Our good pal the BSB

Ryuking22 · Post by **Ryuking22** » Fri Sep 20, 2002 2:53 am

Lets face it, that unit of knights is terrifying, so is that mighty hero on his monster, and so is that arcane being of energy that is about to toast your ass.

But one truly amazing sight to behold is a BSB. With their huge symbol, they just seem to capture and incarnate the enemy lines.

I've made this thread to see where you personally believe it is most stratigical to place your BSB.

Dantrag · Post by **Dantrag** » Fri Sep 20, 2002 3:07 am

I have only ever fielded one once and that was with my COK unit using the hydra banner. An oldy but a goody. The reroll on LD tests was also useful...

Leithel and odd · Post by **Leithel and odd** » Fri Sep 20, 2002 4:27 am

It's a little rare for me to have large foot troop units. I like to keep it at 1 or two so often the BSB isn't worth it. But when I do take it I put it in a foot troops unit, corsairs spearmen or EXES or something like that. I don't mount him because well I've found he's (or she's) a little more inneffective in a COK or Chariot and more likely to die from bad luck.

Yeurl · Post by **Yeurl** » Fri Sep 20, 2002 9:01 am

I usually field him on foot. I don't trust the COKs to do their work, so I usually leave him as a backup for my infantry units.

Post by **Thanee** » Fri Sep 20, 2002 11:54 am

Either on a Cold One (for a truely nightmarish unit), or on foot, altho mounting him in a Chariot also has a certain appeal to it...

Bye
Thanee

Kaleth_blackheart · Post by **Kaleth_blackheart** » Fri Sep 20, 2002 12:57 pm

I put my BSB in my unit of 18 strong CoK along with my army general, belive me nothing has ever beaten this unit in combat :twisted:

Post by **Lord Thalack** » Fri Sep 20, 2002 1:00 pm

I would put my BSB on a cold one and in a unit COK, and ofcourse give him Hydra Banner

Bye
Lord Thalack

Fallen angel · Post by **Fallen angel** » Fri Sep 20, 2002 3:56 pm

Kaleth_Blackheart wrote:I put my BSB in my unit of 18 strong CoK along with my army general, belive me nothing has ever beaten this unit in combat

Somehow that does not surprise me.... lets see, that's 18x29+45+211 (presuming Hydra Banner)+270ish (presuming highborn) = 1048 points.

Can you say POINT SINK?

Fallen Angel

The word of pain · Post by **The word of pain** » Fri Sep 20, 2002 8:01 pm

I always use him with the Knights..............obvious really, although a friend of mine puts him in with his Black Guard, that's quite nasty too. :lol:

Hell Knight · Post by **Hell Knight** » Fri Sep 20, 2002 8:15 pm

i always put him on a cold one, and keeping him in range of the black guards so they can re-roll their breaktest

(well at least i try, its not always as easy as it sounds :roll:

)

Sat Sep 21, 2002 7:46 am

on foot! sure the tempation to put him with the CO is tempring but they already got an expensive Lord. so no more points in one regiment.

so i keep him hidden among the infantry so they will be hard to break.

Truant · Post by **Truant** » Sat Sep 21, 2002 8:07 am

Well I'm making a new typr of army I've never played before and there he stays on foot without a magic banner just to privode the army with a re-roll break-test.

Anadrael · Post by **Anadrael** » Sat Sep 21, 2002 8:11 am

I aways put the BSB on foot because I the best Model in the dark elf range the special edition standard bearer

Silly reason but it looks so good. However I have put him on a Cold One but this has not done well for me.

Anadrael

Ryuking22 · Post by **Ryuking22** » Sun Sep 22, 2002 2:44 am

I'm going to convert a slick on foot guy, maybe make a unit of black guard or something... I just don't really like the concept of Malekith's personal guard marching in with me for pretty much no reason -_-

Veldrin · Post by **Veldrin** » Wed Sep 25, 2002 5:32 pm

I'm converting a BSB on Cold One at the moment. I want to try the hydrabanner in COK unit thingy.

otherwise I hardly ever use a BSB because I play with small irritating(Shades, Harpies and Dark Riders) unit combined with hard hitting units like COC and my highborn on Manticore. A BSB is quit useless when playing like that

Post by **Grogsnotpowwabomba** » Wed Sep 25, 2002 7:10 pm

On foot.

I just need the damn limited edtion model.

Anyone got one they want to give up?

Our good pal the BSB

Where do you fancy to plop that o so special BSB

Our good pal the BSB