What does this Kaya3 build have game into?

I really like your list and would be a great list if this was not the Age of Themes@. As it is you have a rally solid model lineup but no theme benefits and free models.

You should do well against anything not a skew and probably ok against a low ARM infantry skew. If an ARM skew gives you the possibility of easy synergy then you should wreck them as well.

Improvement is putting it in Call but that costs you Loki and Sentry Stones.

macdaddy
I think maybe I need to learn to not get hung up on ugly models.
I have a Gorax and a razorwing (proxy option for Scarsfell#2), but a Gorax is still hideous and I’m already proxying wolfriders champ as Kaya3 (cos it’s not gonna get used as anything else).
jisidro
Thanks, I’d been running a Kaya3 CoW list for my last 5 games, but as u say, if I want to use Loki or sentries I need to lose theme and therefor freebies.
I had forgotten about higher beast count for getting Synergy up in CoW. I think getting enough beasts will compromise everything else this list can do. Maybe Kaya3 isn’t the best caster for it..... perhaps I’ll revert back to my ol fav Kromac1, or try Kreuger2 for a change (my only 2 casters I actually own models for. I don’t include Kaya1, cos well, why would you).

Feral has mat 7 and 3 initials. He can maul things from downtown with hunters mark and warp speed.

Unfortunately the threat of a Wild Argus’ bark is 8” (unless it can charge something inside 9.5”, which brings it to just 11”) without a Warpath trigger or something else. Hunter’s mark is far from reliable against 13+ DEF.

This is why unless I’m playing CoW theme, the Argus doesn’t get a look in. To keep it alive we need to keep it back, (with only SPD 6 and DEF 14, it’s that much easier to kill w a couple of decent CRAs or a jack’s cannon), but to make it useful it needs to be up front, ahead of the pack.
As macdaddy says, the threat of our warpwolves is just better. With Kromac1’s Wild Aggression we can fairly reliably mash up most jacks w almost any Warpwolf but the pureblood.

Im not quite sure why there’s so much MAT creep in the game as it destabilises the 2d6 mechanic. All these jacks and character jacks upto MAT 7 and 8 is bad for the game. There’s now a need to boost DEF scores or other unit/beast/solos’ etc DEF to compensate ...... or we reset to where things should be, before DEF 18+ becomes a thing.
Circle had an impressive number of DEF 14 options in the past which WAS hard to hit, this is why so much of our game has changed as 14 is now the old 13 and as our units stats have remained average, several other forces effective DEF and ARM stats have increased to compensate for the shift. Now our rare Prey or Gang is needed, not the bonus it once was.
Getting into a rant, maybe this should be brought to CID or at least feature somewhere in general discussion.
MAT Creep IS a problem.