This is frankly speaking a disappointment. Intelcom use for Support and Control is still in. Looting and Sabotaging, the most awful mission in the game is still in. Not only are Classifieds now a RNG fest, you also get to have fun with CC oriented ones which even CC factions will have a hard time actually completing. Looking at you Predator. Highly Classified is dead for the pretense of a competetive format. MI Foward Deployment L1 same as Ironclad does not target anything specific. So you mostly just buff already good MI like Intruders, Nisse, Grunts, Rosie etc. While I have no idea why Yadu already needed a buff and Bolts remain unimpressed crying in their corner. Xenotech must have been the most awful addition I've had the pleasure to see so far. You like 10 Order lists? Have fun walking that Civvie 4" out of your DZ to spend Orders on WIP checks looking for 11s. Great addition to make lists more diverse /sarcasm Highly Classified is weirder than ever. You pick your list after rolling Classifieds, but that doesn't help most of the time when you draw Predator. Imho even dedicated CC Factions have trouble straight up killing 3 troopers in CC, nigh impossible for everyone else. Now there are a few things that are nice, Extra Irregular Orders only he can use for Datatrackers give TAGs and high value solo models a bump. The problem is stuff like Tarik and Achilles also get it. Several interesting new missions to shake things up, all of them much better than Aquisition or again Looting and Sabotaging. Overall indirect buffs to MI/HI/TAGs vs Warbands/Skirmishers and LI by adding Classifieds and Missions that reward those troop types.
Yep. Too random. Good for quirke/bananas games but probably not for Tournaments (even when classifieds are drawn same for every player).
I am confused by some of the diffculty desparities in the new classifieds. It was a little but of an issue before but now looking at Designation and Follow-up (for example) side by side, I don't understand that dwsign decision.
Nah, why would you doubt the "difficulty difference" between Classifieds ? It was obviously tested (and it's not that we have to buy a physical deck which then is rather hard to change ^^)
The new classifieds and Characters->Veteran Troops made me search through classifications, and, surprisingly, not all Dire Foes are Characters. Last two packs - Xi Zhuang, Leila, Kerr-Nau and Rosie are not Characters, but Line Infantry/Spec. Trained, while older ones are all Characters. Dunno if intended or just not updated. Also all named mercenaries are not Characters, very weird not seeing any Characters in StarCo, a heroic and personality-heavy faction.
Chuffing Nora, I just noticed they fixed the Panoply Motorbike issue! Silhouettes 1-5 become S4 Silhouettes 6-8 stay the same.
I'm hard pressed to find models in Steel Phalanx that can't achieve the Veteran/Elite classifieds or who don't get a free ADHL in Hunting Party...
Looks like a good season to me. It will certainly shake list building up a bit and allow for new and interesting options. Intruder AHD (which I wouldn’t have considered for any list before) now seems like the king of classifieds..
