12 Days of Kill Team Day 9: Battleclade — Transcript

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5. 0:14Hello everybody and welcome back to
6. 0:16Command Point. Welcome to the ninth day
7. 0:18of Kill Team. And today we're actually
8. 0:20going to be talking about uh none other
9. 0:23than our our newest ADME overlords, the
10. 0:26BattleClaid. We're joined by uh diehard
11. 0:29ADMAC enthusiast uh Alex Squireers.
12. 0:32Alex, how's it going?
13. 0:34>> Going great, Shane. Thanks for having me
14. 0:35on.
15. 0:36>> Yeah. No, I'm I'm very happy that we
16. 0:38were able to get you. I mean, you you've
17. 0:39been playing Kill Team since like the
18. 0:40the Stone Age like myself. Um
19. 0:43>> pretty much.
20. 0:44>> And as as far back all the way to first
21. 0:46edition I can remember, you've been
22. 0:47playing Admeck of some some categorical
23. 0:50admech. And
24. 0:52>> yeah, my very first uh my very first 40k
25. 0:56purchase, Warhammer purchase ever would
26. 0:58have been in about March of 2019. Bought
27. 1:01thisQatari box. And uh you know, whether
28. 1:05that was a good or a bad decision, time
29. 1:07is yet to tell. Well, I mean, here we
30. 1:09are though with with a brand new uh team
31. 1:12representing the Adeptist Mechanicus,
32. 1:13the first like to me it feels like the
33. 1:16first true like ADM kill team in the
34. 1:19sense that it's it's new stuff made for
35. 1:21Kill Team under the Adme banner. Um,
36. 1:24which I'm sure you're very excited
37. 1:26about. [laughter]
38. 1:28Yes, very much so. it. Uh, it's we can
39. 1:31get into more of the details later, but
40. 1:33yeah, I think it's Admeck is always, at
41. 1:36least in lore, presented as this sort of
42. 1:38weird thing that's kind of it's in the
43. 1:40Imperium, but it's doing its own thing.
44. 1:41No one's ever really quite sure what's
45. 1:42going on. And Battleclaid sure feels
46. 1:45like that. It is some sort of weird
47. 1:47amalgamation of stuff that somehow
48. 1:49manages to work together. How well, who
49. 1:52knows?
50. 1:53>> Yeah. So, I mean I I guess if somebody's
51. 1:54looking at adm um what would be your
52. 1:57cell whether it be from a a play style
53. 2:01perspective or not adm but battleclade
54. 2:02specifically uh from a play style
55. 2:04perspective or just an aesthetic
56. 2:06perspective? I mean what would be your
57. 2:08cell to to encourage somebody to get
58. 2:09into BattleClade?
59. 2:11>> Sure. Um it's certainly not the most
60. 2:14straightforward team out of all of them
61. 2:16out there. So, if you if you're looking
62. 2:19for something that's a little weird,
63. 2:21it's got a lot of intermoving parts, um
64. 2:24you want to be able to pull off some
65. 2:26crazy cool plays by making sure that
66. 2:29everything's lined up just right, it's a
67. 2:31fantastic team. If you're looking for
68. 2:33something like very simple, this might
69. 2:35not be the team for you, but it is a lot
70. 2:37of fun. Um, the best description of this
71. 2:39team I've ever seen was actually posted
72. 2:42three days ago on y'all's Discord in the
73. 2:44Battle Play channel. And I'm going to
74. 2:45read this verbatim because it's
75. 2:47hilarious.
76. 2:49Battleclaid is the project manager
77. 2:51keeping the project moving forward,
78. 2:53reoptimizing reoptimizing tasks lists
79. 2:55for the junior devs while the subject
80. 2:57matter expert/senior individual
81. 2:59contributor occasionally cowboys off in
82. 3:01a direction and does some wild stuff
83. 3:02that is helpful but a little chaotic.
84. 3:05And as someone who, you know, does
85. 3:08corporate America stuff, this is the
86. 3:10funniest and most accurate description I
87. 3:11think I've ever read.
88. 3:13>> Yeah, I love it. I mean, that is I I've
89. 3:15played this team a little bit and that
90. 3:16is uh that's accurate, I would say. Um
91. 3:19>> yeah, very accurate. [clears throat]
92. 3:20>> So, I guess uh le let's jump more into
93. 3:23somebody's chosen to play Battleclaid um
94. 3:26and and they're getting into their like
95. 3:28first game or two. Uh for you, because I
96. 3:30know you've played this team a lot, what
97. 3:32would be like the the jump start piece
98. 3:35of advice like the the the thing for you
99. 3:37that maybe it took a few games and then
100. 3:38a light bulb went off and everything
101. 3:39made sense to you and you thought, I
102. 3:41wish I was thinking about it this way
103. 3:42from from game one. What would be that
104. 3:44that level up advice?
105. 3:47>> I think the the power of the team comes
106. 3:52from network counteract. It's a very
107. 3:54unique thing that no one else has
108. 3:56anything remotely like. Some teams, you
109. 3:59know, so like the Nekron teams in
110. 4:01particular, you know, have the ability
111. 4:03for a crypt tech to direct someone to do
112. 4:04an action once. Um, but with battle
113. 4:08clay, the sheer amount of action actions
114. 4:11that you can bounce all over the place
115. 4:12is wild. So that's something that we can
116. 4:14do that no one else can do. And so I
117. 4:16think really as you're getting into the
118. 4:18term into the team, leaning into that as
119. 4:21much as possible to start network
120. 4:24counteracting as much as you can is a
121. 4:26great way to get started. And you know,
122. 4:28at the beginning as you're learning,
123. 4:30sure, you're not going to be making the
124. 4:31optimal decisions on when and where to
125. 4:33use that network counteract. That's
126. 4:34fine. You're learning. But if you're
127. 4:36getting in the mindset of always looking
128. 4:39for being able to use them, your your
129. 4:41use of it will improve over time and
130. 4:43you'll be used to looking for those
131. 4:45opportunities.
132. 4:47>> Love that. Yeah. No, I think that's a
133. 4:49really apt description. I mean, it's
134. 4:51it's it's definitely unique um in the
135. 4:53sense that, you know, it's it's not I
136. 4:56mean, it's 10 guys with two APL, but
137. 4:58it's kind of like it's more suiting
138. 5:00almost to look at it as 10 guys with
139. 5:03like 20 APL, you know what I mean?
140. 5:05Instead of 10 guys with two APL each.
141. 5:07Um,
142. 5:08>> so I guess uh moving on, I mean, there
143. 5:12are some choices to be made here in the
144. 5:14in the pregame as far as operative
145. 5:15selection goes and loadouts. um like
146. 5:17there's some different weapons here that
147. 5:19they that some of the guys can take. So,
148. 5:20I guess walk us through um your kind of
149. 5:23pregame selections in terms of uh both
150. 5:25operatives uh loadouts and also
151. 5:28equipment.
152. 5:29>> Sure. For operatives, it's actually
153. 5:31fairly simple. Um you've got your two
154. 5:33tech priests. You have to take them.
155. 5:36You've got your two big gun servtors,
156. 5:38the ones that have the big five attack
157. 5:40guns that are heavy dash. Technically,
158. 5:43you don't have to take both of them. I
159. 5:46can't imagine a situation where you
160. 5:48wouldn't want to. They're bigger.
161. 5:49They've got bigger melee. They're
162. 5:51they're just all around solid
163. 5:52operatives. So, there's four of your 10
164. 5:54operatives right there.
165. 5:57In early discussions around this team, I
166. 5:58saw some people debating around not
167. 6:00taking the autoroxy, which is the
168. 6:02underser little buddy and the one who
169. 6:04gives you the super super omniscs. I
170. 6:07He's phenomenal. I think you always take
171. 6:09him. The breacher uh has like the little
172. 6:13mini melta gun and a power weapon and
173. 6:14he's the one that cuts hatches and
174. 6:16things. You always bring him. [snorts]
175. 6:18The medic I think is the one he's the
176. 6:21third of the little quote unquote
177. 6:23specialists. Um I think there's some
178. 6:26discussions around whether or not you
179. 6:28would take a medic in some games. You
180. 6:30know, especially if you're facing a more
181. 6:31melee focused team, you could opt to
182. 6:33leave him at home. He does have better
183. 6:36melee though than your just standard
184. 6:38little combat guy. So, you know, maybe
185. 6:40there's a reason to do that. He can heal
186. 6:42people.
187. 6:44I think it's more of a individual play
188. 6:45style choice. Um, you could go either
189. 6:47way on that. And then your final choices
190. 6:50uh are three or four if you're leaving
191. 6:52the medic at home. Just regular little
192. 6:54combat servtors. One of those could take
193. 6:56a melta. If you're facing any kind of
194. 6:59thing that doesn't have an inbone save,
195. 7:01I'm pretty sure you take one of those.
196. 7:03Um, and then they can take up to three
197. 7:05flamers. And our flamers are
198. 7:07interesting. They're 6- in range.
199. 7:09They're four four damage, but only
200. 7:11torrent one. So, they're like elves.
201. 7:14They will just shred if you can get uh
202. 7:17them under a flamer. And then we have
203. 7:19this thing called the is it phosphor
204. 7:22blaster. I have to think about it
205. 7:23because I never take it. It's not good.
206. 7:25Um hopefully at some point it'll get a
207. 7:27buff that makes it worthwhile, but at
208. 7:28the moment it's just not. Um
209. 7:32let's see. So, what was the next
210. 7:33question? Equipment.
211. 7:34>> Uh yes, equipment. That's the other part
212. 7:35of it. Part of it. So we have oh god now
213. 7:39I've got to do this from memory instead
214. 7:41of looking at cards. So we've got uh
215. 7:44neuroscyclic reserve cells which is uh
216. 7:46normally uh you have a lot of
217. 7:48restrictions around um around the
218. 7:52network counteracting. This lifts those
219. 7:54restrictions a little bit. Uh you can't
220. 7:56attack with the person who's doing the
221. 7:57transferring of power in that one, but
222. 7:59it's still it's still a very good
223. 8:00equipment. I think it's an auto take.
224. 8:02Um, and then we have a concealed
225. 8:05apparatus, which is or no, excuse me,
226. 8:07not concealed apparatus, uh, Covert
227. 8:08Guys. Um, which is the same as who else
228. 8:11has that? It's Chaos Cults and someone
229. 8:13else. I think
230. 8:13>> Brood Brothers has it, maybe.
231. 8:15>> Yeah, Brood Brothers.
232. 8:16>> Yeah, it's the same same deal. You got
233. 8:18you get D3 guys and they get like the
234. 8:20the old school scout reposition type
235. 8:22thing. You reposition up to three inches
236. 8:24forwards. Um, covert apparatus is the
237. 8:30most hilarious equipment in the game. It
238. 8:33specifically lets you on turning point
239. 8:35two swap any of your little servtors uh
240. 8:38and between each other provided they
241. 8:41haven't done any sort of action or used
242. 8:44an ability that would reveal to your
243. 8:46opponent what they are. Like think of it
244. 8:47as like in the fluff, think of it as
245. 8:50like all your guys are just little
246. 8:51servtors during turn one. They all look
247. 8:53the same and then the start of turn two
248. 8:55things unfurl from them that reveal what
249. 8:56they are. And so from a gameplay
250. 8:59perspective, you're just like, "Aha, you
251. 9:01thought it was this guy, but now it's
252. 9:02this guy." And you swap them around. In
253. 9:04open, I don't find it super useful. In
254. 9:06into the dark, I actually have found it
255. 9:08super useful because people will be
256. 9:11making assumptions about what light
257. 9:13cover they can hide behind uh in what
258. 9:16rooms because your auto proxy is off on
259. 9:18one side of the board and then you can
260. 9:19totally flip and put him somewhere else
261. 9:21and then that completely inverts what
262. 9:24your opponent is expecting on the board.
263. 9:26Um oh man, and now I've forgotten our
264. 9:29fourth. Shane, remind me what my fourth
265. 9:31equipment is.
266. 9:31>> I think and I'm trying to remember. I
267. 9:33believe there's something to do with
268. 9:34melee.
269. 9:36>> Yes. Um,
270. 9:38electromantic capacitors. So,
271. 9:41>> yes,
272. 9:42>> this is a uh it's sort of a defensive
273. 9:45melee tech. So, everyone on your kill
274. 9:47team if you take this may get shock in
275. 9:49melee um all the time, which is cool.
276. 9:52And then if you're retaliating and
277. 9:56ready, you also get severe. So, there
278. 10:00are situations in which this can be
279. 10:02useful. There are some in which it
280. 10:03isn't. It's sort of weirdly most useful
281. 10:07against teams that are I think okay in
282. 10:10melee, not like like in hyper melee
283. 10:13specialists. Sure, you get to punch them
284. 10:15back for a little damage, but you're
285. 10:17dying anyway. Against teams that are
286. 10:19like okay in melee, you can super flip
287. 10:22the script on them. And then teams that
288. 10:24aren't good in melee, they're probably
289. 10:25just not taking it. And unless you want
290. 10:27to get funny and like start charging
291. 10:29guard or something to to be weird and do
292. 10:31a weird game, I don't think it's super
293. 10:33useful offensively.
294. 10:35>> That makes a lot of sense. I do just
295. 10:37want to go back and highlight that that
296. 10:38is a really clever usage of the
297. 10:40apparatus. I've I remember when this
298. 10:42team came out and I was playing them a
299. 10:43little bit and I was trying to figure
300. 10:44out how can I use this weird apparatus
301. 10:46equipment and I eventually just settled
302. 10:47on not taking it. Um that never occurred
303. 10:50to me. Uh specifically using it on close
304. 10:51quarters and and I really like that. Um
305. 10:54uh
306. 10:54>> am I single best? Oh god.
307. 10:56>> My single best use of it was uh I think
308. 10:58it was Tacoma open. I was playing a uh I
309. 11:02was playing a battle plate mirror match
310. 11:03on Into the Dark, which holy crap did my
311. 11:06brain hurt after that. Um but yeah, it
312. 11:09was I took the I took the uh concealed
313. 11:14apparatus and he didn't. And yeah, turn
314. 11:17two I
315. 11:19like I was very deliberately sold one
316. 11:22plan of attack by placing all my guys in
317. 11:24certain places, but in my mind they were
318. 11:27all different people. And so top of turn
319. 11:29two, I switched things around and he
320. 11:31looked at the board, he was like, "Oh,
321. 11:33oh, this is this is a problem." And then
322. 11:36he's just turned into a completely
323. 11:38different game.
324. 11:39>> That's very cool. Um, so I guess uh this
325. 11:42is kind of an interesting one with the
326. 11:44new approved ops. Uh what kind of tack
327. 11:46ops are you looking at? And and also
328. 11:48what tack ops do they have? I know recon
329. 11:49is one of them and and is
330. 11:51>> recon and infiltrate.
331. 11:52>> Okay. And then what what are you usually
332. 11:54default into with with battle cate? Is
333. 11:55it a mix or is there one you take every
334. 11:57time or what's the idea?
335. 11:58>> Uh I've I've got a real hot take for
336. 12:00you. Um I love scout en I love scout
337. 12:03enemy movement.
338. 12:04>> I I thought I had a feeling this was
339. 12:06coming and I I think I know a little bit
340. 12:08about where you're coming from. I think
341. 12:09this is one of the few teams that might
342. 12:10have some some tech with it. So let's
343. 12:12let's talk about that.
344. 12:13>> Yeah. So I think the the majority of
345. 12:16discussion around scout enemy movement
346. 12:17is completely valid in the sense that
347. 12:20you're using so much action economy
348. 12:22early on in an active early on in a
349. 12:24turning point to try to get these tokens
350. 12:27out to try to score with them. Um, for
351. 12:30so many teams that's such a valid
352. 12:32critique, but
353. 12:35few teams are as efficient with action
354. 12:38economy as battleclaid.
355. 12:40If I have So, let's take us top of
356. 12:44turning point two. Let's say I get
357. 12:45initiative. My uh my
358. 12:48technoarchchaeologist, I'm going to use
359. 12:50him to do a mission action. He scouts
360. 12:51someone. Every no one on the board has
361. 12:53moved yet, so everyone's ready.
362. 12:54Everyone's valid for it, basically. Um,
363. 12:58and then my first activation, I choose a
364. 13:00servtor. He activates, he scouts
365. 13:03someone, he transfers power. That guy
366. 13:05scouts someone. I've now scouted three
367. 13:07enemy operatives before they've even
368. 13:09activated. Like, it's it's so efficient
369. 13:12to do with this team. Um, you know, in
370. 13:15say that I'm facing a 10 man, a 10
371. 13:18operative opponent, if I do the same
372. 13:20thing in my next activation with two
373. 13:22more servtors, I've scouted half their
374. 13:24team before they get their second
375. 13:26activation.
376. 13:28Like, it's so useful. Yeah, I think just
377. 13:31in general any team that kind of has the
378. 13:33cap the capability to do the scout enemy
379. 13:36movements action with a guy that's
380. 13:38expended. Uh I think there's like
381. 13:42something there with you know you can
382. 13:45wait a little longer. I I was thinking
383. 13:46about this too in the context of like
384. 13:48Koptic Circle or Hierotech who can
385. 13:50command a guy to do an action
386. 13:52>> and obviously Battle Cade has that on
387. 13:55steroids. I mean, that's like half of
388. 13:56their mechanics is, hey,
389. 13:58>> you do this even though you've already
390. 13:59gone,
391. 14:00>> right?
392. 14:01>> So, I love that.
393. 14:03[clears throat]
394. 14:04>> Yeah. And you know, and with the and
395. 14:06with the way uh network counteract
396. 14:07works, yeah, you can use it with an
397. 14:08expended guy or you can send it to a
398. 14:12dude who hasn't even activated yet and
399. 14:13you're just doing his network
400. 14:14counteract. Like, it's the the options
401. 14:17are huge. Um, yeah. So, what else? What
402. 14:21else have we got? Um
403. 14:24I think uh retrieval is really good. Um
404. 14:29specifically because again because of
405. 14:31well just a stepping back in a little
406. 14:34bit the technoarchchaeologist and his
407. 14:36ability to do mission actions um during
408. 14:39the like during the strategy phase or
409. 14:42scoot onto an objective is just so huge.
410. 14:44Like he can do so much for you in tack
411. 14:46op play. Um, but then on top of that, we
412. 14:50have a firefight ploy that lets us that
413. 14:53lets a tech priest sort of remotely
414. 14:56access an objective from 4 in away with
415. 14:59some certain criteria that make it like
416. 15:00not gamebreaking. Um,
417. 15:03just being able to do that sometimes
418. 15:04like retrieval, you know, say there's
419. 15:06some middle objective that is kind of in
420. 15:08no man's land and it's
421. 15:11sort of dangerous to get to. Hey, just
422. 15:13tech a tech priest three inches behind a
423. 15:15wall from the objective and just like,
424. 15:17"Oh, nope. That's mine now." And yoink
425. 15:19your little retrieval token.
426. 15:22>> Yeah, I love that. Um, yeah, I think
427. 15:25this team definitely can can think about
428. 15:27tech ops differently than most teams do.
429. 15:29I think just the way that they function
430. 15:30is is just very weird. Um,
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453. 16:23so I I guess I wanted to ask you, Alex,
454. 16:26about kind of the way that you set up
455. 16:28with your uh- with your battle clay, I
456. 16:31guess, specifically in in turn one and
457. 16:33turn two. Just kind of the general early
458. 16:35game strategy in terms of like what are
459. 16:37you trying to set up for? What are you
460. 16:39trying to like what what are your goals
461. 16:41that you're trying to accomplish on the
462. 16:42first and second turn and kind of how
463. 16:44they relate to to like setting up
464. 16:46successfully? [snorts]
465. 16:48>> It's God, that's a hard question to
466. 16:50answer. Um
467. 16:52there's the team is so weird and
468. 16:56honestly I don't play this team the same
469. 16:59from game to game. Um there are team
470. 17:02there are games where I'm trying to be
471. 17:03aggressive. There are games where I'm
472. 17:06trying to play back and be very
473. 17:07defensive. It's a you know a read on the
474. 17:10opponent's team. Um if I know my
475. 17:12particular opponent, a read on my
476. 17:14opponent as well. Um,
477. 17:17and so just more than anything, it's
478. 17:21almost about trying to set up traps for
479. 17:23your opponent. Um, you know, whether
480. 17:26being aggressive or defensive is
481. 17:28probably deciding what level of the
482. 17:30battlefield you're trying to set these
483. 17:32traps up. But just because of the way
484. 17:34you're able to bounce around actions,
485. 17:36you're able to hit opponents from areas
486. 17:39they don't expect. And so you're trying
487. 17:41to, you know, maybe try to bait out them
488. 17:43to come to you because we're we're
489. 17:44generally fairly slow. You're trying to
490. 17:46bait them to come in and attempt
491. 17:48something and then you have some counter
492. 17:51punch that they didn't quite expect. Or,
493. 17:53you know, they're expecting a counter
494. 17:54punch from this direction because that's
495. 17:55the most obvious one, but then you've
496. 17:57got it set up from this other direction,
497. 17:59which leaves that guy that they were
498. 18:00expecting the counter punch from to be
499. 18:02free to go forward and do something
500. 18:03else. And so just the the first couple
501. 18:06turning points are a lot of setting up
502. 18:08at various points around the battlefield
503. 18:10to try to set that up as much as
504. 18:12possible I guess.
505. 18:14>> Yeah. No, I think in and of itself
506. 18:15saying that it's it's so expansive and
507. 18:19gametoame is uh you know valuable advice
508. 18:21that it's it's good not to get too stuck
509. 18:24on one strategy with certain kinds of
510. 18:26teams and I think this is one of those
511. 18:27teams.
512. 18:29>> Um so uh let's turn the page a little
513. 18:31bit uh for something more fun. Um, Alex,
514. 18:34and I I'm excited to hear what you have
515. 18:36to say on this one. C. Can you tell me
516. 18:37the flashiest, coolest play you've ever
517. 18:39been able to pull off with uh with
518. 18:42BattleClade?
519. 18:44>> Um,
520. 18:46oh boy. I mean, there's there's a lot
521. 18:49I've done with them. Um,
522. 18:53>> I mean just the concealed apparatus
523. 18:55thing you described earlier is still
524. 18:56>> Yeah, that I mean that was that's
525. 18:58probably the biggest brain thing I've
526. 18:59ever pulled off was
527. 19:01>> you know said because you know sometimes
528. 19:03with concealed apparatus um you know it
529. 19:06can be obvious what you're trying to do
530. 19:08but to like really sell that you're
531. 19:09doing one thing because like all the all
532. 19:13the model positions make sense but then
533. 19:15you change who they are and it makes a
534. 19:17completely different kind of sense like
535. 19:18that that was it felt so good to pull
536. 19:21off. Um just the the very some of the
537. 19:24very simple things to pull off. um late
538. 19:27in the game once I used my
539. 19:30technoarchchaeologist to sort of like
540. 19:32lateral and go deep onto his objective
541. 19:36and then from there like
542. 19:40during the strategy phase and then
543. 19:42reposition even deeper into his line to
544. 19:45get like sort of a back angled shot back
545. 19:48towards myself on a cluster of three
546. 19:51little dudes. So I tagged the center one
547. 19:53with um with the ceaseless token and
548. 19:57then shot him and got three five ups. So
549. 20:00each of those guys just takes nine nine
550. 20:03devastating damage like in that shot and
551. 20:05wipes out three dudes. Um like whenever
552. 20:09you manage to pull off a like a big shot
553. 20:10with a techno archaeologist, it's
554. 20:12hilarious. Um but sometimes he just
555. 20:15doesn't hit fives and it does very
556. 20:16little damage. You're like, "Oh, uh oh,
557. 20:18that's a problem."
558. 20:19Yeah, I've definitely seen the um like
559. 20:22that was one of my first thoughts when I
560. 20:24first saw the technoarchchaeologist and
561. 20:25his like data card was oh you could do
562. 20:27some like crazy offensive turns with
563. 20:28this and but I never was able to pull it
564. 20:30off myself.
565. 20:31>> It's I think I I see a lot of people
566. 20:33arguing for it and I think that you know
567. 20:35for like a a casual game it's super fun
568. 20:38to do something like that. Um, I feel
569. 20:40like in a in a tournament game, I think
570. 20:42it's a it's a high-risk, high reward
571. 20:44play. And, you know, depending on your
572. 20:46situation and how you choose to play,
573. 20:48you really have to assess that. Um, I've
574. 20:51pulled off some really fun things with
575. 20:52the breacher, being able to, um, it's
576. 20:56actually something that the first time
577. 20:57you play a battle plate, it it'll take
578. 21:00people by surprise. Um, with the
579. 21:03breacher, you can set up two breach
580. 21:06tokens in the first turning point
581. 21:08because he can do it on his own
582. 21:09activation and then do it as a network
583. 21:12counteract. So, you know, people look at
584. 21:15this team of slow 5-in nerds and they're
585. 21:18starting to plan out like, oh, you know,
586. 21:21I'm safe behind this wall because you
587. 21:23have to run all the way around it and do
588. 21:24all these other things. And then you've
589. 21:26got this guy, you know, I'll, you know,
590. 21:28maybe I use the the covert guises. So he
591. 21:31walks forward 3 in, gets just within an
592. 21:33inch of the wall. I drop a token, move
593. 21:35him 5 in to the side, and then the
594. 21:37underser goes and dashes him another 3
595. 21:39in and tells him to to pop another hole
596. 21:41in. So now I've got two hatches set up
597. 21:44like 8 in apart from each other. And now
598. 21:47what the opponent had read as two, you
599. 21:50know, walls that I can't go through and
600. 21:52have to walk around are now just things
601. 21:53that I can pop through and start
602. 21:55wreaking havoc. And that's a a huge
603. 21:57change to the battlefield to set up.
604. 22:00Yeah, I love that. I mean, as a RECA
605. 22:02player, I I've I've learned the uh the
606. 22:05the secret sauce of of punching holes in
607. 22:07walls on Vulcus, and it feels really
608. 22:10nice.
609. 22:11>> Uhhuh.
610. 22:12>> Um, awesome. No, I love all that. Uh, we
611. 22:15got one more question, Alex. Uh, this
612. 22:16is, uh, we're we're not going to talk
613. 22:18about Battleclan on this last question.
614. 22:20We're going to talk about you a little
615. 22:21bit. Um, I've asked people in the past
616. 22:23their favorite Christmas song, favorite
617. 22:25Christmas, uh, movie, etc. This year I'm
618. 22:27asking everybody to share with me a just
619. 22:29a holiday tradition that they partake
620. 22:31in. Something they do every year that
621. 22:33they look forward to that that you'd be
622. 22:35willing to share with us.
623. 22:37>> Something near and dear.
624. 22:39>> Yeah.
625. 22:41Trying to think here. Um try not to give
626. 22:44you too much dead air.
627. 22:47>> Don't worry about it.
628. 22:52Um my so so my family we always do like
629. 22:55the white elephant gift exchange. Um
630. 22:59and you know
631. 23:02are that we're all you know we're loud
632. 23:04and boisterous you know
633. 23:07even when we're trying to be a little
634. 23:08quiet during the holidays. Um but yeah
635. 23:11during the white elephant everything
636. 23:12turns up to 11 and uh yeah we go we go
637. 23:15nuts. Um, and we're all like, no one's
638. 23:19quite a gamer like us, like playing with
639. 23:22plastic war dollies on the table, but
640. 23:24everyone's like into board games and
641. 23:26stuff and like we all enjoy winning and
642. 23:30so like white elephant can turn
643. 23:31cutthroat and it is hilarious.
644. 23:34>> Yeah. Yeah.
645. 23:34>> Like my my my sweet little 92-year-old
646. 23:37grandmother will like start stealing
647. 23:40stuff from people and then like you
648. 23:42start to go steal from things from her
649. 23:43and she'll start putting every every
650. 23:46ounce of matriarchal guilt she can on
651. 23:48you so she can't stick to the thing she
652. 23:50wants. It's a lot of fun.
653. 23:52>> Love that. Yeah. No, we've definitely
654. 23:53gotten one or two white elephant answers
655. 23:56uh so far this series. So, I mean it's a
656. 23:58good time. Um
657. 23:59>> yeah,
658. 23:59>> Alex, thank you so much for coming on
659. 24:01and talking about BattleClay with us.
660. 24:03>> Yeah, of course. happy to do so.
661. 24:05>> Yeah. Uh and of course everybody
662. 24:06listening, you you guys know the deal at
663. 24:08this point. Like, subscribe if you
664. 24:09haven't already. Most importantly, tune
665. 24:11in tomorrow for I believe the 10th day
666. 24:14of Kill Team. We're going to talk about
667. 24:15another Kill Team with another guest.
668. 24:17And it's going to be uh it's going to be
669. 24:18cool and fun. And uh this is in the
670. 24:21meantime, Shane and Alex signing out.
671. 24:25See you.
672. 24:29>> [music]
673. 24:35[music]
674. 24:46[music]
675. 24:50>> Heat. Heat.