Lt Caine
Defender
Ironclad
So far was "Eh" at best... Such a small force, with huge and glaring weaknesses. Main one is of course a complete lack of HtH ability. Anything that can get to me will simply crush poor LT Caine. No gunfighter on this one, so he is just SOL should pretty much ANYTHING engage him. So he got crushed by Joe's Gorten and Tim's Skorne monster. Got lucky and was able to snipe Tom's caster, but I think another turn he would have been in charge range.
Next week we go to 15 points with the above models mandatory... Since that comes to 10 points, I am pretty much stuck. Almost all of my "Units" start at 6 points. I'd not use the Ironclad if I had a choice I think... So I guess I bring a few Solos like a Gun Mage CPT Adept and Journeyman perhaps? Maybe the mechanic to repair stuff...
Big STAW event coming up, so getting ready... Since I will not play Borg, I will I think bring a Federation ship to try to kill the Borg. The Voyager is the only one at this point I think that can. This is pretty well maxed out, and it is actually a higher CPT Skill than the 10 of the Borg...
Fed Borg OP3 2
Resource: Flagship Independent (Romulan) (10)
USS Voyager (30)
Jean-Luc Picard (6)
Flagship (0)
Cheat Death (5)
Cheat Death (5)
Adm. James T. Kirk (5)
Montgomery Scott (5)
Hikaru Sulu (3)
Elizabeth Shelby (2)
Tom Paris (4)
Transphasic Torpedoes (10)
Multi-Adaptive Shields (5)
Ship SP: 80
Total Build SP: 90
Generated by STAW Builder
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Every other turn I control the Cube, so I know it will NOT attack me (unless there are no ships in range but my own) and I can use Scott for an offensive punch (+2 Attack sice), and Sulu on the turns I need to defend. On Defence, I have 8 dice with re-rolls and the free BS... Should net me a decent number of evades. And then I have the 2 Cheat Death cards to play to buy an extra 3-4 turns. Scott can repair shields to get the Multi-Adaptive Shields back online. Only one shot with the Torpedoes, likely for the 12 dice, so I'll have to make that count against the 25 Hull cube that gets stronger as it takes Damage... Still not sure this is a winnable scenario but this looks like the best chance I have.,
I had a fun night. Even though I went 0-3 I did learn some things and everyone I played against were very fun to play against. I did get a bit cocky and let my casters slip show when playing you and you caught her alright. Next week I think I will be adding a unit of Widowmakers to give me some more shootiness. Thanks for the game.
ReplyDeleteBTW, I am almost finished painting a unit of Shocktroopers and have started on a wardog. Also on the painting table are a Widowmaker Marksman, various guardsmen that I could scrounge up, and another Warcaster, the Iron Wolf.
Tom
Kicking myself for trading off my Rhulic (Mercs) army years ago when I stopped playing WM... Finding I'd probably play them, or the Resistance... So, back to trading I guess to rebuild that army. :-) Plus side, cleaning basement nets me a lot of interesting things to trade... Some ancient Magic cards that for some reason are particularly valuable these days that were just in decks for me... Karakas being one I have "a few" of... Price on some sites is... Well, about enough to rebuild my small Dwarf force in Warmachine, just have to sell/trade one or two off I guess...
ReplyDelete:-) Options going forward, I like my Morrowan forces and picked up a Solo to help them, so that will have to be painted and fielded, and only 2 points, so likely go with the Leftenant next week to stick with the "we shoot things" theme...