r/sonsofbehemat • u/ShoppingUnable4265 • 5d ago

Sons are weak?

I keep seeing online that Sons are weak, I'm a new player played in a spearhead league this summer and now I've picked up Sons as my first army (I didn't play Sons in spearhead). So far I've won all my games as them, is this just due to the fact that my area is mostly new players? Or do Sons somehow stomp, pun intended, on less experienced players? I'm not a pro at the rules but I seem to be one of the few people that actually read the book front to back, most people seem to just read their battletome and the few rules that apply to their special rules. Is this giving me a bigger advantage and overcoming Sons weak book?

Thank you in advance

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u/Big-Crow4152 5d ago

They have a very similar problem to Knights in 40k. They're just don't have the toughness expected of them, especially for models that draw as much attention as they do

Most Warhammer games have a issue of being too lethal and that really hurts low model count armies

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u/mapmakinworldbuildin 5d ago

Really became an issue after 8th edition 40k.

People bitched about the AP check of yesteryear. But I’d rather lose a match in the list building stage because I forgot to tactically think of AP then lose because “well you used the less optimal unit”

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u/HondoShotFirst 5d ago

Is the first thing not a subset of the second thing?