[Left of West]

I think, to a degree, you're missing the point. The point is not to tailor your army against that of a specific opponent's.

In fact it would be more correct to say that you're tailoring your army against the typical all-comers list.

So, imagine you're about to go into a game. You don't know what your opponent is going to bring, and he doesn't know what you're going to bring. He might bring a lot of tanks or a lot of guys or whatever.

So, when you're building your list, you put in some stuff to take care of hordes, some stuff to kill tough models, and some stuff to kill vehicles. You've got to have all of that stuff because if he comes at you with a horde and all you've got are lascannons, well, you're kinda boned. If he comes at you with a fully mechanized list and all you've got are flamers, you're in bad shape.

So, for your 'all comers' or 'unknown opponent' list, you have a variety of units with a variety of tasks, right?

Now, you know that that's how you have to build your list in order to cover yourself against the range of possibilities. Presumably, your opponent will come to the same conclusion--and that's where Kroxigor's principle comes into its own.

As an all-comer's list, your opponent's list will have answers to whatever threats you might bring--tanks, swarms, terminators, mcs, or whatever. So, each of those things which you don't bring leaves him having wasted some points on an upgrade that no longer really matters.

Further, it leaves you with more points to buy the one or two types of things you are going to bring, so that his answers to that type of things are more likely to be 'overloaded' and unable to deal with the amount of stuff you've brought.

By taking no tanks, for instance, you essentially turn his anti-tank units into wasted points.
By taking lots of infantry, you provide too much 'horde' for his 'anti-horde' units to deal with effectively.


So the threat-management game isn't about tailoring to a specific list. It's really about taking advantage of the fact that most lists are written to deal with a wide variety of things--and thus won't be as effective when faced with only one type of thing.

It's a different type of all-comers approach that hinges on an inherent weakness of all-comers lists.