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During my first tournament one of my opponents brought a Cutter TAG. I had never played against a TAG before so I spent order after order trying to shoot it down with random troopers (you can guess how that went). Well, I asked a friend of mine to give me some advice and he wrote an article about it. He broke it down to five axioms:

1.) Stack the Deck in your favor
2.) Direct Confrontation = bad
3.) No shame in backwards advance
4.) Burn the fuel, kill the engine
5.) Cyberly wreck what conventional weapons can't

He also describes some of the common TAGS you'll see like: The Avatar, Maguriba Guard (its new so people will play it), Cutter, Sphinx, etc.
Check it out, it's a good read: http://midwestwargaming.com/tactics-toppling-a-giant/

Thanks for this post. It's rare that we get real tactics posts in here.

dgwhite87 wrote:
2.) Direct Confrontation = bad

I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of your crying when a 5pt Ghazi IMM-2's and Isolates 1/3 of your force .

Incredible skill you have there.

Some factions blow you to peices with Camo MSV HMG's. Some with MSV 3 Spitfires that hide behind smoke. Some with TO camo HI HMGs.

Haqqislam gets different tricks.

I cannot recall when Aquila was something I wanted to take. HMG in new edition is underwhelming, especially against at least mildly competent camo player.

Pitchers or infiltrating Deployable Depeaters / Assault Hackers,
Troops with Blitzens or even a Morlock with E/M CCW are able to ruin a TAG's day.