Northern Subtlety

Well, I’m back with another truncated battle report. I’ve been working on this table for the better part of 6 months in drips and drabs, and I’m pretty happy with it!

I’ve got a pile of MDF buildings and some 3D printed ones that I still need to assemble and prime, but it’s clear that the table is going to work, and the super desaturated paint scheme I’m working on will look just fine once I finish doing all the detailing.

I’m playing new Caprice with all the egg mechs and actually no walkers. I kinda wanted to take the new Anab with the CBS LFG, but it was a bit too expensive to pack in with all the other stuff that I wanted, like the Shadow of Gomorrah!

I decided to be really cheeky and pack a bunch of Automaton Clearance Teams into Anakites and then grouped a Raven with a pile of Morgana FLAIL and a REcon team.

	Name	TV	A	Weapons	Traits
CG1 SK	The Shadow of Gomorrah	20	2	»HAC, »HCW(Demo:4), LATM(Link), LAPGL	Hands, Agile, Airdrop, Brawl:2, Jetpack:6 (Aux), Comms, SatUp, Vet, Stealth (Aux), LBE
	Anakite	6	1	»MMG(T)	Agile, Airdrop, Transport:1 Squad, JumpJets:2
	Anakite	6	1	»MMG(T)	Agile, Airdrop, Transport:1 Squad, JumpJets:2
	Recon Team Paratrooper	4	1	»LIW, »LICW	TD, Airdrop
	Automaton Clearence Team*	3	1	»LIW, »LICW, BB(Precise,AP:2,)	Conscript, VulnH
CG2 SO	Sigma Raven	16	3	»LBZ(AP:1,Burst:1), »LVB, LRP	Hands, Agile, Vet, Airdrop, Comms, TD, ECM+, ECCM, Sensors:24 ((Aux)), Jetpack:6, Stealth, Duelist, LBE
	Recon Team Paratrooper	4	1	»LIW, »LICW	TD, Airdrop
	Morgana FLAIL	7	1	»HMG, »HICW(AP:1)	Agile, Brawl:1, Stealth, Jetpack:4
	Morgana FLAIL	7	1	»HMG, »HICW(AP:1)	Agile, Brawl:1, Stealth, Jetpack:4
	Morgana FLAIL	7	1	»HMG, »HICW(AP:1)	Agile, Brawl:1, Stealth, Jetpack:4
	Morgana FLAIL	7	1	»HMG, »HICW(AP:1)	Agile, Brawl:1, Stealth, Jetpack:4
CG3 GP	Sarru Quasar	14	1	»LRG, »MP, »HCW(Demo:4), »LSG, LATM(Link), MHG, MAPGL	Hands, Climber, Brawl:2 React+
	Sarru Quasar	14	1	»LRG, »MP, »HCW(Demo:4), »LSG, LATM(Link), MHG, MAPGL	Hands, Climber, Brawl:2 React+
	Automaton Clearence Team*	3	1	»LIW, »LICW, BB(Precise,AP:2,)	Conscript, VulnH
	Automaton Clearence Team*	3	1	»LIW, »LICW, BB(Precise,AP:2,)	Conscript, VulnH
	Automaton Clearence Team*	3	1	»LIW, »LICW, BB(Precise,AP:2,)	Conscript, VulnH
	Total	125	19

We’re playing Prisoner Transfer, so in deference to that, I’m packing a pair of Sarru with railguns. Because railguns.

Adam’s playing his North. Which means precise+ snubcannons everywhere, and some stabby/beatstick Jaguars. Gross.

Norguard Roster 125TV (V3.1)
NG 
-- SO -- 
Lightning Lion 14TV
 - Well Funded, Beta: Add Precise
Lion Initiate 13TV
 - Well Funded, Beta: Add Precise
Assault Jaguar 11TV
 - Beta: Hammers of the North+
Black Cat 11TV
 - Force Leader
-- FS -- 
Assault Mammoth 28TV
 - Combat Group Leader (CGL), Well Funded, Resist:F, Beta: Hammers of the North+, Beta: Hammers of the North+
Armored Hunter UC 7TV
 - Well Funded, ECCM
Wild Ferret 6TV
-- SK -- 
Nemesis Jaguar 14TV
 - Duelist (for Veterans), Warrior Monk
Command Jaguar MP 11TV
 - Combat Group Leader (CGL)
Jaguar MP 10TV

Since we’re playing Prisoner Transfer, I ended up just putting both Brawl: 2 Sarru in base contact with the prisoner, and it basically stayed there the whole game. Adam stacked up his FS squad in the back with the SK squad near my stuff… then put his SO squad basically in the open. Both of us chose Assassinate. He picked the Shadow and the Sarru CGL, and I picked the Command Jaguar and the Black Cat. I took Hold and he took Pave the Way.

The game basically was me using my Raven to haywire everything, stabbing stuff with the Morgana FLAIL, and blapping stuff with the linked LATM and LRG from the Sarru…

While desperately trying to keep away from the advancing Mammoth which was just deleting buildings with its snub cannons.

All in all, the FLAIL did a great job at keeping Adam tied up–he has to deal with them or he’s in trouble and I’ll backstab him, but that’s tying up activations he’s not using to take out the Sarru who are keeping the Prisoner tied up.

The real stars of the show were the clearance teams though. After Adam snub cannoned my Anakite off the table, the clearance teams hopped out, and two-shot the Nemesis Jaguar and crippled the Jaguar MP CGL. They also took out the Assault Hunter and Assault Jaguar later in the game. Really really powerful. This ended up being Adam being a little aggressive with his deployment and then me having enough threat saturation to make things difficult for me. Also Infantry in buildings is a pain.

Sarru railguns are probably slighlty under-costed? And the clearance teams in Anakites are HILARIOUS. The real MVP of course was the Mammoth, the sole survivor of Adam’s forces, who just stomped its way forward blasting away with its snub cannons. Honestly, I don’t really have a problem with ECM+ anymore… because you can just stab the squishy ECM+ carrier and you’re good to go. Enjoyed the hell out of this game and the table is really coming together!