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Post by Sarcastastic on Mar 16, 2018 20:15:50 GMT
A dwarven list seems to be part of a large majority of Merc pairings at most events that I've seen. Could some stuff take a looking at? Sure. Is that true of literally every faction in the entire game? Very yes. If you want to be taken seriously, *demanding* things of PP is going to get you nowhere, and saying that them making new factions they promised is an insult just kinda makes it look childish if we're being honest. Who knows what they'll touch on with the Christmas stuff this year, but they certainly haven't ignored Rhul. The Siege Crawler is proof of that.
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Post by Sarcastastic on Jan 26, 2018 19:04:16 GMT
Magnus1 is the hill that I die on. He's basically my go-to competitive caster. Maybe I'm bad. His toolkit just gels really well with my playstyle, and a Rover frontline with Death Ward is just fantastic. I always get tons of mileage out of him, and I even run Boomies with him.
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Post by Sarcastastic on Jan 5, 2018 0:58:27 GMT
Every time I feel like I'm swinging back into my Trolls in mk3, PP does something like this to price me out of it and drive me away. Between this and Raiders, all my excitement for Northkin, the best damn thing to happen to Trolls, has just been drained. It really breaks my heart.
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Post by Sarcastastic on Jan 4, 2018 5:32:35 GMT
She definitely has the slugs for it to boot. Harlan Versh could be another competitor, though one handing a scattergun in firing position is far sillier looking than her pose.
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Post by Sarcastastic on Jan 3, 2018 21:46:35 GMT
It would probably require more work than it's worth to not lose the Gunmage aesthetic, but the Trencher Master Gunner has an awesome pose, or Commando Scattergunners could work. But again, they have the giant Trencher pauldrons, so it's probably a huge pain in the ass.
Edit: Could also do something with the Tempest Rifleman or GMCA by switching the gun and head maybe?
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Post by Sarcastastic on Jan 3, 2018 21:42:49 GMT
Having successfully played a double Bushwhackers list before, I can say they are a really solid unit. Expensive as all get out, but as they are, they're useful, if nothing else than a really long range single CRA people don't expect from Trolls. However, I have never once had Highwaymen have any meaningful impact on a game in all the times I have put them on the table. They are prone to 2 guys running at them and tying up the entire unit because they are near useless without CRA's. I think it was two karax and they couldn't pull themselves out of it to save their lives.
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Post by Sarcastastic on Nov 30, 2017 6:13:26 GMT
I simply adore the idea of casting animi of dead beasts, but probably mostly because the bone grinders lost it in the Mk3 transition. Which is super lame and took all their cool flavour away. I love the idea of a minion bringing that back. Especially useful for us as it allows us to not have to play so safe with our Maulers. I want them in the thick of it, without worrying about losing Rage.
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Post by Sarcastastic on Nov 28, 2017 15:04:56 GMT
That list looks like it'd be a lot of fun. The Manglers can definitely do a lot of heavy lifting on a variety of stuff. I've been meaning to get Vanguards on the table after the changes. I wanna do more dicking around with LR with more than just Trencher Infantry and Stormblade combos, but I just love those two together, and I can't do that in Cygnar anymore.
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Post by Sarcastastic on Nov 7, 2017 2:00:37 GMT
So I got in a game tonight, my first game with MacBain ever. That guy's toolkit is hilariously awesome. This was what I used: conflictchamber.com/#c6201b_-0R5t5X5Y5Z9r5Ig87za5a6a99U9V9WMercenary Army - 75 / 75 points [Theme] Llaelese Resistance (MacBain 1) Drake MacBain [+30] - Mangler [15] - Mule [15] - Nomad [11] - Rover [15] - Talon [7] Major Harrison Gibbs [4] Rhupert Carvolo, Piper of Ord [4] Stormblade Infantry [10] - Stormblade Infantry Officer & Standard [0(5)] - Stormblade Infantry Storm Gunner (3) [6] Trencher Infantry (max) [16] - Trencher Infantry Officer & Sniper [0(5)] - Trencher Infantry Rifle Grenadier (1) [2] I wanted to take out the Rifle Grenade, one Gunner, and a Talon to have a second Nomad, but that put me under the threshold for the second free solo, so I sucked it up, an extra smokecloud isn't too bad. And countermeasure on a running Talon is hilarious. Played into Jalaam Winds of Death, and the repo smoke wall is just too amazing. This almost runs trenchers better than Gravediggers.
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Post by Sarcastastic on Nov 1, 2017 19:53:10 GMT
I'm shocked it took as long as it did to see a pair of skinners shoved into a list.
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Post by Sarcastastic on Nov 1, 2017 17:10:32 GMT
I mean they could reasonably do a field gun like the Winter Guard one, but at that point, it seems to just be making an artillery piece for the sake of having one.
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Post by Sarcastastic on Oct 31, 2017 14:01:09 GMT
So got to put it on the table tonight. Between rebuke and arcanas that prevent giving orders, as well as a healthy dose of Murder Crows, none of my infantry got off sufficient charges and accomplished very little. BUT! That's where Grissel truly shines. Her and the Bomber both got angles on The Heretic, and my opponent didn't camp enough for 5 boosted shots. PPL often talk about placing shooty things on hills, or using Janissa to place a hill where you "need" it. Do you actually need it though? I do not think it has come up more than a handful of times in a hundred games that i actually needed to shoot past something at something i couldnt see. Does anchoring your Bomber to a hill (that you can not move) really accomplish anything? I mean, if there is a hill where i want my bomber, superb! +2 DEF against shooting. But placing my bomber some where just because there is a hill there sounds sub optimal to me. About dropping the mauler. Replacing it with a Bouncer means the list is WAY more tailored against specific match ups. It will be good to have against Ghost Fleet (no knockdown and a Shield Guard will be super nice there) but you will be way weaker against a list that contains an armored presence. Not only because the Mauler can kill stuff, but also because Rage enables your Bomber to one round most heavies in melee. So if you do, think carefully about what match ups you target so the pairing remains strong. As a list that you "play in to anything" i think the Mauler version is stronger. The Bomber on the hill has really only ever been out of convenience. Also to partly discourage shooting retaliations. People see hill and think "harder to hit" sometimes without acknowledging that def 14 isn't really that bad, though with Grissel that can be 16, so it actually works out sometimes, but keeping him out of the way also means I keep him til late game where he can be a bulky lane blocker and bodyguard. I definitely agree on the Mauler front, I feel naked without one. Like was shown in my game last night, if I'm denied my charges, I'm not pulling a lot of weight with my infantry heavy hitters, so the Mauler is security for that.
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Post by Sarcastastic on Oct 31, 2017 3:40:05 GMT
So got to put it on the table tonight. Between rebuke and arcanas that prevent giving orders, as well as a healthy dose of Murder Crows, none of my infantry got off sufficient charges and accomplished very little. BUT! That's where Grissel truly shines. Her and the Bomber both got angles on The Heretic, and my opponent didn't camp enough for 5 boosted shots.
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Post by Sarcastastic on Oct 30, 2017 18:57:12 GMT
@sarcastatic I'd probably take the Mauler down to a bouncer, and think about a champ hero or bellows crew. I'd like to know how you usually deploy that, I don't own long riders but am thinking about getting them, so I'm trying to figure out a bit of how they work in advance. I have definitely considered downgrading the Mauler. As for deployment, champs and fenns up the middle on either side of the BG and caster with Long Riders on a flank, all of this of course tailored to terrain set up and if I go first or not. Nothing too fancy. Usually I'll park the Bomber on a hill if I can (I've been lucky to have one on my side of deployment my last few games)
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Post by Sarcastastic on Oct 30, 2017 18:01:15 GMT
Well now I need to read this book, because all glory to Magnus, hero of Cygnar!
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