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Post by Kallas on Mar 14, 2017 22:53:09 GMT
Is there any hope of a Mage Hunter theme in our command book that would bring them up to an acceptable level? Sadly the HES are getting a UA in our command book and not the Infiltrators. While a theme could help them out I'd really prefer them to be useable outside of a Mage Hunter theme. A Command Attachment giving them Ambush and something else would make them a good threat. If it were theme only they'd still be pretty damn limited, especially as Mage Hunters tend to hit fairly softly.
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faelin
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Post by faelin on Mar 15, 2017 1:30:28 GMT
Is there any hope of a Mage Hunter theme in our command book that would bring them up to an acceptable level? Sadly the HES are getting a UA in our command book and not the Infiltrators. While a theme could help them out I'd really prefer them to be useable outside of a Mage Hunter theme. A Command Attachment giving them Ambush and something else would make them a good threat. If it were theme only they'd still be pretty damn limited, especially as Mage Hunters tend to hit fairly softly. Wouldn't that have the same issue? They'd only be worth it with the command attachment?
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Post by Tom_Bombadil_ on Mar 15, 2017 2:40:53 GMT
While a theme could help them out I'd really prefer them to be useable outside of a Mage Hunter theme. A Command Attachment giving them Ambush and something else would make them a good threat. If it were theme only they'd still be pretty damn limited, especially as Mage Hunters tend to hit fairly softly. Wouldn't that have the same issue? They'd only be worth it with the command attachment? Yah but a command attachment doesn't limit what else they can be run with like a theme force would. If they are only good in theme but you want to run Infiltrators and Destors for some reason you couldn't but if they just needed a command attachment then it would make them worth it and you could run them in odd ball combinations. If they do get a UA I am hoping for some combination of Prey and Ambush.
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Post by Kallas on Mar 15, 2017 9:18:55 GMT
I honestly wish they just had Prey instead of awful 0.5" Gang (on a squishy please-don't-AoE-me unit.)
Prey would have the same output but with different restrictions (ie, only against Prey, not all things at any given moment.)
Anyway. Ambush on a CA would be more flexible. You could take Infiltrators with Sentinels, for example, but if they got it from the theme then you're saddled with probably only jacks for armour cracking (and we've seen one theme restricted to essentially lights only already.)
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Post by celeb on Mar 15, 2017 10:40:07 GMT
Ambush on a CA would be great.
At the moment, infiltrators are not bad. They are still only 13 points for 10 and bring Stealth, SPD 7 and DEF 14 to the table. They lack offensive output, but they are good as a jamming or screening unit, since they are not a big point investment.
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