Reserves Denial

You may remember I posted a link to Fritz's post on using Reserves. Another post by Fritz makes me imagine baby seal clubbing for some reason (a competent general shouldn't be making mistakes with placement). Today I'm going to add in Dverning's thoughts on the topic since he actually looks at it in more detail...

Reserves Denial follows a simple tenet: That which cannot be attacked cannot be killed... Rather than putting all your guys on the board to be slaughterd, why not hide them in Reserves for a couple turns?... Even though an Eldar list geared for this will be the master of this type of play, it can be a viable and even beneficial choice for any army. It's certainly a good tool for a player to have in their repertoire [like when playing against Drop Pod armies].

The advantages:

1. While in Reserves your units cannot be shot.
2. When everything is in Reserves, your opponent has nothing to deploy based on nor react to.
3. When entering from Reserves, you can react to the enemy deployment as you move onto the table. This allows you to match units to their best targets, concentrate firepower and generally take the initiative in the battle.
4. When entering from Reserves, you have the opportunity to strike before being struck in return. Heck, you might even have a chance to charge on the same turn.
5. It times perfectly with Outflanking forces.

The disadvantages:

1. You have less turns to accomplish your objectives.
2. You have to rely on Reserves rolls. Bad rolls can mean your army enters the board piecemeal [so your ducked if that happens].
3. You rely heavily on speed or having an opponent that comes to you.
4. It's usually pretty obvious when your army is geared to do this. There's several ways to counter it, especially by mirroring.

Why are Eldar the best at this? [ummm me no care as long a I can still impale you foul xenos on my sword]

- Dverning from Maunderings of a 40K Gamer in Tactica: Reserves Denial

I'm still trying to find Jwolf's blog. I could of sworn he had one (not the WAR Games blog). No one seems to have him in their blog roll...