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So, was wondering on what ya'll on Dakka thought about Kara and just a few tips on how to use her.

Add couple of defenders and go for the kill?

She is a nasty piece of work, but if your opponent can throw smoke on the table or has lot of stealth she is in trouble. Also she is so range oriented fast closing close combat armies are bit of an issue.

I would take similar force with her as I have with Siege, so Reinholdt and squire are must, then couple of Defenders or defender and charger as jacks.

She has no trouble with stealth. She just has to stand still to ignore stealth with her aiming bonus. Her feat shots only apply to her battlegroup so any marshalled jacks won't get it. Her shadow needs to look like a goblin wearing a trenchcoat as well.

I've been looking at a Siege list that I run with just basically swapping Siege for Kara:
Kara/Reinholdt
ATGM + Dude (ignore stealth)
B13
2 Defenders
Strangeways
6 Rangers
Junior

ATGM's, the b13, and two defenders are pretty much three jack kills on feat turn. She's a caster kill with reload and feat.

12thRonin wrote:She has no trouble with stealth. She just has to stand still to ignore stealth with her aiming bonus.

That's one or two shots if Reinholdt is on table against stealth. What I meant is that she doesn't bring anything like mage sight to the table and standing still to get shots against stealth is no good. Otherwise people would still be taking GMCA to their armies.

By the logic she doesn't have magesight, every caster but Siege and Kraye bring nothing to deal with stealth and that's far from true. Most Sloan's have the dude and the B13. You don't need the caster to deal with it when half your army does.

GMCA is probably the worst two points you could spend. That's why you don't see them is because other units do it's job (solo hunting) so much better. The only time you should see it is a tiered eCaine list.

Sloan is a ranged assassination caster. If you have steath or better clouds on the table Sloan's assassination run is severely crippled.

If you would have read my posts I have noted that Sloan doesn't bring anything to help against these. Most of Sloans threat comes from her battle group, which has no way of working around those two limiting factors. This makes both Siege and Kraye better in ranged assassination.

All of the Cygnar casters have access to the gun mage units, and many buff them better than Sloan. If you are running assassination caster and relying on ranged attacks to do the job, it would be good to have solution to stealth and smoke IMHO.

Fair enough. I will certainly not argue cloud effects.