What with the official forum going off line soon and my Tohaa about to make their table debut soon, I figured I would start a small log to share my experiences and get some advice on these aliens. To give you some context, i have been playing Infinity for around a year now but have only properly got involved with it since February this year after jumping ship from 40K. I started with vanilla Haqqislam but decided I needed a break. The Tohaa models appealed to me and I like the idea of lots of link teams. I have yet to play a proper game with them.
My first tourney with them will be the Bournemouth beginners event on 26/07/14. While I'm not strictly speaking a beginner, I have less than 30 games under my belt and I'm taking an army that I have no first hand experience with. It should be interesting. I have read a bunch of Tohaa reviews and lurked on the forums a lot and with that in mind I have come up with a few observations that have influenced my approach to the Tohaa:
1. Viral is awesome as I have learned from the Lasiq except that nearly everyone in Tohaa can pack viral in some form.
2. Aelis Keesan is awesome with a nice model to boot, I'm deffinatley going to try and include her.
3. Aside from the Clipsos, I have no infiltrating speacialists. When using Haqq, I used to love Hawwas, Hunzakuts and Farzans. Sadly with Tohaa I'm going to have to run my specialists around on foot. This could be a bit of a culture shock.
4. While I would love to put the Gorgos on the table it seems to take a lot of work to use it well so for now I'm going to leave it out until I can get my head around the "easier" parts of the army.
Having come to these conclusions I've put a list together for the tourney:
TOHAA
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GROUP 1 (Regular: 10/Irregular: 0):
HATAIL AELIS KEESAN K1 Combi Rifle, Nanopulser, Flash Pulse, D-Charges / Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 34)
MAKAUL Heavy Flamethrower, Zero-V Smoke Grenades / Pistol, Viral CCW. (15)
KAMAEL Paramedic (Medikit) Combi Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (16)
SAKIEL Spitfire / Pistol, Knife. (1.5 | 24)
KAMAEL (Forward Observer) Combi Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (15)
MAKAUL Heavy Flamethrower, Zero-V Smoke Grenades / Pistol, Viral CCW. (15)
CLIPSOS Minelayer Combi Rifle, Antipersonnel Mines / Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 25)
CHAKSA AUXILIAR (Baggage, Sensor) Heavy Flamethrower / Pistol, CCW. (10)
GAO-TARSOS HMG / Pistol, Knife. (1.5 | 40)
GAO-TARSOS Paramedic (Medikit) Combi Rifle, D-Charges / Pistol, Knife. (35)
GROUP 2 (Regular: 4/Irregular: 0):
GAO-RAEL Sniper Rifle / Pistol, CCW. (1 | 37)
KAMAEL Combi Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (12)
KAMAEL Combi Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (12)
CHAKSA AUXILIAR (Baggage, Sensor) Heavy Flamethrower / Pistol, CCW. (10)
5 SWC | 300 Points
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It basically has a bit of everything so that I can try it out. I would have liked some HMG Chaksa but I couldn't seem to fit one in anywhere. The triads are as listed above.
The idea being I'll try to blitz my opponent's side of the board and get into good ARO positions (using the Makauls to lay down smoke) and let my link teams go to work. The Clipsos is to block people from assassinating key models in the first turn, like a Kitsune making a run for my Gao Real or something). Aelis is the TAG/HI hunter and the Sakiel is there to throw lots of dice at people until they go away. I have all the classifieds covered (bar Test Run) to get some extra points.
I'm sure I'm going to learn some harsh realities but this will be a nice change from Haqq.
EDIT: The missions I'm playing will be Frontline, Quadrant control and Annihilation. Single list only, no SpecOps.