Quote Originally Posted by Lord Inquisitor View Post
I'm continually amazed how people seem to believe the myth that uberspells balance out or discourage deathstars in some fashion. Any deathstar worth its salt is going to be pretty resistant to most uberspells. A chosenstar typically doesn't care about any of the big spells (other than dreaded 13th, and the chaos-knight-star doesn't even care about that). A gutstar is rune-mawed up against most magic, the characters don't care too much about templates as they have Look Out Sir and if all else fails there's the hellheart. Frankly, a decent deathstar is usually more resilient against spells like purple sun than a shot across the battleline of normal troops. I've seen multiple medium unit armies of ogres get decimated by a single psun with a good roll. Characters usually have good Strength values vs dwellers and puny wizards are going to get dwellered wherever they hide.

Let's not perpetuate this myth any longer. When was the last time you saw a beastman player consider not taking a minobus because of dwellers or pit? Those spells will wreck any unit he chooses to spend points on, the minobus is pretty resilient comparatively.

And it needs to be remembered that many spells can trash a whole army. A boosted soulblight at a well-timed moment is game over to a MMU army but a deathstar might survive it. Psun can pulverise a whole army with a good roll. Even a comet if you can get it into a well-packed little area.
Dwellers does significant damage (and snipes characters) out of even S4 blocks. Its probably the most deadly anti Deathstar spell in wide use, though 13th is better against the chosenstar. Also, consider that a spell like Mind Razor, Miasma, Doom and Darkness, or just about anything in the Light lore can effectively end the game for someone who crammed all of their characters into a single bloated unit, often ignoring the defense of the Maw banner or World Dragon standard. Good luck keeping anything alive when the DE guy gets off Mind Razor on his Witch horde.

They do balance Deathstars, simply because armies spread out into several units are less suceptible to individual spells getting cast and can screen expensive characters better.