Hi all, I am new to infinity and am starting with Spiral Corps. My goal was to come up with a list that uses as many of the miniatures that I own with minimal proxying (inspired by Bostria's challenge). What I own: 1 Spiral Corps army box 2 Kaeltar with symbionts 2 Gao Raels (sniper and spitfire) What I would play: 5.5 SWC, 300P Link here Group 1 - 10 orders Triad A Taagma Sniper - Viral Sniper rifle 24 Taagma Tricore - Breaker Combi 20 Kaeltar - light shotgun 15Triad B Kiel-Saan - Red Fury 46 Draal FTO - SMG 33 Kauri - Paramedic 16Triad C Kriigel - Smoke/Lieutenant 20 Reex - Boarding Shotgun 13 Reex - Boarding Shotgun 13 Clipsos - Forward Observer 25 Group 2 - 3 orders Kiiutan - SMG, Mines 28 Kiiutan - SMG 27 Greif Operator - impersonation 20 How do I proxy it? Gao Rael Sniper = count as Taagma Sniper (it's a stretch with the symbiont armor) Reex HMG = count as Kauri (has a visor..) Gao Rael Spitfire - count as second Kiiutan Imposter (has a hoodie and symbiont armor) Hatail (army box) = count as Greif Operator (has D-charges, visor and no symbiont) How do I play it? Triad A Taagma Sniper - holoprojected as a Kaeltar Taagma Tricore - holoprojected as a Draal marksman Kaeltar - symbiobomb to one Kiiutan and Symbiomate to Draal FTO The idea here is to play a double shell game: I cannot hide the presence of the tricore Taagma but I can hide the fact that there is a second Taagma (sniper): I will disguise the sniper as a Kaeltar and the tricore as a Draal Marksman. By doing that I aim to achieve the following: -Let my opponent believe there is only one Taagma (the tricore) and that it is one of the two Kaeltars. -ARO with a sniper when all the opponent was expecting was a combirifle -Project a strong attack piece (draal marksman in tricore) that will influence how my opponent plays Triad B Kiel-Saan - Red Fury Draal FTO - SMG + Symbiomate Kauri - Paramedic The attack triad: This triad covers all ranges until 32", has two attack pieces, two specialists, 6 wounds, a mate and can use the KAURI to revive whatever is needed to win the mission. Triad C Kriigel - Smoke/Lieutenant 20 Reex - Boarding Shotgun 13 Reex - Boarding Shotgun 13 Kriigel hides and creates smoke screens for the taagma sniper. Reex escorts protect Kriigel with templates. Clipsos Pushes buttons. Kiiutan Kiiutan Greif Act as speedbumps. One Kiiutan gets the symbiobomb Bostria's challenge: Everything I own (save for two Symbios) gets deployed or proxied convincingly! What do you think?
Looks like a fun challenge, but personally I’d put the Draal with an AP Rifle in the Tricore as he’s a hellaciously good attacking piece with the 5 man boost. The Kiel Saan doesn’t really need Triad buffs to run wild so you can have him run around while the Kaeltar and Kaauri watch your deployment zone. Bluffing the AP Marksman Draal is a good trick, but not as good as actually running him IMO.
I would change your groups a bit. Kriigel Triad + 1 Kiuutan or Clipsos as group 2, and everything else in group 1. This gives you a lot more efficiency with group 2 in terms of using your orders that are further up the table.
No matter how hard I try, I can't find the points for the Marksman Draal and staying true to the challenge. I like the Kiel Saan triad as it has an attack piece that brings its specialists along plus medic and reserve attack piece Ah, yes! Good observation: Kriigel Triad and Clipsos go into group 2: 3 orders is enough to lay down smoke and later they fuel the mad Clipsos runs to score objectives. This leaves 9 orders for group 1 giving me the flexibility to push my attack triad forward or use my impersonators aggressively. Only concern is: If the opponent focuses on the impersonators early on I am left with two split order pools. My intention was to play the impersonators mostly as speed bumps (overspend orders to avoid remaining exposed to them)
Keep in mind if you give a Kiuutan a 'bomb you will have to deploy them outside of their marker state. If your primary goal with them is to make your opponent waste orders to be rid of them, keeping them in the impersonation state may be the best option. Just a thought and can be very table and mission dependent.
