Guerilla unit

['Scaper94]

Which unit is the best for guerilla warfare?

[Xn F M]

Silver Surfer, hands down. His ability to move, fire, and move again is probably the closest thing you'll find in heroscape to a guerilla unit.

If you're talking in terms of classic scape, the Krav Maga Agents and Agent Skahen would be your best bets. With thier range of seven and six move they should be able to make successfull hit and run attacks (assuming your map is big enough).

If you're feeling lucky the Aubrian Archers could pull it off too. They have the range and their average movement score is shored up by thier Frenzy ability. Though they wouldn't hit as hard as the agents.



Heroscape really isn't set up very well for guerilla style tactics. In guerilla warfare one tries to control when and where they hit the enemy, trying to capitalize on small, low-risk engagments. That doesn't translate well into heroscape where you're working with a small, predefined battlefield.

[J4Jandar]

Guerilla tactics are hit and run but...

My vote for a future unit using guerilla tactics would be:


G-Unit



Three member squad

(Sub)Human
Common Squad
Wrappers
Relentless
Medium 5

Life 1

Move 4 (Slow due to saggy pants and pimp walk)

Range 3 (Silly side ways fire arm handling decreases accuracy)

Attack 1 (Nine gat = .45 pistol set on stun)

Defense 5 (40's 0f malt liquor help numb pain receptors)

Special attack: Drive by/run by?

Range 5

Attack 2

You may add all G-Unit's attacks up to an attack of six.

Target an enemy figure and roll attack dice for that figure. If the enemy figure receives no wounds then place an automatic wound for every friendly figure within two clear sight spaces.

[Killometer]

Originally Posted by J4Jandar

Guerilla tactics are hit and run but...

My vote for a future unit using guerilla tactics would be:


G-Unit

Spoiler Alert!

Three member squad

(Sub)Human
Common Squad
Wrappers
Relentless
Medium 5

Life 1

Move 4 (Slow due to saggy pants and pimp walk)

Range 3 (Silly side ways fire arm handling decreases accuracy)

Attack 1 (Nine gat = .45 pistol set on stun)

Defense 5 (40's 0f malt liquor help numb pain receptors)

Special attack: Drive by/run by?

Range 5

Attack 2

You may add all G-Unit's attacks up to an attack of six.

Target an enemy figure and roll attack dice for that figure. If the enemy figure receives no wounds then place an automatic wound for every friendly figure within two clear sight spaces.

THAT. IS. AWESOME!!!

My only question is how much do they cost so that I can draft them in my next game.


Edit: My other question is how the heck do I hide some of that giant block of quote? I thought that it was sblock, but obviously it wasn't...

Edit edit: Nevermind. I figured it out.

[J4Jandar]

[quote=Killometer;821586]

Originally Posted by J4Jandar

THAT. IS. AWESOME!!!

My only question is how much do they cost so that I can draft them in my next game.

Open points for play testing purposes but start at say 80...

[StarofEarendil]

Originally Posted by 'Scaper94

Which unit is the best for guerilla warfare?

I've heard Cyprien works well.

[Xn F M]

I can't beleive I missed this one in my earlier post. . . .


Gorrillanators.

[gorthan313]

Originally Posted by Xn F M

I can't beleive I missed this one in my earlier post. . . .


Gorrillanators.

You stole my line!

[MegaSilver]

Originally Posted by Xn F M

I can't beleive I missed this one in my earlier post. . . .


Gorrillanators.

There name implies that they are guerilla units, doesn't it?
They can be extremely effective if you continually move them, especially with the Natika Agents.

Also, the Mohicans will most likely be a guerilla unit also. Most Native American tactics revolve around using thier terrain to thier advantage. I'm not trying to be biased, though. Read The Wilderness Empire and The Frontiersman, both based on real events.

MegaSilver

[GromBloodboy]

If you want to get rid of it, when you quote, just backspace it from the post.

The braves seem like they could be guerilla to me. The problem with this tactic though is that it takes suprises to get it to work, and sense the map is completly viewable 360 degrees around, ambushes aren't possible.

[Killometer]

Originally Posted by GromBloodboy

If you want to get rid of it, when you quote, just backspace it from the post.

I know how to do that. I want to hide it in a Spoiler Block so that people can enjoy J4Jandar's awesomeness without having to scroll back up the page, but I don't want my post to take up the whole screen.

[Temprit]

Originally Posted by GromBloodboy

If you want to get rid of it, when you quote, just backspace it from the post.

The braves seem like they could be guerilla to me. The problem with this tactic though is that it takes suprises to get it to work, and sense the map is completly viewable 360 degrees around, ambushes aren't possible.

Because you can see where your opponent moves it isn't. But you can always put your opponent into situations that force them to move into an "Ambush" or Crossfire. I have force my opponent to charge and put them right into Omnicron Sniper Fire. It also comes down to thinking a head. Your opponent could place their units in a perfect location for you to jump out and strike, not even realizing he put his units at a turrible spot.

Sure this isn't exactly an Ambush, but to the actual unit who can't see everything, they might just as well feel they have been ambushed.