The only thing to watch out for is if there’s a nice little corridor of LoS blocking terrain, does your opponent have anything you don’t want your assault squad fighting that can get into the corridor, or nearby that juicy target unit? If there is you’re about to get sucker punched.

So basically this vid is a sorta roundabout way of saying “Hoi use cover u fool”…
AWSOME!!!

This tactic is both amazing AND the most obvious tactic to use… …if you’re playing a game where the only unit the enemy has is a Predator, and the only units you have is a squad with jump packs and a Rhino. Most of the tactics given these vids are absurdly specific. They rely on the table being set out in such a way that you might encounter the scenarios where the tactics are useful once in your entire gaming career – if you’re lucky. It’s like saying “If you’re a unit of devistators with missile launchers, and you’re against… Read more »

“It’s only a Rhino”

That is a sizable investment of Imperial Capital not to mention the Space Marine crewman who drives the Rhino. That transport represents the labour of some hundred Imperial citizens.

Darrell is so callous!

Seriously, though, what I’m getting at is – Yeah, the tactics Darrel shows us seem amazing, and cheesy, but the fact is, the scenarios he sets up for these tactics are so insanely rare that they’re essentially useless. Never, in my whole time of playing 40k, have any of his tactics come in useful.

Case in point, if I ever tried the tactics in this video, I could guarantee my jump pack marines would be shot up by something other than the predator on turn 1.

This whole tactic relies on the Predator being the only model the enemy has – if there was even a scout squad with boltguns tehre, too, then the Assault Marines would get rinced. The same can be said for all his tactics, they rely too heavily on insanely specific scenarios. I’d love to see one single batrep where he actually shows how these tactics are useful. Show us one game where it’s possible to spend 4 turns getting the assault amrines up the other end of the table and it actually pays off, as opposed to spending 2 turns getting… Read more »

I like the obvious as I miss it some much. Don’t listen to the fools that can’t learn anything. Keep it going for the mortals please.

I have to agree, even though that is a good tactic, it would be pointless. I’m Space Wolf and out of everyone i play you cant really waste time hiding. yeah use cover and block line of sight. But were marines and we can’t waste four turns trying to take out one model even if its a tank. We have to do damage too so if we block line of sight of the enemy than you block yours. anyways what if you come up upon a barrage or indirect firing unit, than you are dead anyways, with jump inf. such… Read more »

If you are an experienced gamer with many games under your belt against other seasoned 40k veterans then watching simple hint and tactic videos Darrell presents.. (at no cost to yourself other than a few minutes observation) …well…you’re obviously going to be wasting your time, as you know it all already/do it better and don’t understand that sometimes a simple demonstation of a tactics use needs to be taken in abstract context to get the basic idea across to a new player, because OFC you’re a tactical genius. We get it.