Kaldström goodies

I get that BS 11 isn't exactly elite but come on, he gives the opponent -12 to hit on active turn. It's not useless.

 

IF C1 point costs are rounded to the next full digit, he's also max 34 points. Which is 8 less than the current Ninja Sniper, massive improvement in cost efficiency.

 

Yeah. Thought the question how Nokken and Locusts will be positioned relative to each other still stands.

He's definitely not useless, just a bit of wasted opportunity because of ongoing focus on CC instead of BS. It was a nice occasion to show a different clan of ninjas, with lower CC and MA, but with BS 12 and Marksmanship LX for example.

On the flipside trading Infiltration for C+ isn't a bad deal for a hidden sniper.

 

American Ninja, at a discount, but you can deploy a platoon of them, lol.

 

So what we got on information is:
Regular HI is 6-2 now
Dodge works in Aktive and old Kinematika just adds to Dodge Move

putting 1 and 1 together that means
a Kinematika 2 = Dodge +2 HI can now possibly move 6+4 inches a turn, while triggering Mines, 2" extra while BS Attacking, 6" + CC which is a lot more than it sounds. That's a heck of a lot of extra ground covered per Order.

 

Dont forget cautious move 6

 

Yeah, been using that about every game with Achilles to avoid pesky Flashpulse bots early on.

 

I wonder how this will affect the current "fast HI". 6-4 MOV? Additional Dodge range?

 

If you pass your dodge rolls

 

Wip 12 LT? *laughs in deva Lt*

 

I would love a reason to take the Aquilla as my Lt

 

Yes sure, point is that Move+Dodge was 4" and nothing more in N3.
And is 6/10" for N4. That's a lot of extra Movement for doing the same thing.

Who knows, unopposed Dodge might even be automatic Movement in N4.

 

If unchanged magisters will be very happy little missiles.

 

Is it just me, or indeed, after looking at the YuJing units, I feel that in a 7 vs 7 battle (in code one) the Chinese calmly break us?

They received a Sniper and we received a doctor (with much less impact than a sniper). They have a Guilang (camo, surprise attack, mines) and we have the bad version, a Nokken simple and not very versatile. Again, the Daofei with lots of cool abilities, mimetism, infiltration and spitfire and us KoJ again strong but very,very simple... Finally, the grossest from my point of view is Adil Mehmut, a CC beast who rips Gunnar in two. all for the same points.

Of course, the units need a context but I feel like we have better miniatures but worst profiles.

I don't know .... hopefully in N3 the sectorial will show something different, but until now I have been much more excited when Varuna arrived.

Come on, someone cheers me up hahaha!

 

Yeah, and the shooting proficiency trademark of PanO is hard countered by the number of Camo profiles.

It's... skewed.

 

Once again, I think the power to bring units back up is not to be underestimated. Especially in games with so few orders.

Yujing also only has a soft counter to ODD in the Guilang.

 

Snipers aren't that scary on the small Battlebox mats, it is very easy to get within 16".

 

And a harder one in Jujak with HFT. But as you've said before - it all needs to be tested. Even with Kaldstrom being unbalanced the full armies might be perfectly fine.

 

I know it's a matter of taste, but ... of the record ... you not even have the better miniatures

 

This would be a shame if it’s true. I hate skewed starter boxes. But we don’t know the rules yet so maybe it’s ok? I know very little but you do notice the difference in enthusiasm when the video guy (who is awesome by the way) talks about Yu Jing and also that they seemed to have a lot more key words...