FarseerAndyMan wrote:The human sphere book is cool. Ive got Yu-jing. I noticed that zhanshi are not on either sectoral list.
Can i play a generic list with lots of zhanshi in a group and drop in a celestial guard fireteam in another?
It looks like i can. Help me out guys!!
Ive only got about 5 games under my belt and our group is doing the ITS season 8. We are on week two and fireteams are allowed. So i need to get a good 150 pt list.
Not a thing I'm afraid.
What characterizes a generic list is that it, in general, cannot take any form of link team. Vanilla's strength is in having a run of the army list it is part of. So while the Imperial Service can run a 5-man Celestial Guard link, it can't take TIger Soldiers, or the Daofei and lacks a lot of things generic Yu Jing lists will be able to include with ease.
Further, sectorials have their own avaiabilities for units. So while a generic list can take as many Zhanshi as they can get, they have space for only two Celestial Guard (thus no horde of
CG in a vanilla list).
Basically the way an army list is selected is you choose your faction and can optionally choose to limit yourself to a sectorial within that faction in order to gain access to link teams. If you do not choose a sectorial, you create a generic list but cannot take link teams (the one exception being the Duo link using the Teampro hacker program from an EVO Hacking Device).
So unfortunately you wont be able to drop a Celestial Guard fire team in to a vanilla Yu Jing list alongside a horde of Zhanshi. But Celestial Guard (especially the one with the Kuang Shi Control Device) are excellent support units in vanilla Yu Jing albeit quite limited in the number you can take (they also have a great hacker as well).
Meanwhile, if you take either currently available Sectorial, then you are limited to what is on there list and nothing more. Imperial Service can't take Zhanshi, Guilang, or anything else not on the list just as the
JSA can't take Hsien or Crane Agents. The generic
AVA's are to be used only for the vanilla list allowances while the Sectorial
AVA lists are the length and breadth of the units a Sectorial can take.
Zhanshi will be linkable down the line whenever the White Banner sectorial drops (which is either the next one or the one after, and could be a year or more from now). As Zhanshi are Troops of the Banner it is assumed they will be the main line trooper for Huang Di (the area Yu Jing controls on Svalarheima) army (called the White Banner Army from what we have gleaned from Corvus Belli teasers).
They may also be a thing in the Invincible Army, but I wouldn't hold my breath on that one (and even if they are then they may not be linkable as the Invincible Army is the modern force meant to replace Yu Jing's Banner armies in the background).