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Must haves of Corregidor

Discussion in 'Nomads' started by Fabbo, May 27, 2019.

  1. inane.imp

    inane.imp Well-Known Member

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    I started playing with Bakunin. I don't see the necessity of MSV2. It's nice and all, but hardly a necessity.
     
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  2. xagroth

    xagroth Mournful Echo

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    A riot Grrrls! Core will do that to you, thanks to the MSV1 they all have (so they compensate for a lot of camo/ODD, plus are cheap enough HI). Tunguska has the more fragile Grenzers, and Corregidor doesn't even have MSV1, they go straight to MSV2 on the Intruder.
     
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  3. inane.imp

    inane.imp Well-Known Member

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    I'll rephrase. I started playing Infinity playing non-Riot Grrl Bakunin.

    I rarely play Grrls. A handful of games all told.
     
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  4. SmaggTheSmug

    SmaggTheSmug Well-Known Member

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    Reminder that the only other sniper in Corregidor is a basic Alguacil... And you need a Core of them to be effective (and you may just go for ML instead, which is what I usually do if I bring Alg Core).

    Intruder Sniper depends on the table, but with Forward Deployment you could deploy her somewhere high and safe and use as active turn hunter easily. I found the sniper more efficient than the HMG due to range and less need to move around (that 4-2 can hurt, getting Move + BS attack every Order usually proves impossible). That said I have found myself facing 4 snipers at once without having one of my own sometimes, hence my reliance on Intruder in this role.

    Also I tend to use something like Geckos or Wildcats or a dropped Hellcat (that HMG is often unexpected, great for dropping in turn 2 to shoot in exposed backs) for high Burst active attack. A while ago I warmed up to Spitfire Tsyklon as well (hacking buffs + X-Visor, yes please).

    For ARO Jags with Panzerfausts are good enough.
     
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  5. xagroth

    xagroth Mournful Echo

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    I'll refocus then... Frigging Sin-Eater Spitfire took more than 10 orders last sunday without at scratch. Then the Prowlers with glue did a number. XD

    Yeah, but Burst 4 Vs Burst 2. Nowadays that B4 is kind of a must unless you are shooting from one corner of the table to the other (to impose a straight -12). The X-Visor is also good, on that I agree.
     
  6. inane.imp

    inane.imp Well-Known Member

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    There's a reason I thoroughly hated losing Triangulated Fire FO as a tactic. I once took out 2 linked Grunt snipers in 2 orders by using Pi-well to Triangulated FO both of them through Jungle Terrain and then dropped Guided rounds on their heads.
     
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  7. Zewrath

    Zewrath Elitist Jerk

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    Nothing's really lost though, unless you're targetting units with Mods. Flashpulse have the longest -3 Mod in the game (as far as I'm aware), and if he's given MM:2 via the Interventor, his roll is identical. I am aware that now requires Supportware to pull off, but I don't see that as worse than having to set up Pi-Well before, with surviving that order and THEN spend an entire order using Triangulated Fire FO.
     
  8. inane.imp

    inane.imp Well-Known Member

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    I counter deployed the Snipers with Pi-well ;)

    And yes, I've done it once. So in the whole scheme of things it's not a big loss.

    But in that scenario without triangulated fire Pi-well would have been on 4s (Cover, Range, Low Vis). I wouldn't have been able to pull off the FO efficiently
     
  9. SmaggTheSmug

    SmaggTheSmug Well-Known Member

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    That B4 can be carried by several different platforms, like I said. Often faster ones, tougher or linked. Sniping is limited, and when you're facing 4 snipers, 2 or 3 of them with Sapper, having range of your own becomes important.

    Note that the very first thing I usually activate is a Bandit for a quick suicide run to deal as much damage to a link or enemy sniper as possible. The Intruder is there to deliver DA/AP to stuff that endangers my own link, but has limited range (like MLs or TR Bots).

    I'm not saying that HMG Intruder is bust (there's nothing stopping you from fielding 2 Intruders after all) and I had him deal a lot of damage, but I value that Sniper Rifle.
     
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  10. Pander22

    Pander22 Well-Known Member

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    Either Lupe or massacre in a fire team for double smoke and an MSR Intruder, Mcmurder also did so much work for me in one game that i don't think ill leave home without him ever again and finally my link team MB HMG, Lupe, Daktaris, FO Algucil (was a spec ops in escalation league) and Alg LT.

    I Just cant seem to work the tysklon the way I would like it, Use an order to get support ware on it is an order I might be able to get better mods from position or smoke and move with lupe and the added toughness a MB has with extra wound extra arm and a doctor in the unit too, The extra arm and extra wound actually won me a game so maybe I am a little biased there haha then a haris with massacre for anything i dont want to shoot!

    Plus i think its really cool and kinda thematic that this team of bad ass's and specialists moving up under the cover of their intruder sniper
     
  11. Section9

    Section9 Well-Known Member

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    Yeah, I played a couple games against cypherkk's Ariadna and got my ass handed to me by camo.

    Intruders became very important after that!
     
  12. SuperD

    SuperD Well-Known Member

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    It might just be a concept of expectations. The intruder was one of the best attack pieces in the game for years... and now he's a bit diminished with all these link teams running around. Still absolutely useful but arguably no longer an auto-include for vanilla Nomads. I used to play with two fairly often but don't think I'd do that anymore.

    Plus I look at that new MSV red fury Muktar and get a bit jealous!
     
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  13. Solar

    Solar Well-Known Member

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    A linked Brigada ML is a much more powerful ARO guy than an Intruder. I seriously cannot overstate just how much I think the proliferation of linked HI with Missile Launchers has changed the game.
     
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  14. Click2kill

    Click2kill Well-Known Member

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    I really don't see an Intruder as an ARO piece though. It could be in Suppressive, but I see them more as Active Turn assault troops.
     
  15. Maksimas

    Maksimas Heavy Infantry Addict Maxim

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    Only way I can see Intruders working as an ARO piece is by going for the superb meme strat of combo-ing them with a Jaguar, and have the Jag toss smoke down at it's feet in ARO right next to the Intruder Sniper.

    Then you've got the superb joke of a strategy that is an Intruder Sniper in a smoke cloud in your Reactive turn.
     
  16. xagroth

    xagroth Mournful Echo

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    Managed that with a couple of Daturazis against the greeks once, behind them there was the mandatory Charontid HMG, and (strange for me) a Sniper Maakrep (on the other flank, a Red Fury xeodron and the, at the time new, H+ Kerr Nau).
    The guy quikly lost the link, Hector, and the will to fight, since he wasn't even able to Dodge (requires LoF to the attacker :S)
     
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  17. GHoooSTS

    GHoooSTS Well-Known Member

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    Can you expand on this? I'd like to see an example of the composition of a fireteam you would you put it in. I'd be interested in playing with it, I really like my Brigada models but the missile launcher in particular gets almost no play time from me.
     
  18. Freki

    Freki Well-Known Member

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    A sensor REM moving with smokes will do more stuff, especially the nomad one with climbing plus, you can really turn the terrain in your favour.
    I guess the intruder sniper with xvisor will do more real work to discover and shoot effectively
     
  19. Freki

    Freki Well-Known Member

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    Well very little beats a ML in a 5 men core on ARO. It basically forces the opponent to take a fight on not so favourable odds. You are likely to get 13+6 for range and core.
    Ex: shooting back at an ODD in cover means you'll be on 10 B2.

    Also likely to get armor 7 if you lose the head to head, and last you have 2 wounds.
     
  20. Cry of the Wind

    Cry of the Wind Well-Known Member

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    Why wouldn't he be able to dodge? I understood no LoF due to smoke is normal dodge or -6 to shoot back if you would have LoF normally. Unless there is something I'm missing.
     
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