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Empire cad + fse allies (2013) ~no new codex yet~

Hq
Commander (135)
- DC, 2x MP, 1 marker drone

Elites
Riptide (190)
- ion, tlsms, EWO
2man crisis (114)
- twin fb, fb
- dual fb, target lock
2man crisis (114)
- as above

Troops (bit wavey as i have min squadded with new rules?)
7man strike (157)
- emp, dfish
5man strike (55)
- ds8

Fast
5markers (70)
4markers (56)

Heavy
2man broadsides (186)
- hymp, tlsms, vtracker
- hymp, tlsms
- 3 missile drones
??one vtracker good for skyfire for both + drones??

(1077)

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Fse

Hq
Commander (189)
- DC, dual plas, iridium, pen, nwsj, 2 shield drones (instead of s.gen)

Elite
Riptide (190)
As above

Troops
3man crisis (174)
- 3x twin pr, pr
3man crisis (174)
- as above
2man crisis (76)
- twin flame, flame
- flame, flame, vrt
(Probs needs a drone for I4)

Fast
2xpiranhas (80)
1× piranha (40)

(923)

Tot 2000.

Save/wounds:
2+(18), 3+(28), 4+(27), 9hp, 73 wounds tot, 43 models, 4 veh, 8 free gun drones.

Split with fse for extra fast slot. Though lone piranha might be ok and squad of 3 has a big footprint.
Mp commander with 4markers at range for 4 or 5 tokens per turn for a while, 2 squads to bring something down.
Pr commander with 5 markers moving up for 4 or 5 tokens per turn to detach turn 3? And join a pr/fb squad for monster/tankhunter or ap2 kills with rof + nwsj.
Riptides for minimal interceptor, 1 blast, 1 standard profile... will get rinsed by dpods and the like... if no deepstrike and armour moving up, which i doubt at 2000, then go for transports and contents, min movment unless required.
Flamers for a mob and see if they can survive, or speed bump when dpods are brought.
Fbs can pop 3 cans in a single miraculous once in a lifetime turn given positioning etc. If riptides are free to sort transports, go for heavies.
Plas for can contents/mcs + whatever else.
Piranhas for blocks and drones with reassign to objectives taking loss/minimal draw mid strength fire for a turn or two if lucky
Piranha 1 for obs + drones, situations..
Fish squad hide til early mid like t3ish, try and catch the odd light transport that made it throughwith emp, survivors wait for support/get out of los if poss and backfield obs..
Ds8squad out of los on backfield ob.
Bdsides antiair
Freedrones for 1 or 2 footsloggers for a turn or 2.

The gaps:
anti air clumped up for vtracker share and not much of it..
Interceptor is 6 shots or 2 large blasts which if in deployment zone might be precarious. (Though deployment looks reasonably sparse)
Too many points in deepstrike reserve with no beacons
Unless against dpods in which case more than half of suits are likely to start on the table.
Not much marker support

(No 7th rulebook eek, not sure about obs rules..)

Just for fun esp as i dont have all the models, kind of looking for what to buy for a suit/hybrid big list more for options.
Have heard that jsj can be dealt with like jetbikes etc but i like the suits. (Gw kits > gundam) *feth anime.
might end up just buying everything.. the tanks are pretty cool too despite their stupid silhouette.
also, probably wont play any games this big unless i have a whole weekend off once i get back to the uk after getting everything painted.
Should try to chip it down to 1850/1500 but just thought up more of a models list than anything else.

Got through a couple suits in a day and a half over a holiday and though id be able to churn out a decent range of poses for crisis suits, particularly with the new kits.

Cash comes every so often, will probably be able to top up to 15 suits in a months time on top of what i have so far:

6 suits (1 built as dual plas iridium and one bare)
20 rifle fw
15 assorted drones
Piranha
Ethereal

Buying will be done probs with 2 or 3 month gaps:
Suits (300 bucks with primer)
Riptide + bdside + pirahna (300 bucks with primer, brushes and glue)
Riptide + bdside + piranha (again)
Dfish + 250 bucks extras

Extras:
Probs an ionhead or two, dfish and fw?

Wondering if transports are ok to be dealt with by leaving dfish 8mans with emps til they arrive about midfield or something to be swapped out for 1 lot of fb suits or rearrange the pr suits or...

For smaller games, could drop piranhas and flame suits for 1850/riptide and couple suits for 1500 or..

Suggest away but

Not doing much list building with revision on table.
Mocks through til end of the week after next with proper ones starting mid may..


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Ah, riptide+broadside+piranha comes out to around 200. Oops.
Pics will probably take til late this year of anything from box to table. The 600 odd points of what i have already is all finished bar highlights on fw and i dont know whether to do them or not.