Thanks for the heads up, I've corrected the mistake and noted your help in the editing notes! Have a great day! :)
Humbled by @Benio 's comment, I decided to take a break from the form and write this short Welcoming Letter to New Ramah Taskforce Commanders! I'll post the last Unit Focus article at the usual time!
Hey there! I've now added the fact that Carmen can utilize the +1B from the Heavy Pistol when making active turn melee attacks with it (in practise this means B2 when attacking solo and B3 when teaming up with Bâtard). Thanks for noting that, as always your help is mentioned in the editing notes!
So it has come to this... It's time to release my final Unit Focus, and who else to could it be about, than Tarik Mansuri himself? I've also added a short Veteran's Word segment called "Ghulam's Gambit" to the Ghulam article (also referenced at the end of the Nâffatun piece)! Edit. Added the name of the Veteran's Word subtext and added bolds.
With the latest Unit Focus piece out, my herculean feeling task of writing an article (or atleast half an article) on every unit of Ramah Taskforce is for the time being complete. This doesn't mean that I'm done, by any stretch, and I'm currently in the process of going through all my previous texts to correct spelling mistakes,rewrite badly worded thoughts, and add links directing to both my own articles, as well as to N4 Wiki! I'm also planning on adding "Veteran's Word" subsections to the end of any articles on which I've got more to say - this way readers can quickly see if I've added something new, instead of having to go through the entire text! If (and when) I modify articles in the future, I'll also include "patch notes" at the bottom of the article for readers' convenience! When I started this blog, I set myself the aim of publishing once a week. As a follower of several Infinity related blogs and other medias, I hoped to emulate my preferred style of content release, and decided that a weekly scheduled rollout of articles would be the best approach to the blog. From the get go, I knew such a pace of publishing would not be sustainable in the long run - preparing a piece a week takes quite a lot of work, and the fact that I was able to (mostly) stick to the schedual owes as much to no major real life events forcing my hand, as to the deep repertoire of article subjects I'd collected in my time of playing RTF. Now with the library of unit articles complete, I will allow myself to take it more easy with the blog, and I will no longer be releasing articles on a weekly basis. I will still keep the wednesday as the day I'll post if there's an article to be shared, and I'll still use this forum thread to communicate the fact that something new is out. On the subject of future articles, I'd be glad to hear what all you'd prefer me to focus on in the future. Would you like to see more beginner level content, mission analyses, battle reports or something else entirely? You can comment on this thread, send me a private forum message, or contact me through the form found on the blog! I'm not an expert on Infinity, but if an intermediate player's (and a die hard RTF enthusiast's!) opinions are worth reading to you, here I am! I am a flawed Infinity player whose blog is also flawed; I'm the first to admit that I'm not a Satellite Tournament winner caliber player after all. I've had to fight feelings of inperfection and moments of intense self critique while writing the Good Guys Wear Orange - why should I be the one to write about this stuff; surely there is someone more skilled and smarter who should be doing this? But the answer that I came back to time and time again was, that I'm not doing this because I'm eager to take up the mantle being the voice of RTF in the community, but because few others have been willing to do so! So the time has come to throw down the gauntlet: I challenge anyone reading this to turn the Good Guys Wear Orange from the Ramah Taskforce blog into a Ramah Taskforce Blog - just like it was always envisioned to be! Furthermore, if You are a passioned Qapu Khalqi of Hassassin Bahram player, or even the commander of an entirely different faction - could You be the one to write down your thoughts on Your Faction and it's Units, and thus enrich our community, and help ease new recruits into the game? The call to action is out! And lastly, on the subject of community. I've never had a blog before, and I've never even seriously thought about writing one either - despite the fact that there are several other things I'm very passionate about in life. It was the feeling of being part of a mature, positive and likemindedly passionate Infinity (and especially Haqqislam!) community that gave me the courage to start the Good Guys Wear Orange. The positive feedback I've received has been both overwhelming and humbling; the nice things people have written to me have kept me going when I've been busy, stressed, or fighting my insecurity as an Infinity player. A HUGE THANK YOU to everyone who has read, liked and/or commented on my work (pointing out mistakes in my texts has been particularly helpful to me!) - it truly has meant the world to me! I just hope I can be worth your positivity in the future, and that life gives me the chance to keep being part of this awesome gaming community. And with that, it's time to say... Until next time, I wish you the very best in leading the Swift and Deadly Spear of the Haqqislamite Army to Victory! -Grotnib
I've never been completely clear on this in N4 and it might be one for the rules forum, but does gang up and +Burst from a weapon like pistols stack?
My intuitive answer would be "Why wouldn't it?", but I'm not a rules lawyer type of guy by any stretch, so if someone tells me the bonuses can't be combined, I'll accept that! As I felt I was walking on thin ice on the subject from the get go, I chose to use the strategic wording "As of writing of this article, you can even take advantage the Heavy Pistol's extra Burst when using it to melee an enemy in your active turn." in the blog! ;)
Because troopers with more than one MOD to burst may only apply one of them at a time, unless the MOD specifies otherwise. I've chucked it up on the rules forum for clarity.
Looks like we're good - the restriction on stacking burst modifiers is only with regards to separate skills and equipment that modify burst. Carmen with her pistols in CC ganging up with Batard is confirmed B3 :)
I've really enjoyed these write ups. If I had anything to add constructively I think I would change the part for the Hakims write up where you said the B2 medikit is good but not something you will make a lot of use of. Having spent most of my time in N4 playing Spiral, I can say that B2 medikit on the Hakim is something you want to make a lot of use of. Being able to safely and with less orders bring back a unit by shooting your unconscious units to life is great. It pairs well with Janissaries because you don't have the reroll option of a doctor roll in StS so potentially two rolls on 14s is pretty great.
Medikits are definitely particularly useful on Janissaries because they have both high PH and no cubes. I still wouldn't look to use a Hakim on them, though. Dropping in a Hakim nearby and shooting a Medikit is pretty order efficient if they're close to the board edge, but it's less efficient than just having a doctor in the team. If the team is still intact, that doctor will also have a burst 2 medikit. Regarding the odds, a burst 2 medikit hitting on a 14 and targeting a model with PH 14 has a 74.01% chance of succeeding, a 6.25% chance of doing nothing, and a 19.74% chance of killing the Janissary. Compare that to a doctor roll on an 18, which has a 90% success chance without rerolls. Those numbers, assuming I did the math right, would apply to both a Hakim and Rouhani, as long as his team is intact. The team breaking makes the medikit a much worse option, but still lets him doctor on an 18.
Ran him for the first time in N4 the other day. Took him in a Haris team with two other Khawarijs, the HRL profile and the NCO MK12. Mission wise we did Capture and Protect and my opponent was playing the new Military Orders. The team did pretty well, essentially tabled my opponent by the end of my second turn. The best part about Tarik is BS attack +2 DMG. A DMG 16 Spitfire with burst 5 is extremely scary. He also managed to take out a recently broken link team with his DMG 15 grenades, which was something my opponent wasn't expecting. Even with all the groaning about super jump nerfs in N4, I managed to find a lot of janky angle shots with the HRL Khawarij and Tariks spitfire. He is still super expensive, and I feel like you have to build a whole list around him. I will definitely be using him more in the future, I love brining units people think aren't good and then surprising them. It's crazy how long you've been going at this and how consistent it's been. I've thoroughly enjoyed reading your articles and hope you continue to make them. Still remember being excited about this blog when you started it, as it has always felt like Ramah has been a bit ignored by most Haqq players and considered bad. I think your blog has done a good job at opening peoples eyes a bit, and especially with the new edition I hope more people give Ramah a chance and don't keep writing off the faction. Regarding other topics to cover, more ITS mission breakdowns would be great. Also I feel like you could make an entire article about the crazy "Ghulam" link teams available to Ramah. My personal favorite is the haris of a Khawarij HRL and 2 Namurrs. Keep up the great work man!
First, great to hear that You're enjoying the content! :) Second, You make an excellent point! I've gone back and forth on rewriting parts of the Hakim article (because it's starting to show it's age when compared to the rest of my pieces), but at the end of the day, I feel that the statements made therein still reflect how I feel. While it is true that a Burst 2 Medikit used at a high PH target has good chances of success, the math still heavily favors traditional Doctoring, as so expertly pointed out by @Koval : At the end of the day, this means that whether it's better to Doctor or to shoot a Medikit depends entirely on the situation! I personally often feel that having invested resources (points, Orders and the opportunity cost of using them somewhere else) makes even a 74%(ish) chance too low for me to take - if I fail, I've wasted my valuable resources, and in the worst of case I've killed my own model! If shooting the Medikit is the best option available (or something that I can try with little drawbacks) then sure, I'll be happy to do it, but most often I just chicken out and heal my guys the old fashioned way. But this is just my personal preference!
Wow, nice to hear the Red Turban Haris (with Tarik!) worked so great for you! I also love using them both as pointmen for Ghulam Cores, as well in a Haris by themselves! And just like you said; it feels great to make a unit people don't think highly of work! I love sometimes jokingly mouthing off how unplayable Namurrs are while they make a mess of my opponent's forces... Thank you some much my friend! I feel you yourself have also been quite the positive force for RTF on the forums! ;) New ITS Mission breakdowns are truly something I'm hoping to do more of in the future! I'm also currently writing a geared-towards-starting-players article on Fireteams of RTF, though it would also be so cool to collect people's favorite "Ghulam" Fireteams into a piece! I'll have to think on that... Thanks for the ideas!
