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River Crossings
Topic Started: 8th November 2010 - 04:39 AM (317 Views)
Reepicheep
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How do you cross a defend river line? I'm thinking it's basically impossible since you lose SiN and Steadfast. Am I missing something here?
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ratboy1018
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No, you're not missing anything. Rats hate rivers.
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Paricidas
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You normaly should avoid such situations at all cost. The only units really suitable for such a task would be a bell or a furnace.

If you dont have such units, you should rely on shooting and magic, CC in rivers is a real no-go for skaven.
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Kevlar
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Rivers should have a bridge or fordable area where you can at least go five wide and keep your ranks.

Of course that choke point may be heavily defended...
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But then you could just position all your weapon teams around the bridge and say "come on" :D

Use some sort of screen to get yourself over. Otherwise try to add extremely many slave units and make them push over.

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ratboy1018
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I played 2500 against beastmen. during terrain, he rolled 2 rivers. They ran in from the table edge, then turned to reach each deployment zone. I think he thought i would try to get across (and negate my ranks and steadfast). I simply waited for him to cross the water as beastmen have no shooting. :D He had alot of failed charges and such. in addition, one of the rivers cast lore of light spells.

In summary, do not enter the water!
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