Little background: I was a league organiser of a small league in Cracow, Poland ( https://www.facebook.com/groups/1156991397718964/ ), we try to play regularly, but most of our members are people with kids, so not everybody has lots of time for a hobby. But still, we have some really hardcore players, who have taken some high places on national tournaments... I've played six games (150 / 175 / 200 / 250 / 300 / 400 pt ) with druze sectorial. I won't make long battle reports, just short summary on each game and my opinion on druze. Overall, I've come second among 18 participants, but I still think that unit druze shock team is the worst member of druze sectorial... but, step-by-step... We played ITS mixed with 20x20 missions ... First game - 150 pkt Calibrate Antennas (p) + Espionage (s) (20x20) VS USAridan, experienced opponent - major loss for druze my enemies forces In one word - horror game for druze... Very difficult to make a working list with camo'es or link... I've ended with peacemaker, two huzakuts, bashi-bazouk, warcor, 8pt drones and funny 3person link- brawler + gromova+ clipper drone. Worst thing about my list - almost no long range fire.... Bu-u-ut...enemy had 5member link with grunts + lots of foxtrotes + maverik bike + ranger ad. +hardcase. I've lost to ARO my clipper, trying to kill anything from his link, but failed. During whole game I couldn't come near antennas through dense usariadna defence. In my opinion it is very difficult on low pkt fit pushers and defenders in druze sectorial. I've lost on stage of army build. Second game 175 pkt QUADRANT CONTROL (ITS) VS Onyx, beginner opponent - major win for druze unidrone defence My enemy had unidrone link with missile launcher, kerrnau, some drones, fraacta boarding shotgun and malignos boarding shotgun. Pretty easy game. I knew, my opponent was a beginner, so strong push from middle with peacemaker spitfire with mm lvl 2 and\or saito should be enough to win. I didn't worry much about army build, that was more a tutorial game for a novice, as lots of mistakes were done by my opponent during deployment ... well ... this game is not smth I can use to learn to play druze sectorial better. Third game 200 pkt Upload Evidence (p) + Pleasure to Kill (s) (20x20) VS vanilla CA, experienced opponent - minor victory for druze forgot to make photo, but drew a realistic "photo" :) Lots of clicking, so needed lots of orders. Which is not easy for druze sectorial on low pkt's :(.... Finished with one group, but solid druze link (druze e\m, druze khd, druze sniper, gromowa, brawler assult hacker, brawler LT), classical duo hunzkuts and clipper + fugazi. Clipper was on overclock program through whole game (clipper was put out of link when I saw enemy force...lucky me - won deployment). One long-range aro was handeled by druze, another - by clipper - because ... my opponent had smth I couldn't predict - cheap orders (imetrons+ikadrons-rDrones), charontide msv3 with hmg, daturazi and SWARM OF PRETAS, GAKIS...2 gaki and like 6 or 8 pretas...do not remember...just lots of them.... I almost lost. I remember how game was won by huznakut with critically killing preta in CC with knife. In this mission, preta+gaki could make clicking antennas, so because of lots of them, and that charontide is pretty good in clearing AROes while being in daturazis smoke, my opponents plan worked very well. He carefully deployed all his units, so first order no one died on my AROes, and after that - I had to hide deep inside my deployment. One preta can easily chain-rifle my whole link. From other side, my e/m druze theoretically could make LOL by hitting his charontide, but I couldn't leave my deployment because of my enemy warbands... Won by pure luck... druze sectorial don't like masses of cheap warbands. Druze sectorial mostly has one wound models, and it is difficult to fit smth heavy in small pkt's games :( So, game in which my druze couldn't do anything helpful, and won by luck... Fourth game 250 pkt TRANSMISSION MATRIX (ITS) VS vanilla nomads - minor win for druze bashi-bazook engages... Now that is some situation, where druze sectorial looses from the beginning... Don't play against vanila nomads with druze this mission! I really doubt if you can make a workable list against nomads... My enemy had intruder hmg, intruder LT, interventors, 3x jaguars chain rifles, zeroes, 2x massai with koalas and some alguacils... and some drones with koalas... I had pair of bashi, druze link with !TWO KHDS!, assault hakers, gromowa, hmg, clipper, huznakuts, saito and fugazies... Sait won the game...by pure luck... My opponent read misson wrong, and thought that ZOC for antennas equals ZOC for mission purposes, which wasn't true. So when he though he was in control of antenna - he wasn't ... I was devastated in this game. My hunzkauts, saito and link hide from intruder, mines or koalas instead of doing mission. I used heavily bashi-bazouks to clean minefield, but that wasn't enough, My khd hackers died from interventors, but funny moment - gromova managed to critically isolate interventor - that 9bts on wip 15 platform is brutal ;( and IMHO you can't make druze army without hackers to have nice drones and\or links...+ gromova is cheaper then the cheapest druze ;( ... luck won, druze shock team were necessary high price pieces which didn't do much... I was veryyy sad after playing this mission. Fifth game 300 pkt Data Recovery (p) + Place Antenna (s) (20x20) VS corregidor - tie for druze - very experienced opponent... game was so hard and tough, I forgot to make any photos. Now that was a game, I felt the power of druze sectorial. On every enemy trick I had some solution (holoecho for mines and koalas, saito and HMG, hunzakuts for pushing, fugazi and kameel defences and etc.). I brought clipper, total reactor kameel :), fugazi 2x, druze link - khd, gromowa, hmg, brawlers LT and assault hacker, hunzakuts, saito, bashi... Enemy had 2x massai, lots of jaguars, alguacils with hmg and loupgarous, tomcat doctor with drone and spitfire drone. I think, i've done everything right, but some unsucessfull rolls (like loupgarour SURVIVED 2x HITS FROM Saitoes EXP CCW !!!, hunzakuts couln't kill jaguars without cover...)... some pretty annoynig rolls, but overall good game. If not pretty crucial but unsuccessful kill of loupgarou - saito died afterwards, I think it would be a win. And again...druze with HMG did some work...but if there was brawler with hmg, would be much better. Had to move quite a lot with my link, and 4-2 move with druze, but 4-4 for other link members is annoying, spent more orders, constantly doubt about all link members being in ZOC of a link-leader...meh... Sixth game 400 pkt POWER PACK VS Tohaa - experienced player - major victory for druze...difficult game, but some enemy mistakes and bad rolls and my veEery lucky rolls brought me a victory. last turn druze push...go as far as posible, generate as much as possible aro I had link peacemaker heavy shotgun, hmg druze, e/m druze, gromowa + doktor brawler, LT brawler, scarface, 2x fugazi, TR bot, clipper, huzakuts, saito, bashi aaa-and armand le muet (he has some very nice deployment in this mission by having FD lvl 2 in ITS 10)... Enemy has prepared some ARO hell for me -2 kaeltars chain of command, gao rael sniper, 2x clipsos snipers, 2x taquels with symbio bugs, 2x minelayers nikouls sappers and lots of links, makauls ... I was successfull with my TR bot and HMG, who through whole first turn were clearing AROes... after that - I blocked most of passages with hunazkuts mines. Tr bot won vs clipsos snipers on rolling one :)...And again, my druze link didn't do much. Game was won by two HMGs and huzakuts' mines. If linked HMG was on brawlers and there was other way to make 5member link with HMG I don't know If I'd ever take druze at all in druze sectorial. I thought druze e\m is great , and it is true - it scares people like hell , but using it is very luck depended. As a conclusion, I don't want to play druze anymore. Very difficult, very unforgiven if you make a mistake, very hard sectorial. Key pushers are fragile and you can't have lots of them. Druze sectorial With a VERY strange place for druze shock team unit in it. Most of my games were won by other units, and druze unit has a very situational role, with quite limited use... i was constatly thinking, what a nice sectorial it can be, if brawlers had druzes weapons and possibility to make 5member links...:(
Sure, no problem...my lists..Though Im 100% only about my lists for 1st and 5th game, some minor mistakes might be in other, but still they must be like ~99% of what I used .... Unfortunately don't remember exact lists of my opponents. For 1st game 150 ────────────────────────────────────────────────── 6 4 CLIPPER DRONBOT Smart Missile Launcher / Electric Pulse. (1.5 | 18) VALERYA GROMOZ Hacker (Hacking Device UPGRADE: Expel) Combi Rifle + Pitcher / Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 21) BRAWLER Lieutenant Rifle + Light Shotgun / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 16) HUNZAKUT (Forward Observer, Deployable Repeater) Rifle + Light Shotgun, Antipersonnel Mines / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 18) HUNZAKUT (Forward Observer, Deployable Repeater) Rifle + Light Shotgun, Antipersonnel Mines / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 18) FUGAZI DRONBOT Flash Pulse, Sniffer / Electric Pulse. (0 | 8) FUGAZI DRONBOT Flash Pulse, Sniffer / Electric Pulse. (0 | 8) WARCOR (Sixth Sense L1) Flash Pulse / Stun Pistol, Knife. (0 | 3) PEACEMAKER Heavy Shotgun + AUXBOT_3 / Electric Pulse. (0 | 21) AUXBOT_3 Heavy Flamethrower / Electric Pulse. (- | 4) BASHI BAZOUK (Specialist Operative) Rifle + Light Shotgun / Pistol, CC Weapon. (0 | 17) 2 SWC | 148 Points Open in Infinity Army For 2nd game 150 ────────────────────────────────────────────────── 7 3 VALERYA GROMOZ Hacker (Hacking Device UPGRADE: Expel) Combi Rifle + Pitcher / Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 21) BRAWLER Lieutenant Rifle + Light Shotgun / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 16) HUNZAKUT (Forward Observer, Deployable Repeater) Rifle + Light Shotgun, Antipersonnel Mines / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 18) HUNZAKUT (Deployable Repeater) Rifle + Light Grenade Launcher, Antipersonnel Mines / Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 18) FUGAZI DRONBOT Flash Pulse, Sniffer / Electric Pulse. (0 | 8) FUGAZI DRONBOT Flash Pulse, Sniffer / Electric Pulse. (0 | 8) PEACEMAKER Spitfire + AUXBOT_3 / Electric Pulse. (1 | 27) AUXBOT_3 Heavy Flamethrower / Electric Pulse. (- | 4) KAMEEL (Minesweeper, Repeater) Electric Pulse. (0 | 8) BASHI BAZOUK Submachine Gun, Chain-colt / Pistol, CC Weapon. (0 | 12) SAITO TOGAN Combi Rifle, Smoke Grenades / Pistol, EXP CCW, Knife. (0 | 39) 2 SWC | 175 Points Open in Infinity Army For 3d game 200 ────────────────────────────────────────────────── 7 3 VALERYA GROMOZ Hacker (Hacking Device UPGRADE: Expel) Combi Rifle + Pitcher / Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 21) DRUZE (CH: Mimetism) MULTI Sniper / Viral Pistol, Knife. (1.5 | 32) DRUZE Hacker (Killer Hacking Device) Combi Rifle + Pitcher, D-Charges / Viral Pistol, Knife. (0 | 25) DRUZE (X Visor) Combi Rifle + Light Grenade Launcher (E/M and Nimbus) / Viral Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 27) BRAWLER Lieutenant Rifle + Light Shotgun / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 16) CLIPPER DRONBOT Smart Missile Launcher / Electric Pulse. (1.5 | 18) PEACEMAKER Heavy Shotgun + AUXBOT_3 / Electric Pulse. (0 | 21) AUXBOT_3 Heavy Flamethrower / Electric Pulse. (- | 4) HUNZAKUT (Forward Observer, Deployable Repeater) Rifle + Light Shotgun, Antipersonnel Mines / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 18) HUNZAKUT (Forward Observer, Deployable Repeater) Rifle + Light Shotgun, Antipersonnel Mines / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 18) WARCOR (Sixth Sense L1) Flash Pulse / Stun Pistol, Knife. (0 | 3) 4 SWC | 199 Points Open in Infinity Army For 4th game 250 ────────────────────────────────────────────────── GROUP 1 8 2 SAITO TOGAN (Specialist Operative) Combi Rifle, Smoke Grenades / Pistol, EXP CCW, Knife. (0 | 40) HUNZAKUT (Forward Observer, Deployable Repeater) Rifle + Light Shotgun, Antipersonnel Mines / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 18) DRUZE Hacker (Killer Hacking Device) Combi Rifle + Pitcher, D-Charges / Viral Pistol, Knife. (0 | 25) DRUZE Hacker (Killer Hacking Device) Combi Rifle + Pitcher, D-Charges / Viral Pistol, Knife. (0 | 25) VALERYA GROMOZ Hacker (Hacking Device UPGRADE: Expel) Combi Rifle + Pitcher / Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 21) BRAWLER Hacker (Assault Hacking Device) Submachine Gun / Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 17) BRAWLER Lieutenant Rifle + Light Shotgun / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 16) BASHI BAZOUK Submachine Gun, Chain-colt / Pistol, CC Weapon. (0 | 12) CLIPPER DRONBOT Smart Missile Launcher / Electric Pulse. (1.5 | 18) FUGAZI DRONBOT Flash Pulse, Sniffer / Electric Pulse. (0 | 8) GROUP 2 2 2 KAMEEL (Minesweeper, Repeater) Electric Pulse. (0 | 8) FUGAZI DRONBOT Flash Pulse, Sniffer / Electric Pulse. (0 | 8) HUNZAKUT (Forward Observer, Deployable Repeater) Rifle + Light Shotgun, Antipersonnel Mines / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 18) BASHI BAZOUK Boarding Shotgun / Pistol, CC Weapon. (0 | 15) 2.5 SWC | 249 Points Open in Infinity Army For 5th game Happy_Druze_Friends ────────────────────────────────────────────────── GROUP 1 8 2 DRUZE HMG, Chain-colt / Viral Pistol, Knife. (1.5 | 29) DRUZE Hacker (Killer Hacking Device) Combi Rifle + Pitcher, D-Charges / Viral Pistol, Knife. (0 | 25) BRAWLER Lieutenant Rifle + Light Shotgun / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 16) VALERYA GROMOZ Hacker (Hacking Device UPGRADE: Expel) Combi Rifle + Pitcher / Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 21) BRAWLER Hacker (Assault Hacking Device) Submachine Gun / Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 17) CLIPPER DRONBOT Smart Missile Launcher / Electric Pulse. (1.5 | 18) SAITO TOGAN (Specialist Operative) Combi Rifle, Smoke Grenades / Pistol, EXP CCW, Knife. (0 | 40) HUNZAKUT (Forward Observer, Deployable Repeater) Rifle + Light Shotgun, Antipersonnel Mines / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 18) FUGAZI DRONBOT Flash Pulse, Sniffer / Electric Pulse. (0 | 8) BASHI BAZOUK Boarding Shotgun / Pistol, CC Weapon. (0 | 15) GROUP 2 4 3 PEACEMAKER Heavy Shotgun + AUXBOT_3 / Electric Pulse. (0 | 21) AUXBOT_3 Heavy Flamethrower / Electric Pulse. (- | 4) FUGAZI DRONBOT Flash Pulse, Sniffer / Electric Pulse. (0 | 8) HUNZAKUT (Forward Observer, Deployable Repeater) Rifle + Light Shotgun, Antipersonnel Mines / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 18) BASHI BAZOUK Submachine Gun, Chain-colt / Pistol, CC Weapon. (0 | 12) KAMEEL (Minesweeper, Repeater) Electric Pulse. (0 | 8) KAMEEL (Total Reaction, Repeater) Rifle + Light Shotgun / Electric Pulse. (0 | 21) WARCOR (Sixth Sense L1) Flash Pulse / Stun Pistol, Knife. (0 | 3) 4 SWC | 298 Points Open in Infinity Army For 6th game so many druze400 ────────────────────────────────────────────────── GROUP 1 9 1 SCARFACE & CORDELIA TURNER . (1.5 | 74) SCARFACE 2 Mk12, Heavy Rocket Launcher / AP CCW. (1.5 | 57) SCARFACE Boarding Shotgun / Pistol, CCW. () CORDELIA TURNER Combi Rifle, Chain-colt, D-Charges / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 17) HUNZAKUT (Forward Observer, Deployable Repeater) Rifle + Light Shotgun, Antipersonnel Mines / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 18) SAITO TOGAN (Specialist Operative) Combi Rifle, Smoke Grenades / Pistol, EXP CCW, Knife. (0 | 40) VALERYA GROMOZ Hacker (Hacking Device UPGRADE: Expel) Combi Rifle + Pitcher / Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 21) DRUZE HMG, Chain-colt / Viral Pistol, Knife. (1.5 | 29) DRUZE (X Visor) Combi Rifle + Light Grenade Launcher (E/M and Nimbus) / Viral Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 27) BRAWLER Lieutenant Rifle + Light Shotgun / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 16) CLIPPER DRONBOT Smart Missile Launcher / Electric Pulse. (1.5 | 18) BRAWLER Doctor (MediKit) Rifle + Light Shotgun / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 20) GROUP 2 5 3 PEACEMAKER Heavy Shotgun + AUXBOT_3 / Electric Pulse. (0 | 21) AUXBOT_3 Heavy Flamethrower / Electric Pulse. (- | 4) SIERRA DRONBOT HMG / Electric Pulse. (1 | 25) FUGAZI DRONBOT Flash Pulse, Sniffer / Electric Pulse. (0 | 8) FUGAZI DRONBOT Flash Pulse, Sniffer / Electric Pulse. (0 | 8) ARMAND Minelayer MULTI Sniper Rifle, Nanopulser, Antipersonel Mines / 2 Breaker Pistols, Shock CCW, Knife. (1.5 | 42) HUNZAKUT (Forward Observer, Deployable Repeater) Rifle + Light Shotgun, Antipersonnel Mines / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 18) BASHI BAZOUK Submachine Gun, Chain-colt / Pistol, CC Weapon. (0 | 12) WARCOR (Sixth Sense L1) Flash Pulse / Stun Pistol, Knife. (0 | 3) 8 SWC | 400 Points Open in Infinity Army
Wow, that was a nice report, but im sad you didnt like Druze in Druze :/ I won a "only morning" tournament of 2 games last sunday with a full Druze list and i found myself quite happy with them, mi rivals where Onyx and JSA and i did two major victories, 9-0 and 10-0 in Anihilation and Biotecvore. I will put my list so you can check and maybe you find new ideas and will to try again!. The idea of the list was to have a core, haris and 2 solo men, so im able to spend orders in just 4 things. We had the Spec Ops Extra so the idea of the brawler with minelayer and holo1 is to be the "E/M druze" of the link and with the camo make them think its a hunzakut sniper in my deployment so they dont expect Saito, as my last mini is Le Muet :p First game was won by Saito and the Arslan haris (Haris, Arslan and assault hacker). Second game was won by Le Muet and again the Haris. For how i use them, my core link is usually defensive but able to punch with the hmg or marksman rifle, while i attack with the haris, saito or le muet. With all having now FD1 and Le Muert FD2 its easy to be in the middle faster, and 4-2 is not that bad in the end if you position yourself well. I find Druze shock teams nice, they have min DMG14 weapons with fatality, its a list that does not suffer from loss of lieutenant nor retreat nor isolation, and almost everyone has a template weapon of DMG14 too. Viral pistols, X visors... I mean, Brawlers are nice, but Druze are better for me :/ Hope you find it useful! Aniquilación-Biotecvoro ────────────────────────────────────────────────── 10 SAITO TOGAN Combi Rifle, Smoke Grenades / Pistol, EXP CCW, Knife. (0 | 39) Brawler Spec-Ops (12 XP) (WIP:13, Doctor, Minelayer, Holoprojector L1) Rifle, Light Shotgun, Nanopulser / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 16) DRUZE (CH: Mimetism) MULTI Sniper / Viral Pistol, Knife. (1.5 | 32) DRUZE HMG, Chain-colt / Viral Pistol, Knife. (1.5 | 29) DRUZE (X Visor) Shock Marksman Rifle, Chain-colt / Viral Pistol, Knife. (0 | 27) DRUZE (X Visor) Combi Rifle, Chain-colt / Viral Pistol, Knife. (0 | 23) DRUZE (Fireteam: Haris, X Visor) Combi Rifle, Chain-colt, D.E.P. / Viral Pistol, CCW. (1 | 25) DRUZE Hacker (Assault Hacking Device) Combi Rifle + Pitcher, D-Charges / Viral Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 28) ARSLAN Lieutenant MULTI Rifle, Light Shotgun / Viral Pistol, Knife. (0 | 36) ARMAND (Multispectral Visor L1) MULTI Sniper Rifle, Nanopulser, Antipersonel Mines / 2 Breaker Pistols, Shock CCW, Knife. (1.5 | 45) 6 SWC | 300 Points Open in Infinity Army
Was it limited insertion mini-tourney? 1-2 skirmishes with mines can be a very serious problem for your list in my opinion... 0_0 What did you enemies have? :)
Nice write up and way to go! The druze definitely are a tough sectorial and alot more rigid than the others which I assume is by design. I use to never take arslan because of how many points he is but now I take him almost all of the time because I need that pseudo 2nd wound in the link most of the time! I think it's always a good idea to have more than 1 faction so that after tournaments or leagues you can break out some new stuff to keep things fresh.
No it wasnt, but as those were the missions many took LI lists. Onyx: Kerrnau Umbra Plasma sniper unidron Plasma carbine unidron Plasma carbine unidron Nexus Spec op Morat Ikadron Missile launcher noctifer Sphynx JSA: Neko Spitfire Domaru Flamespeer Tanko Chain Domaru Missile launcher Tanko Rui shi Yojimbo Kitsune Assault hacker ninja Spec ops Keisotsu Those were the lists if i remember well. About the mines, well, i would take Le Muet to the midfield, he can shoot them down with his msv1 or try dodging them with his 2 wounds due to simbioarmour. Double breaker pistol makes it nice to take those skirmishers down.
oh...I'm little bit doubting how efficient Armadn is in camo cleaning.... What were the missions you've played with your 10 order list? :)
I have played Anihilation, Biotecvore, Unmasking and Frostbyte. Biotecvore twice, i won in all of them except the first Biotecvore time against Steel Phalanx. The others were against Onyx, JSA and Hassasins.
