[N4] Recap Dahshat Company Tacticas

A pity all of these aren't updated to the new rules!

 

Yes all of NA2 could use some tweeks to rules.

 

I have a hope, next year NA2 will get updated. NA2, Yu Jing, and O-12, have received the least figures this year. It could be a focus on Druze, JSA or Spiral. But the others could benefit too. Especially if they come out with a new troop, like Brawlers, available to the majority of them. Just wishing here, Japanese Ronin HI that work as mercenaries. They could be core in JSA, Ikari, and haris or duo elsewhere.

 

I think it'll be more likely to be just an on-paper change given how much dev time will be devoted to warcrow. Hoping that the fire teams document gets a thorough rework as it shafted a few factions

 

uhm...maybe infinity will have a slower rules review and publish cycle, not bad per se.
Pure/Unpure Fireteams isn't a bad rule IMHO, it makes sense logically I think. Maybe the way to go is to carefully rework the linkable troops for each faction and what counts as what when linking. Dashat...could have abh count as something or count as everything to achieve the previous max flexibility...but I doubt it'll happen.

 

I think it's an intended as a drawback for some NA2.

 

Sure. Still, if it hit some armies more than intended I don't think it's difficult to fix it by adding a keyword on the fireteam charts, without having to overhaul rules.

 

That's kinda what I'm getting at. Some factions came out really well, others had a real slap-dash treatment and it shows

 

I backed away from Dashat when the Fireteam rules got updated because the Rui Shi, Zuyoung, Gromez and ABHs was a staple of my army and got "hurt" by the update "pretty bad". With time and perspective that opinion has cooled (in me at least) and with the latest FAQ I'm looking at the link again (Burst 3 in ARO on 15s still ain't bad) and army in general. What are people's thoughts? Did the Rui Shi get a bump? Did McMurrough? Other units?

 

I haven't done Dahshat in a while mainly due to being into White Banner since N4 and the got good.

I think the changes to bikes recently helped them. As mentioned in the podcast, they were pretty hurt by the 15 order cap. Gaining Fiddler also adds to their great fast attack pieces.

I'm hoping next year NA2 in general will get a boost in some way. Actually I hope for either a JSA/Ikari or Sprial/Tohaa boost. But others could get something as well.

 

Heyo, this is AndLoHeSpoke (in Infinity) / ChrisIsMeChris on reddit / Chris IRL ;) Appreciate you sharing the two podcasts I did for WIP 12! I love Dahshat and they're tied for my most played army.

Right now I'm messing around with Hollow Men in Tung, but I'm getting some inspiration to come back to Dahshat. I'm interested in making a list that's actually comfortable going second lol. Going to lean harder into that Missile Zuyong.

Side note: with the most recent FAQ, McMurder got some love via the super-jump buff (high movement to begin with, but also a large silhouette to give him a big boost). That's been fun.

Also, our Kum bikers can again forgo Impetuous during deploy to be really mean Rescue pieces. I'm glad they brought that back this season.

 

I tried playing Dahshat on the weekend and got my butt handed to me by Spiral. Mainly a Keil-San with a Mk 12 just walking up and blasting away at my Zuyong team. It was pretty awful lol. A lot was due to my mistakes in deployment I think. Not the army or even my list. It's been a long time since i played them.

 

@Space Ranger what was your defensive screen like? Did you have Libertos, a Digger, etc. to slow down the Keil-San?

 

I had a liberto and Hunzi but he saved the KS for last deployment and got around just about everything. I could have shot him with the hunz but I didn't want to reveal it and it wouldn't have caused much of dent anyway. I had them in the middle to place a repeater when it was my turn.

 

@Space Ranger ouch. It sucks to have to repurpose one’s forward units as very-expensive mines. At least in N4 a repeater is even nastier than a mine, much of the time. As long as that Kiel-San didn’t toll Total Immunity on it’s metachem that is.