I mean yes, but that’s true of literally any army, not just dashat. The whole point of IA is that it has NCO, and TA, and Lt2, and everything else. That’s the IA experience we’ve been given (which isn’t the same as it being the one you wanted, but that’s a different matter.) saying dashat can give you the IA experience without any of that is disingenuous. What you’re actually saying is dashat can be competitive without thise things because they have other stuff to compensate.
Yes you are correct. They just don't have the need for NCO and Lt. 2 because they have ways to make up for it.
I'm saying that a lot recently, but I first came to the line by riffing off of a comment by @Maksimas that I can't find now. It was somewhere talking about JSA, and how Samurai don't do subtle. Edit: Found the original quotes, had to do an actual search of the forum! This then got tweaked into what we're seeing now, but original credit should really go to @Maksimas .
It's the last post in this thread, by the by. https://forum.corvusbelli.com/threa...r-single-group-lists.27681/page-4#post-229508 And technically yes, it was about something involving subtlety, ninjas, samurai and subtlety being overrated.
Because you can field all-HI LI lists with 14+ orders? Because you can make some of the best links in the game? Because the sculpts are ridiculously awesome?? I mean, when I started this game I decided I would stay away from YJ, and IA has made me strongly reconsider
Well...my position after a multiyear hiatus is this: "oh, I can play any IA list just buying the IA starter since of the rest I've got almost everything? (And the few things I don't have I have really suitable proxies) nice!"
I was sold IA by a friend who knows I enjoy painting more but not repeating the same scheme loads of times. Mentioned low model count and heavy infantry. That's me done.
They sure look cool, and a paintrain with that many orders can be fun. But lets face the truth, I dont believe IA will be very succesfull when we talk about winning tourneys. They just have to many weak points, one em-granade, one assault hacker/repeater, one missle launcher can take you completely out of the game. Im not saying thats its impossible to win, just that a mistakes playing IA can weight heavy.
I have a friend who owns some 50-ish models of Military Orders because "you don't really need more than 10 to play a game" Sadly he doesn't collect anymore because he got fed up with CB's sense of balance, but he's found new insanity projects with a 3D printer.
I spent years playing a certain other plastic molding companies games. Infinity has cat like balance in comparison
Why bother playing anything but OSS, Shasvastii and Dashat? Dont dare calling yourself competetive players if you play suboptimal non tier A factions hurrrrrrrrrr Because there are 3 squalo players in my meta
