Tell me your opinion on N4 CHA please.

It's different to N3 in many respects but also very good. We have a local who plays it exclusively and regularly podiums at events including taking 2nd place at an interstate event we traveled to recently.

Weaknesses:

• No three wound or equivalent troops and very few true two wound troops; reliance on Dogged or paramedics for resilience.
• MSVs of any sort can pin you back until you put them down, so you need to plan for things like Bolt or Grenzer snipers or Riot Grrls.
• If you owned more than a couple Galweigans you're probably going to want to either sell them or bribe your local TOs to run unrestricted events, or kitbash some armour onto them and call them Greys.

Strengths:

• Wallace remains one of the best lieutenants in the game; even with 15-troop limits, inspiring leadership is great, and Caledonia has probably the broadest selection of models in the game to coordinate. He's also an absolute fucking monster this edition in terms of personal combat ability. Like damn. You could conceivably take his non-lieutenant profile if you wanted.
• The sectorial absolutely slaps in terms of the power it brings from 20pt-28pt models, which is a great fit this edition.
• Greys got a slight nerf to the HMG profile but a suite of big buffs to everything else about them and an army that trades on max AVA Greys is full to the gills of very good, very aggressively costed, medium-weight infantry. You'll still almost certainly want the HMG with full core bonuses but the other profiles are all worth looking at too, now.
• SAS forward observers might be the best way to spend 21pts on a midfield profile in the game, with great armaments and absolutely insane one-shot-a-TAG level close combat ability. Uxia's good too.
• Caterans are still great and Caterans coordinating with Wallace remains an excellent backup solution to those MSV pieces I mentioned above.
• Cameronians can comfortably take the place of Galweigans in the 15-troop limit and are also great models to coordinate with Wallace.
• Tons and tons of very good smoke throwers means that you can comfortably close assault or outmaneuver the enemy once you put their MSVs down.
• Volunteers are still great core filler for their cost.

While I wouldn't rank it as a strength, I'd also note that Scots Guard, Wulvers and Mormaers all received buffs and are playable if you like 'em. The Mormaer especially is the literal high watermark in terms of damage output in the game if you can only land a hit with BS13 and no mods beyond burst, which some people love and some people hate.

Overall I would rank Caledonia as very nearly at Hassassin level in terms of getting the updates needed to translate from N3 to N4.

 

I have an excel sheet which gives points for attack and defense. It can be applied to all list and factions.

CHA has an attack stenght of 4/6* (good smoketrick, versatile fireteam, climbing+/superjump, infiltration/impersonation) and defense strenght of 4/6* (good burst2, cheap camo, total Immunity and direct template weapons).

- Uxia McNeill single-handedly awards 2 points to attack (good smoketrick and good infiltration) --> Auto-include in all lists. List building starts by taking Uxia. Infiltrate next to enemy deployment zone with PH-13+6-3 roll, evate enemy last model with move-move, lay down smoke with PH+3, stompystomp in smoke to ARO bait the enemy to declare PH-3 dodges and autohit with light shotgun. Happy NPEs.
- Caterans climbing+ can be very good on certain maps --> Not auto-include but something to consider every time. Auto-include in one list in two list format.
- S.A.S chain rifles are cheap (read:good) and good at slowing down enemies. It takes at least 2 orders to kill each S.A.S and you will take an autohitting shot to the face. You can replace S.A.S with even cheaper camo volunteer shotguns, but they cost SWCs.
- Burst2 smoke grenade ARO (read: 2x19 smoke dodge vs everything) or direct impact template ARO keeps your fireteam reasonably safe.

* No rambo mimetism or combat jump/parachutist in attack. No combat peripherals/minelayers or hidden deployment in defence. :(

 

Disagree that Uxia is auto-include in every list, especially not just the MSV profile (both are good; the MSV is nice but competed with heavily because it isn't remotely close to as good in CC as her specialist profile, nor is it a specialist) - but certainly would not argue with anyone choosing to take her, she's excellent.

 

their dogwarriors got a straight upgrade in n4, NBW and 4 armor (which bring its protection in line with devildogs and mc murder )

 

Personally, I think the buffs to Mormaers are one of the best things in the update. I have a hard time NOT running a Mormaer Haris with NCO T2 Rifle Mormaer + AP HMG Mormaer + Wildcard depending on what you need - sometimes I'll put Isobel MacGregor in their with her T2 rifle and hacking device, sometimes I'll put Cadin in there. But the sheer firepower of a B5 Dam 17 Mormaer AP HMG in that Haris is hard to pass up.

 

I played this last weekend, with 2 HMG Mormears and Wallace. They were disgusting.

We played panic room, so I used the Harris order efficiency to march all three up to the room, hid Wallace in cover and broke the link to put the 2 Mormears in to surpressice fire = ARM 8 and a -6 to hit (SF and Cover).

My opponent had no answer for them.

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