Adil is definetly the better pick if you want Spitfire Crane. Two pts difference make me wonder about the pts-system. Theoreticaly I would pick the Crane over Adil if I want it to be the Lt. (saves 1,5 SWC and 8 pts), if I need the DA. That he is a Warhorse makes him so much better - maybe they forgot WH on the regular Cranes ;-)
I like the price! Not as fast as Garuda but fast enough. Albedo is meh. I'm still going up against troops that may have a single MSV in the army so Albedo is almost worthless. I was hoping for an actual repeater but Deployable Repeater is not bad. The Heavy Riotstopper is fantastic! And a good cheap specialist! I'm glad the combat jump is on 13. 11 PH would suck for that. Due to it's speed and Super Jump, there might be times I don't even use combat jump or parachutist. But I think my favorite is the BSG for only 17pts. It will be great for just causing trouble in a back line.
I think I Just had a brilliant idea! The Bayara is a bit disappointing for rules but very cool looks. But I just had a idea that maybe a MBH proxy! Maybe leave off the human and just have the dragon. Then have a Tiger/Dragon Duo with the Su Jian!!!
Good thinking but that's Japanese. Hu Long would be Tiger Dragon. Actually I could do like I did with my existing MBH by putting the guy on his own base and then I have magnets to keep him on the base.
I need some positive vibes guys. More and more I'm feeling the rest of ISS is going to be very meh. Lately all new YJ has been meh to me. Silvers Snakes are not good for me, Gudan are good but not amazing. The Bayara is close to useless, Jinyao is pretty much a replacement of Gardua. It's also just ok. Nothing fantastic. Kanren, I think got downgraded. Adil got a boost but I wouldn't say he's OP. Wu Ming are good but not amazing. And the same with the Long Wang. It's just...ok. It's a lot more expensive than I was hoping for. It's no Wreaker or Stigmata. I've yet to hear of anyone even trying the Feiquan flyer. On paper, it just looks bad. TBH I think most of the flyers are not good. But I have yet to try them and go against them. No one in my meta is even trying them with proxies. The Feiquan has very short ranged weapons for something the size of a TAG So far we've lost Sophotech, gained a Doctor on Pheasant. Bayara has no specialists, Jinyao has only a paramedic. So I'm hoping the next stuff show in is good. Sadly, we know about the Koga so far is that it's got Decoy, which means no camo, which sucks. He's got a TacBow, which sucks. But we still have a new LI to come (Vanguard), HI (Jinewei), and a possible warband (Shenji).
Even though I’m only just branching into ISS for the first time in my infinity career, I get what you’re saying. There’s not a lot just knocking the socks off people. Not like when we first saw Torchlight or the Bakunin revamp. I’ll say a few notes of positivity though. Firstly, even other existing units may get more attention. Because they were kinda waiting on this rewrite, there might be other units that get better that they waited on until everything got released. There’s also the potential even after release for midseason tweeks. That being said, me and my buddy both played against his son who plays ISS and after N5 launched he made a list that had both the Longwang and the Feiquan. He used the Feiquan EM carbine expertly to shutdown heavy threats like my tag. Using its speed to fly up a side no one could see and shoot stuff in the back. The Longwang was really difficult to kill. It survived several face to face rolls against my Overdron hrmc. Between its BS-3 and higher than average arm for an S6. It’s actually better than you might think. Although the lack of AP makes it want to punch down. Both units have the potential to work well in the right hands. I do think we need to see the whole faction. I also think based on how WB and IA have made vast improvements in recent times, it’ll be interesting to see if ISS can make that kind of jump in power.
Yu Jing were never the faction that people refer as "amazing". Its solid. In N5 it worked good for me. But I have a limted meta. Had only one local turnament and my main opponents are: Nomads, Haqqislam and Pan O (O-12 and JSA also, CA, Aleph and Ariandna rarley). My first (we get only one so far) Silver Snake is on the way to me and also both Gudan buddys. I tried the later out and I have to say for their points they are pretty good and can be annoying. You can let them untouched providing an order or use them like I did in Acquistion were one cleared out the repeater und placed a mine in support of my HIs. So what do you want? A camo killer with infiltration? We have: Daofei. A good AP-HMG with TA and Tinbot? We have Shang. A S5 HI with PS4-HMG, MSV1, TA and BS Att.-3? Sry wrong faction. We are realistic here ;-) For my understanding there is no useless unit in Infinity. This description is use so lighthearted. It has its uses. Its not an underpriced sneaky killer but its a good DZ guard. Sure you can use two Kuang Shi and has it chaeper, but then? The rest of the list? Jinyao seems a good replacement for the Garuda - sure the loss of mimetism is not nice, but now we got a very cheap but to be an annoyance. Nomads style repeaters are a very good option. Kanren - in theory they look better to me. Adil is on the painting table and soon to be unleashed. He can a lot but he is also 49 pts. That in competition with AP-Spit Crane - but not with AP-HMG (rangeband). Crane in genral get what we wanted in N4. Better move, cheaper, better guns (AP). I still don´t think HMG is necessary, but we will get it anyway. Wu Ming got overall cheaper but not necessarly better. They still have a good set of weapons and for the fireteam you buy the AP-HMG here. Long Wang looks good to me. BS-3 will help.Good side weapons. I would prefere a big riot vs the two small but okay. Vs. Wrecker he has 1 ARM and 1 BS more. Is it worth 15 pts? I don´t know... Wrecker gets also AP on all weapons. In a FtF between both, Wang should win over the long term. IDK - never faced one. On the Furor in Germany they were 3 time the Nomads flyer. But I don´t know if they had great impact. Top 3: OSS, MAF, JSA So far we not see our standard doc and engineer. Decoy seems to be good tool. I think they still don´t want to give ISS much camo. And yeah there are plenty of new troops ahead and I am curios if and what will happen with Bao (they were never realy good and I wonder we still have them).
