unded
Junior Strategist
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Post by unded on Jan 21, 2018 6:39:34 GMT
To add to what gedditoffme said, Piggybacks do something no other infantry in the faction does - they shrug off small arms fire like it doesn't exist.
While hard-hitting charges will often still kill a Piggyback (usually requiring a buff to do it), small arms fire just can't hurt a shield-walled piggyback. When you consider the very poor defensive stats of our infantry, this puts piggybacks in a unique position amongst our infantry. If going second you can counter-deploy to have them facing things like winterguard riflemen or similar, while your dreads / hollowmen / whatever can face the other more melee-oriented stuff where typically Grymkin wins by grinding as our infantry is so cheap.
I typically try to create a lopsided deployment where the piggies plus one heavy and maybe a gorehound cover one flank / scenario zone, and I then overload the other side with everything else. The piggies play an excellent (losing) attrition game on the weak flank that takes longer to break than it takes me to swamp and own the strong flank, allowing for a very strong scenario game.
-und_ed
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