Good afternoon all, I have some questions regarding Panoceania vanilla possibilities. I know they may be lackluster comparing with Varuna or Acontecimento, but with the inclusion of Will Bill in vanilla and the things Jeanne provides when getting the irregular cheap orders into regular. Can something like this work? I’m thinking about a Swiss/Aquila, Nisse and maybe the CoC Bolt, the monstrucker as engineer and the Zulu-Cobra & Echo/Locust/Croc as hunters PanOceania──────────────────────────────────────────────────2 3 JOAN OF ARC Lieutenant Spitfire, Nanopulser / Pistol, AP CCW. (1 | 51) WILD BILL Rifle / 2 MULTI Pistols, Knife. (0 | 27) WARCOR (360º Visor) Flash Pulse / Stun Pistol, Knife. (0 | 3) TECH-BEE (Remote Assistant Level 1, Specialist Operative) Flash Pulse / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 5) HELOT MILITIAMAN Submachine Gun, Light Rocket Launcher / Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 9) 1.5 SWC | 95 PointsOpen in Infinity Army
I'm not sure of Wild Bill's value compared to something like a Bulleteer or magister, but mixed/vanilla PanO is a perfectly viable faction. Joan's irregulars are probably the strongest thing in the faction at the moment. This has been the basis of my lists lately: PanOceania──────────────────────────────────────────────────1 4 JOAN OF ARC Lieutenant MULTI Rifle, Nanopulser / Pistol, DA CCW. (+1 | 50) MONSTRUCKER Submachine Gun, Chain Rifle, Drop Bears / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 13) HELOT MILITIAMAN Submachine Gun, Light Rocket Launcher / Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 9) TECH-BEE (Remote Assistant Level 1, Specialist Operative) Flash Pulse / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 5) WARCOR (Sixth Sense L1) Flash Pulse / Stun Pistol, Knife. (0 | 3) 0.5 SWC | 80 PointsOpen in Infinity Army In general I actually think mixed/vanilla lists are stronger than sectorials because with access to such a large pool of profiles you can take something better suited to a role than in sectorials. Or take two different units for a role instead of duplicates, giving more tools: compare having a helot, a Regular Minelayer and an Auxilia to having three of one of them.
Vanilla can do a bunch of interesting things other PanO Sectorials can't. Here's a list that's far from optimal, but was an interesting experiment. This is less of a concept and more of just everything that's good in Vanilla crammed into the same list Vector Targeting ────────────────────────────────────────────────── GROUP 1 10 1 TIKBALANG HMG, Heavy Flamethrower, Antipersonnel Mines / AP CCW. (2 | 85) CRABBOT Flash Pulse / Knife. () REGULAR (Minelayer, Sensor) Combi Rifle, Antipersonnel Mines / Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 14) REGULAR Lieutenant Combi Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (1 | 10) FUSILIER (Forward Observer, Deployable Repeater) Combi Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 12) FUSILIER Combi Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 10) KRAKOT RENEGADE 2 Chain Rifles, Grenades / Pistol, DA CC Weapon. (0 | 14) AUXILIA (Forward Observer) Combi Rifle + AUXBOT_1 / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 15) AUXBOT_1 Heavy Flamethrower / Electric Pulse. (- | 4) AUXILIA (Forward Observer) Combi Rifle + AUXBOT_1 / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 15) AUXBOT_1 Heavy Flamethrower / Electric Pulse. (- | 4) MULEBOT (Minesweeper, Repeater) Electric Pulse. (0 | 8) MULEBOT (Minesweeper, Repeater) Electric Pulse. (0 | 8) GROUP 2 5 2 1 JOAN OF ARC Spitfire, Nanopulser / Pistol, EXP CCW. (2 | 53) MACHINIST Combi Rifle, D-Charges / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 15) PALBOT Electric Pulse. (0 | 3) KRAKOT RENEGADE 2 Chain Rifles, Grenades / Pistol, DA CC Weapon. (0 | 14) FUGAZI DRONBOT Flash Pulse, Sniffer / Electric Pulse. (0 | 8) FUGAZI DRONBOT Flash Pulse, Sniffer / Electric Pulse. (0 | 8) TECH-BEE (Remote Assistant Level 1, Specialist Operative) Flash Pulse / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 5) WARCOR (360º Visor) Flash Pulse / Stun Pistol, Knife. (0 | 3) 5.5 SWC | 300 Points Open in Infinity Army Performance was how you'd expect 17(-2) Orders spent on 2 BS15 troops to turn out - quite brutal. Can't stress enough how much Krakots do thanks to FD1 and Impetuous Orders providing a significant increase to Order economy on top. Vanilla has it all, CC, DTWs, Spec Fire, cheap trading pieces, utility, super scary gunners, Mines and bodies to slow down stuff like Achilles. What you lack in Specialist quality you can throw at the problem in numbers.
