Is anyone excited about Spiral Corps?

They can effectively have 2 5 man links. They have the best jammer in the game, and have really good aro coverage thanks to Helots.

 

I've occasionally struggled to write really godawful lists that I can use against beginner players but Spiral corps really alleviates that issue.

 

That's the Link I'd like to put on the table

Spiral Corps
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BRAWLER Heavy Rocket Launcher / Assault Pistol, Knife. (1.5 | 18)
BRAWLER Doctor (MediKit) Rifle + Light Shotgun / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 20)
BRAWLER Hacker (Assault Hacking Device) Submachine Gun / Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 17)
BRAWLER Hacker (Assault Hacking Device) Submachine Gun / Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 17)
TAAGMA Breaker Combi Rifle, Nanopulser / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 16)

2.5 SWC | 88 Points

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(but in reality it's gonna be this one mwhahaha)

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Spiral Corps
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5
TAAGMA (Multispectral Visor L2) Viral Sniper / Pistol, Knife. (1.5 | 25)
BRAWLER Doctor (MediKit) Rifle + Light Shotgun / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 20)
BRAWLER Hacker (Assault Hacking Device) Submachine Gun / Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 17)
BRAWLER Hacker (Assault Hacking Device) Submachine Gun / Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 17)
TAAGMA Breaker Combi Rifle, Nanopulser / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 16)

2.5 SWC | 95 Points

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The Auxilia? No I think both the auxilia in the haris have to be the special 10 point version.

 

what do you think about chaksa longarms guys?

 

The cheapest one is pretty good. The special weapon ones are alright in theory I suppose.

 

i dont know.. portable autocannon 31 points..bs 11.. uffff its hard for me to include them on my lists even though i wantt

 

Im not exactly into the bigger weapons profiles to be honest. But There is an argument to be made that they might be worth taking.

 

Doesn't really matter which Brawlers you take aside from the Doc.
The Brawler just has the benefit of being a 1 point upgrade over the filler and Sixth Sense Hackers have some utility. Sitting far back in a Sniper Link he is also fairly protected from KHDs and not much of a high value Target.

Pretending to be a HRL might result in someone dropping a Smoke to get past you, attempting to outrange the HRL or to take it out with a trooper utilizing Camo Mods/ODD:
Definitely on the expensive side as far as LI Core Links go, but with Shock Immunity I'd take the gamble. You also have the Smoke to utilize him in Active Turn later on if you want. He doesn't have to be deployed for turn 1 AROs.

 

Neema Saatar and either something cheap or a specialist.
Or a Taagma with MSV2 and viral sniper (posing as Neema).

 

This.

The Tohaa stuff is very limited, we can't actually build very interesting triads and the faction is missing the most iconic and effective Tohaa units (Makauls, decent symbiont attackers, decent symbiont ARO). I'm kind of annoyed that really our "Tohaa" link options are like Neema, Aelis Keesan and the crappy engineer.

Off the top of my head, the reasons to play Spiral Corps are;
-Neema Tri Core
-Infiltrator triad
-The good impersonator profiles
-Five cheap chaff models (Helots, Diplomat+Warcor)
-Rasails and battlecats may have a good home here.

Everything else seems pretty rubbish. Half of the new units we got (Grief, Reex, Kiel-San) just overlap so damn much with other Tohaa stuff that I don't know why they bothered, and even in Spiral they don't feel necessary. Brawlers are not something I'm excited for in any faction that can have them. Rasails and Cats are nice, they are also nice in vanilla, though I feel there is an argument that they can play into Spirals chaff heavy strategies better than they can in vanilla. Spiral gets smoke/visor in a link, but its a BS12 no perks visor and we lack other more reliable long range options.

I'm going to give all of the listed stuff a go, but honestly not that excited aside from the helot chaff

 

Just something I threw together. Lots of Area denial. Not a lot of studying went into it just thing in the list that grab my attention.

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GROUP 1 7 2
MONSTRUCKER Submachine Gun, Chain Rifle, Drop Bears / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 13)
MONSTRUCKER Submachine Gun, Chain Rifle, Drop Bears / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 13)
DRAAL (Minelayer) Submachine Gun, Pulzar, D-Charges, Antipersonnel Mines / Viral Pistol, Knife. (1 | 31)
DRAAL (Minelayer) Submachine Gun, Pulzar, D-Charges, Antipersonnel Mines / Viral Pistol, Knife. (1 | 31)
DRAAL Submachine Gun, Pulzar, D-Charges, Dazer / Viral Pistol, Knife. (0 | 30)
TAAGMA (Tri-Core) Breaker Combi Rifle, Nanopulser / Pistol, Knife. (1 | 21)
CHAKSA AUXILIAR Smart Heavy Rocket Launcher / Pistol, CCW. (1 | 15)
TAAGMA Lieutenant Breaker Combi Rifle, Nanopulser / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 16)
KAELTAR (Chain of Command) Light Shotgun, Flash Pulse + 2 SymbioMates / Pistol, Electric Pulse. (0.5 | 21)

GROUP 2
6
KRIIGEL Submachine Gun, Phero-Booster / Viral Pistol, Knife. (0 | 24)
KRIIGEL Breaker Combi Rifle + Smoke Light Grenade Launcher / Viral Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 27)
REEX Boarding Shotgun, Contender, Nanopulser / Pistol, Electric Pulse. (0 | 13)
REEX Boarding Shotgun, Contender, Nanopulser / Pistol, Electric Pulse. (0 | 13)
REEX Spitfire / Pistol, Electric Pulse. (1 | 17)
REEX Boarding Shotgun, Contender, Nanopulser / Pistol, Electric Pulse. (0 | 13)
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Yeah, I was pretty excited at first but I'd honestly just rather play vanilla... Just more interesting links. I look at Dashat, and then I look at Spiral Corps and I'm like... Wtf, to me the power level seems (on the surface) far more in favor of Dashat and Foreign Company. While the phero tech is neat, you gotta get to the target to use it, and overall triad options are just blah. Definitely going to give it a try, but not loving it on paper...

 

I have to test it right I haven't played them but you know I have a go at what I think... and I'm definitely not speaking for this list to take me like 5 minutes to put together
I think that their power lies in board control guerilla hit and run tactics and fighting the enemy on your terms... if you stop and look at it you can really cover the board with lots of land mines drop bears smoke dazers LOS mods there's a lot of options there man dazers to stop people's movements cold. but I think people expect to see huge amounts of Firepower. I got complete control of the Midfield... or I'm shutting down your msv guys while I'm breaking your fire teams...
I think it's a more subtle Force and I think it's one of the ones you have to learn how to play a little bit... it's definitely not an "Easy Mode" force

 

@DustGod agreed. I don't have much tohaa experience so I decided to try it with the new box. I have primarily been playing OSS which has some heavy hitters and the proxies help it have a lot of staying power. Oss seems to me very straightforward while SC is not. Oh well. I'm going to keep building lists and start running some games. Not having an Asura to rely on for turn three Rambo + missions is going to be difficult.