Response to I need help to stop hundreds of tanks

Buy a squad of harlequins (as allies if necessary) deploy them as far formard as possible (IE make sure their the closest target to his command squads). Imperial Guard Barrages must fire at the closest target to an officer model. Thanks to the Harlequin Fields models count only as detected, so your opponent has to score a 4+ to hit each harlequin under a barrage template, wound him, and the harlequin is unnaffected by the blast on a 4+. Because harlequins get dispersed formation, you can spread them across the front of your army, 4" apart, so a barrage template is only ever going to hit 1 harlequin. According to the law of avarages, if your opponent has 10 barrages to lay down(he wishes) he only has a 25% chance of taking out each harlequin, less than 2% of taking out the whole squad. At 250 points, their expensive, but your planned army is untouched and your opponents sulking in the corner. Beardy but worth it!

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