Operation Icestorm

[McNamara]

Its not that much of a waste, if they are equipped with a Sniper rifle now.

Ah, but then you wouldn't be deploying them halfway up field with a sniper rifle, would you? Unless they're super awesome and get sniper rifles as well as some sort of short range weapon that's not a pistol?

New meta? Cover your own deployment zone with a sniper rifle from your opponent's side of the board?!

You mean I'll have a reason to field al'Hawwa Sniper now?
...apart from the mine-around-the-corner, that is...

Yeah, thats exactly what I had in mind. Either try infiltrating deep using the Mines (aka pseudo Fiday), or use the Sniper rifle should you fail. Since the Hawwa don't have a normal rifle or mines without the Sniper, it might be a viable strategy. And I rather not risk to BSG too get stuck in my own Deployment zone either.

The Rasyat has Zero-V-Smoke.

And Margot got a LGL, but she is only a Paratrooper.

Yuan Yuans too.

Dah!

[tinfish]

I wonder if the new camo rule will hurt my Ariadna, being able to surprise some Nomad swine who will hit me on a 16 was helpfull, going from being able to hit them if I roll a 1, to them hitting me with a cumalitive -6, (10) whie I still get stuck needing an 11 is nowhere near as safe.

Granted, if I rolled badly I was getting nailed by return fire anyway, but at least it was a big improvement over probably still being killed despite making the surprise attack. Time will tell, but I suspect low BS models with camo will not do aswell.
In reverse however, it could make the TO guys who know what way to point their guns even more dangerous.

[IJW Wartrader]

What Nomad unit is hitting you on BS16? Are you in the open and trying to shoot a Gecko?

[ewok40k]

probably he was assaulting in the open Sin-eater with HMG

[coleslaw]

There is AD:3 in O:I but they use the rule for failed aggressive infiltration if you fail the PH-roll. There are no scatter rules at all in O:I.

Just had a thought.

If Scatter on AD3 is a flat 16" distance in a random direction, and (assuming) ad3 features in the icestorm models somewhere.

On the operation:icestorm playmat (which I believe to be 24" by 32"), wouldn't there be significantly more chance of scattering off-table?

Given that there is no point on the playmat at which you are 16" away from every single board edge, kinda makes sense. Especially if you scatter towards a long edge.
(granted a normal 48"x48" table is much less chance)

[Scorch]

There is AD:3 in O:I but they use the rule for failed aggressive infiltration if you fail the PH-roll. There are no scatter rules at all in O:I.

Just had a thought.

If Scatter on AD3 is a flat 16" distance in a random direction, and (assuming) ad3 features in the icestorm models somewhere.

On the operation:icestorm playmat (which I believe to be 24" by 32"), wouldn't there be significantly more chance of scattering off-table?

Given that there is no point on the playmat at which you are 16" away from every single board edge, kinda makes sense. Especially if you scatter towards a long edge.
(granted a normal 48"x48" table is much less chance)

Nope, but it was confirmed in the BoW videos by Bostria to still be available in the full game.