N4 Yu Jing; the good the bad the ugly

That was true even in N3, you were statistically extremely unlikely to one round one of those top end TAGs with any weapon and they would duck into cover and heal on their turn if you didn't chase them down.

As far as slowing them down from rushing you repeaters and hackers are a much bigger threat in N4 than they are in N3. Oblivion is still very dangerous to them.

 

Great opinion as always. Thx - and I'm eager to see some your Liu Xings in action. Finally these guys are worth a try.

 

quite glad TAGs are useful in N4. My experience with them in N3 was that they needed much protection and usually some well played camo AP guns would make short work of them most of the times.

 

Getting possessed is still an existential threat for every TAG that isn't the Avatar. Most of them will probably still be fairly chicken if you have some hackers kicking about on the table.

If you get an early Possession off one of the things you can do to try and get it killed is bait a counter possession and run the TAG into the open and face it backwards. If your opponent gets the counter off, now his TAG is stuck in the open and can't guts into cover, and you have 1 order of shooting it in the ass with no ARO.

If they don't counter hack start shooting their shit up with the TAG.

 

You can do that even without 6th sense. Stealth does only work in ZoC, not "Hacking Area" in general.

 

Are these corrections or was there an update?

 

They were updated to pay N4 costs for their shit

 

That's nice, maybe they will look at Qiang Gao

 

Yeah something's fucky with him. +1BS DMG +1ARM +3BTS and +1WIP shouldn't come out to an 11point increase.

 

Actually I don't know why I care, he's never going to be better than Shang Jis-us as a HMG, and being in a link is a waste of his 2 LT orders as there is no wildcard in WBA.

 

Veteran LT you can't oblivion.

Probably a bigger deal for Vanilla or IA though as you could play who's the LT2 with Daoyings and an NCO

 

Yeah, for IA, with the Daoying Hacker being less of an auto-include, I've been looking for linkable LTs and I'd love to fit in a cheaper Qiang Gao instead of a Zhanshi LT or something.

 

You better believe they are. I enjoyed them (despite their flaws) in N3 but now my meta has already developed a greater fear of things falling from the sky than the dinosaurs.

 

So, just want to point out, having just gotten my copy of the book... Why the hell is the Daofei STILL listed as being in IA?

It'd just take a couple of lines to mention how the Zhencha's cheaper and easier to maintain armour tookover the Daofei's role in IA, while the Daofei itself was repurposed to where it's heavier duty armour and armament would shine. Ridiculously easy to fix.

I know this is really nitpicky, but come on guys, you've had years to deal with this one.

 

God, give me back my Daofei where he belongs.

 

As much as I think that the Daofei and Hac Tao would be much better served switching places between their respective sectorials, I'm mostly over it at this point. I just wish CB would put in the two sentences of effort required to at least change the fluff to make the slightest bit of sense over it. They added plenty of justifications to many new troops for why they're showing up in specific locations, so this should easily fit in with everything else they're doing.

 

HacTao in WB would add another layer of guessing where are the points. Is it tiger? Or hundun? Or maybe hac Tao? Are these 3 Zhanshi hackers real or is it Tian gou obstructing 20 points that are elsewhere? Also NCO for WB would be nice. There is linkable lt+1 that cannot use lt orders in a link and no nco in a faction.

 

Maybe they forgot to change his PH to 14 and give him the rest of shang ji skills xD. Also don't forget Qiang is veteran so he is oblivion safe lt+1.