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Like the title says guys. I tried out a small eCaine force the other night and I was hooked. I knew on turn two I wanted to build a specialty force dedicated to just eCaine. I want to make a list that is very tailored to him seeing as I don't plan to expand my Cygnar collection beyond this caster. I sat down with a friend and we put our brains together and came up with the following 35 point list.

eCaine
1x Defender
Reinholt
Squire
eEiryss
Full unit of Stormblades
Stormblade UA
`jack marshalled Stormclad
Rangers
Strangewayes

Total: 35

The idea here is to create an army that operates without its warcaster thus eCaine is free to do whatever he likes. This is the list I played and had a lot of fun. I made some mistakes being my first game with eCaine but I still managed a 2nd turn caster kill.

The way this works is the Stormblade stays near the Stormclad and Strangewayes. Thus giving him two focus. Then you `jackmarshall to charge/boost to hit/boost damage or whatever. So effectively the jack is running on all cylinders even tho its marshalled.

The defender is just there for a long range Magic Bullet target as well as pounding heavy jacks. Hes mainly there to also use up Caine's jack points and to provide some solid melee power. Rangers are there for obvious reasons.

This list played how I thought it would and eCaine was fairly free to run around blasting whatever he felt like. Turn one he wracked up a min unit of IFP + UA, good stuff! Reinholt is there to add the extra shot to Caine. The Squire is there to give him another shot when he does his assassination run or needs to shoot a heavy jack into dust. eEiryss is part of the Assassination package. She distrupts enemy jacks that I can't meet head on, and pops buffed casters camping focus so eCaine can do his thing.

Getting back to the Stormclad package I'm debating on weather or not to swap it out for another defender `Jack marshaled by a Gun Mage UA to give it snipe for a 20" shot that I can throw magic bullet on. The gun mage unit itself can be used to push back heavy jacks and other things that I feel are getting too close. With the extra point I was thinking of getting a Stormsmith to help disrupt more jacks to let eCaine get his business done.

I was curious what everyone thought and if they had any suggestions as to what I might add/swap around to make it more competitive. Once this list is set in stone I plan to paint it up to master class standards and take it around to touries in the area so any feedback from experience eCaine players would be appreciated! Thanks!

In this case, I would drop the Defender for a Hunter. It doesn't care about being close to the warcaster and if you're trying to just consume WJ points, the Hunter will do the same and gives you three points back. That'll go toward the three stormsmiths to help your disruption plan.

I'd also have concerns about Reinholdt. You still have to spend focus for the extra shots. RoF isn't a problem with eCaine so reloading him isn't that much of an issue.

I personally think you have more synergy with the AGTM+Dude+Defender with eCaine but the Blades/Clad combo gives you some defense against fast melee. You might consider Junior to get their armor up too. Armor 15 isn't that hard to crack with an infantry charge.

12thRonin wrote:I'd also have concerns about Reinholdt. You still have to spend focus for the extra shots.

Reinholdt gives you free extra shot, you don't need to spend any focus to get it. The problem with the gobber is that it limits caine's mobility as it needs to activate before him and be b2b to use the reload action. So for this to work Caine has to be within 7" of Reinholdt. The same goes for Squire, both of these limit where Caine can go and make predicting your actions easier for opponent.

Yep. I saw the error in that this morning when I was looking him up on the rules forum and saw the purple name saying that. My group had always played him as giving the extra shot but needs focus to do it like buying any other shot.