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Post by auraco on Jul 5, 2017 20:33:28 GMT
The grolar is love, the grolar is life.
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kuarnix
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Post by kuarnix on Jul 5, 2017 21:01:29 GMT
So lemme chime in a bit as a jack spammer since mkI. What you're getting when you take the cheaper 'jacks isn't necessarily efficiency in operation, a lot of what you get is points efficiency in durability and board footprint. -It takes the same amount of resources to destroy a 10 point Marauder that it does a 16 point Decimator, for example. You gain no advantage in durability by taking more expensive 'jacks. The exceptions to this statement would be the devastator (and to a lesser degree demolisher). Almost immovable Arm23 is a way tougher nut to crack than a marauder. I always include one in my Karchev tournament lists; they've won me games on scenario that a marauder would have lost and make a jack brick much tougher to pick apart with pulls and whatnot. Whether it takes the same amount of resources to destroy a Devastator as 1.4 Marauders would be a much tougher question, and much more dependent on the enemy list. Skorne, Minions, and some Khador lists might not care about the extra arm at all. Yeah, this is absolutely true. These 'jacks are interesting because they are much better at being like, ablative armor than our other 'jacks, but pretty poor first strike 'jacks (because they are much easier to destroy in retaliation), and of course their various abilities bring some unusual choices to the table. In terms of control and footprint, they are pretty close the same (despite not being able to be pushed or knocked down, they are still vulnerable to single model control effects that two warjacks would not be - of course, they don't cost double, so...).
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Post by welshhoppo on Jul 6, 2017 16:14:53 GMT
Well Khador is one of those odd factions that don't pay for durability.
Apart from the Berserkers, Behemoth and the clams. Every Jack is 10 20 34. Be it 10 point marauder or 21 point beast 09.
So if you are just going to choke your opponent with jacks you might as well go for the cheaper options unless you really want a more expensive jack's singular uses.
Now, I play Strakhov1 with a Grolar, because a Grolar does things that a Juggernaut and Marauder can only dream of. Native Pathfinder, 5-7 initial attacks. Dual attack. Etc etc etc. Now would I spam Grolars? No, because they have a 3:2 ratio with Juggernauts.
But the majority of Khadoran casters don't want fancy jacks, Hark wants to get the most use out of mobility. Karchev wants the most use out of road to war and battle charged. Butcher1 wants the most work out of Full Throttle and B3 wants the full work out of Energiser.
Because these are popular casters you won't see many expensive Khadoran jacks, because the casters don't get any more work out of them than you would a cheaper Jack.
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