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List 3: The Swift Sword Strikes Quickly

This list features the Su Jian, one very unique Heavy Infantry that really shows why Yu Jing is the powerhouse when it comes to Heavy Infantry. The list is a bit expensive to start with, but I seriously doubt you won’t be using ALL of those models if you venture into 300 point, tournament style play. I’d say it’s a very good starter investment! 😉

What you need:

Starter Boxed Set

Kuang Shi Boxed Set

Celestial Guard Boxed Set

Su Jian Boxed Set

Yao Kong Boxed Set

Sophotect Boxed Set

The List:

Su Jian (Spitfire)

Celestial Guard (Kuang Shi Device)

Kuang Shi (Chain Rifle)

Kuang Shi (Chain Rifle)

Kuang Shi (Chain Rifle)

Kuang Shi (Chain Rifle)

Sophotect (Combi Rifle)

YaoKong WeiBing (Forward Observer)

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Celestial Guard (Boarding Shotgun)

Celestial Guard (Combi Rifle)

Celestial Guard (Hacker)

Celestial Guard (Spitfire)

200points/4SWC

This list is designed for the Su Jian and it comes in with 12 orders! 12 orders at 200 points is amazing. And it’s all thanks to the Kuang Shi.

The first combat group consist of 8 orders to power the beast that is the Su Jian. You can link the Kuang Shi (yes, they have that amazing feature!) so that they lose their Impetuous state. This to make sure they won’t run off first turn to get shot! Would be a waste of orders, am I right?

Link them, and put them somewhere safe. Let the Su Jian finish the job. Make sure to use the Celestial Guard hacker to protect the Su Jian with fairy dust from a hack-attack. Would be a waste to see your Su Jian immobilized in the first turn.

8 orders to run your Su Jian around. At this level of points, that’s a lot of mobility in an, already very mobile, attackplatform like this.

If you happen to lose the Kuang Shi during the game, you can always use your Command Tokens to switch the Celestial Guard with the Kuang Shi device over to the other combat group and exploit the full potential of a linkteam. Or leave her there for the order contribution.

Anyway, let’s look at the models!

The Su Jian is a high-tech experimental Heavy Infantry. Yes. It’s a heavy Infantry. Not a Remote. This allows the Su Jian to dodge without modifiers and to go prone, which the Remotes can not do. But it doesn’t have Wounds. The Strength attribute allows the Su Jian to make use of the Remote Presence ability, which grants it a extra level of Unconsiousness.

If you think that’s a weird and niche combination of skills, let’s take a further look!

The Su Jian can transmutate like a transformer. It has two options: High Mobility platform, which grants it a very fast movement of 12 inch total per order, and Climbing Plus to skip over any objective in its way.

The other platform is the Combat form, where it loses out on the mobilty (back to 4-2) and Climbing Plus, but instead gains higher BS and CC stats.

In every other way, the Su Jian works like a Heavy Infantry and has high ARM and BTS stats and 2 Strength. It’s a fast moving tank that can skip and slide over almost any kind of terrain only to transform itself into a terrible fighter.

The Su Jian comes with a Spitfire, a Flamethrower and a Panzerfaust, so he basically has an answer for every kind of target.

Note that G: Remote Presence of the Su Jian basically gives it 4 Wounds. 2 Wounds before it goes unconscious, and when unconscious, he can take another level of unconsciousness before it really dies. That means your opponent has to make 4 hits at a ARM4/BTS6 model to really remove it off the table.

It also allows you to take 4 hits and still be able to heal the Su Jian with the Sophotect, one of Aleph’s auxiliar troops of the ISS.

The Sophotect is there to protect the Su Jian and keep it going if anything might happen to it. It’s a skilled Engineer and Doctor (WIP 15) with fast movement and No Wound Incapacitation to take a hit before passing into death-state.

She can help you keep the Su Jian running if it takes a hit.

YaoKong WeiBing is one of the four types of YaoKong Support Remote models. This one comes equipped with a Combi Rifle, Sensor and Sniffer (a Sensor range repeater), Forward Observer skills, a Deactivator for enemy mines and repeaters, and it has its own Repeater to booth, allowing your hacker to defend the Yaokong through its repeater.

Not a bad toolkit for 16 points, right?! This is your primary anti-camouflage model in your list, if we don’t count the Su Jian’s Flamethrower. 😉