In order to bring this back around:


Zombocom alluded to 4-strong troupe formations of Swooping Hawks as worth 175pts earlier, moreso than other aspect types.

I content that this is because they can Teleport, and at 150/175pts they become more valuable than other aspect types, as you are no longer making a judgement on how to use them in the game... they are best used as Swooping Hawks in Teleporting to claim an objective, as they are so darned cheap!

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Precisely my point. At the 4 base level swooping hawks become worth significantly more than other aspects for this precise reason.

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I think that 4 Reapers is another example of a Troupe being a better point-value than a host.  It's nice fire support formation because it's small enough that you can give them transports.  8 in a homogeneous host is so large that it's unwieldy and DR don't mix all that well with other Aspects (basically, their only role is a place to put Exarchs to get the 3+FF EA).

Also, for an air assault I'd rather have 2 formations of 4 than one formation of 8.  The initial attack is identical but the follow on capability is better.  One formation of 8 can end up broken or heavily suppressed by casualties.  With 2 formations, you'll most likely end up with the "front" formation broken, but the "back" formation will be without BMs unless you take major casualties.  Everyone's seen this happen with the Thawk and 2 Assault Marine formations.  An unsuppressed formation plus the chance at an additional activation is better than a single, larger, suppressed formation.

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