StarCo Lists for Satellite

@RattlerNxt : Thanks a lot for the lists! I have to say I didn't like them too much before the tournament, but after having had some reality checks my own lists, I like them a lot more.

So as promised a quick summary of the tournament:

I finished 12th / 30, which I would consider a pretty bad result for myself. I lost the last game with my data tracker being only 1 centimeter too far away to reach the console, otherwise I'd have made 4th place. But I got lucky in so many other games that I wouldn't want to claim that I'd have "deserved" a better placement. Overall I just wasn't very concentrated and made quite some avoidable mistakes. I am stressing this to point out that StarCo really has a lot of potential in tournaments.

Game 1: Supremacy vs. PanO

I won this game 9:2 mainly by being able to deploy the Alguaciles link on a rooftop, which allowed me to move them into a sector. Emily then killed loads of support troops and two ODD spitfire REMs and a Nisse MSR. Rest was just somehow getting rid of a Father Knight, Hexa KHD, Akal FO.

Game 2: Rescue vs. Bakunin

We played on a very open table with two very suboptimal deployment zones. My opponent made pretty much all his arm rolls in the first half of the game and I ended up without sufficient orders to remove e.g. a Moderator Sniper on a roof, who could see pretty much 60% of the table. My opponent was one of the good players so I am not too bummed about finishing this game 0:0.

Game 3: Highly Classified vs. Corregidor

We played on a very open table and my opponents list didn't really have redundant specialists. The game ended 9:1 for me. The main take away message here was that my opponent was REALLY unhappy about me using spec fire out of a building (after opening one door..). For him this broke the immersion of the game play. Its easy to argue that indirect fire is a part of the game and the rules are abstract so deal with it, but I don't think I want to long term play a list that ruins peoples mood in that way. Maybe this deserves a thread on its own..

Game 4: Transmission Matrix vs. CA (played by the current German champion)

In this game I faced the current German champion, who holds this title after defeating my Steel Phalanx with his Tohaa in the last round of the German championship. That game was a quite devastating loss, so it feels quite good that this game ended 4:4.

Game 5: Acquisition against Tohaa

This is the only game I didn't use the Emily list in and I lost 1:2. If my Riot Grrl Datatracker wouldn't have been 1 cm away from the objective, it would have been a 6:2 win. Still it was a very enjoyable game against a very cool opponent.

My good list:

Emily is my girl!
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GROUP 1 10
ALGUACIL Paramedic (MediKit) Combi Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 12)
ALGUACIL Combi Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 10)
ALGUACIL Combi Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 10)
ALGUACIL HMG / Pistol, Knife. (1 | 18)
EMILY (Chain of Command) Combi Rifle + Light Grenade Launcher (Normal and E/M), Nanopulser / Assault Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 35)
HAWWA' Hacker (Assault Hacking Device) Boarding Shotgun, D-Charges / Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 26)
UHAHU Hacker (Hacking Device Plus. UPGRADE: Icebreaker) Pitcher, D-Charges / Assault Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 25)
JAGUAR Chain Rifle, Smoke Grenades / Pistol, DA CCW. (0 | 10)
JAGUAR Chain Rifle, Smoke Grenades / Pistol, DA CCW. (0 | 10)
JAGUAR Chain Rifle, Smoke Grenades / Pistol, DA CCW. (0 | 10)

GROUP 2 7 1 1
BRAWLER (Fireteam: Haris) Rifle + Light Shotgun / Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 17)
BRAWLER (Multispectral Visor L2) MULTI Sniper / Pistol, Knife. (1.5 | 28)
BRAWLER Lieutenant Rifle + Light Shotgun / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 16)
CSU (Specialist Operative) Rifle + Light Shotgun, Nanopulser / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 12)
SALYUT (Minesweeper, Repeater) Electric Pulse. (0 | 8)
DAKTARI Combi Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 14)
ZONDBOT Electric Pulse. (0 | 3)
IRMANDINHO Chain Rifle, D-Charges, Smoke Grenades / Pistol, AP CCW. (0 | 8)
HELLCAT Spitfire / Pistol, Knife. (1.5 | 28)

6 SWC | 300 Points

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The list with the MB core consisting of MB HMG, Massacre BSG, Daktari and a Harris of Riot Grrls and Avicenna was a bad concept. I should probably have used the second list to build a slight variant of the first, which is more tailored to Rescue.

The list admittedly was also chosen because I finished painting some models and really wanted to use them (Hellcat, Uhahu). Next time I'd probably try to run something like this:

Emily is my girl!
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GROUP 1 7 3
ALGUACIL Lieutenant Combi Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (1 | 10)
ALGUACIL Combi Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 10)
ALGUACIL Combi Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 10)
ALGUACIL Paramedic (MediKit) Combi Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 12)
ALGUACIL HMG / Pistol, Knife. (1 | 18)
ALGUACIL Missile Launcher / Pistol, Knife. (1.5 | 15)
EMILY (Chain of Command) Combi Rifle + Light Grenade Launcher (Normal and E/M), Nanopulser / Assault Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 35)
BANDIT Hacker (Killer Hacking Device) Light Shotgun, Adhesive Launcher / Pistol, DA CCW. (0 | 25)
HARDCASE FRONTIERSMAN Tactical Bow, Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 14)
SPECTOR (AD: Combat Jump) Boarding Shotgun, Nanopulser, Drop Bears / Pistol, E/M2 CC Weapon. (0 | 33)

GROUP 2 6 2 1
HAWWA' (Forward Observer) Boarding Shotgun, D-Charges / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 21)
BRAWLER (Multispectral Visor L2) MULTI Sniper / Pistol, Knife. (1.5 | 28)
JAGUAR Chain Rifle, Smoke Grenades / Pistol, DA CCW. (0 | 10)
JAGUAR Chain Rifle, Smoke Grenades / Pistol, DA CCW. (0 | 10)
JAGUAR Chain Rifle, Smoke Grenades / Pistol, DA CCW. (0 | 10)
JAGUAR Chain Rifle, Smoke Grenades / Pistol, DA CCW. (0 | 10)
CATERAN Sniper Rifle / Pistol, AP CCW. (0.5 | 21)
IRMANDINHO Chain Rifle, D-Charges, Smoke Grenades / Pistol, AP CCW. (0 | 8)

6 SWC | 300 Points

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Probably also not optimal, but I think this list should play a bit more freely with more infiltrators and less units bunched up in links.

 

Getting the data tracker to the console would have me win the game by 6:2 instead of loosing 1:2. That would have bumped up my tournament points to 10, which would have gotten my 4th place looking at how many tournament points most people had. I remember only 3 people being above 9 tournament points.

 

Well, my goal was to get people excited to play StarCo by finishing very well in this tournament.
Looking at me finishing 3rd / 40 on the last GWT, 5th / 40 at the last German Championship and 17th / 100 on the last Interplanetario, I’d say that 12th / 30 is a subpar result. I dont mean to sound cranky about this, I had a great time at a very well organized event, I just didn’t play as effectively as I think I usually do.

 

Yeah, that list would have probably done better. I‘ll play a couple of casual games and then revisit list building for StarCo more extensively.