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I need your guy's help.

Can anyone post the stats for the druze? Also what book are they in? I cant download the rules as i am on a friends tablet.

Can mercs rake Aleph units?

Does anyone know of Mercs getting their own T.A.G..s /REM soon?

Any love at all coming from CB for the Mercs? Are they still disqualified from tournies? Not mercs in a force of a faction, but Mercs AS a faction themselves.

Thanks.

Hmm. Away from my books atm, so I can't post up the Druze.

There are rules for building up a multi-faction merc force in the Infinity book, but they're a bit limited (no faction characters, halved availability, etc.), and merc forces are currently disallowed in tournies because they can allow you to bypass faction weaknesses. The only tourney legal use of mercs is in specific sectorial armies that can field select merc units.

If you're after fun play instead, you can use the guidelines in the Infinity corebook to field a merc force easily. I don't see why an ALEPH unit can't be part of a Merc force in that environment (excepting special characters).

The new Scarface & Cordelia set (TAG & its mechanic) look to be mercenary, with Scarface's concept art painted up in Druze colours.

MERCENARIES
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GROUP 1 (Regs: 5/Irrs: 0):

SHOCK Combi Rifle, D.E.P. / Pistol, CCW (21)
MOV:4-2 CC:14 BS:12 PH:11 WIP:13 ARM:3 BTS:0 W:1
Regular, Not Impetuous, Cube
X Visor

SHOCK Spitfire / Pistol, CCW (27 | 1.5)
MOV:4-2 CC:14 BS:12 PH:11 WIP:13 ARM:3 BTS:0 W:1
Regular, Not Impetuous, Cube
X Visor

SHOCK Combi Rifle + Light Grenade Launcher / Pistol, CCW (25 | 1.5)
MOV:4-2 CC:14 BS:12 PH:11 WIP:13 ARM:3 BTS:0 W:1
Regular, Not Impetuous, Cube
X Visor

SHOCK Hacker Combi Rifle / Pistol, CCW (33 | 0.5)
MOV:4-2 CC:14 BS:12 PH:11 WIP:13 ARM:3 BTS:0 W:1
Regular, Not Impetuous, Cube
X Visor, Hacking Device

SHOCK Lieutenant Combi Rifle, D.E.P. / Pistol, CCW (21 | 2)
MOV:4-2 CC:14 BS:12 PH:11 WIP:13 ARM:3 BTS:0 W:1
Regular, Not Impetuous, Cube
X Visor, Lieutenant


127 Points | SWC: 5.5

ARMY CODE: eNozN1Q1VzNQM6wxVzMEk0Zg0hhMmqgZAgBxtwb8 Army Infinity v.3.0.




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There you go thats each option listed in the army creator.

There's also a new Mercenary group coming called Kaplan Securities. That might be the start of a full on Merc faction soon.

phelanw0lf wrote:Hmm. Away from my books atm, so I can't post up the Druze.

There are rules for building up a multi-faction merc force in the Infinity book, but they're a bit limited (no faction characters, halved availability, etc.), and merc forces are currently disallowed in tournies because they can allow you to bypass faction weaknesses. The only tourney legal use of mercs is in specific sectorial armies that can field select merc units.

If you're after fun play instead, you can use the guidelines in the Infinity corebook to field a merc force easily. I don't see why an ALEPH unit can't be part of a Merc force in that environment (excepting special characters).

The new Scarface & Cordelia set (TAG & its mechanic) look to be mercenary, with Scarface's concept art painted up in Druze colours.

Ooooh, thanks. Needed a tag for one of my combat groups, al i could use wasthe jutom. Not complaining, but at least now i have options.

Commisar Wolfie wrote: MERCENARIES
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GROUP 1 (Regs: 5/Irrs: 0):

SHOCK Combi Rifle, D.E.P. / Pistol, CCW (21)
MOV:4-2 CC:14 BS:12 PH:11 WIP:13 ARM:3 BTS:0 W:1
Regular, Not Impetuous, Cube
X Visor

SHOCK Spitfire / Pistol, CCW (27 | 1.5)
MOV:4-2 CC:14 BS:12 PH:11 WIP:13 ARM:3 BTS:0 W:1
Regular, Not Impetuous, Cube
X Visor

SHOCK Combi Rifle + Light Grenade Launcher / Pistol, CCW (25 | 1.5)
MOV:4-2 CC:14 BS:12 PH:11 WIP:13 ARM:3 BTS:0 W:1
Regular, Not Impetuous, Cube
X Visor

SHOCK Hacker Combi Rifle / Pistol, CCW (33 | 0.5)
MOV:4-2 CC:14 BS:12 PH:11 WIP:13 ARM:3 BTS:0 W:1
Regular, Not Impetuous, Cube
X Visor, Hacking Device

SHOCK Lieutenant Combi Rifle, D.E.P. / Pistol, CCW (21 | 2)
MOV:4-2 CC:14 BS:12 PH:11 WIP:13 ARM:3 BTS:0 W:1
Regular, Not Impetuous, Cube
X Visor, Lieutenant


127 Points | SWC: 5.5

ARMY CODE: eNozN1Q1VzNQM6wxVzMEk0Zg0hhMmqgZAgBxtwb8 Army Infinity v.3.0.




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There you go thats each option listed in the army creator.

Thanks, not as good as i hoped, was hoping for bs 14, at least.still will have to do though.... having said that...

CDK wrote:There's also a new Mercenary group coming called Kaplan Securities. That might be the start of a full on Merc faction soon.

Do we know their stats yt?

Nothing on Kaplan yet. We are guessing it will be in the new book.

Anything for scarface? It's not a character that we know of, is it?

Nothing yet.

Scarface is a 'character' merc tag - probably druze (based off colours and style) - that's all we know.

Slarg232 wrote:Thanks, not as good as i hoped, was hoping for bs 14, at least.still will have to do though..

BS12 is already slightly elite for anything other than PanOceania.

Outside of TAGS, BS14 is the elite of the elite in Infinity terms. Most factions have 1-2 models with BS that high.

CDK wrote:There's also a new Mercenary group coming called Kaplan Securities. That might be the start of a full on Merc faction soon.

Oh man, that's something I could get behind. I love the Yuan Yuan and Druze models. A rag tag mercenary force made up of badass mercenaries like those?

I'd take that as a second army.

chromedog wrote:Nothing yet.

Scarface is a 'character' merc tag - probably druze (based off colours and style) - that's all we know.

Damn, was hoping to not have to use characters in my mercy force, but at least I know he will be badass.....

Not sure if I should start a druze based force or wait for the kaplans...

There are already several character mercs. A brilliant medic and several brilliant CC specialists.

There are character TAGs ( well, at least one - Toni "Macaroni" Macayana).

What difference does another character TAG make?

chromedog wrote:There are already several character mercs. A brilliant medic and several brilliant CC specialists.

There are character TAGs ( well, at least one - Toni "Macaroni" Macayana).

What difference does another character TAG make?

I was hoping not to use any characters. Also character tag means you fan only have one...

Does it really matter whether it's a character? Rename them or just plain forget they have a name.

While I don't particularly like using special characters (it creates a whole story mess and takes some of my creative control away), I use the profiles anyway - just attached to identities of my own invention instead. Example:

~~~~~

My Khawarij is a "counts as Tarik Mansuri" (because I find the regular Khawarij profile a somewhat underwhelming example of a super soldier).

In my own interpretation of the Infinity-verse, Tarik Mansuri is still the best, but his "legend" is instead reliant more on his precedence and impressive military record than him being an unrepeatable past glory. (That's a cliché I feel has been a bit overdone over the years.)
Randa Karim, on the other hand - well, she isn't famous, but she's my obscure Khawarij. But she can still kick arse with the best of them, tells daft jokes, has an interest in medieval history and actually knows how to put up a tent (unlike Tarik).

Doing it this way lets me invent my own character (which I greatly enjoy - I play RPGs regularly), as well as being a bit more plausible than one legendary individual being everywhere and anywhere.

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As for how many you can have, I wouldn't say that's a problem! Most TAGs are AVA 1 anyway, and that's quite aside from two other issues: 1) They're points intensive models that wouldn't really be viable to take twice in most games, and 2) it would severely reduce the variety of the force, which doesn't help your versatility.

Slarg232 wrote:

I was hoping not to use any characters. Also character tag means you fan only have one...

True, you can only have one Toni macaroni. Doesn't mean you can only have 1 TAG though.
In an Acontecimento sectorial force - for example, you can field ONE toni macaroni AND 2 other "Tikbalang" TAGs. Toni macaroni just has just got a customised version.

Who's to say that the Druze militia mercs DON'T have their own "standard" frame that "Scarface" has taken one of and customised, in the same way that Macayana has a customised Tikbalang TAG.