Starting with Aleph
List #3: Aleph at 200 points?
This list focusses on the Remotes and Infiltrators of Aleph. Be sure to bring your hackers to upgrade or defend them, you’ll be in for a bad game. It also shows that not every army is really meant to be played at 200 points when you base the list on the starter set. 😉 It’s especially difficult with this starter to fit in good and cheap lieutenants without them being very, very obvious. Remotes can’t become Lieutenants after yours is killed so that’s a glaring weakness in this list. Aleph has very expensive Lieutenant options, most of them Homeric characters, so at 200 points, it’s difficult to fit one in an effective list.
What do you need?
Aleph Starter Box
Naga Sniper blister
Dasyus Combi blister
Myrmidon Officer Blister
The List:
Dakini (combi)
Dakini (combi)
Dakini (Paramedic)
Deva (Hacker)
Myrmidon Officer (Combi)
Dasyus (Observer)
Naga (Minelayer)
Naga (Multi Sniper Rifle)
The Myrmidon is a Myrmidon ‘character’ like Phoenix,, and she shares a lot of stats with the regular Myrmidons. Only +1CC, +1 WIP and NWI are extra for this unit. She comes with Zero-V smoke, which is pretty bad-ass, as she can throw smoke that can not be penetrated by visors. Great is you want to advance your units quickly.She’s the ‘obvious Lt’ in this list, as she’s the only one that can be a Lieutenant at the start of your game.
The Sniper Naga is a camouflaged sniper, and the Dogged still makes her a great reactive sniper, able to get shot without losing the position immediately. Her camouflage allows her to surprise shot your opponent, which can give you some pretty good odds at a secure kill.
Dasyus are Thermo Optic Camouflaged Infiltrators. Combined with Nagas they show the Vedic’s strength; durable, infiltrators. It’s in character with their fiction as the long arm of a Puppeteer AI.
The NWI makes the Dasyus a beast, as it can take a hit without going down. Able to lay down mines, and sporting a combi rifle mid-field is a great boon for a surprise shot on an advancing enemy.
Don’t forget the Forward Observer skill, which can grant you a +3 on every BS attack made on the targetted model. Combine that with another Infiltrator, and a Sniper, and you can pull of some dirty synergies to make your opponent walk on his toes.
Nice article but “Artificial AI”? 😛
Yep, apparently I did.. 😀 haha!
Nice write-up, Scorch! You’ve got me all excited about starting up Aleph as my first faction! 🙂
I want to run mostly Hackers, Engineers and REMs (Dakini, Garuda, Yudbot, Daleth & Zayin) tho, and work the E/W side of the faction.
I don’t know how much Hacking is actually used in-game, tho. For instance, @ 300pts, are 2-3 Hackers viable to allow multiple support programs to be run at the same time on the various REMs? Or are those upgrades not really as good as say, dropping a Hacker and getting an HMG Ekdromoi 😉 Or, an Infiltrator or something?
Also, I was thinking of taking 2 Sophotects (w a Yudbot each), mainly to support the REMs. Do you think that’s too much redundancy?
Only played a couple of the Operation Icestorm missions so far, but I’m really loving the game, and want to get into it 🙂
Thanks!
Remember you have only 10 slots per Combat Group. 3 Hackers + 2 Sophotects – and you’ve filled 5 of these already.
Personally, I’d cap at 2 Hackers and 1 Doctor / Engineer, but then I’m not an Aleph player. So, whatever works for you 🙂
I’d suggest to run various variants of the list you’ve enivisioned with proxies a handful of times – for test purposes. You’ll find out by yoursefl whether this style suits you, or not – and there’s little point in wasting your cash for models that yuo will find redundant after a handful of playtests.
That’s a very good point – I should just calm down, and run a few games to get the feel of some of the units before committing cash to them. I haven’t even played with the hacking rules yet, so I’m probably getting a little ahead of myself!
Thanks!
No truer words had ever been written…
As a new player looking to get into aleph you mention different sectorals but looking at the army they only list steel phalanx. Is this article out of date now?
Not totally out of date, but ALEPH has some new toys to play with