Ravages/Strikes

[Cain]

I was thinking that teaming up Ravages with Strikes maybe a very good tactic... the Ravages would soften up enemy units with their frag grenades, this would give the Strikes and little edge to their furious charge...granted this would also benefit a unit of Banes, but I thought a better combo would be Strikes/Ravages 8) Any thoughts?

[Kyle]

Strikes are pretty brutal all by there lonesomes. I once had my entire Skarrd army tied up by a unit of Stikes at a natural ambush zone. They held me up while St. Yaller took repeated pot shots.

[punkrabbitt]

If your Ravages don't wipe out the enemy, then they will probably charge the Strikes to negate the Furious Charge...

[Freakbrain]

If your Ravages don't wipe out the enemy, then they will probably charge the Strikes to negate the Furious Charge...

??? :| ???

[punkrabbitt]

Ravages have a grenade range of 20cm. Strikes only have a Charge range of 16cm max. If you are planningon softening up an enemy with the Ravages before the Strikes Charge in, then presumably the enemy is withing 16cm of the Strikes. If you throw the grenades at the enemy during the Racage's activation, then the enemy has an activation before the Strikes can activate. The enemy will charge the targetted units at the Strikes to negate the Strikes' Furious Charge ability.

[Freakbrain]

ah, language barrier

[Pr0fane]

If your Ravages don't wipe out the enemy, then they will probably charge the Strikes to negate the Furious Charge...

ah, language barrier
No, that comment had me confused at first too. I thought he was saying that if the Ravages don't wipe out the enemy, the Ravages will probably charge the Strikes... Big confusion. LOL

[gunslinger]

I had no idea what punky was getting at either.. in fact rereading it after the fact and the explanation still doesn't make it clear what he meant..

me thinks punky was having a hard time putting on paper what was hiding in his head....

[Stunke]

If your Ravages don't wipe out the enemy(with their 20 cm range grenades), then they(the enemy) will probably charge the Strikes(since the strikes ought to be within charge range of the enemy unit) to negate the Furious Charge(that very awesome ability that only applies to strikes charging someone else)...

If needed, I can translate into one of the norse languages too. 8)

[Cain]

If the Ravages are deployed in front of the Strikes would not the Ravages be the first to be attacked first? I was thinking that the Strikes would be at most 5 cm behind the Ravages....

[Pyrrhus]

Okay, if you're ravages are in front, then its a trick that's only going to work once - because those 1 hp grenade throwers are going to get mauled by the enemies counter attack.

[Cain]

Yeah that's the idea... though I would probably be more inclined to use it say against a squad of Buzz-blades or Rachets, heck another way to boost the kills would be to shadow the Ravages on either flank with some FireStorms... or use the FireStorms as support for the Strikes...seems like a good idea.

[DA_Magpie]

Probably going to have a Forsaken vs Ice Caste game soon (first signs of success in my campaign to get my flat-mate into the game). Thinking ravages and firestorms to take care of the slaves and send the strikes after the trueborn. Just seems risky to me to put some of my best troops too close to anything that is likely to explode and/or burn. Hmmm...

[Cain]

That is true, however, investing in a Weaponsmith woulw allow me/you the ability to both the Ravages and Strikes a S&M :lol: counter to both units - Any unit issued such a counter would be able to ignore the effects of a malfunction...

[Cain]

Hey Magpie, how did your game against the Ice Caste go? What did you and your enemy field?

[DA_Magpie]

Thanks for asking.
Being a student the run up to Christmas is a bit hectic for me (mmm... lovely exam goodness...), so the game kept getting pushed back, until we had all gone home for the holiday's anyway. The current plan is to have it early next week so I'll try to report how it goes after that.
I've grown quite enamoured of the idea of combining strikes with firestorms having tried this in a game played against myself over the holidays and found it was pretty powerful. On the other hand it's my opponent's first game and I'm supposed to be using it to teach him the rules so I don't want to frighten him too much.
Anyone got any thoughts? Some suggestions for a good Ice Caste force for him would be helpful too. We were thinking of keeping the game quite small by the way.

[Cain]

If your talking Ice Cast then he should field Blizzards or Frostbites... :)