Thinking Inside a Vacuum

DON’T DO IT!

Well, we all do it to some extent, but it is something that should be done with caution.

What do I mean when I say thinking inside a vacuum? I mean when we look at something worth looking and make decisions based solely on those characteristics and not outside factors. A good example of this is discussing a unit in an army solely on its’ stat line.

I guess I see this kind of thinking a lot on the forums and blogs that discuss WHFB. Someone posts a comment about a unit and then the people start talking about said unit. This is all perfectly fine, but I would caution the WHFB initiate, or Wargaming initiate in general, that a unit alone is a relatively small piece of the puzzle and together you need to understand how that unit functions and its roll in your army (or what its role will be).

This is very rudimentary, of course, but this post is meant to setup some subsequent posts regarding units. It’s important to understand how a unit will function in the army just as much as its stat line and its special rules. So I want to make it a point that we will be going beyond what is written on paper and talk about tactics for each unit in your army. As an example of this thinking, the War Hydra is, on paper, probably one of the nastiest close combat monsters for its price. In practice (while it is seriously nasty) its nastiness is overshadowed by its psychological effect and proves to be best used supporting other combat units rather than fighting on its own, but more on that later.