen list against my all-pawn list. (Although sometimes I throw in a single knight to make things interesting.)

1E was so much better. Queen instead of vizier? Please.

knights are fast attack dude

The queen is totally overpowered as an HQ, I mean, unrestricted movement? Cheesy.
The elites look good I guess, I just never got the hang of using knights.
Troops, don't expect these guys to do much, bu the diagonal attack is kind of cool.
Rooks as heavies? I guess, but they're not as useful as bishops.

I'm still waiting for the codex update, I swear it's been like a couple hundred years since they updated the army.

>He uses pawns

>Laughing Queen Army.jpg

Dude, why are you playing the Chessperium? That shit is weak. Go with the Xianqi or something.

>>14586323
i'd drop the bishops, pick an extra rook, at throw in however many troops you can get for what you have left

>>14586323
this...this is so vanilla it's not even funny

jesus christ

Have SOME originality to step out of this list. I know it's the tried-and-true list of nigh-everyone for, what, centuries, but still.

At least dump four of the pawns for another rook.

>>14586323
Do rookspam OP. Drop the Queen. She's too high-priority. Sure, she's a fearsome beast, but too easy to lucky-shot if you're not being careful not to rush her at your opponent's non-Pawns.

Drop the Queen, a Knight and Bishop, and all but 4 Pawns for another FIVE Rooks.

That is SEVEN rooks on your side of the table. FUCKING SEVEN.

Drop the Queen, that shit is a waste of points. Invest in improving your pawns so they can reach the end quick and become Queens for free.

>>14586462
But if he does that, will he have enough troops to cap points?

King is a pretty crap choice for a bait if you're not prepared to castle. Just sayin'. You could get by with fewer pawns, but I'd at least keep three if you're going kingside (four if you want the option of queenside).

>Fielding Kings
lol

How about this? Like the paint job?

I know its a noob army, but there really is strategy involved. Yeah, I know the movement is crappy both in how far you can go and how you're limited to 50% of the board, but if you don't have that much money, this is definitely the way to go. Anyone can just pick up this army and away you go.

Why aren't you playing the Checkers?

>>14586490
He has enough specials that he can rely on playing obliteration instead of taking and holding points. His remaining pawns can just cap easy target objectives.
Actually...OP has way too many specials. Playing this sort of balanced list is so boring OP. Everyone does it because they can't comprehend higher strategy using variant lists. Hell, just because the Grandmasters do it, doesn't mean you should, OP.

>mwf I play Knight Spam

>>14586323
OP.

Do this:

HQ:
King (mandatory)

Troops:
40 Pawns

DROWN THE ENEMY IN A NEVER ENDING ADVANCE OF MOOKS

Gentlemen I propose the next "/tg/ gets shit done" project:

CHESS CODEX: 2ND EDITION

>>14586424
>Implying a Queen army without pawn support stands a CHANCE against an all-pawn army when they'll be outnumbering you damn near 6 to 1 and you're trading 1 queen for every pawn you kill as they slowly swarm your ass.

Meh,that army would fall easily against a Stratego.

>>14586568
>implying pawn spam > knight spam

Especially with the newest codex, Walter Marde is such a nook sucker but what can you do

>>14586565
>Read: Knightmare Chess

>>14586561
>40+1 units
YOU'RE GOING TO BE RIGHT UP AGAINST THE ENEMY ARMY

>>14586561

Go away, it's idiots like you that are killing this game. Dammit, I've been playing this since 2nd edition, and I remember when it actually took STRATEGY to win, now it's just PAWN RUSH KEKEKE all day.

And don't even get me started on that fucking Queen. Most OP piece of shit on the board. I used to kick ass with my Bishops, now I just spend the entire game getting chased around by them because "FUCK YOU I CAN MOVE HORIZONTALLY".

Man, everyone always does the same ol' black or white colors for their armies. I wanna see a red and green army square it off one day.

>>14586561
Seriously this. Pawns hit just as hard as a queen without the mobility, and as long as there are no objectives other than "Kill the HQ" the mobility doesn't really provide you that much of an advantage when you're that heinously outnumbered.

Although, Pawn-spam can do alright in most objective games ANYWAYS as well since you'll be taking up half the damn board with your initial deployment.

Honestly, with my pawn-heavy list I have only lost like one or two of my fifty odd games with them. (I usually take one knight, sometimes I run him as my HQ but I'm usually pretty gutsy with him so I usually stick with the cheaper king piece) Queen/Rook/Bishop-heavy armies all get mauled to hell and back. Anyone who tells you the are able to win with those kinds of armies is playing in a weak fucking meta with nothing but trash players.

Going up against another identical pawn army just ends up being a case of whoever goes first wins.
The only opponent that's ever given me a run for my money without relying on first turn with the same list was a combined arms knight+pawn list where he was able to open up holes with his pawns so he could safely position his knights to then jump all the way into my back lines. It was a tough game.

...pic related?

>>14586650
Actually, I hear that the queen-knight combos work really well if you play it right. All you have to do is use the knights to play hit-and-run, running your opponent all over the board, and have the queen finish off the stragglers. Still really difficult for beginners to learn, though.

>>14586649
It's the fluff's fault. Seriously the only Black & White Library book that has another color is Through The Looking Glass, what with the Red Queen and King.

>>14586735
Maybe so, but the Bishop's Heresy is pretty kickass. I just finished "A Thousand Pawns," and that shit was epic.

>>14586599
YES. YES. THIS IS WHAT I WANT.

>>14586711
No, Whoever told you that is retarded. Queens are NOT WORTH THEIR POINTS. Knights require more finesse than anything else in the game to use right and are usually the biggest game changers.

Yeah, sure, your "Queen can pick off the stragglers" but there's kind of the issue of there being what, 9 pawns for every queen? And 9 pawns are able to cover themselves pretty well. Enough of them and they can pretty consistently cover themselves.

To break a proper pawn swarm (anyone with brains enough to use it better than a retard) you HAVE to sacrifice SOMETHING. And in a Knight+Queen list you just DON'T have the pieces to sacrifice. Unless you're planning on using your queens as sacrifices so you can break their lines with your knights, but if you're doing that you'd be better off taking any other piece, particularly pawns. Or, like you're suggesting, send your knights in to their deaths so the queens can mop up the things that murder the queen the moment she kills a single one.

Jesus, you fucks are retarded.

>>14586789
It was good, but I'm wondering when they are going to make a book about the fucking Grey Pawns.

Have you guys looked into the Seirawan expansion? It's not official fluff, but the Elephant and Hawk are amazing.

>>14586816
Ah, those. They like were originally known as the Gray Pawns, but due to legal reasons couldn't appear until someone realized that Grey Pawns was a reacharound. They appeared in one story in Heroes of the White Pawns, I believe.

>>14586816
Gomo is supposed to that one in June. Probably going to be shit after he wrote "The Lone Rook". Doesn't he know that Rooks CAN'T move diagonally?

OP, where's your ranged support?
Your army is so melee heavy it sickens me. My King + Queen + 6 Archers + 8 pawns would wreck your shit, and that's a scrub army

Hey guys, total noob here. Just wondering... is it actually even possible to beat a complete pawnspam list? I know, I know, once you get to the back row they're toast, but I can't get to the back without sacrificing one unit for each row of pawns. I'd consider deepstriking, but then I've got maybe 2 rooks at the back, and they just can't do the damage fast enough. What am I missing?

>>14586874
Yeah, the only fucker as bad as him is Max Ward. Fucker ruined the Stratego Codex's fluff.

Fuck your Queen Spam, once my Pawns reach your side, shit son, PROMOTIONS everwhere

>>14586904
You have to assassin run their king, it's the only way. In a straight fight, their numbers will just obliterate you, but pawns can't move backwards, evade and strike!

Once the next edition brings out Assassin, pawnspam will be a thing of the past (assassins don't provoke attacks except from elite unites)

Someone needs to archive this.

>>14586961
Fucking Slurks are annoying to put onto the gameboard. I hate it whenever one of my friends comes over and fields an assassin.

In the Grim Darkness of the Far Future there is only white and black squares.

>this thead
/tg/ I love you

>>14586700
The similarities are already noted. >>14587167

Is this thread worthy of Archive? I'm not sure myself.

>>14587199
It's 50-some-odd posts, so, no
Not yet

I'm playing a Slaaneshi Chaos White army. Any tips?

>>14587229
>Slaanesh
>white

before or....after?

>>14587229
Remember that Slaaneshi Chaos pawns get Promotions for En Passant

>>14587229
Buy the hottest looking Queen you can find.

>>14587266
If I only had that "I've never been turned on by chess pieces before" image...

I myself tend to use Aces as my HQ.

Why does /tg/ say Shogi is a weeaboo army? Are you also going to say that Xiang Qi is a a Chinky army?

I play Xiang Qi and my ranged support is fuckwin, to say nothing of my elephants. You gonna send your pawnspam? Good luck getting in my palace.

>>14587360
Shogi isn't a weeaboo army. Go is.

>>14587442
Go is an all deep-striking army, it could either rock or completely suck. Especially since they got nerfed in the new update.

Throw some paratrooper stones into that mix. Sure, they can't move once they're down, but the surround+capture rule makes them crazy OP if you can drive your opponent to the edges.

Also, I played against a guy running a Mahjongg build last week and got my ass handed to me. Anyone know how to beat Spring+Summer combo? (He followed it up with quad North, just to humiliate me. Fucker.)

AbstractStrategyGamesHammer 40k is the best.

They have announced that they are remaking the first army for AbstractStragetyGamesHammer 40k, Senet. I myself am happy for this.

>>14587581
>surround+capture rule makes them crazy OP
Dude, their aggro's not why they're OP. Read their special rule again. They give you a win condition for surrounding table area EVEN WHEN IT'S NOT AN OBJECTIVE-BASED GAME. It's based on an old edition, because they haven't updated the codex in, like, THOUSANDS of years, but it's still technically valid.

>>14587698
Haven't you fucking read the errata?

Dudes I want an army with a small amount of expensive but very powerful units. Any recommendatory?

>>14587804
Yeah, and they don't fucking mention it once. They're too busy updating their faggy Mary Sue chess codexes. Pawns can practically move and shoot on the OPPONENT'S turn now.

>>14587914
Yeah. Fucking fluff with its "Gary Kasparov is the spiritual liege of all pieces".

>>14587956
I loved Bobby Fischer's Anti-Semitic Crusade. He's such a putz.

I was thinking about this the other day, since the pieces have an assigned value (generally, there is some differences in opinion on the values but whatever), could you field an army of different pieces but equal points and have the game be balanced?

Bump.

>>14587988
Failscher, you armless racist, when will you ever learn?

I was actually thinking of fielding a Pre-Heresy Black Army. Basically, more Bishops and Rooks in place of a Queen since they weren't produced yet. What do you think?

>>14587988

Mikhail Tal is god-tier.

And no, just balancing by valuations is insufficient.

Bumping.