Oh I am aware! It is just the best deal as well as pretty efficient model wise for adding to Varuna. Just make them 3 foot fabulous and noone will notice?
For Varuna I don't especially recommend the Fusilier SWC box, since the heavy weapons in your links will be on kamaus and ORCs. You'll often want a hacker, but the rest you'll use only occasionally in Varuna and hackers are easy to proxy. Without mixed links, in Neoterra for example, you'd use at least one of the heavy weapons every game. If you happen to like the old starter set's models then it would be good, but personally I hate them. I try to build lists for the mission. For these missions you need: Decapitation: a Datatracker able to reliably kill the enemy Designated Target despite whatever defenses they try to use, and to defend your own. Supplies: you win by controlling more boxes than the enemy through some combination of grabbing boxes and running away to safety, stopping the enemy reaching the boxes and hunting down any enemies who do take a box. Supremacy: since controlling the zones is scored at the end of each round, if you have second turn you want to move just enough points into the zones to control more. If you have first turn you need to stop the enemy being able to do that, probably by crippling their army and having powerful AROs. Both sides want to take the consoles and stop the enemy getting too many of them. So for all these missions you need to be able to control the table and attack into the enemy table half: pretty general requirements, but there are some specifics like not needing specialists in Decapitation. Putting together a couple of quick lists I might use this for Decapitation: Varuna Immediate Reaction Division ────────────────────────────────────────────────── 7 2 1 KAMAU (Multispectral Visor L2) MULTI Sniper Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (1.5 | 32) FUSILIER Combi Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 10) FUSILIER Combi Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 10) FUSILIER Combi Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 10) FUSILIER Combi Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 10) KNIGHT OF MONTESA Boarding Shotgun, Chain-colt / Pistol, DA CC Weapon. (0 | 37) ZULU-COBRA Lieutenant (Sensor) Combi Rifle, Jammer / Assault Pistol, Knife. (0 | 29) HELOT MILITIAMAN Submachine Gun, Light Rocket Launcher / Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 9) WARCOR (Aerocam) Flash Pulse / Stun Pistol, Knife. (0 | 3) 2 SWC | 150 Points Open in Infinity Army And this for both other missions: Varuna Immediate Reaction Division ────────────────────────────────────────────────── 8 FUSILIER Lieutenant Combi Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 10) KAMAU (Multispectral Visor L2) MULTI Sniper Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (1.5 | 32) FUSILIER Combi Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 10) FUSILIER Combi Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 10) FUSILIER Paramedic (MediKit) Combi Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 12) BULLETEER Spitfire / Electric Pulse. (1 | 23) PATHFINDER DRONBOT Combi Rifle, Sniffer / Electric Pulse. (0 | 16) CROC MAN Hacker (Assault Hacking Device) Combi Rifle, Antipersonnel Mines / Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 36) 3 SWC | 149 Points Open in Infinity Army
The ancient/old PanO starter with the 4x Fusiliers does give you one easy proxy for a Fusilier hacker, the dude with the helmet is obviously the hacker!