Building lists around the Mongol Cav

Do you prefer Generic Yu Jing army list or White Banner Army?

 

If it'd been vanilla, I'd have just said "add two Guijia" but since it's White Banner have you tried adding a bunch of vampire doggos (Guilang) with hacking Zhanshi? Biggest weakness is hacking and lack of Stealth, while a Shang-Ji in the Core will help with the extreme range deficiency.

 

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GROUP 1 10 2
ZHANSHI (Paramedic) Combi Rifle ( | MediKit) / Pistol, CC Weapon. (0 | 13)
ZHANSHI (Lieutenant) Combi Rifle / Pistol, CC Weapon. (0 | 11)
ZHANSHI Combi Rifle / Pistol, CC Weapon. (0 | 11)
TIAN GǑU 1st Section Combi Rifle, Nanopulser, Jammer / Pistol, CC Weapon. (0 | 22)
SHÀNG JÍ (Tactical Awareness) AP Heavy Machine Gun, Chain-colt ( | TinBot: Firewall [-6]) / Pistol, Shock CC Weapon. (1.5 | 49)
BLUE WOLF AP Spitfire, Heavy Flamethrower, Panzerfaust / DA CC Weapon. (1.5 | 71)
BLUE WOLF PILOT Light Shotgun / Pistol, Shock CC Weapon. (0 | 0)
LÓNG YÁ (Minelayer) Panzerfaust(+1B), Flammenspeer(+1B), Submachine Gun, AP Mines / PARA CC Weapon(-3). (0.5 | 17)
LÓNG YÁ (Minelayer) Panzerfaust(+1B), Flammenspeer(+1B), Submachine Gun, AP Mines / PARA CC Weapon(-3). (0.5 | 17)
PANGGULING (Deactivator, Repeater) ( ) / PARA CC Weapon(-3). (0 | 8)
PANGGULING (Deactivator, Repeater) ( ) / PARA CC Weapon(-3). (0 | 8)

GROUP 2 3 2 2
SHAOLIN Chain Rifle, Smoke Grenades / Pistol, Shock CC Weapon. (0 | 5)
SHAOLIN Chain Rifle, Smoke Grenades / Pistol, Shock CC Weapon. (0 | 5)
HÙSÒNG Yaókòng Heavy Machine Gun / PARA CC Weapon(-3). (1 | 24)
HÙSÒNG Yaókòng Heavy Machine Gun / PARA CC Weapon(-3). (1 | 24)
MECH-ENGINEER Combi Rifle, D-Charges / Pistol, CC Weapon. (0 | 15)

6 SWC | 300 Points

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This is the first thing I came up with but I worry A) it's not playing to WBA strengths/themes; B) No long range sniper or missile; C) No yaozao for the engineer; D) Zhanshi is a terrible LT; E) the blue wolf will probably be spending most of the game watching the Shang Ji doing the hard work. Without using a core link though you might as well play Vanilla.

 

I once played something like this. It was feeling good, although it was ripped apart by a Cutter.

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GROUP 1 10 2
SHÀNG JÍ (Tactical Awareness) AP Heavy Machine Gun, Chain-colt ( | TinBot: Firewall [-6]) / Pistol, Shock CC Weapon. (1.5 | 49)
ZHANSHI (Hacker, Hacking Device) Combi Rifle ( ) / Pistol, CC Weapon. (0.5 | 16)
ZHANSHI (Hacker, Hacking Device) Combi Rifle ( ) / Pistol, CC Weapon. (0.5 | 16)
ZHANSHI (Paramedic) Combi Rifle ( | MediKit) / Pistol, CC Weapon. (0 | 13)
ZHANSHI (Lieutenant) Combi Rifle / Pistol, CC Weapon. (0 | 11)
GŬILÁNG (Minelayer) Boarding Shotgun, Shock Mines ( | Deployable Repeater) / Pistol, CC Weapon. (0.5 | 27)
GŬILÁNG (Forward Observer) Combi Rifle, Flash Pulse, Shock Mines / Pistol, CC Weapon. (0 | 26)
BLUE WOLF AP Spitfire, Heavy Flamethrower, Panzerfaust / DA CC Weapon. (1.5 | 71)
BLUE WOLF PILOT Light Shotgun / Pistol, Shock CC Weapon. (0 | 0)
CHAĪYÌ Yaókòng Flash Pulse / PARA CC Weapon(-3). (0 | 7)
CHAĪYÌ Yaókòng Flash Pulse / PARA CC Weapon(-3). (0 | 7)

GROUP 2 3 1 1
LÓNG YÁ (Minelayer) Panzerfaust(+1B), Flammenspeer(+1B), Submachine Gun, AP Mines / PARA CC Weapon(-3). (0.5 | 17)
LÓNG YÁ (Minelayer) Panzerfaust(+1B), Flammenspeer(+1B), Submachine Gun, AP Mines / PARA CC Weapon(-3). (0.5 | 17)
MECH-ENGINEER Combi Rifle, D-Charges / Pistol, CC Weapon. (0 | 15)
YÁOZĂO PARA CC Weapon(-3). (0 | 3)
SHAOLIN Chain Rifle, Smoke Grenades / Pistol, Shock CC Weapon. (0 | 5)

5.5 SWC | 300 Points

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I'm glad this came up. I was looking at WB to see how to take advantage of the Duo like the Guijia can in IA.

Blue Wolf Duo
1 to 2 Blue Wolf
0 to 1 Adil Mehmut
0 to 1 Captain Gao
0 to 1 Lei Gong
0 to 1 Shang Ji
0 to 1 Tian Gou

There's 2 that I like:
Shang Ji, with tinbot -6, or the hacker. All of them expensive but effective.

Tian Gou KHD or Jammer are cheap and can play good tricks. You can disguise them as a Shang Ji. If they try to hack, you can jammer or hack back with KHD.

 

All of them have holomask.

 

Yep. Also I just thought that if you happen to know you are going against a lot of MSV, you can use Lei Gong OR again the TG disguised as him to do a fake-out. Also a good way to get your specialist moved up with the BW.

 

Normaly I think about TAG support like this:

Defend enemy hackers: KHD
Repair TAG: Eng + Bot
Buff TAG vs Hacking: EVO or - in this case - duo him with tinbot/khd
Protect TAG vs. CC: BW can defend himself, but its not wrong when a shaolin runs beside him and provides smoke support (LoF block)

 

I know this might seem crazy but hear me out. The way cheaper tags around this price range are costed now make me care less about bring a engineer to cover their costs, I prefer spending points to help deliver him into enemy lines so killer hackers help more then engineers for me in lists I want to bring him.

His been doing amazing for me once I get him up the table. The smaller size is amazing for controlling engagements that S7 sometimes struggle with.

Him covered by the core of SJ+4+ Zhanshis have been just sickening fire power wise.

 

The AP spitfire is great when you get it into the +3 range.

 

If you go the vanilla route, FD Krit would be a great partner for the Blue Wolf (it's a shame that for all the loaner characters WB got, they missed out here). Sure, he's an engineer, and being able to deploy up-field means he's more likely to be in the Wolf's zone of operations, but he's also crazy order efficient and has a lot of things he can tend to in your midfield when he's not fixing your dogbot.

 

Has anyone removed the wolverine claws from their blue wolf? I'd like to see how it looks.

 

I did. You can find it in the conversionthread or I can post it later in this thread.
When the wolf arrived at my place the blades were bent and malformed. But in all honesty I planned to get rid of the claws before that.
Now he wields ann Guan Dao.

 

Here.

 

Thanks for sharing!