Starting with Aleph
List #4: Welcome to the ITS System
This list will be fit for an ITS tournament. 300 points, with a focus on specialists. Let’s roll!
What do you need?
Aleph Starter
Aleph Support Box
Remote Box
Dactyl Blister
Ekdromoi Blister
Agema Marksmen Sniper Blister
The List:
Dakini (Combi)
Dakini (Light Grenade Launcher)
Deva Functionary + Deva Bot
Naga (hacker)
Dactyl (ADHL Engineer)
Sophotect (Doctor + Engineer)
Daleth Rebot (Combi)
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Ekdromoi (hacker)
Netrod
Netrod
Netrod
Agema Marksman (Multi Sniper Rifle)
Two groups, You should be able to proxy your Deva Bot with the left over Dakini from your Starter box. I’d allow it if I was your TO. 😉 Just make sure your opponent knows what it is, perhaps by marking it with a paper ring around the base.
Dactyls are a new unit in Aleph, as they apparently lacked good specialist choices, haha! 😉 No, kidding aside, it’s a pretty good looking model, and a good option for Aleph. The ADHL allows her to sticky your opponent’s TAGs or Heavy Infantry to the ground or walls with ease. It’s a nasty weapon when used right, and can cause a devastating blow in your opponent’s army.
Little note, you can switch the ADHL for a Flammenspeer profile. You have the room (+1 point/+0,5 SWC) to do so. Frankly, the decision is rather meta dependant. If you encounter Tohaa a lot, the Flammenspeer might be a better option. It’s a disposable long range Fire weapon. Tohaa are very flammable, so it might be a good option.
If you encounter Yu Jing or PanOceania a lot, you might want to stick to your ADHL. 😉
The Ekdromoi hacker is a great specialist. He can drop in, and take an objective with ease in the last minutes of the game, or in a hard to reach place. The Netrods provide him the orders to do so. It’s still killy. 😉
The Daleth Rebot is one of Aleph’s standard support remotes. Each faction has access to 4 types op Remotes; Forward Observer, Total Reaction HMG, Smart Missile Launcher and a cheap Repeater bot. This model is the Forward Observer. Fast, with the Sensor and Forward Observer skills, this model allows you to pull of Triangulated Fire (ignoring all modifiers on the BS attack; range/cover/camouflage), and counts as a specialist. The Sat-Lock skills won’t be of use in this list (you miss a Smart Missile bot). The Deactivator skill can be used to disable enemy repeaters/mines/beacons and other deployable weaponry. It’s a nice way to protect your Remotes from hack-attacks.
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