Starting with Corregidor
List 1: Clan of The Jaguars
Probably the cheapest and most effective way to jumpstart your Corregidor experience is with the recently-announced Jaguras box. This gives you plenty of cheap Orders and a decent, fast Link team compared to the mediocre Wildcats.
You will need
Jaguar Box
Intruder HMG (can proxy with starter box Intruder)
Orders: 10 Points: 200 SWC: 3.5
WILDCAT Lieutenant
WILDCAT Combi
WILDCAT Hacker
HELLCAT Deployable Repeater
ALGUACIL Hacker
INTRUDER HMG
JAGUAR Light Shotgun
JAGUAR Light Shotgun
JAGUAR Light Shotgun
JAGUAR ADHL + Panzerfaust
The Jaguars are there to provide some smoke cover for the Intruder to shoot through, as well as to cover the movements of the Wildcats. They can link to form a fast offensive unit (albeit with mostly short-ranged or low rate of fire weapons) and are lethal in combat.
Your Intruder takes a break from being the Lieutenant and instead goes looking for things to kill. Proxy him with the HMG or else buy the upcoming HMG blister.
The Hellcat with the Deployable Repeater is there to extend the range of the Hackers, allowing them to attack TAGs, HI and REMs across the board.
The Wildcats either hang back or take an offensive role with the Orders provided by the Jaguars.
The Alguacil Hackers stays as she is – having a second Hacker is useful when combined with Repeaters. When an enemy tries to move through the Repeater unit, both of the Hackers can respond. Additionally, she is a backup specialist for those missions that may require one.
Great article! A little confused at why you haven’t gone for a full link with the Wildcats – I always try and take it and find that the +3bs is amazing!
My 2 favourite links so far with them are:
Engineer, N2, Boarding Shotgun and 2x Spitfire
Lieutenant, Engineer, N2, Spitfire and HRL
You use slower link teams by picking the most suitable model to lead the link team each turn, then you leave dangerous models out for ARO (HRL). They can be absolutely brutal!
How nice, I’m looking to start Infinity with a Nomad army!
What about Remotes? They have so many awesome looking drone models. Not good for beginners or just not a fan?
I guess not really proxyable with other models, and thus pretty expensive for a beginning player (and these articles – including the lists presented – are written with a starting player in mind) to field.
Personally, I like my Corregidor REMs, but don’t always field them.
I second Errhile. Remotes are expensive boxed sets. Corregidor’s REMs are totally worth it, though. I like to field them often, and they can be buffed to great heights.
But, it’s a bit of a money sink for starting out. 😉
I play mostly 300 pts games and go either with a 5 Wildcat link if the mission is killy or with my new favorite the 5 + 1 Algua Link (the plus is the hacker, she is not in the link, cause she buffs remotes).
Thanks for the comments, guys.
The last page with the details of the 300 points list explained my reasoning, but it seems not to have been uploaded. Basically, the 5-man Wildcat link forces you to spend 3.5 SWC if you don’t proxy or duplicate the Spitfire, which constrains your other options. Plus it’s rather risky for a newbie to use. One Chain Rifle can wipe out a poorly placed link and take out half your Order pool, no matter how killy it is. Not to say that I never run it, it’s just not for the beginner in my experience. My personal preference is 5 Alguaciles (possibly including Lupe), and either Valerya or the Alguacil Hacker, with a small Wildcat “troubleshooting team” of an Engineer, Boarding Shotgun and Spitfire, and then whatever else I can afford for heavy weapons on top.
REMs are also a great choice, but then you can also run those in Vanilla with same AVA aside from Lunkhods and even more diversified Hacker support. I did mention substituting Lunokhods for Morans in one of the lists.