I’m getting ready to get back in to CA/Shasvastii so I’m wondering how you guys use Sheskin in your forces. To me, on paper, the way to go is linking with Gwailo. 5-man giving her a BS 15+3 is awesome! Then with a Burst 5 Red Fury! I know the lure of her CC skills and Protheon is great, but her BS15 is is what makes me want to take her. BTW, She's is the only BS15 troop that can be in a fire team, let alone with a 5-man team.
So far I've had mixed results with her. I tend to use a almost full cammo list, with only her and Doc Worm being out of cammo. There I can take advantage of her speed to make her cruise along the battlefield, gunning down all who opose her, or "eating" their oponents to gain extra wounds. To do so, you have to make sure no long-range enemy sees her untill she gets into position (either by removing them from the game with the Speculo Killer, or throwing a Shrowded or Malignos at them). I've still to try her on a Gwailo fireteam. You gain the obvious benefits of the core fireteam, but you lose her speed, which can hinder her in some situations. Also with a full fireteam you get less room for "cammo goodies" from this sectorial, such as Malignos or Noctifers. Any way, I've only been recently playing this sectorial, so I cannot be accounted as the most trusted source of wisdom
She definitely seems like she'd be great as a loner. That's obviously the only way I could do it in Vanilla. I'm thinking of trying to get a Daturazi for her to run behind. One thing doesn't make sense is taking the Red Fury. The enemy goes to dead. So nothing to munch on! The multi-rifle gives the AP or even Stun. The range is shorter but at her BS I don't see that as a problem.
The reason for the red fury is that it costs 0 swc for a very good special weapon. It outranges the multi-rifle and you'll get plenty of chances of ccing or eating people anyways to worry about one-twoing them with shoot+cc. I agree she's better as a solo attacker, though, as the fireteam becomes more of a hindrance when it slows her down considerably and allows enemies to target other fireteam members to hit her with a template weapon. The way I see, she's better as a turn two punch when combined with an alpha striker or even a piece like an overdron that can use more orders on your first turn.
The more I look at her the more I'm thinking she's just the perfect "all around-er". She can do the up close and personal if you need it but can also do the the sit back and shoot. Yes she only has one wound but if there's a Dr. Worm close that might help.
Sheeskin runs better on Shaas sectorial, leave her from Vanilla bcs she can't compete so much against IE Aspetcs in terms to go as heavy rambo, alsoyou got WB like daturazzis or Krakots bcs, they are more cheap and have acsses on vanilla as a primary CC specialist. She have nice engange profile to herself, nanoscreen + red fury its pretty fine, don't care about the shock ammo to gain wounds against regular cheap profiles, you paying 51pts on a ligth canonglass profile, she can destroy on CC anything CC especialist without Born natural warrior (if you see one this, don't engage) with her Protheinon and autowin the f2f for adding wounds, also if you can spend short order to do "coupe de grace" with Protheinon in her way, looking an null state enemy troop against other troop of your army its a bit situational, but its an other option. D-charges on CC against TAGs are fun, its the trade for not gaining wounds against non-wounds profiles but... you don't using the bonus CC from Protheinon at all, bcs if you using this, your D-charge dosen't apply the AP-EXP ammo, you going at 21CC but an AP-EXP weapon. Finally, Sheeskin are the 1st figthing piece on your list on Shaas, quick profile always with nanoscreen and a high burst weapon with 4 dices on 15BS... so that you need to clean up the hard menaces for her with other profiles, like noctifers ML or in other case, gwailos team, speculos, etc... afther that, to send her for hunt on the 2scnd and 3rd final turn, killing all on her way. Its the same tip like Penthasilea from Aleph, running pieces in a flank at the end of the table and kill all things but a hard playing with this 2 profiles. Also Sheeskin its a great profile as well for a yolo rambo.
I'm going to try this out this weekend. I may use her to get the supplies from the specialist and run it back or as a distraction by running behind the hungries. Hopefully can use the smoke from the Speculo to allow this. Mission: Supplies Combined Army ────────────────────────────────────────────────── GROUP 1 9 1 1 SHESKIIN Red Fury, Pulzar, D-Charges / Pistol, DA CCW. (0 | 51) MAAKREP TRACKER HMG / Pistol, Knife. (1.5 | 33) MED-TECH OBSIDON MEDCHANOID Combi Rifle, D-Charges / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 23) SPECULO KILLER Boarding Shotgun, Smoke Grenades / Pistol, Monofilament CCW, Knife. (1 | 34) E-DRONE Combi Rifle / Electric Pulse. (0.5 | 28) NEXUS Lieutenant Hacker (EI Hacking Device) Combi Rifle, Nullifier / Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 24) NOCTIFER Missile Launcher / Assault Pistol, Knife. (1.5 | 32) SHROUDED (Forward Observer) Combi Rifle, Antipersonnel Mines / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 25) SHROUDED (Minelayer) Combi Rifle, Antipersonnel Mines / Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 25) PRETA Chain Rifle / AP CCW. (0 | 7) GROUP 2 3 3 PRETA Chain Rifle / AP CCW. (0 | 7) PRETA Chain Rifle / AP CCW. (0 | 7) GAKI AP CCW. (0 | 4) 5.5 SWC | 300 Points Open in Infinity Army
Well, I got trounced by Tohaa, but I still liked Sheskiin. I did make a mistake with her though and shot at a triad with the red fury instead of using her Pulsar. Not used to using her yet. I tried having her "run with the hungeries" but that didn't work of course because of their impetuous out running her right away. She would make a better handler than the Oznat for sure though! I still like the idea too. I think for Shasvastii sectoral I'm going to link her with Gwailo. I did it once before but I didn't get to use her much in that game.
