Granted JSA is an NA2 army and is going to be a while before they get anything new after the Aragotos come out, but was conceptualizing some ideas for new units in the the JSA design space and came up with three I would like to see. As well, feel free to add some ideas you think would be interesting. 1. Sohei Ikko-shubutai (?): Buddhist warrior-monks that can come from all walks of life. Similar role as the Yu Jing Shaolin monks but can access to other weapons like regular grenades or some type of incendiary grenades in addition to smoke and/or an option for Inferior infiltration 2. Are Inugami: Japanese Dog-faces. Could have a comparison to Ariadna dog-faced but have Natural Born Warrior and some type of special type of CC weapon (DA, EXP, Shock, etc). 3. Tengu Senkenbutai: LI AD troop. Mix with the design of the Akali and JSA aesthetic but have some special abilities like the Bashi Bazouk (maybe limited Camo and mimetism instead of Holoprojector). Names are general ideas of what the unit could be called.
I kind of get that feeling to. But we can dream, right? That said, giving JSA a non-character Warband unit would be nice.
Certainly. I don't recall which thread it was but there were some interesting discussion about a Miko-esque warband. Yeah, it would be interesting to see a non-character warband with some some. It's a little strange to have smoke grenades in the faction but only hand them out to less than a half dozen of your folks, unless those are some really specialized kit for the JSA for some reason... I suppose that reason could be Bushido... They may not be handing them out at all. They might not see using smoke screens as honourable and therefore those who have them needed to acquire them by some other means. Although, I don't understand how out of the Oniwaban, only Shinobu can manage to get her hands on them.
I have never seen it, but that sounds very interesting. Yeah, not sure why some other units didn't get it outside of that (because the Ryuken are more of a special forces unit and don't follow the bushido code by heard). Let alone the Aragotos are essentially biker gangs who get into the military so fighting dirty is kind of their forte.
Iirc it was a Miko with a Nullifier, but I think someone else presented a BS11 Sohei Warrior Monk that had a Tac Bow instead of a chain rifle.
Ryuken would have been a good option but I think there would be a bit too much bloat if it were just added to one or both of the two current profiles. A third profile with smoke and some different armaments would be cool. Aragotos get mimitism for themselves rather than the smoke, and for Biker Gangs they sure are preeeetty Regular, unlike the Kum. Just because your hiring pool is questionable doesn't mean you skip training on them.
The other thread was about something else, but transitioned to brainstorming. My final idea was two profiles, ava 2, irregular, non-impetuous. Profile 1: Crazy Kitsune, Pitcher, Assault Hacking Device, Stun Pistol, Knife Profile 2: Crazy Kitsune, Tac-Bow, Nimbus+ Grenades, Stun Pistol, Knife New equipment: Crazy Kitsune, perimeter weapons with EM/2 ammo.
I mentioned it in the JSA armor thread. I want to see a Domaru on a bike. I haven't analyzed it to see if it would work, but it sounds like fun to me.
That was the Ryuken new-profile discussion. It's not like you'd be landing in Marker State. But it would arguably be better than Tiger Soldiers (AD+Mimetism).
A 2 wound bike would be amazing. And let it Haris with Aragoto for added ridiculousness. I'd pay 50 points for the Domaru Spitfire profile on a bike with Mimetism.
Limited Camo implies that. I guess it could give the choice between deploying normally or with AD to use it.
Problem there is that you gotta roll dice to arrive via AD, and doing anything that rolls dice reveals you from camo.
Bashir bozaks with holo 2 is a good comparison for what a marker state ad could do. I don't need warbands for smoke. I like that JSA acts very different than corregidor or other smoke tricks. I couldn't turn it down though. I'd like to see a little more variety in how to die honorably and hold the line. I wish our tag had beserk, plus maybe 1 other model. A tengu style warband with hyper dynamics and berserk would be fun. Cc 21 + natural born warrior and I'd pay 10ish points. A ryuken profile with sapper and the tank hunter cannon as saito would be a dream. And maybe a white hacking device specialist. It could be ed from bebop or not, but a defensive hacking device would be a small boost to the HI in my meta. The keisotsu hacker adding firewalls is getting tired. And one wacky idea: can we get a named character that makes the tactical bow look amazing? Tactical bow, xvisor, bs 13, marksmanship l2, mimetism...
Ashigaru Project, the next step in the Karakuri Project. JSA nation should have a very low body count after the Uprising, at least compared to other factions. The Ashigaru Project starts as a practice tool for new sword players, something to hone your basic swordplay against. Then it escalated thanks to the application of the Karakuri Project data. It should be a Close Combat REM. I'd love to see this.
Think it might be a choice between deploying in the camo state from the start, or using AD to enter later. Not much different from Hidden Deployment IMO if you use AD Parachutist
Sorry to burst your bubbles, but Gutier said straight up at the French satellite tournament that JSA won't be getting AD :/ I hope for a ninja type character that has climbing plus and super jump and can haris with shikami. I think that would be really awesome
