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I am originally a cryx player so im thinking about branching out into cygnar. Heres what im thinking....

Nemo3 w/ adept
Thunderhead
Journeyman Watcaster
Stormclad
Stormblade Unit w/UA and 3WA
Stormblade Captain
eEriyss
Aiyana and Holt
2 Stormtowers
Black 13 gun mage strike team.

Heres my thinking..Run the stormblade brick with a heavy on each side. Nemo will support heavies as needed and the journeyman will throw out arcane shield as need arises. eEriyss is there to take away enemy upkeep buffs. Aiyaana and holt are there for kiss of lylissd the strike team to hunt solos and take away stealth and clouds. Stormtowers are will help thin enemy infantry. I feel like i need an arc nkde for nemo chainlightning but i dont know where to get the 6 points. With holt and aiyana stormblades will be throwing out boosted POW12+4 damage on feat turn.

Well you can't go wrong with the Stormblade brick, they eat almost anything...

There are a few things that are notably missing from your list though:

First and foremost, the Squire. He is really the only auto-include in Cygnar. If you're going to throw down all of this money to play a new faction, it would be better to buy the models you know you will use across the board, with every caster, and the Squire is chief among those. He is the best 2 points you'll ever spend, and helps casters like N3mo run at peak efficiency.

The Stormsmith Stormcallers have a lot of synergy with N3mo and especially with his feat. Imagine performing three Triangulations on feat turn and auto-hitting 9 models with boosted damage rolls.

I like 1 Storm Tower, covering the middle of the battlefield, but two seems excessive. I mean, they are there to snipe one low DEF, high ARM model a turn. Two just means you'll kill two infantry grunts (that aren't stealth) really really dead. Those two points are better spent elsewhere, like on a Squire.

Not sure how much synergy Aiyana and Holt have with this list. Kiss is nice, but that's four points to up the damage by 2 on only one target unit/model. I guess you need to think if those are really the most effective ways to use those points. For those four points you could get Strangeways and the Piper. Strangeways will spray and have boosted damage rolls for everyone under it on feat turn, plus all the other amazing things he can already do with a jack; and the Piper can make your Stormblades pathfinder or tough and fearless every turn. He makes them into a much scarier animal.

The notion that the Stromblades will be amazing with their guns on Feat turn may not be spot on. Their RAT is abysmal. Deadeye is the only real way to assure hits, and on misses, they don't become AOE 3, and they don't touch any enemy models. Lest we forget, you can only shoot the model you are assaulting anyways, so it seems like a MAT 7, POW 15 sword on the charge has a better chance, and will wreck anything it touches anyways.

Jr. is 3 points for 1 spell. Could those points be spent better elsewhere? I'm not saying he's useless, just that the Squire does so much more and if it dies, one of your jacks doesn't go inert. Something to think about. Jr. has always been horrible for me and failed to earn his place in a list but YMMV.

Squire is awesome, but N3mo can't take him. N3mo automatically comes with Stormchaser Adept Finch, which is an attachment.

Thats what i thought and was my original reason for not including the squire. I did however like the piper! Great suggestion! But the piper makes it harder for me to drip the journeyman. Now i just like having +3arm and tough and fearless on the squad. I did decide to drop holt and a stormtower for 3 stormcallers and rienholdt. Throwing out another of nemos lightnings or even adding an additional die onone if his feat turn attacks just sounded nasty! I just hope i can protect the journeyman. That seems to be a glaring weakness in my list.

tremere47 wrote:
Squire is awesome, but N3mo can't take him. N3mo automatically comes with Stormchaser Adept Finch, which is an attachment.