Well, it's still a dice roll, not a choice. Also, I already have a list for wildcard Janissary linkteam shenanigans so I wanted to try it with MSV2. I'm probably going to hit a wall in a couple of games to understand what's wrong with it the hard way. I think both you and Serditii are correct about B1 ARO pieces being inferior to Shihab. Guess that's my rookie mistake: underestimating ARO Burst.
well, the ML Hi not so bad ARO as it is. i used Azrail Fauerbach a lot in the past. it just need you outrange your opponents (ML & Fauerbach do it well in 33" & more). but these days game full of attackers who can stack MOD's on you, so sometimes SS is even more important than B. Also remember - against Surprise Shoot from TO your Hi better DODGE than shoot!
A HI with a ML is a strong ARO option. It's hard hitting enough, and has a big template that can theoretically kill basically anything, that it forces your opponent to think about anything they want to engage it with potentially getting splattered. Especially if you put it covering a specific approach or objective that your opponent can bypass but it limits their options, forcing them into a bottleneck.
Has anyone been trying out QK lists with Druze Core? They don't seem to be very popular anywhere and in QK they cannot have any template weapons aside from their native chain colts.
Not recently. Which has a lot to do with me playing 6 armies nowadays, QK being just one of them - and still having to do a lot of research after the Daedalus' Fall changes... But the EM Light Grenade Launcher is pretty nasty, and Druze themselves are tough bastards. I used them recently as a core for a Bayram force, and they did surprisingly well. Even though i didn't had a chance to actually lob any E/M grenade.
Tried them couple of times, before the final kiss good bye. Not bad, but not really good either. Had they possibility to link with hafzas or one hafza and Leila, that would be a very good choice, I think.
I think that there's some good profiles in there. Killer Hacker, E/M LGL and HMG specifically. I ran a HMG and KHD in a duo in Supremacy and they were pretty solid, active HMG and console grabber.
