Finally!!!

You could see him as a resculpt of the older combi-guy (that I bought because he was die only hack(able) loadout with combi at this time and he doubles as FO, but still an outdated mini at Kaldström). The first resculpt, the ever underperforming, but good looking sniper lady was the only fresh sculpt of Guilang for a lot of time (2016) and we had to wait four more years for the (very cool) BSG and therefore the minelayer loadout.

You´ll never realy understand the CB relase rate.

This one is also the most expensive of the resculpts with 18,- € for a single guy, that is not even HI. But anyway I will paint him quickly and will try out a full AVA list

 

I could do without the hacker hands. The visor as well, but especially the hacker hands. They can do other stuff, I promise.

I'd prefer FO (not just for the pose hangups above, I actually do use the FO more), but I'll take this. Going to be another 8 years before we get another one anyway.

 

The GL hacker makes it into many of my vanilla lists so I am happy to get this model. I can do without the hacker hand and visor as well but it's standard for the hacker profile sculpts so I'll live with them. At least this one doesn't seem to have the weird hacker armbands. I wish I had gotten the old combi rifle sculpt. It's outdated but still a nice mini to have.

 

well he is a regular in my white banner lists and finally the BS can stop pretending to be a hacker, the sniper lady has so far performed quite remarkably for me, outside of a particular game in the final round of a tournament, but in that round anything carrying missile launcher my opponent has was rolling a critical regardless of range bands or modifiers, so I am not holding it against her.

Now to wait for the FO version, not sure I want to convert one.

 

How do you use the sniper lady? We usually play on fairly dense boards so I find the sniper rifle extremely limited up at midfield. I also find BS11 isn't great with sniper rifle either.

 

I usually field her in deployment zone, or a bit outside of it, infiltrating sniper is a niche option heavily dependent on the terrain so I usually do not use it. She is BS 11, but with her sniper rifle and MSV1 she unusually remains BS11, not the best, but not the worst, on the other hand her targets have to stack up mimetism, cover, surprise attack and range band, she does not make herself better at hitting, she makes herself really difficult to be hit.

 

So you use her as an active piece rather than ARO? With camo troopers I always find it hard to decide to use them for ARO or active turn, because I find it difficult to forgo surprise attack.

 

Yes, she is a solitary hunter, if she cannot choose her targets in her own terms her offensive defense is severely diminished, I find that if she is to be used in ARO, either the trade must be severely favorable, or the target must be really easy to hit and almost impossible or impossible to hit back and it is the tail end of the opponents order pool, otherwise with her camouflage defense stripped she is an easy target to kill with a dedicated unit.

 

Seems like the Guiling sniper in a DZ type deployment would strongly compete with the Hundun.

 

Yes and no, roughly the same points, but Guilang sniper is an all rounder when Hundun is a specialist and each option hunts a different prey.

 

Maybe. I consider the Hundun HRL not to be that specialized, though I guess the DA shot hits a single target a bit harder.

 

For me at least, Shock Marksman rifle is a mid table camouflage hunter, especially dire against Ariadna or other camouflage spam armies, Multi Sniper is to hunt down long range units that do not have visors, HRL is an odd Noctifier, something that is well suited to ambush fireteams on the move but can also be used in an offensive role.

Guilang sniper can do more roles at the same time and has more freedom in deployment.