Year of the Shavastii?
Posted: April 19th, 2013, 4:43 am
Okay, I just read the new ITS scenarios. Does anyone else think this could be the year of the Shavastii? Between the Shavastii rule, Hidden Deployment Malignos forward observers, Shrouded Minelayers, Speculo Killers, and infiltrating PITA Caliban disruptors, I've gotta think the Shavastii have a pretty big edge in these scenarios. I mean infiltrating Caliban alone, with their automedikits and Shavastii rule ccould really mess up an opponent's plans in Frontline, especially if supported with a Speculo Killer and Shrouded Minelayers.
I'm not really an expert on all the factions...Ariadna obviously have the camo and infiltrators and minelayers to be PITA's, but to my knowledge they don't have the forward observers to dominate the objectives? Or maybe I'm just not aware of them? Haqqislam has the Hunzakut, which is super cheap for what he offers, plus I could see the Halqa getting some play and the Taureg. But Haqq doesn't have any minelayers. Nomads have those air deployed Tomcat engineers but, again, I'm just not aware of any strong minelaying ability. Also, one of the Nomad strengths is hacking, but to my knowledge their strongest hackers aren't infiltrators, they're marker-shooters. And by my reading of the scenarios you can't fulfil an objective through a repeater (apart from the Hacking secret objective). I guess Yu Jing can both plant mines and infiltrate forward observors, but I still think Shavastii has the edge just because of their spawn embryos. Pan O, Aleph and Tohaa I pretty much know nothing about.
Am I forgetting about or unaware of something obvious?
I'm not really an expert on all the factions...Ariadna obviously have the camo and infiltrators and minelayers to be PITA's, but to my knowledge they don't have the forward observers to dominate the objectives? Or maybe I'm just not aware of them? Haqqislam has the Hunzakut, which is super cheap for what he offers, plus I could see the Halqa getting some play and the Taureg. But Haqq doesn't have any minelayers. Nomads have those air deployed Tomcat engineers but, again, I'm just not aware of any strong minelaying ability. Also, one of the Nomad strengths is hacking, but to my knowledge their strongest hackers aren't infiltrators, they're marker-shooters. And by my reading of the scenarios you can't fulfil an objective through a repeater (apart from the Hacking secret objective). I guess Yu Jing can both plant mines and infiltrate forward observors, but I still think Shavastii has the edge just because of their spawn embryos. Pan O, Aleph and Tohaa I pretty much know nothing about.
Am I forgetting about or unaware of something obvious?