Starting with Hassassin Bahram

List #1: You’re in the Army (budget list)

What would you need for this list:
Hassassin Bahram Starter Box (use the Ragik Rifleman to proxy as Hacker).
Ghulam Support Box set (use the Missile Launcher as Panzerfaust, and Hacker as Rifleman).
Haqqislam Support Box, or whatever proxy for a Nasmat REM.

The list:

Lasiq (Viral Sniper Rifle)
Fiday (Mines)
Muyib (Doctor)
Ghulam (Sniper)
Ghulam (Panzerfaust)
Ghulam (Heavy Machine Gun)
Ghulam (Rifle)
Daylami (Panzerfaust + Camouflage)
Daylami (Rifle + Camouflage)
Nazmat
Ragik (Hacker)
200pts, 4 SWC

Link to the army list:

Lasiq is basically a long-ranged area denial. Choose a good spot for her and let her ARO enemy actions from an advantageous range band.
Fiday, especially against inexperienced players, is going to be very dangerous. Target light models with him to deprive your opponent of Orders and / or specialists. Keep in mind that the mines can be deployed around a corner. Remember that with Fiday, you must be ready to lose him – and what does matter is exactly how big hole can you punch through enemy force before that happens.
Muyib Doc can be effective combatant, but his primary role is to revive your downed troops (and he has the Nasmat REM to help him reach his buddies who got the short stick).
The Ghulam form a defensive Link Team, capable of a deadly long-ranged barrage (with HMG, Sniper Rifle and Panzerfaust… ouch!) in reactive turn, and a hailstorm of bullets from HMG (or Sniper Rifle, for extra-long range and Shock ammo) in active turn. As the machine gunner is your Lt, keep in mind that you could spend his Lt Order to shoot (but, unless CB tells us otherwise, it should force him out of the link as it did in 2nd Edition rules). Remember to re-Link him later. It would be wise to keep either the Doc or his Nasmat close to the team, too.
Daylami are to be Camo Infiltrating into the enemy table half, and causing general disruption. If they fail to deploy into the enemy table half, they’ll have to start from your deployment edge, which means it;ll take a lot of Orders to get them anywhere (at least the Panzerfaust has long effective range…). Remember they are Irregular, so despite having a 10-model list, you’ll be getting 8 Regular Orders per turn at best. While Irregular Orders can be made Regular with Command Tokens, this wouldn’t be a long-term solution (simply, it would drain your Command Token pool empty promptly).
Ragik Hacker should be deployed (preferably with AD L2: Airborne Infiltration, to avoid dispersion risk) as soon as possible. If he can’t do anything else, he’ll at least provide you with a Regular Order next turn. Still, that would be a huge waste of points, so better find him something important to do!

The problem with this list is the Order structure, forced by the Hassassin Bahram box composition (2 Irregular models, plus 1 Regular in Aerial Deployment). While playable, this list requires you to manage the Order usage carefully, and spend Command Tokens wisely (and – most likely – to turn Irregular Orders into regular ones).

Errhile

Plays Qapu Khalqi, Corregidor and recently Hassassin Bahram. Claims to be "just a humble traveller on the Silk Road".

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2 Responses

  1. Alkasyn says:

    A ncie article, however I have to disagree on certain points:

    – Ghulam link wihout a Spec Ops is pretty mediocre, having only 4 members.
    – Barid should be the first purchase for any Bahram player, he will be used in every list.
    – 11 Orders, even with 6 specialists, will not go far due to order starvation. I would’t use the Asawira in ITS scenarios.

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