How to start with the Merovingian Rapid Response Force
- List: Death from Above
This list focusses on rapid deployment using airborne troopers. If you win the initiative roll with this list, always go first to make sure you get the most out of your orders. The fireteam and the chausseurs have to make sure that the spot where your parachutists will arrive from is safe. Use a combined order to get the paracommandos on the table. If you do not get the first turn, this list is a bit risky. The meagre rest of the troops will have to hold the line during your opponents first turn, but then there will be retaliation once your paras come on the table and your opponents forces will be all over the board. Hopefully. This list is not for the faint hearted.
GROUP A
2 Paracommando with Rifles Forward Observers
1 Paracommando with HMG
1 Paracommando with Light Grenade Launcher
Get them all on the table using a combined order. This is your surprising flanking force. They will make it to the objectives fast. The FOs are specialists in case you need them. They can also assist the light grenade launcher in case there is a cluster of enemy troops such as a fireteam.
3 Metros with Rifles
1 Metro with HMG
1 Jaques Bruant Lieutenant
Your fireteam. In a lower point game, I don’t think it is such a great idea to have a fireteam made up of expensive troopers. Jaques is the exception, but he has got an attitude, a molotok and an X-visor.
1 Chausseur Minelayer
Never leave home without at least one chausseur.
GROUP B
112
Just like in the first list.
Well, the only thing stopping me from starting a MRRF force is the fact I have 3 other armies already…
So many cool armies, so little time to play them all… 🙁
Tell me about it! 😛
I must say, DO NOT take the Metro w/ the LGL profile. He uses .5 swc and is useless in a link team. Use the model sure, but pay for the 8 pt rifle Metro. Sure, if you have no where else to put the points or swc……..You’ll still never use it
The Zouave Forward Observer is a great profile. Even for the .5 swc. This dude is awesome and super versatile within 16″. Plus a Specialist for 21 friggin points!
You don’t really want to compare him to the Chausseur Minelayer, since they seem to have different roles
I tend to agree on the metro lgl. unlikely to get these two blasts in.
I could also get a chaseur FO instead of a zouave. The chasseur got camo.
Also, the metro lgl is ejected from the link as soon as he spec fires. Would he still get the 2 shots in this case?
no. but he can shoot twice against visible targets. You may have noticed that I have only included the lgl in the first list. That is because I wanted to use all the models from the starter box. I think my text makes it quite clear that I do not really recommend the metro lgl.
Well, N3 actually nerfed the LGLs pretty much. But this is true across all the factions & sectorials.
Still, there are no “shadow zones” any longer, and if you manage to get more than one target under the template of your LGL in LoS mode, optimum range and having the Link Team bonuses, I’d consider it totally worth it.
Sure, it is pretty a situational weapon, and you have to wage whether it is worth the extra 4 points (and 0,5 SWC), but I wouldn’t call it useless…
I wouldn’t get the link team bonus. As soon as he spec fires he pops out of the link team
Well, please note I mentioned LoS (line-of-sight) mode. Or, if you prefer RL military terminology, direct fire mode.
In that case, all the Link bonuses do apply, and the user isn’t excluded form a Link Team. Sure, it isn’t as deadly (or long ranged) as ML or HRL in their Blast Mode (especially in Active turn), but it is also cheaper a bit than these. And still capable of killing more than one bird with one stone.
Plus, not every Linkable unit has access to a missile or rocket launcher. Metros are such a case.
Well there we have it then 😉
Thanks for the write-up, PoD!
What do you think of the Loup-Garous though? Vital, Aggressive Launcher, Boarding Shotgun, Flash Grenades, and X-Visors all round. And they can be linked.
A good offensive link, or just not workable cause of zero specialists?
Also: Briscards?? 😉
Cheers!