durecellrabbit wrote:

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Can someone give me an overall impression of all the factions?
Like, I get that Concord are meant to be baseline, and that Ghar are a tanky faction with some cannon fodder thrown in, but what about the others?

Is it a similar sort of thing to DzC, where you have glass cannons (scourge), horde (Resistance), Slow but tough (PHR), super mobile (Shaltari) and generic (UCM)?
The above probably isn't entirely accurate, but you get the idea

It's quite hard to describe as the core of most armies is basics infantry backed up by support weapons, many of which are shared. We don't have any BA style army wide special rules and armies are still waiting for their army lists to get all the models.

While they may have the baseline human stats I'd actually say Concord are above the baseline due to their basic infantry having plasma guns which lets you pin Ghar battlesuits much easier than the mag gun armies and their other top quality weapons. Except for the Isorian, everyone else is more primitive.

Boromites are probably the easiest non Ghar army to describe. They have a lot of improvised short ranged or hand to hand mining weapons and have access to Lavamite beasties that very in size from swarms to tank sized. Their base stats lend themselves to being stubborn but slow.

Freeborn have a wide variety of troops from basic colonial troops to elite houseguard and their specialists range from skark riders to imported Concord combat drones. Their staline is basic human but as they lack the more powerful Concord and Isorian armour or the toughness of the Boromites and Algoryns are what I'd consider the most fragile army.

Algoryns are what I'd consider quite standard although they have above human toughness. In addition to their basic infantry they have specialist assault and infiltration units.

Isorian are still pretty limited but they have phase amour they lets them go down as a reaction if they already have an order which gives them better survivability against shooting. Their sniper is a highly accurate shooter whose gun can ignore cover and put out an randomised amount of shots.

decker_cky wrote:
It's tough to describe things in terms of typical glass cannon, horde, Slow but tough, super mobile and generic because the pinning and activation mechanics are so significant (often, killing is just a nice bonus and a pin is all you need).

Ghar for example are absolute tanks (with the option to support themselves with some dirt cheap infantry), but they're expensive and can be shut down with pins, even if nothing really dies.

Freeborn have lots of variety, which tends to be soft, but they can run infantry which is very comparably tough to concord (Varangar with a booster drone). Freeborn also have one command unit that can take Concord/Isorian equipment with some really amazing drones, but it's a single unit in the army. On the other side of things, they have what can best be described as low armoured fanatics - a unit that will run forward regardless of pins and casualties, but when they fail a roll (on a 10), you lose control of them for the rest of the game.

Concord are definitely generalists on the elite side of things. Overall good equipment, and they currently have the largest variety in the game in terms of list, and available models.

Isorians are similar to Concord statwise, but they have a much more limited list currently, with advantages in always being able to go down to avoid fire (so a more resilient list, but with far less options available).

Boromites and Algoryn both tend to be superior assault armies to Concord/Isorian/Freeborn based on their stats, armour and equipment. I haven't really got a feel for them in detail though.


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RazorEdge wrote:
In the Beta Rules was a Sample list with Concord and Freeborn Units were Mixed. Is this still possible?

Not currently, but supposedly the upcoming supplement will include at least a few mercenary options.