Acontecimento is back?

Hello my co-Panoplayers,

lately I'm not so active as I wish playing Panoceania, so I haven't played all sectorials oft, I stayed too focused on playing Winterforce, but after the fireteams changes I wanted to take a look on my first army, and allways beloved, Acontecimento. The true is that Acontecimento, despite Corvus placed it into the freezer (models, amazing btw, I never understood why Aco was choosen), is still working, even I feel the latest changes did not as much harm as we could think at first to the "jungle warriors". I have the theory that Acontecimento was really well designed when it cames back in N2, still, passing editions of rules, and profiles with habilities or skills given to others armies put Aco some steps down, but lucky us, still playable. Fireteams changes could be a hidden or unexpected boost to Acontecimento.

After running those guys into battle, I took some interesting conclusions.

-We have lost ARO strength, but we weren't the only ones, so, it is a lesser complication, plus, Acontecimento wasn't so good in active ARO as others armies. Yes, the baghmari snipper with full bonuses were a thing, but not "a top one", the shapper still disputes the slot, so, now, without full bonuses the humble regular goes over the baghmari choice. Now an opponent can easily have doubts about what we will running, so it would harder to choose a side of the table :)

-Now regular's can be almost in any other fireteam, so we can spare a lot of points placing the guys with "the BIG fellows". Even the basic "haris" full of regulars: spitfire+paramedic+minelayer/sensor is something to take it seriously.

-Talking about defensive list, Acontecimento can put a lot of mines in deployment phase, this will something hard for some armies, or a minir inconvenience for others, but even a "bear" or "dogwarrior" dislike to run into a mindfield where a dodge roll failed will mean to do several armour savings... So, at least the enemy should take a moment to think about what to do or playing "lucky".

-While Acontecimento is good talking about defense, if we want to talk about attack we have a lot of pieces to do it but if we aren't facing heavy targets. When we face profiles with high armour (6+) it becomes really hard to put those down. The waste of orders could be too much. The tools we have for this are too limited, mostly are expensive ones. Yes, Acontecimento can allow to deploy some of this expesives ones, but still the list will be compromised a little.

-Acontecimento have a good half table control if we want, it couln't the best, but it is at least good enought. Nagas + Dart allow Acontecimento exchange shoots with some others half table profiles with a little conviction on "the job will be done". Even we can place peacemakers along nagas/dart, making the control a little better.

So, making it short, Acontecimento is fragile (extremely) but too extremely flexible.

Of course, they are still some profiles which should receive a little of love, Kirpal, Guarda de Assalto and Rao.

A couple of list which I find worked well.

Spoiler: List1

Asalto_
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GROUP 1 10
REGULAR (Triangulated Fire, Minelayer, Sensor) Combi Rifle, Shock Mines / Pistol, CC Weapon. (0 | 13)
REGULAR (Triangulated Fire, Minelayer, Sensor) Combi Rifle, Shock Mines / Pistol, CC Weapon. (0 | 13)
REGULAR (Triangulated Fire, Minelayer, Sensor) Combi Rifle, Shock Mines / Pistol, CC Weapon. (0 | 13)
REGULAR (Sapper) MULTI Sniper Rifle / Pistol, CC Weapon. (1.5 | 21)
REGULAR (Paramedic) Combi Rifle ( | MediKit) / Pistol, CC Weapon. (0 | 12)
REGULAR (Lieutenant) Combi Rifle / Pistol, CC Weapon. (0 | 10)
REGULAR Spitfire / Pistol, CC Weapon. (1 | 16)
BAGH-MARI (Forward Observer) Boarding Shotgun, Flash Pulse, D-Charges / Pistol, CC Weapon. (0 | 21)
REGULAR (Triangulated Fire, Minelayer, Sensor) Combi Rifle, Shock Mines / Pistol, CC Weapon. (0 | 13)
DRAKIOS Red Fury, Light Flamethrower / Pistol, Shock CC Weapon. (1 | 45)
2X DEVABOT KYDOIMOS Heavy Flamethrower / PARA CC Weapon(-3). (0 | 12)
GROUP 2 5
GUARDA DE ASSALTO Spitfire, Heavy Flamethrower, D-Charges / Pistol, Shock CC Weapon. (1.5 | 45)
AUXBOT Light Shotgun, Eclipse Grenade Launcher / PARA CC Weapon(-3). (0 | 5)
SCYLLA (Hacker, Hacking Device [UPGRADE: Trinity (+2 Damage)]) Boarding Shotgun, Pitcher ( ) / Pistol, Shock CC Weapon. (0.5 | 41)
2X DEVABOT CHARYBDIS Heavy Flamethrower / PARA CC Weapon(-3). (0 | 14)
MACHINIST Combi Rifle, D-Charges ( | GizmoKit) / Pistol, CC Weapon. (0 | 15)
REGULAR (Triangulated Fire, Minelayer, Sensor) Combi Rifle, Shock Mines / Pistol, CC Weapon. (0 | 13)
FUGAZI DRONBOT Flash Pulse / PARA CC Weapon(-3). (0 | 7)
5.5 SWC | 298 Points
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Spoiler: List2

Regular_Baghmari
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GROUP 1 10
REGULAR (Triangulated Fire, Minelayer, Sensor) Combi Rifle, Shock Mines / Pistol, CC Weapon. (0 | 13)
REGULAR (Triangulated Fire, Minelayer, Sensor) Combi Rifle, Shock Mines / Pistol, CC Weapon. (0 | 13)
REGULAR (Sapper) MULTI Sniper Rifle / Pistol, CC Weapon. (1.5 | 21)
REGULAR (Paramedic) Combi Rifle ( | MediKit) / Pistol, CC Weapon. (0 | 12)
REGULAR (Lieutenant) Combi Rifle / Pistol, CC Weapon. (0 | 10)
REGULAR Spitfire / Pistol, CC Weapon. (1 | 16)
DART Submachine Gun, Viral Tactical Bow, E/M Grenades / Pistol, Shock CC Weapon. (0 | 34)
PEACEMAKER Spitfire / PARA CC Weapon(-3). (1 | 26)
AUXBOT_3 Heavy Flamethrower / PARA CC Weapon(-3). (0 | 4)
NAGA (Hacker, Killer Hacking Device) Combi Rifle, Shock Mines ( ) / Pistol, CC Weapon. (0 | 30)
MACHINIST Combi Rifle, D-Charges ( | GizmoKit) / Pistol, CC Weapon. (0 | 15)
PALBOT PARA CC Weapon(-3). (0 | 3)
GROUP 2 5
PEACEMAKER Heavy Shotgun / PARA CC Weapon(-3). (0 | 20)
AUXBOT_3 Heavy Flamethrower / PARA CC Weapon(-3). (0 | 4)
NAGA (Hacker, Hacking Device) Combi Rifle, Shock Mines ( ) / Pistol, CC Weapon. (0.5 | 32)
REGULAR (Triangulated Fire, Minelayer, Sensor) Combi Rifle, Shock Mines / Pistol, CC Weapon. (0 | 13)
REGULAR (Paramedic) Combi Rifle ( | MediKit) / Pistol, CC Weapon. (0 | 12)
BAGH-MARI Heavy Machine Gun / Pistol, CC Weapon. (1.5 | 28)
5.5 SWC | 298 Points
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What do you think about Acontecimento? It is now better or worse?It has this "step back to N2" suited well to Acontecimeto or not?

While I believe Acontecimento is playable and yet most important:enjoyable, I still feel that Pano is a little drifted by Corvus.

 

Who doesn't!?

The auxbot is better now if we talk about killing, but to this you have the Guarda, the issue here is the change to the GL, with no bonuses to BS it is "a flip coin" situation to launch smoke, so, you can't even to think the eclipse option as a "battle plan", this is what bottered me too much about the little auxbot from the Guarda. I hope CB still made to this little guy a "Eclipse GL BS+3 or Burst +1". What we will see if the ARO power for a bunch of armies do some good to the guarda. My experience wasn't too great, but maybe because I was to bolt with him.