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I only played 1000 pts games, so there weren?t ?any heavy formations and this can alterate the relevance of this analysis ? and the first one is that, as I didn?t expected any lack of firepower with this army, I played Grenadiers with IG Stormtrooper profile ?
- stingrays squadron :
As long as you provide some pre-targeting via markerlight units, this formation can deliver real hard long-range firepower ? far much than 3 imperial artillery !!
And, with their mobility, you can also if needed go grab/contest objectives giving the same time quite good short-range firepower ? but with their not-so-efficient armor, you?ll need a strike-team to clean the zone as they won?t hold against any strike-back !
- grenadier airborne company :
? Jack of all trades ? formation, as good in firepower as in firefight, but not really new, so not much comments about them ? exept perhaps a small list modification (see bottom)
- grenadier company :
Good formation, as they can garison, even with chimera transport ! Didn?t managed to use them well in mechanized formation, but still believe in their deep-strike capability (?) In un-mechanized formation with fire-support platoon, they made real good zone control job, and finished with a decisive assault.
So to sum up :
- good firepower
- good assault
- well (too much ?) rounded army
- I dont think Grenadiers really need their free firepower boost, and pay for it will make the formation too expensive ? or try something like ? upgrade X grenadiers to ?heavy grenadier? for X pts ?, but won?t this be redondant with fire-support platoons ? In this case, perhaps restrict these fire-support platoons to infantery companies ?
- It could be fun to have markerlight units in airborne grenadier company by adding markerlight platton with valkyrie transport (perhaps too powerfull) or replacing 2 grenadiers by 2 markerlight. Will this be unbalancing or out-of-mood ? Or perhaps, but really not sure about this, give the ?valkyrie transport? option to Grenadier Companies, but I?m afraid that 8 grenadiers, 2 markerlight, 4 firesupport AND 7 valkyries is really too much ?
soon
Vincent
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?!!! And the list will be classified unbalanced ?
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