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0:02Hello and welcome back to Great Lakes
0:05Kill Team where today I'm just going to
0:09talk a bunch of crap about Battleclades.
0:12So, um I don't really have like a
0:15planned format or anything for this
0:16video. I'm going to treat it sort of as
0:19a primer, just walking through my
0:21thoughts on the team. I'll walk through
0:23the plays, the operatives, just some
0:24play patterns that I found helpful. Um,
0:28and by no means is this the only way to
0:30play the team. Um, it's just my
0:33experience with the team. So, don't take
0:34it as gospel or anything like that. Just
0:36take it as one dumb dude's perspective
0:39on how to play the team.
0:42Um, but yeah, I recently took these to
0:45the Edmonton Open in Canada and I did
0:48okay with them. Um, but yeah, I figured
0:51I'd just talk through them a bit. Um, so
0:54yeah, just talking through the team. Uh,
0:57they have access to recon and
0:59infiltration, which I think is a pretty
1:01good combo. Um, it is a tennop team.
1:05There are a few choices in here. Um, and
1:09yeah, I think we'll just sort of jump
1:11into the operatives. Um,
1:15the first one is obviously the
1:16technoarchchaeologist. He is probably
1:19the most important piece on the team, I
1:20would say.
1:22um and where the majority of your power
1:24comes and where you can set up a lot of
1:26just asymmetric [ __ ]
1:30Um so he has two abilities. Uh one is
1:33omniscanner where you basically just
1:35pick someone visible or within eight.
1:38You give them a token. That token stays
1:40for the whole game. The token stays if
1:42you die. Um and anytime you are shooting
1:45or fighting against that operative or
1:46retaliating, uh you get ceaseless. So
1:50very very good.
1:52Uh the other ability that he has, which
1:53is where a lot of the nonsense comes
1:55from, is seeker of the divine arcana. Uh
1:58as a strat gambit, you can perform
2:00omniscanner, which is the other ability.
2:02Fall back, place marker, pickup marker,
2:05reposition, or a mission action.
2:07Importantly, if it's fall back or
2:10reposition, it has a few clauses on it.
2:13Um, one, you either have to end on one
2:16of your mission markers or you have to
2:18end on an objective marker or you have
2:21to end within your drop zone. Um, one of
2:25the important pieces about that is it's
2:27not wholly within your drop zone. So
2:30there are a few like little funky things
2:32that you can set up. Whereas like if you
2:34are
2:36let's say something like this where
2:38you're just towing just outside of that
2:406 in line and you need to repo back in
2:42the strat phase, you go five and then
2:46one. You're not wholly within your drop
2:48zone and you can still get a cover line
2:49like this. Um there is a few maps where
2:52that does come up and you can just
2:54always get yourself back to safety. So
2:56that does come up a bit. Um, and one of
2:59the I it's not like a special combo or
3:02anything, but I'm sure that everyone's
3:03noticed this by now is if you're playing
3:05retrieval and you go and retrieve with
3:08him and give him a retrieval marker
3:10because he controls one of your mission
3:12markers, he now has full movement in the
3:15strat phase. You don't have to end on an
3:17objective marker and you don't have to
3:18end on your DZ anymore because you're
3:21always controlling that marker. And this
3:23is where a lot of his flexibility comes
3:25from is once you sort of have one of
3:26these retrieval markers, he can both
3:30threaten a lot of stuff and almost
3:32always reposition himself back to safety
3:34if you need to. So the combination
3:37between giving out ceaseless having this
3:39freedom of movement
3:41um is very very powerful. Something else
3:43that is a deterrent for people is a lot
3:46of times people want to charge hug so
3:48that they can have like a good staging
3:49point for next turn. Um, he can fall
3:52back in the strat phase, so it's not
3:54safe to ever charge hug him. Um, he can
3:58also do a pickup marker, mission action,
4:00or place marker. Um, that does come up
4:04sometimes where you'll already be on an
4:05objective. Let's say you win initiative.
4:07You can strap phase, pick up, retrieve
4:09the token, or you could do the mission
4:11action. Let's say it's loot or
4:12something, and then you still have three
4:14APL for your whole activation.
4:17So, he's an incredibly strong piece. I
4:19would say the strongest piece on the
4:20team and really what I think gives the
4:22team some of its sauce. Um, his melee is
4:26fine. It's four on four, three, four,
4:27severe shock. Uh, his gun is incredibly
4:30good. Uh, it's very scary if you high
4:33roll even a little bit. Uh, it's four on
4:36threes, 42 range, 1 in devastating
4:39three, and lethal five. Once you start
4:41comboing that with some of the PS in
4:42ceaseless, um you'll end up with two
4:46crits a lot of the times and you'll just
4:47do a crapload of damage to people.
4:49Nobody wants to get shot by this gun
4:50once you tell them the profile. Um I
4:54don't actually end up shooting that much
4:55with him just because of some of the
4:57play patterns I'll talk about later, but
4:59yeah, he is a incredibly strong piece.
5:03Uh the second one is sort of like the
5:05co-leader is um the underser. Um, you
5:08could argue that he's actually the one
5:10that enables a lot of the
5:13um, big plays with this team. Um, it's
5:15sort of him and the leader that sort of
5:18facilitate a lot of this stuff. Uh, he's
5:20completely ass melee, so don't even look
5:22at that. His pistol is actually pretty
5:23good. It's four on three, two, four,
5:25range eight, balanced, and rending. Um,
5:28you can stack this with uh, the
5:31ceaseless token and you can stack it
5:32with one of their firefight plays. So
5:35you can functionally have double balance
5:36because the other one isn't the balance
5:37keyword. It can be double balance
5:39ceaseless and rending which hitting on
5:41threes is effectively relentless at that
5:43point. Um
5:47this ability I'm not even going to try
5:49and say it is basically a way to farm
5:51CP. I end up using this a lot just
5:53because of the way that I play this guy.
5:55I will end up leaving him mostly in my
5:57backline for the entire game and he is
5:59sort of just like the one telling people
6:01what to do and I'll get through that
6:02with his other ability. Uh, the way that
6:05this one works is within six of him or
6:08within six of the auto proxy,
6:12um, anyone that is on a contesting a
6:15point,
6:17uh, you roll a D3 and then for each one
6:20that's contesting a point, you have
6:22better odds of getting a CP. So, if you
6:24have one guy contesting a point, you
6:26need a a one on the D3, so one or two on
6:28a D6. If you have two guys contesting a
6:30point, uh, you would have on a d6 one,
6:34two, three, or four. And if you somehow
6:35contest all three, which I've never
6:37done, you will automatically pass it and
6:39get a CP. So,
6:42for how CP hungry this team is, I think
6:44it's a great addition to the team. It
6:46came a few data slates ago. Um, and a
6:48lot of the times he'll just stay put for
6:50two, three, sometimes the whole game and
6:52try and farm CP and then use his other
6:54ability.
6:56Uh, his other ability, which is why you
6:59could argue he's maybe the best piece on
7:00the team, is a network override. I you
7:04can see the sort of red text at the
7:06bottom. This operative can perform this
7:07action twice during its activation, but
7:09cannot perform this action while within
7:10control range. So, you can do this
7:11ability twice, which is where a lot of
7:13the [ __ ] comes from. Uh, what he can
7:15do is he can either within six of him or
7:18the auto proxy make somebody network
7:20counteract or perform a free dash. Um
7:23the free dash one is sort of the
7:24important piece because it lets you just
7:28threaten so much of the board. You can
7:30imagine on TP1 you go like out one then
7:33up five with a double dash. This guy
7:35still hasn't activated and then he could
7:38you know move five potentially shoot
7:41someone over here. Obviously easier said
7:43than done because you have to not be get
7:44shot in return when you do this stuff.
7:47But on a lot of the maps, you can sort
7:48of set this up where you can threaten
7:50well past the midline. Even with 5- in
7:52move operatives, a lot of the time on
7:54TP1, I'm using him to at least let my
7:57opponents know that I can threaten these
7:59areas and just make sure they're well
8:00aware of that. Um, or you can make him
8:04network counteract two people during his
8:06activation, which is also very strong.
8:09Um,
8:11the the dash is a full 3-in dash, which
8:14is very important. So you just end up
8:17getting a lot of free movement out of
8:20your guys with this. The other thing
8:21that I ended up doing in Edmonton a lot
8:24with him was I would sort of use him to
8:28either fix my own mistakes if I made a
8:29staging mistake and I've given someone a
8:31charge for next turn or I just want to
8:34make sure one of my operatives is
8:35outside of someone's threat range after
8:37they've staged. Maybe they staged up
8:38further than like I was hoping they
8:40would. Um, let's say I stage someone
8:42here within six, you know, someone's ran
8:45up to here or something. I can then make
8:49him dash back a bunch. So, it's pretty
8:52flexible because if someone's like just
8:54inside a charge range, you can just sort
8:55of use the dash, just fix your
8:57positioning mistakes a bit, and just
8:59keep up this sort of like relatively KY
9:02game. At least that's how I was playing
9:03it. Um, I think he's a really flexible
9:06piece because he both lets you have some
9:09offense and setup threats, but he also
9:11gives you sort of a get a jail free card
9:14where it's like if you [ __ ] up a
9:16staging and you're doing him as a late
9:17activation and a turning point, you can
9:19use him to fix those mistakes, which I
9:21found really, really powerful and
9:23something that I leveraged a lot.
9:26Um, after those two, those are the sort
9:29of the two big power pieces on the team
9:31as far as I would call them. Uh, next we
9:34will go through sort of the gun
9:36servtors. Not a ton to talk about with
9:38these two, but worth talking about. Um,
9:42they have some pretty good guns. They
9:43both hit on fours, but with access to
9:46both ceaseless and balanced, um, they
9:48can do quite a bit of damage.
9:50Uh, one of them is a heavy bolter,
9:52piercing crits, all that jazz. And the
9:53other one is a stun gun with, um,
9:58piercing one. Uh, they have three
10:00attacks on force, four, five, and
10:01brutal. So, they're actually pretty good
10:03in melee. Um, and I would say like the
10:06biggest benefit to these two is they
10:08just have a crapload of wounds. They
10:09both have 11 wounds. They are great at
10:12soaking up your opponent's aggression.
10:14They're sort of the pieces that I will
10:15typically put the most forward as if I
10:18want someone to hit something, it's
10:19usually these guys. Um, and the other
10:22combo that you can do with these is you
10:24can sort of set up the medic bubble
10:26where you know need to be within three
10:28of a medic. You stage one of these guys
10:31outside of blast but still within three
10:33of a medic. And then let's say you're
10:35playing with your techno. The techno can
10:38then be within three inches of this guy
10:40for a get down Mr. President. So you're
10:43redirecting fire or a fight into these
10:45big gun servtors. If it's a fight, you
10:48will get combat support, which is really
10:49nice. So that's going to be three on
10:51threes, four five brutal, and
10:53potentially rerolls. Um, so they're
10:55pretty good at just parrying out a
10:57fight. uh or if the opponent low rolls,
11:00they have a strong enough weapon where
11:01they can just outright kill some people.
11:03So, they are pretty scary. And if
11:06there's anyone that I'm going to want
11:07the opponent to hit, it's going to be
11:08these guys.
11:11Uh that's really all there is to say
11:13about these guys. Um they're pretty good
11:16to network counteract with as they have
11:18pretty good guns and if they network
11:20counteract and go on to engage, you're
11:23mostly fine with them getting shot
11:24before other operatives.
11:27Uh after them we have the combat
11:29servtors. Uh there is three different
11:32gun profiles that you can take with the
11:34gun servtors. Uh you can take a flamer.
11:37Uh you can take a melta and then you can
11:39take a phosphor blaster. I never took a
11:42phosphor blaster or shot a phosphor
11:44blaster as long as I've played this
11:45team. Um, the only dude that I know that
11:48does this is a guy named Bold Eagle in
11:51Command Point, and I think he's figured
11:53out some
11:55successful play patterns with them. So,
11:57I haven't explored them yet. It's
11:59definitely something that I need to try.
12:01I don't think they're bad. I just think
12:02it hasn't worked out for me yet, which
12:04is why I haven't um leaned into them too
12:07much. Um, I think the flamers are just
12:11like sort of like the heart and soul of
12:13the team. They're very good flamers.
12:15They hit on twos. They have saturate,
12:16they have torrent one, you're going to
12:18get ceaseless or balance with them. So,
12:21they just do a ton of damage on into the
12:23dark or in the strongholds, you're going
12:25to get lethal five, a very consistent
12:27gun. Um, into elf bodies, into anything
12:31that isn't space marines. They just
12:32wreck them. And even space marines, if
12:34they fail one of their saves, they're
12:36taking eight damage from one of
12:38potentially three flamers that you have.
12:39So, very, very consistent guns. They hit
12:42hard. Um, the only real downside is the
12:446 ines, but because you can sort of play
12:47with so much movement with the team,
12:48it's pretty easy to get them into range.
12:51Uh, normal melta gun, 6 in range,
12:54really, really strong, but it hits on
12:56fours, so you likely need some rerolls
12:58um just to get a good value out of the
13:01melta. Uh, three on fours, three four is
13:03their melee. Um, you can buff that up a
13:06bit obviously with the ceaseless and the
13:08the balance that you could get. Um, and
13:10then the four up feel no pain. They
13:12actually become quite chunky and quite
13:13hard to kill even in melee.
13:17Uh, next we have the medic.
13:22Uh, I think this is one of the best
13:23medics in the game. Maybe the best medic
13:25in the game, but don't quote me on that.
13:27Um, he was a pretty good melee profile.
13:29Four on fours, three four and rending.
13:31Uh, he has a normal medic ability that
13:34functions basically like all the other
13:36ones, but he doesn't suffer the minus
13:38one APL penalty. neither does the target
13:41that dies. Um, which is different than
13:43some medics. I think there's a few other
13:44ones that operate like this, but that's
13:45very very important for a team that
13:47doesn't want to get stunned. Um, and
13:49then he has a a heal D3 plus three, so a
13:52pretty good heal. Um, you basically
13:55bring him into shooty teams.
13:58uh when I end up bringing him because
14:00the auto proxy's a auto take as far as
14:03I'm concerned. Um I usually end up
14:06taking cracks just so he does have a
14:08shooting threat because he does not have
14:09a gun.
14:11Um, not a lot else to say with him. Like
14:14I sort of talked about with that uh like
14:17daisy chain of stuff that you can set up
14:20where it's you want to set up, you know,
14:22just outside of two so you're not
14:24blasting and it doesn't invalidate the
14:26medic rule still within three of one of
14:28your big boys and then you put a piece
14:29that you really don't want to die but
14:30you need to be able to play a bit more
14:32forward within three of the sort of
14:34middleman. So the combo again here is
14:38let's say someone targets your techno.
14:41You then get down Mr. President. That
14:44redirects the shot into someone within
14:46three invisible which would be this gun
14:48servtor. That gun servtor is then within
14:51range of the medic. So if they shoot
14:52this guy you redirect it to here. He
14:54takes the shot and even if he dies he
14:55gets resed by the medic. It does cost
14:57you a CP because it's a firefight ploy
14:59but incredibly strong to set up. It lets
15:02you play your techno a bit aggressively
15:04and at the start of the game you do sort
15:07of need to get him out there a bit
15:08especially if you don't outactivate your
15:10opponent and even if they want to come
15:12melee you you can redirect here and so
15:15on and so forth. So great medic. Uh
15:19basically comes into shooty teams. Uh I
15:22wouldn't take him into melee teams
15:23obviously and yeah not a lot I'll say
15:27about him. Uh, I'll talk about the auto
15:29proxy last.
15:32Uh, the other one that we have here is
15:34the breacher. I don't know where I put
15:37the model.
15:42There he is.
15:44Uh, the breacher is probably my like
15:48maybe this like piece that I get into
15:51the mix with the most like early in the
15:53game just because he's so strong. Um, he
15:56has a crazy good gun. Both of his guns
15:59hit on threes or both versions of it.
16:01One's a 6-in profile that's lethal five
16:04four five hitting on threes and he
16:06basically has a 2-in piercing two lethal
16:09five gun. So, this gun is crazy. It can
16:12it can [ __ ] up anybody. Um, nobody wants
16:15to get shot by it. And then he also has
16:16a a power sword that hits on fours. So,
16:20incredibly strong piece. um if you can
16:23get like an last activation kill with
16:25him into a first activation kill, like
16:26you're in a really really good spot with
16:28him. And then his breach token, you can
16:31just set up so much asymmetry with this
16:33and especially with network counteracts.
16:35Um I I'll sort of walk through this a
16:38bit later, but because you can basically
16:40put this breach token along a wall,
16:41treats it as accessible and allows you
16:44to move through the wall with a 1 in
16:45tax. There is just so much crazy stuff
16:48that you can do with this in conjunction
16:49with like the underser network
16:51counteracts, the stratphase movement
16:52from the techno. Um, this is how I've
16:55seen a lot of success or I've had a lot
16:57of success with the team so far. So, I
16:59I'll walk through that a bit in a in a
17:01few.
17:03Auto proxy is the last one. Uh, I've
17:06taken him every game. I've never dropped
17:08him. I don't even know if you can drop
17:09him. Uh, he's got a few rules. Again, he
17:11doesn't have a gun. He's got a pretty
17:12good melee profile. lethal vi and
17:14shocks. Three, four, hitting on fours.
17:17Um, no gun. So, when I, like I said,
17:19when I do take him and I take the medic,
17:21I do end up bringing cracks most of the
17:23time, I found, just so that they have a
17:25shooting presence on the board. Uh, his
17:29first sort of like innate ability here
17:31gives uh your team saturate if he can
17:34see the target. So, a lot of the times
17:36you're going to want to set him up where
17:37he has a pretty good view of the
17:39battlefield. um just so that when you
17:41are shooting you're going to negate any
17:42cover that teams have. So uh it's quite
17:45strong. Uh and then his other ability is
17:47gaze of the omnisiah. You pick someone
17:49that you can see. You get seek light and
17:51ignore obscuring against that target
17:53until the end of the turning point. Um
17:55this is another one of those abilities
17:57that just really keeps opponents honest.
17:59Doesn't let them stage in places that
18:01you don't want them to. And then in
18:02conjunction with saturate
18:04um yeah it just makes your shots really
18:07really good even if you are shooting
18:08someone in light cover with him.
18:11Uh he also is like the
18:14operative that the underser relays
18:16orders through. So something that I do
18:18with the team a lot is you're going to
18:20play these two operatives on sort of
18:21either side of the map just so that you
18:23can get benefit out of the auras. So
18:26it's like two six-inch bubbles that you
18:28have that you need to play through. Um,
18:30and you more or less want your team
18:32within those bubbles so that you can get
18:34value out of the auto proxy and the
18:36underser ability.
18:40That is all of the operatives. Like I
18:42said, it's a 10 operative team. As far
18:44as like the loadouts that I'm typically
18:45going, like I said, don't really take a
18:46phosphor blaster. Shooty teams, I'll
18:48take the medic. If I don't take the
18:50medic, I will take three flamers in the
18:53melta.
18:54Um, and then yeah, sometimes there's
18:57teams where you don't the medic or the
18:59uh melta is a little overkill and then
19:01if you're taking the medic, you'll just
19:03take the three flamers, but that is
19:05pretty rare from my experience so far.
19:09Uh, we will go and talk about the
19:12faction rule a bit. I sort of just like
19:14glazed over this and assumed people
19:15knew. Um, they sort of have two pieces
19:17to this. One of them is called transfer
19:18power.
19:20once during your activation of a
19:22servtor. Um, so the gun servtors, all
19:26the little guys, it's basically everyone
19:27except the underser and the techno is
19:29the easiest way to think about it.
19:31Uh, I can transfer power. What that
19:34means is I basically siphon an APL out
19:37of the active model and then after this
19:39activation, I can trigger a counter
19:41action with one of my other servtors and
19:43use that APL to perform the counter
19:44action.
19:46So, let's say I had a flamer up here and
19:51then I could like repo this big guy to
19:53here. That's one APL. For my second APL,
19:57I transfer power. His activation ends
20:00and then I counteract with the the
20:02flamer and I could tell him to order
20:04swap and uh shoot or something like
20:06that.
20:08This is like a normal counteract where
20:10you can't do it once more than once per
20:11turning point. So once someone's network
20:13counteracted, you can't make them do it
20:14again, which is important to know. Uh
20:17the other piece that I talked about a
20:19little bit there was network counteract
20:21where you can just tell someone to
20:22counteract. You can do an order swap as
20:24part of that which is incredibly strong
20:26and then tell them to perform a 1 AP
20:28action. Uh if they do a movement, they
20:31can only move 2 in for that. So normal
20:34counteract rules do apply here.
20:37Um, important piece of this is if either
20:40the active operative is stunned or the
20:43operative that you would want to network
20:44counteract is stunned, you cannot. So
20:47basically someone stunning your
20:49operatives after they've activated
20:51removes them as a threat for both
20:53network counteracts and for transferring
20:55power during their own activation. So
20:56important to remember.
21:00After this, I guess we'll go through
21:01strategy deploys. Uh, they have pretty
21:04good strategy deploys. Definitely the
21:05one that I play the most and I would say
21:07is the strongest on the team is
21:09incantation of the iron soul. Um if
21:11anyone knows plague marines is basically
21:12a plague marine feel no pain. So damage
21:14of three or more on you roll a d6 on on
21:18a4 up you subtract one from that. So it
21:21really makes your guys a lot tankier
21:23than they seem at sort of first glance.
21:25And there's a ton of times where someone
21:28will fight you and you'll end up on one
21:30even for your eight wound guys. So,
21:32incredibly strong ploy. Uh, anytime that
21:35you think you're going to get hit, I
21:38basically play this. It is usually the
21:40first one that I'll play.
21:42Uh, after that,
21:44uh, you have speric possession. Uh, I
21:49use this one a bit. Sort of depends on
21:51how much CP I have, and I'll get into
21:53like why I don't lean on this one as
21:55much. Uh, within six of the underser,
21:57within six of the auto proxy, you get
21:59accurate one. There's a clause in here
22:01for the comm's device. I never take a
22:02comms device. So, basically adds three
22:04inches from the guy who's standing on
22:06the comm's device.
22:08Um, but because your team hits on fours,
22:10it is a very strong ploy. I just don't
22:13end up using it as much. Uh, the other
22:17one here, duty of reclamation. Uh, once
22:20per action, you can use the command
22:21rroll firefight ploy for zero CP if the
22:24attacker defense dice was rolled for a
22:26friendly battle clay operative that
22:27contests an objective marker or one of
22:28your mission markers.
22:30So really what that means is anytime you
22:32have a dude that's standing on a point
22:34or one of your mission markers, you will
22:36get a free CP reroll. That works in
22:38shooting, that works in fighting, and
22:40focus in retaliating, and it works when
22:43you're getting shot. So like one
22:45operative can just get so much value out
22:47of this ploy. Um, it's incredibly
22:49strong. Uh, probably the ploy that I end
22:52up spending the second most on depending
22:55on sort of how the flow of the game is
22:56going.
22:58The last one, and situationally, this is
23:01what I would say the best ploy and where
23:03a lot of like some of my success that I
23:05found with the team coming from is
23:06prioritize acquisition.
23:08Um, you pick an objective marker or one
23:11of your mission markers.
23:13Uh, anyone within three of that marker,
23:15you add one to the attacks out of up to
23:17a maximum of four.
23:20Excuse me. So, your big gun servers can
23:23be four attacks on fours, four, five
23:24brutal.
23:26Obviously, very good.
23:30Um, and then the other part which I
23:32think is the most important piece of it.
23:37When determining control of a marker,
23:39treat the total APL stat of friendly
23:42battleclade operatives contested as one
23:43higher if at least one friendly
23:45battleclade operative contests that
23:46marker. So
23:49why I think this is so important and
23:51where a lot of the play comes from it is
23:53you have two three APL operatives on the
23:55team. um which means you can treat them
23:58as plus one higher for control of an
24:01objective.
24:02Importantly, this lets you out OC
24:05marines and any other three APL
24:07operative. And if you out activate those
24:09teams, you can just set up some
24:12incredibly toxic play patterns that it's
24:14sort of the onus is on them to sort of
24:16break that lock that you have on them
24:17because
24:19you can play your safe home and
24:20hopefully you know anyone that's been
24:22trying to contest it, you can kill
24:24easily with your guns and then you can
24:26play this uninteractive piece where you
24:29can like last activation go put your
24:31techno on it OC them for the mission if
24:33it's something like transmission or
24:34something like that and then start the
24:38uh firefight phase or in the next strat
24:40phase, you can repo him back to safety
24:42where you can't get hit again. Uh I'll
24:45talk through a bit more of that and sort
24:47of like how to set that up. But this
24:50ploy got a ton of mileage in my most
24:53recent tournament. So if you haven't
24:54been using this, I'd definitely suggest
24:57you start looking into it and seeing if
24:58there's opportunities where this comes
25:00up.
25:01against other two APL teams doesn't come
25:04up as much, but I think you're you're
25:05doing pretty well into those teams.
25:06Anyways,
25:09uh after that, uh the firefight play PS.
25:11This team has incredible firefight PS.
25:14Um the first one that I'll get into is
25:16you can ignore piercing on one of the
25:18tech priest. So, the underser of the
25:19techno
25:20just really good. If someone wants to
25:22come shoot you with a melta, you can
25:24ignore that, which is great.
25:27Uh, the other one here is survile sacy.
25:31I'm not going to read through it. It's
25:32basically a get down, Mr. President, for
25:33your two tech priests. Again, you have
25:36two PS here that will keep your tech
25:38priests alive.
25:40They're your two best operatives on the
25:42team. So, being able to have access to
25:43these and just get more mileage out of
25:45those operatives is really, really
25:46important.
25:50Uh, system exorcism is incredibly
25:52versatile. It comes up a ton and it sort
25:54of again lets you if you get stunned it
25:57lets you get out of being stunned during
25:59that activation if you have a poison
26:00token on you. You can wipe the poison
26:02before you take the damage. This also
26:05gets around things like denounce vox
26:08scream all of those type of things that
26:10would delay an activation. You can go to
26:13activate that operative and then wipe
26:14that effect. So it also works on stuff
26:18like uh scout enemy movement. if if
26:20someone's scouting you, you can wipe the
26:21scouting. Um any sort of like rules
26:24change and stuff like that. Incredibly
26:26versatile.
26:28Keep a lookout for when you can use it,
26:29but just that play alone can like win
26:32you games and make sure that you get
26:34full value out of your operatives.
26:38Uh the last one is remote access. Uh in
26:42into the dark, uh one of your tech
26:44priests can uh operate a hatch from 4 in
26:47away. that you don't have to be in his
26:49control range, which is incredibly
26:50strong. If someone's on guard, you can
26:53open it from 4 in away, not proc it, so
26:55they don't get to fight you, and then
26:57you could potentially shoot them after
26:58that with like a network counteract or
27:00something like that. Um, and the other
27:02one is you can perform a mission action
27:05from 4 in away. And the way that this is
27:08worded,
27:09you don't require visibility of that
27:11marker. You just have to be within 4 in
27:14of it. Um, and you can't have any enemy
27:16operatives on it. And if there is enemy
27:18operatives, uh, you obviously can't use
27:20it unless you they're in, uh, engagement
27:23range with another one of your
27:25operatives, which is another way to get
27:27around it. So, just sort of showing what
27:29that would look like. Like, let's say
27:31we're playing loot and this is the
27:32objective here.
27:35I could loot the objective from our the
27:37other side of this wall. I don't even
27:39have to put my operative at risk. I can
27:40spend a CP, loot it, and sort of leave
27:43my operative back here. So
27:45incredibly valuable just to have this in
27:49your toolbox. Um depending on the
27:51mission, it comes up a ton. And sort of
27:53the two ways that I've had um success is
27:57like for missions that you need to
27:58control, you're going to be leaning on
28:00prioritize acquisition to out OC people.
28:03And then for missions where you don't
28:05actually need to be on the point, um,
28:07you can start leaning on remote access
28:10to just do things like loot and stuff
28:13without putting any of your operatives
28:14at risk. And really what that means is
28:17it starts forcing people to run at you,
28:19which is you're pretty good at dealing
28:21with to begin with. So, uh, again, I'll
28:24get more into that later, but great set
28:26of firefight PS play PS, super
28:28versatile, and it gives you play into
28:31more or less any team because of the
28:32combination of Ps that you have here.
28:34So, really, really good, and I budget a
28:37lot of CP to lean into these because I
28:38think they're so strong.
28:42Uh, we have, uh, some equipment to go
28:45through. Covert guises is when you
28:47choose it, you roll a D3. uh any of your
28:50battleclaid operatives. So that does
28:52include your underser and your techno.
28:54Uh depending on what you get with the
28:56D3, that many guys in the strat phase of
28:58the first turn get to do a full
29:00reposition, but they have to end within
29:02three. Uh I take this very rarely
29:05actually. Um it does let you threaten an
29:09insane amount of the board. So just to
29:12illustrate what you can do with this. Um
29:15let's say that and this is again just
29:18for illustrations purposes but let's say
29:21I have a servtor deployed here. I give
29:23him the dash. I can then end fully
29:26within three of my drop zone. And then
29:28let's say my under seer was staged here.
29:32I can then dash three in
29:35or the first thing of my under. I can
29:37then he's still within six. Tell him to
29:39dash again.
29:42Then this guy still hasn't activated. I
29:44could then move dash him. So he's a 5
29:46inch move.
29:48Then he has a dash.
29:51I could get him all the way back to here
29:53on TP1.
29:55And then I could network counteract him
29:58and be like this guy transfers power,
30:00tells him to switch to engage and then
30:01shoot.
30:02So,
30:04it's insane. Incredibly crazy that you
30:07can do this stuff, but it requires a lot
30:10of setup. It requires a lot of
30:11investment. It requires a whole
30:14equipment to do this [cough] to get a
30:16shot on TP1.
30:19I will typically only take this into
30:21Marines, and it is sort of map dependent
30:24because obviously you can't just run up
30:25the side here. You're going to get your
30:26ship blown off. Um, you sort of need a
30:29way to do this where you can safely go
30:3133 without getting shot and without
30:34giving them any sort of interaction with
30:35you.
30:37I use it against marines because if they
30:40do want to run at you, it makes it very
30:42easy to go get a shot on them on TP1.
30:45Um, but more what happens is people will
30:47respect it so much that you can control
30:50where they get to stage. I will say
30:53because I don't take I think I only took
30:54it one game and it wasn't that
30:56impactful. I can probably have done
30:58without it is
31:01you can just get to the places you need
31:03anyways just with the underser, right?
31:04Like I can go out one up five and then
31:08move dash.
31:13Like it's still more than enough to do
31:17what you need. You you don't really need
31:18the equipment to threaten all this stuff
31:20to begin with. So once you get more used
31:23to how you're going to play your
31:25undersseer and keeping him in range of
31:26the operatives that you're doing this um
31:29it sort of just becomes redundant in my
31:31opinion. So I don't actually think you
31:33need it and it's the equipment that I
31:35take the least on the team.
31:38Uh the next one is concealed apparatus.
31:40Once per battle one combat server or gun
31:42server can use another weapon on its
31:44data card didn't select for the battle.
31:47So what that means is one of your
31:49flamers can shoot to melta. That's
31:51basically what it means. That's the only
31:52thing I've used it for. I will take it
31:54into marines. That's basically the only
31:57time I've ever taken this. It gives you
31:59a second melta shot. You can play one of
32:01your flamers like a melta and then
32:03you're fine with him dying and then you
32:05still have your other melta to counter
32:06punch anything that they push into you
32:08with. So you can play the freebie pretty
32:10aggressively and then you can use your
32:12actual melta a bit more cautious to
32:14hopefully get more than one shot out of.
32:16Probably won't happen, but that's the
32:18dream. Uh, again, only really take that
32:20into marines. That's the only time I've
32:21taken it. Uh, electro electromantic
32:26capacitors is I take this against melee
32:28teams. This is about the only time I
32:29take it. Your whole team gets shocked in
32:32melee, which is great. And whenever
32:34you're retaliating, you get severe. So,
32:37cute little just combo just within the
32:39card there into melee teams. They don't
32:41like it. Um, then you can combo that
32:44with prioritize acquisition to give
32:46yourself an extra dice for the the three
32:48attack operatives. Um, it gives you a
32:52lot more staying power than you should
32:53and allows you to get in chip with your
32:55your crits and um, chalk out a dice. So
32:59instead of just parrying, you can
33:00actually get a little bit more damage on
33:01operatives as a result of this. Um,
33:05yeah, it's good. Basically, just take it
33:06into melee teams. It's the only time I
33:08take it. But great equipment. Uh, and
33:10the one that I take every single game
33:12and I I don't think I would play the
33:14team without is neurosyclic reserve
33:16cells. Once per turning point when you
33:18transfer power, you can use this rule if
33:19you do transfer power for zero AP.
33:22What that means is normally, like I
33:24said, you have to siphon an APL out of
33:26someone to transfer power. I could, for
33:29example,
33:30dash this guy, take a shot, and then use
33:34my equipment for the turn and then tell
33:36this other flamer or whatever to network
33:38counteract shoot. So, this is one of the
33:40ways that you can set up double kills um
33:43is through this equipment. You win
33:46initiative and you have guys in the
33:47right position, you can move someone,
33:49shoot, and then tell another guy to
33:50shoot. Um, and it's incredibly powerful
33:53because it gives you the the movement or
33:55you could like mixion action shoot,
33:58network counteract shoot, and stuff like
34:00that. There's just a ton of flexibility
34:01with the equipment. Um, and yeah, I'm
34:04never dropping this equipment. I think
34:06it's busted. I think uh it really gives
34:09the team a lot more legs. And because
34:11you don't have a comms, most of you guys
34:14are 2 APL. It lets you sort of be a
34:17three APL like operative once at turning
34:20point, which is great.
34:24Um, other than that, equipment wise,
34:26what I end up taking a lot, if I'm
34:27taking the medic and the uh auto proxy,
34:30I'll take two cracks or frags, depending
34:32on if it's like a melee horde or
34:34something like that.
34:36Uh, I don't really take stuns and smokes
34:39that much. I will sometimes, but it was
34:43I think I did it once in the tournament.
34:46Never screwed around with vines. I don't
34:48think you need the coms device. I've
34:50never screwed around with the ammo cap.
34:51Excuse me. Uh ladders, depending on the
34:54map, can be really, really helpful.
34:55There's a few games that I took ladders.
34:57uh heavy barricade. Depending on the map
34:59that you're playing, if you need to be
35:00able to sit on your home point without
35:02getting shot off, something like this
35:03where I don't actually want to push up
35:05to like here to be on my home point,
35:08I'll take a heavy a lot of times just to
35:09fix some of the like issues with the
35:12staging on the map. Um yeah, this more
35:16or less what I'm using the heavy for is
35:18either sitting on my home point or just
35:19giving me a place to like sit where I
35:22can set up that like medic bubble pretty
35:24easily.
35:26um where you could set up like something
35:27like this. I don't know even more like
35:29this, but you get the idea. Put your
35:31medic here. Put this dude here. He can
35:33still see stuff. It gives you a better
35:34staging point here rather than this like
35:36diagonal line. I I don't actually think
35:38I did it on this map, but again, just
35:40for illustration purposes.
35:43Uh and then razor wire and light
35:45barricades depending on how you expect
35:47your enemy to play. A lot of the times
35:49what I'm doing here is just using it to
35:51create oneways. So you can use it
35:52against marines to slow them down, which
35:54is very very important. Um, give
35:57yourself more staging points, prevent
35:59your opponent from placing equipment
36:00where you know they they want to place
36:02equipment. Um, I end up taking some
36:04combination of these usually every game.
36:07So it's usually like one, two, sometimes
36:10three pieces of the faction equipment.
36:12Then usually lights, razor wire, or
36:14heavy. And that's usually where I sit.
36:16And then I usually make room for the I
36:17do make room for the cracks when I'm
36:19taking the medic and the uh auto proxy.
36:24That is a quick just overview on the
36:27operatives, equipment, employees, and
36:28all that type of stuff. And now maybe I
36:30can get into some of the play patterns
36:31that I found success with. Um I loaded
36:35up this map because I think there's some
36:36egregious stuff that you can do with
36:38this team. Uh actually, sorry, I'll go
36:40into tac ops first. At the tournament, I
36:43played retrieval every single game. I
36:45think because of the way that the techno
36:47works, because of the way some of this
36:48equipment works, um, and because of how
36:52safe retrieval is, I think it's a great
36:54tackup for the team. I think they play
36:56it incredibly well. Um, I've played some
36:59steel intelligence in the past. I think
37:01that has a lot of merit as well. I would
37:04never play flank. You can do some cute
37:06stuff with scout enemy movement where
37:08you can like scout four operatives
37:09before the like in your first
37:12activation, by your first activation.
37:14Uh, you can do this by Techno does it in
37:17the strat phase. Your undersseer then
37:19activates. He scouts and then he goes
37:21network counteract network counteract.
37:22Tell you you're just a scout. You've
37:24scouted four operatives.
37:26It can work pretty well, don't get me
37:28wrong. And I've played it a few times
37:29and had like middling success with it.
37:32My main issue with these type of play
37:33patterns is like
37:36one, you're activating your under seer
37:38incredibly early and usually he's my
37:40last or near last activation. So, it
37:43sort of flips that on its head, which I
37:45don't didn't like. Um, because again,
37:48you can use him to fix your positioning
37:50mistakes. You can use him to threaten so
37:52much of the board that once he has
37:53activated,
37:55you're pretty static as far as what your
37:58threat ranges are. Until he's activated
38:00though, even your activated guys can
38:03dash dash and still be a threat
38:04somewhere. So, he gives you a lot more
38:07versatility in what you're able to
38:09threaten and what your opponent needs to
38:10respect until he's gone.
38:13Um, but yeah, Scout definitely has play.
38:16I've played it a few times. It's not
38:17terrible. Um, I would say you're either
38:21playing retrieval, you're playing scout,
38:22you're playing steel intelligence. I
38:23haven't tried plant devices on this
38:25team. Maybe with that prioritize
38:27acquisition play and your leader, you
38:29could like do some cheeky plant device
38:31stuff. I also haven't tried track enemy.
38:35I am interested in trying track enemy
38:37because you can network counteract
38:38change your order that you can probably
38:41set up some funky stuff with this where
38:43you're able to track people pretty
38:44easily. Uh I played track a ton on cults
38:46and I really really like the tack op. Um
38:50I just haven't had the time to actually
38:51explore it yet with this team. So
38:52something that's definitely on my radar.
38:54I just haven't had the time to try it.
38:58Um a lot of the times I'm just taking as
39:00primary. When I am going into the game
39:03with retrieve, I am really just focusing
39:06on getting four points on retrieval and
39:07then two points on my primary. Um, some
39:11people might hate that. I I'm not trying
39:13to like get a huge score out of my game,
39:15but because of the way that I've played
39:17this team, it's incredibly consistent to
39:20get those six points. And I'm just happy
39:24every single game that I'm able to score
39:26a consistent six. I don't really need to
39:28think too hard about how I'm going to
39:29score these points. And it lets me focus
39:32on either killing my operatives enemy
39:34efficiently or playing the crit up
39:35efficiently because I don't need to
39:38dedicate a ton of brain power and
39:39thinking to how I'm going to play
39:40retrieve. It's just very easy for this
39:43team to do it in combination with like
39:45the leader stuff and network counteracts
39:47and just how you can position that you
39:49you borderline just get it for free.
39:53Um now to sort of some of the play
39:55patterns and stuff like that. So, um,
39:59again, some of the stuff like if I'm
40:00looking at this map and I'm trying to
40:02set up, I'm probably going to place my
40:04auto proxy in the middle somewhere
40:05because I want him away from my
40:07underser. I'm probably going to place my
40:09underser on the other side here near my
40:10home so he can do stuff here. I would
40:13likely have a heavy barricade here
40:16somewhere. I didn't measure this out.
40:17Don't crucify me if this is the actual
40:19spot.
40:21Uh, and then I would have, let's say,
40:23some combination of some flamers
40:24somewhere here.
40:27Uh, I would probably have some big guys
40:29in here.
40:32Uh, let's say we're not taking the
40:33medic.
40:36Uh, I would definitely have my breacher
40:37here, which I'll get to why I'm doing
40:39that.
40:41Uh, I also want my techno playing mid if
40:43I'm playing this map.
40:48Again, this isn't like there might be an
40:51angle someone could get a dirty little
40:54shot on me from here, but again, this is
40:56just for illustration purposes.
41:11Whatever. Uh, two, four, six, seven,
41:14eight, nine. And then we have one more
41:17uh which would be what is this? Malta.
41:19Melta. Sure. Melta can melt probably
41:22comes to the middle instead of one of
41:23these. Or you can put a over here. I
41:26don't know. You get the idea.
41:30Something like this.
41:33Something like this. Let's say this is
41:36like a setup that I've done. And I'll
41:38I'll sort of walk through why I've
41:40loosely placed these operatives where I
41:42have. Um, again, we want the unders and
41:44the auto proxy not near each other so
41:46that we can get as much value out of
41:49their two six-inch auras
41:52six.
41:54Um, more or less what I'm committing to
41:56is I'd either have my big tag come and
41:57sit on this point, which is maybe what I
41:59would do. He's going to be within range
42:02of my underser. This gives me a way to
42:06farm some CP, which is something I'm
42:09thinking about. I always want to try and
42:10farm that, especially early on in the
42:11game. As long as he's safe, he's good to
42:14sort of stay put. Uh, I could get
42:16another flamer up to here, which can
42:17maybe be aggressive depending on how my
42:19opponent is staged.
42:22Um, and then maybe another one that can
42:24just move up and try and or counter
42:25punch anyone who does come into here.
42:29Not a lot of thinking's going on here.
42:31This guy can easily retrieve on either a
42:33network counteract or as activation. If
42:35this is like transmission, he can tap
42:36retrieve. Doesn't really need to do
42:38much. Maybe you have this barricade
42:40facing the other way. if I'm thinking
42:42about it, just so that he can actually
42:44see the midpoint and potentially get
42:47some shots off there depending on how
42:48people stage.
42:52Um, and yeah, he's sitting here. He's
42:54doing mission actions. He can network
42:55counteract and shoot or just shoot if he
42:57needs to depending on how the game
42:58unfolds. The other ones are really just
43:00looking to shoot people.
43:03Uh, these big boys, you probably want to
43:06do something where you like dash them up
43:08just so they can climb. They climb up
43:09for three and then they go or three I
43:12don't and then they go two inches after
43:16the climb.
43:19They're mostly safe depending on how
43:20you've actually set this up. Um
43:25maybe they dash to like here, they climb
43:28up and they go too something like that.
43:31They're pretty safe. You can then
43:33network counteract them two inches to
43:34sort of get them in the exact position
43:36that you want. really just gives him a
43:38good spot to look over the whole map. If
43:40people get funky around mid, he can
43:41network counteract shoot them. He's
43:43mostly just going to be planted sitting
43:44up there the whole game just as a
43:46deterrent. [snorts]
43:48Uh the other ones that you have here,
43:50the auto proxy, you definitely want in a
43:52good spot where he can see the whole
43:54map. So again, he's going to do a dash.
43:57He's going to climb up three and then go
43:59two and just come somewhere where you
44:00can poke his head out and just see most
44:03of the map. You can threaten seek light.
44:04You can threaten ignore obscuring. And
44:07you get this sort of three-inch bubble
44:08here, which when you look at it in 3D,
44:11you cover a ton of space. You cover the
44:13majority of the midpoint here where you
44:15can still tell operatives to network
44:17counteract through your underser, farm
44:19the CP, so on and so forth. You really
44:23want him in a a good spot where he can
44:25see the majority of the battlefield. You
44:27can get value out of his stuff. And then
44:29also, if I had the Metak here, he would
44:32have a crack grenade. He can still
44:33threaten some of this [ __ ] So that's
44:34what I'm doing with him.
44:37the breacher on this map and where I
44:39think it enables some like borderline
44:41toxic play patterns out of the team. You
44:43could move him up five,
44:46bunker him into the corner here and then
44:49you could breach
44:51with a breach marker as close as you can
44:52in the corner. That shit's now treated
44:55as accessible and you can now move
44:58through that wall. And why is this so
45:00toxic and why is it so important for the
45:02team? Well, a few reasons.
45:05within six of the auto proxy you can use
45:08the undererser's ability. I could save
45:11his spot right now. I could make him
45:13dash through too. And on this map in
45:16particular, I can get to the center
45:17point. So I could dash him through. Then
45:20I could dash him again. Still within a
45:22six of the underser hopefully. Yep. And
45:26then I could have him network counteract
45:27somewhere after this which is sick.
45:31Um, it lets you threaten charges from
45:34that corner. Um, he has a seven inch
45:38charge, so six inches through this. You
45:39cover the whole center point, which is
45:41sick. Um, and where I think a lot of the
45:43toxic [ __ ] comes from, especiate
45:58a marine team, right? They have a marine
46:00on here. Um, I could use that prioritize
46:04acquisition ploy to get plus one control
46:07for this point. I can out OC that
46:10marine. So, I can move on to here. I
46:12could potentially shoot him
46:15or if I have to tap the point, I can
46:16move tap and then I can retrieve.
46:20Once I have retrieved him, if I am doing
46:22this as my last activation at the start
46:24of the next turning point, I can then
46:28graph repo him. So I can then repo him
46:31through this
46:33hole that I made and put him back to
46:35complete safety. If I win initiative, I
46:37don't necessarily have to do that. I
46:39could potentially shoot, do something
46:42else, and then repo back through. And
46:45just sort of looking at this map, it's
46:48pretty hard for your opponent to break
46:49this because if using marines as an
46:52example, they don't want to run up too
46:54far because of what you can threaten in
46:56the ranges that you can threaten with
46:57your underser. And you have effectively
46:59two meltas and another P2 gun. You have
47:02two P1 guns. Uh, and then you have
47:04flamers. Your team hits incredibly hard
47:06and you have your techno ability. Team
47:08hits incredibly hard. No one really
47:10wants to [ __ ] with that [ __ ] on TP1. You
47:12can keep people pretty honest. They
47:14probably won't leave the stronghold.
47:15Maybe they'll run up to here, but then
47:17you're probably getting shots off and
47:18then they probably just play safe home.
47:20So,
47:22because you can threaten this very like
47:24asymmetric stuff with strat phase
47:25movement and these holes,
47:29it's so hard for your opponent to sort
47:31of break this like cage or lock that you
47:34have on them. And because you're playing
47:35retrieval
47:37again, once I sort of have these two
47:38points,
47:41I'm probably not even going to [ __ ] with
47:42this. I'll probably just ignore this the
47:44whole game. I'll sit on my six points
47:45that I have, and then they have to focus
47:48on playing crit, and they somehow have
47:50to score their attack. So, I will just
47:52focus on denying that, killing their
47:54operatives, playing the crit better than
47:56them, and gaining a a VP advantage that
47:58way. And more or less, in some fashion,
48:02this is this is how I played the team.
48:04the entire weekend. Um, now let's say
48:06this wasn't transmission. I'd probably
48:09still put this marker here just to
48:11threaten stuff. But again, what that
48:14lets me do is I can just tap this
48:17objective within four of him and I don't
48:18need visibility.
48:21I can just do this through the wall. So
48:23again, I can play incredibly safe. I can
48:26do that last activation, go get my
48:27retrieval token, and then come back. And
48:30then I can just continually play first
48:33activation. I'm going to tap it and do
48:35stuff like that. Even if I need to go
48:37onto the point because let's say they
48:38left a marine there and I can't tap it
48:40through the wall. Um I can stage it in
48:43such a way where I can
48:46get to here with a repo, tap it, and
48:48then dash back through the wall or vice
48:50versa. Right? Maybe I have to to
48:52actually make that doable. I can't have
48:53my breacher in the corner, but you would
48:55set that up if you needed to.
49:00So you can do stuff like that. Dash
49:03through, tap, repo back through. And
49:06again, it's pretty unengaging gameplay,
49:09I will say. And people don't love it
49:11when you do it to them, but it makes the
49:13team incredibly strong. And I don't
49:16think this team
49:19does that well if you just start trading
49:22operatives around too much because you
49:23hit on fours a lot of the time that you
49:27really want to control the shots that
49:28you are getting. You want to control
49:29where your opponent's able to position
49:31and you want to force your opponent to
49:33have to take risk. And that's what I've
49:36done a lot where once you sort of get
49:38this lock and once your opponent starts
49:39to realize it, you force them to make
49:42bad decisions and you force them into
49:45uncomfortable spots where they're like,
49:46"Shit, I have to run at you now. I'm
49:48going to lose if nothing else changes
49:50for this game. They're forced to start
49:52running at you. They're forced to start
49:53trying to come up to your stronghold.
49:56And once they start doing that, because
49:57of network counteracts, you have a ton
50:00of flexibility on how you can punish
50:02them, on how you can make your important
50:04pieces live and how you can sort of out
50:07position and maneuver them with like
50:09seek light, network counteracts, the
50:11hidden melta, the movement from these
50:13guys, so on and so forth. So that's a
50:17lot of what I've ended up doing on the
50:19team is sort of general play patterns
50:21like that.
50:22>> [snorts]
50:23>> Um, some other funky stuff that you can
50:25do, especially on Tomb World and guard,
50:28is if someone's guarding,
50:31uh, the way that the interaction works
50:32is that if I network counteract, the
50:35network counteract occurs after my act
50:38activation.
50:40And because of that, I don't actually
50:42switch his order to engage or take the
50:44shot during my activation. And the way
50:46that guard is worded is you can only do
50:49it before or after an action during an
50:51activation. So nobody can proc their
50:54guard off of a network counteract shot.
50:57And depending on how they've set up, if
51:00they go on guard, you then activate
51:02someone, network counteract, let's say
51:05this big gun server to engage and shoot
51:06them. They don't get to take their guard
51:08shot off that. They then have to, and
51:11let's say this guy hadn't activated yet,
51:13so he's just network counteracted.
51:17They basically have to go try and kill
51:18this guy right now because if they
51:20don't, what then happens is during my
51:23actual activation, I'm going to activate
51:25this guy. I'm going to rip another shot
51:27into that guy that's on guard probably
51:30with two shots and like ceaseless and
51:32potentially balanced and stuff like
51:33that. Even hitting on fours, you're
51:36probably going to kill something because
51:37if you're rolling so many dice, you're
51:39rolling 10 dice across those two shots.
51:40You potentially have ceaseless and
51:42balance, which is even more rerolls
51:43going on there. and piercing one four
51:46six let's say on this gun between two
51:48shots you're going to kill probably
51:50whatever you're shooting. So it's a it's
51:52a cheeky little interaction that you can
51:54use to um punish people going on guard
51:57against this team.
52:00Um what else is there that I found
52:03interesting as far as like play patterns
52:05go?
52:07Um you can network counteract tell guys
52:09to fight. So, if someone's trying to
52:10charge hug you and they don't want to
52:12die, um you can just network counteract
52:14fight them. And then if they kill your
52:16guy, then you can start ripping shots
52:17into them. And if they don't, then
52:19potentially on how you roll, you're just
52:20doing some free damage, right? And
52:21that's across potentially two fights. Um
52:24or even three if they charge fought a
52:26ready guy, didn't want to kill you, you
52:28can then activate that guy, fight, and
52:29then you can network counteract fight
52:30again. So, it's like pretty difficult to
52:32charge hug these guys without them
52:34actually killing the operative that um
52:37they're charge hugging.
52:40Um, with the way this CP ability works,
52:44I think there was one game at the
52:45tournament where I ended up going up to
52:469 CP just by going second and like
52:49hitting this uh CP ability every time
52:52that I uh rolled it.
52:55The free CP is great. Like I said, these
52:58firefight play PS are really, really
52:59strong. They have great strategy plays.
53:03Um, you'll end up using all the CP. I
53:05think before this change, you always
53:07felt like you were very CP starved, and
53:10this lets you get around that a bit.
53:13Um,
53:16what else is interesting with the team?
53:18Some of the other stuff you can do with
53:19the breacher is, uh, where did I put
53:21him? Here he is. [snorts]
53:25Uh, you can actually play him passively
53:27for a bit. So, I could do like something
53:28as like go up here, then repo, go to
53:35punch a hole in this corner up here and
53:38then activate my underser.
53:40Uh, tell him to
53:44dash two off and then one for the drop
53:47and then dash forward again and then I
53:49could tell him to network counteract.
53:50So, you could get like two breach tokens
53:52on TP1. You could also do stuff like
53:54this where you punch one in this corner,
53:56let's say something like this, and then
53:57you dash dash M6,
54:00punch one in the other corner. Um, it
54:03just really gives you a lot of like
54:04staging options. It lets you stay pretty
54:06safe. Like if you're right up in these
54:08corners, I can be outside of hatchway
54:10fight range. I think there's a position.
54:12Yeah, you can do something like this.
54:14So, lets you play pretty safe. Lets you
54:17be outside of hatchway fight range and
54:18gives you a lot of staging asymmetry,
54:21right? Where it's pretty hard for them
54:23to get in here and then you could still
54:25threaten all this type of stuff. So, I
54:28think that's great. Um,
54:31a lot of like generally how my turn one
54:33would look is let's say I'm playing this
54:35map. I would stage pretty heavily in
54:37this stronghold. I would probably stay
54:40pretty far back here. Just put one guy
54:42onto the point if I needed to. And then
54:46I am using my undererser's ability to
54:49really just threaten my opponent from
54:52staging up along this wall. Threaten
54:55them off of staging here. And then
54:57again, I don't really give a [ __ ] what
54:58they do here. So, I am using the crazy
55:03long threat ranges that I have and my
55:06network counteract ability to
55:07potentially shoot here to threaten
55:09people out of typical staging positions.
55:12And because my guns are so good, they
55:14typically don't want to take that risk.
55:16Um, that's what I'm doing. If people
55:18call my bluff, I will then just find a
55:20way to get a guy up here as safely as I
55:22can to go get a shot.
55:25Um, and then I'll go take the shot. And
55:26if I can, that means I can move, shoot,
55:29network counteract, shoot. And if I'm
55:30shooting a melta twice into someone,
55:31they are very likely dead, even if it's
55:33on fours. Same thing with the flamer.
55:36The flamer is going to do a crapload of
55:37damage to someone.
55:39Um, the spot that I've struggled
55:42against, and I think I got lucky in my
55:45run at the tournament where I think I
55:48only got out activated twice, and I
55:51don't think this team loves being
55:53outactivated.
55:54Um, it's the the play pattern is pretty
55:58obvious when you outactivate your
55:59opponents into elves into elites.
56:04I feel really confident in sort of how
56:06I'm staging and how I'm positioning and
56:08how I'm thinking about how the the flow
56:09of the game is going to go there. Uh, if
56:12you're playing something like or brood
56:14brothers, it becomes a bit harder
56:16because
56:18they have the last activation. They
56:21always have the say you need to put a
56:22piece at risk if you want to go play the
56:24crit. if you want to go do this stuff.
56:25So, a lot of the times, well, I haven't
56:29played it that much, I will say. So,
56:31this is just sort of how I've thought
56:32about this game. If I'm getting out
56:33activated,
56:35the onus is on me to make the first move
56:37and to get the action going. Um, and one
56:40of the ways that you can do that is
56:42through the techno.
56:45Um what that especially with these
56:47breach markers if I was to let's say win
56:50initiative and I had this breach breach
56:52marker I could repo him five through and
56:55then I potentially have move dash to
56:58start threatening stuff right and if
57:00because he has one in devastating if I'm
57:02playing into a horde team they're
57:04probably seven or eight wound models if
57:06he has even staged back near his DZ
57:12anyone within on.
57:15It's one of the options that you have to
57:17potentially go and sort of break the
57:19activation lock that they have on you,
57:21right? Like if I have a if I'm getting
57:24out activated and someone gives me this
57:27torrent shot or not torrent shot, the
57:29oneinch devastating shot,
57:32it's if it's a seven wound, five up save
57:34model, I might be happy to just go do
57:37that just to start killing some
57:38activations. He's got a three up save.
57:40He's pretty tanky on his own. So if they
57:42want to start wasting shots on him
57:43there,
57:45you can ignore the piercing and so on.
57:48So he's a good p piece to start breaking
57:51that like activation hold um and start
57:53moving it more into your advantage. Um
57:57the other options that you have to do
57:58that is depending on how they staged
58:01because like let's say they wanted to
58:03play the KG game and wait for you to go
58:04to the center point. If I have first
58:06activation and something like loot
58:09again, I can just start playing an
58:10interactive game. I'll just tap this
58:12point through the wall and just [ __ ]
58:14off. Or I can if I win initiative on
58:17loot, just repo him through. I'll tap
58:20the point, I'll retrieve, and then I'll
58:21repo back through. And it's like I don't
58:24even actually have to play the
58:25activation stuff as much as I do because
58:28I can do stuff like that. So, and then
58:33you can just start getting in the mix
58:34with some of the big boys. Um, you could
58:36even charge these guys into like seven
58:38moon operatives.
58:40um if they want to try and fall back
58:42from you, you can then network
58:44counteract after that activation and
58:45then you know fall back dash fall back
58:50and then uh switch them to conceal
58:53um
58:54via the network counteract and stuff
58:56like that. I've never actually done that
58:58yet, so I'm just talking out of my ass
58:59right now.
59:01Um
59:03yeah, I think that's a lot of what I've
59:06done with the team. I think that's sort
59:08of how I've thought about the team. I
59:09don't know if any of this is helpful.
59:10Again, this was unscripted and just me
59:12rambling for 40 minutes or whatever this
59:14has been so far. So, let me know your
59:18thoughts. Let me know if this was
59:19helpful. Um, again, this is just my
59:22perspective on how I found success with
59:24the team. Um, a lot of this I sort of
59:26figured out on the go. I think before
59:28Edmonton, I only had like four or five
59:29games on the team recently. So, sort of
59:32realized some of the stuff as I was
59:33playing and just sort of leaned into
59:35what was working.
59:37Um, but yeah, there's a ton of different
59:38ways to play the team. There's other
59:40guns that like I haven't even screwed
59:41around with yet, like the phosphor
59:42blasters. There is stuff like track
59:44enemy, which I'm excited to try. Plant
59:46devices. Um, and all of these things
59:48might have like niche play into other
59:50matchups to start pushing it more into
59:51your favor depending on how the matchup
59:53goes. So, super fun team. There's a ton
59:56of play to the team. I think they are
1:00:00hard to pick up. it's hard to sort of
1:00:03get a hold on like how these play
1:00:05patterns work and there's always a ton
1:00:08of options at your disposal because
1:00:12actually sorry I will talk about this as
1:00:14well where it's like I I'll tell my
1:00:15opponents this but let's say I move up
1:00:17flamer someone first activation now he's
1:00:19expended
1:00:21he's still a threat let's say he kills
1:00:24one guy and there's another guy still in
1:00:25his range your opponent basically has to
1:00:28go kill this guy next or risk of me just
1:00:32I network counter actually shoot another
1:00:33guy. So, it also sort of flips the
1:00:36script on like how normal kill team
1:00:38works where it's like, okay, that guy's
1:00:39expended. I don't need to worry about
1:00:40him. I'm going to try and get value
1:00:41somewhere else on the map. It flips that
1:00:44a bit where it's like maybe they could
1:00:46charge over here and kill this guy. But
1:00:49if this guy isn't threatening anything,
1:00:50this guy, the expended guy is now
1:00:52threatening more stuff. So, it's
1:00:53actually like a really weird like mind
1:00:55[ __ ] you can put your opponents into.
1:00:57And if you can set it up right,
1:01:01either decision is almost bad, right? So
1:01:02if they go kill the expended guy, you're
1:01:04like, "Fine, I already got value out of
1:01:05that guy. Now I can go do something
1:01:06aggressive with the guy that you didn't
1:01:07hit." If they go to try and steal an
1:01:09activation while I'm still getting value
1:01:10out of the guy that I've already
1:01:11activated. So it's almost like a
1:01:13lose-lose depending on how the board is
1:01:15set up. And then when you can set up
1:01:18like I've won initiative, this guy's
1:01:20here within two of someone and I can
1:01:22like move shoot uh free network
1:01:25counteract shoot with that guy. You open
1:01:27up these double kills and this guy that
1:01:30you network counteracted through hasn't
1:01:32activated yet. This guy's now on engage
1:01:33shot and is activated. And if he's
1:01:35within two of someone still and this
1:01:36guy's still within two of someone,
1:01:37you've fragmented it even more, right?
1:01:39And you've you've forked the board state
1:01:41even more where now they have to worry
1:01:42about these two guys that are still
1:01:44threatening more pieces and like this
1:01:46guy can activate and go shoot and this
1:01:47guy can network counteract. How do I
1:01:50kill both these guys without taking more
1:01:51losses? So once you sort of get into
1:01:54these like crazy gunfight states where
1:01:55there's just a ton of different options
1:01:57on the board, you have a ton of play in
1:02:01those situations because of your network
1:02:02counteract ability and how you can start
1:02:04positioning your pieces around the
1:02:05board. So keep that in mind. Like once
1:02:08it turns into a [ __ ] show, you you do
1:02:10pretty well in those type of scenarios
1:02:12as long as like a shooting fight. The
1:02:14melee fight mad not as much and you'll
1:02:16probably start getting run over. But um
1:02:19yeah, just something worth noting.
1:02:21Anyways, that's the end of the rant.
1:02:22Thank you for listening. Bye.

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