Team Mano Roja

I started into N4 with StarCo on TTS.

1st Game: 200pts StarCo vs OSS 7:2
20x20 Mission System : Jailbreak / kill the big Guns

Bandit FO (+EXP CC Weapon)
Bandit FO (+MultiRifle)
Hardcases Rifle
Al'Hawwa Minelayer
Riot Grrl Spitfire
Raoul Spector Parachutist
Jaguar PF
Alguaciles Lt.
Alguaciles Paramedic
Uhahu

Asura Spitfire Lt.
Yadu MultiRifle
Yadu MultiRifle
Dakini MultiSniper
Zayin TR Bot
ABH CombiRifle (+4 ARM)

One of my Bandits won the game because my opponent was not able to get his Asura out of IMM state from an ADHL-Hit until she was finally killed by Raoul Spector. 6 Camo-marker in Midfield plus Raoul parachuting in from the side was a real order sink for the Aleph troops because he was moving with great caution.

 

Game 2 against the same player but a different sectorial.

StarCo vs. Steel Phalanx 200pts 5:3
20x20 Mission System: Destroy Transmitter / Keep them Alive

Bandit FO (+DA CC Weapon)
Bandit FO (+LFT)
Hardcases Rifle
Al'Hawwa Minelayer
Riot Grrl Spitfire
Raoul Spector Parachutist
Jaguar PF
Alguaciles Lt.
Alguaciles Paramedic
Uhahu

Atalanta MSR
2x Lamedh
2x Netrods
Myrmidon Officer (CombiRifle)
Penthisilea
Enomotarchos-Team: Alke Spitfire/Thorakitai LRL/Thorakitai MMR/Thorakitai Paramedic

I used the same list as in the game before and tried to make better use of my troops.
The Al'Hawwa shot Atalanta and the Thorakitai Paramedic. Penthisilea avenged her comrades and killed the Al'Hawwa and cut down the too far moved up Riot Grrl before racing across the map to destroy the transmitter - but failed. My Jaguar was able to shoot her in the back with his PF, dropping her unconscious. Raoul then jumped in and threw a DropBear in front his cuddled up defence. When forcing an ARO with the Hardcases, Alke and the Lamedh were killed by the TeddyBear (the Myrmidon Officer failed his dodge but was successfull with his ARM roll).

For the next game I will switch the Riot Grrl Spitfire for the Grrl Specialist and team her up with Uhahu for a different attack vector.

 

Spector was my MVP in both games I like him because my friend I play against usually fields his troops as a "wall of ARO-Death"

I have something like this in mind:

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7 3
ALGUACIL (Lieutenant) Combi Rifle / Pistol, CC Weapon. (1 | 10)
ALGUACIL Missile Launcher / Pistol, CC Weapon. (1.5 | 15)
DAKTARI Combi Rifle ( | MediKit) / Pistol, CC Weapon. (0 | 14)
UHAHU (Hacker) Pitcher, D-Charges / Assault Pistol, CC Weapon. (0.5 | 18)
RIOT GRRL (Specialist Operative) Combi Rifle, Blitzen / Pistol, CC Weapon. (0 | 29)
HAWWA' (Minelayer) Sniper Rifle, Shock Mines / Pistol, CC Weapon. (0.5 | 23)
BANDIT (Forward Observer) Light Shotgun, Adhesive Launcher, Flash Pulse / Pistol, DA CC Weapon. (0 | 23)
BANDIT (Forward Observer) Light Shotgun, Adhesive Launcher, Flash Pulse / Pistol, DA CC Weapon. (0 | 23)
SPECTOR (Parachutist, Combat Jump) Boarding Shotgun, Drop Bears / Pistol, E/M CC Weapon, DA CC Weapon. (0 | 33)
JAGUAR Adhesive Launcher, Panzerfaust / Pistol, DA CC Weapon. (0 | 11)

3.5 SWC | 199 Points


But perhaps a different attack vector is something I should try

 

Game 3 against Bakunin

I must admit that I am a slightly lazy person - so I stuck with Spector again this time, but decided to improve my ARO capabilities.

StarCo vs Bakunin 200pts
Mission: Domination (from N4 Rulebook)


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7 3
ALGUACIL Missile Launcher / Pistol, CC Weapon. (1.5 | 15)
ALGUACIL (Lieutenant) Combi Rifle / Pistol, CC Weapon. (1 | 10)
DAKTARI Combi Rifle ( | MediKit) / Pistol, CC Weapon. (0 | 14)
RIOT GRRL (Specialist Operative) Combi Rifle, Blitzen / Pistol, CC Weapon. (0 | 29)
UHAHU (Hacker) Pitcher, D-Charges / Assault Pistol, CC Weapon. (0.5 | 18)
JAGUAR Adhesive Launcher, Panzerfaust / Pistol, DA CC Weapon. (0 | 11)
HAWWA' (Minelayer) Sniper Rifle, Shock Mines / Pistol, CC Weapon. (0.5 | 23)
BANDIT (Forward Observer) Light Shotgun, Adhesive Launcher, Flash Pulse / Pistol, DA CC Weapon. (0 | 23)
BANDIT (Forward Observer) Light Shotgun, Adhesive Launcher, Flash Pulse / Pistol, DA CC Weapon. (0 | 23)
SPECTOR (Parachutist, Combat Jump) Boarding Shotgun, Drop Bears / Pistol, E/M CC Weapon, DA CC Weapon. (0 | 33)

3.5 SWC | 199 Points

against


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CLOCKMAKER Combi Rifle, D-Charges ( | GizmoKit [+1B]) / Pistol, CC Weapon. (0 | 18)
MODERATOR Spitfire / Pistol, PARA CC Weapon(-6). (0.5 | 15)
MODERATOR (Paramedic) Combi Rifle ( | MediKit) / Pistol, PARA CC Weapon(-6). (0 | 11)
MODERATOR Combi Rifle / Pistol, PARA CC Weapon(-6). (0 | 9)
PROWLER (Hacker, Killer Hacking Device) Boarding Shotgun, D-Charges ( ) / Pistol, CC Weapon. (0 | 36)
REVEREND MOIRA Heavy Machine Gun, Zapper / Pistol, Shock CC Weapon. (1.5 | 37)
RIOT GRRL Spitfire / Pistol, CC Weapon. (1.5 | 33)
ZERO (Hacker, Hacking Device) Combi Rifle, Shock Mines ( ) / Pistol, CC Weapon. (0 | 24)
MODERATOR (Lieutenant) Combi Rifle / Pistol, PARA CC Weapon(-6). (0 | 9)
MORLOCK Chain Rifle, Smoke Grenades / Pistol, DA CC Weapon. (0 | 6)

4.0 SWC | 198 Points

Deployment:
The RiotGrrl/Moderator Link was in the middle, Morlock and Moira came over his right Flank, The Prowler was hidden in the right field. His left side was covered with by the Zero and his Moderator Lt. - both prone

My Minelayer Sniper Al'Hawwa (awesome profile! I really like that a lot) was to my left, infiltrated prone atop a building. The stairs to that building were covered by the mine and the Bandit FO with +4 ARM (loot is great). Central atop another building was the Alguaciles Missile Launcher with his fireteam Buddies Daktari and Alguaciles Lt. on the ground, hidden behind a high wall. on my right side, facing his Camo marker were the Jaguar with Panzerfaust, the prone camoed Bandit FO and out of sight the RiotGrrl/Uhahu-Haris.

Round 1: He went first, wounding the Alguaciles Missile launcher with the Moira HMG, then sending his Morlock on a suicide attack towards the Alguaciles Lt and the Daktari, dodging the mine on his way. The Morlock was stopped by the combined effort of my Bandit from the left side and the Jaguar who left the Morlock unconscious 1 order from Chainrifleing my Daktari and Alguaciles.
I brought in Spector on my left side deep in his half to battle his Moira, but was isolated by the Zapper (totally forgot about that damned thing). My Al'Hawwa tried to schoot the Moderator Spitfire but was not successfull. RiotGrrl and Uhahu advanced and hacked the console in my left quadrant only to get into Hacking area of the Zero Hacker's ARO - immobilised my RiotGrrl. Uhahu then Immobilised the Zero and finally shot it with its assault pistol from less then 1inch away. The Riot Grrl made it out of IMM-B state with my final order.
Points 2:0 for Starco

Round 2: He revealed his Prowler and ran across the field to kill Spector - but was killed by my ARO BS-Template and Spector got away with just one wound. The Moira HMG got herself into suppression fire after shooting at the Bandit (ARM 1 +4 (loot) + cover = ARM 8.... Bandit TAG) who succeeded in all his 3 armor saves. The RiotGrrl/Moderator fireteam advanced down the middle, forcing the Al'Hawwa in cover and killing Uhahu. He then went further to his left, forcing the RiotGrrl in cover and taking a casualty with the Moderator Spitfire in the Riot Grrls ARO.
Spector then threw a DropBear behind the Moira via speculative fire (on 10's within 8inch) to freeze her in place. I did not try to get him out of isolated state because the odds were too bad. The Bandit on my right pushed forward towards his left quadrant and and hid on a small building, covering the console in that quadrant with his LSG. The RiotGrrl went around that building and shot at some of the Moderators, doing nothing. The Jaguar went into my right quadrant and took position to force AROs against the Moderators once they tried to get to his console again.
Points 1:1

Round 3: He concentrated his efforts on his Moderators link, trying to capture both quadrants on his left side but lost his Clockmaker, Moderator Paramedic and Moderator Lt. to AROs from RiotGrrl and Bandit. In My turn Spector failed to drop another DropBear behind the Moira. My Al'Hawwa got killed trying to shoot the Moira, forcing the Dropbear to explode - but she tanked the Bear like a pro. The Riot Grrl had to shoot the remaining Moderator on my right side in order to get the quadrant.
Points: 3:0 for Starco

Final 6:1

In his first turn, Bakunin had some luck with his dice, but that changed in round 2 & 3 as my dice got significant better (armor saves!) and he lost some important WIP rolls - for hacking his console for example. And he was very disappointed with the performance of the prowler.
I really felt comfortable with the Uhahu/RiotGrrl-Haris. RiotGrrls with their BS-Attack (Dam+1) turn every CombiRifle into a miniature CQB Spitfire. Next time I will try to squeeze a third Haris member into my list.

 

After some games with Druze and Ikari I come back to further play my StarCo "Mano Roja" :)

yesterday I played 300pts Firefight against Aleph Vanilla:

My List:

GROUP 1 (7 / 1)
AVICENNA Combi Rifle, Flash Pulse / Pistol, CC Weapon. (0 | 27)
UHAHU (Hacker) Pitcher, D-Charges / Assault Pistol, CC Weapon. (0.5 | 18)
RIOT GRRL Spitfire / Pistol, CC Weapon. (1.5 | 33)
RIOT GRRL Missile Launcher / Pistol, CC Weapon. (1.5 | 32)
RIOT GRRL MULTI Rifle / Pistol, CC Weapon. (0 | 29)
CSU Breaker Rifle, Nanopulser(+1B) / Pistol, PARA CC Weapon(-6). (0 | 12)
CSU Breaker Rifle, Nanopulser(+1B) / Pistol, PARA CC Weapon(-6). (0 | 12)
BANDIT Light Shotgun, Adhesive Launcher / Pistol, DA CC Weapon. (0 | 22)

GROUP 2 (5 / 2)
ALGUACIL (Lieutenant) Combi Rifle / Pistol, CC Weapon. (1 | 10)
JAGUAR Adhesive Launcher, Panzerfaust / Pistol, DA CC Weapon. (0 | 11)
JAGUAR Adhesive Launcher, Panzerfaust / Pistol, DA CC Weapon. (0 | 11)
HAWWA' (Minelayer) Sniper Rifle, Shock Mines / Pistol, CC Weapon. (0.5 | 23)
HARDCASE FRONTIERSMAN Tactical Bow, Rifle / Pistol, CC Weapon. (0 | 14)
BANDIT Light Shotgun, Adhesive Launcher / Pistol, DA CC Weapon. (0 | 22)
HELLCAT Combi Rifle (Deployable Repeater) / Pistol, CC Weapon. (0.5 | 24)

5.5 SWC | 300 Points

against Aleph Vanilla:

8 / 2
BOUNTY HUNTER Submachine Gun, Akrylat-Kanone / Breaker Pistol, PARA CC Weapon(-6). (0 | 12)
CUBE JÄGER (Paramedic) Submachine Gun, E/Mitter / Pistol, Monofilament CC Weapon. (0.5 | 19)
KNAUF MULTI Sniper Rifle / AP Heavy Pistol, CC Weapon. (1.5 | 32)
LIBERTO (Minelayer) Light Shotgun, Shock Mines / Pistol, CC Weapon. (1 | 8)
PARVATI Submachine Gun(+1B), Flash Pulse ( | GizmoKit, MediKit) / Pistol, CC Weapon. (0 | 38)
WILD BILL Rifle / MULTI Pistol(+1B), CC Weapon. (0 | 25)
ARMAND (Minelayer) MULTI Sniper Rifle, Nanopulser, Shock Mines / Breaker Pistol(+1B), Shock CC Weapon. (1.5 | 38)
ASURA (Lieutenant [+1 Order]) Spitfire, Nanopulser / Pistol, AP CC Weapon. (1 | 67)
DART Submachine Gun, Tactical Bow, Shock Mines / Pistol, Shock CC Weapon. (0 | 34)
MYRMIDON Combi Rifle, Nanopulser, Smoke Grenades / Pistol, AP CC Weapon. (0 | 24)

5.5 SWC | 297 Points

Highlights:
- Epic Shootout between the Asura and my RiotGrrl Spitfire and Missile Launcher from the Fireteam. In the end the RiotGrrl Spitfire was killed and the Missile Launcher Lady lost 1 Wound, the Asura gained ARM +4 from a panoplie, lost 2 Wounds and was on NWI before Uhahu shot her Pitchers and immobilised her. Then the RiotGrrl with the MultiRifle finally killed her with AP Ammo before the Asura was able to Reset.
- the Aleph ABH used his Akrylatkanone to immobilise my Hellcat (as I landed) and one of my Jaguars.

I won 6:1 (we always play w/o Classifieds). It was fun to use all those RiotGrrls in a big Fireteam as I used mostly 3 member Fireteams lately to be more manouvrable. No Raoul Spector this time but I think I have to get another game to test the Hellcat properly as she was glued immediately as she landed.

Edit: One more thing I realised yesterday is the BS Attack (+1 Dam) on the Riot Grrls. That's a really cool upgrade the Grrls received in N4.