Starting with the Imperial Secret Service
List 4: Off to the ITS!
This list is designed with ITS in mind. Specialists are needed to claim objectives, so they are present in the list.
What you need:
Starter Boxed Set
Sophotect Boxed Set
YaoKong Boxed Set
YaoXie Boxed Set
Kuang Shi Boxed Set
Dakini Blister
Celestial Guard Boxed Set
The List:
Sophotect (Combi Rifle)
Yudbot (Servant)
Celestial Guard (Hacker)
YaoKong WeiBing (Combi Rifle/Forward Observer)
YaoKong HuSong (Heavy Machine Gun)
YaoXie Lu Duan (MK12)
YaoXie Rui Shi (Spitfire)
Zhanying (Forward Observer)
Celestial Guard (Kuang Shi Control Device)
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Celestial Guard (Combi Rifle)
Celestial Guard (Boarding Shotgun)
Celestial Guard (Spitfire)
Celestial Guard (Kuang Shi Control Device)
Kuang Shi (Chain Rifle)
Kuang Shi (Chain Rifle)
Kuang Shi (Chain Rifle)
Kuang Shi (Chain Rifle)
Wu Ming (Forward Observer)
Dakini Tacbot (Paramedic)
300 points/4.5 SWC
A high amount of orders, and decent attack pieces to deal with any threat! And a lot of great specialists to booth! This is a list fit for ITS
Dakinis are another Aleph back-up. Fast-moving Silhouette 2 Remotes with Mimetism. The Dakini is a specialist, and in the second combat group he has a lot of orders to claim some first turn objectives quick.
YaoXies are Yu Jing’s Assault Remotes. Armed and fast, with a couple of gadgets. The Lu Duan is a attack remote that can duplicate his image with holographs. 3 attack remotes, and only one is real. That makes the Lu Duan pretty survivable in the active turn, when the opponent only has one burst to spread out on 3 ‘images’. It comes with a MK12, a Heavy Flamethrower and has a Multi Spectral Visor Lv1 to deal with some ODD and camo.
The Rui Shi is like an upgraded Lu Duan, with a higher burst weapon, and Multi Spectral Visor Lv2. It misses out on the Flamethrower and the holographic images, though. But the MSV2 can give it the edge against many enemy units. The visor ignores all the modifiers on Camo, TO Camo and ODD. Not bad at all!
Both YaoXie are ARM0, so keep them in cover, otherwise they turn to paper quickly.
Fairy dust is an entire Order and will kick the Hacker out of the Link.
Smoke is a fine thing, but the kuang shi have to act before the smoke-lgl, still vrry usable, but you have to be carful with the kuang shi.
Sprinkle dust as a first order and form a link afterwards. And same goes for the Kuang Shi, have them start as a link, and you will negate their impetuousness in your first turn. Lots of ways to get the most out of what you bring. 🙂
Yes you can Do that, but It will also cost you a command token…
Could always just take a Wu Ming fire team with a Tinbot. Hell, Tinbot, FO, and HMG/MULTI Rifle + LGL is a fine budget fire team that can get a lot done. Especially in an ISS list.
I also didn’t see you mention anything about Wu Ming being sans-Cube, Scorch! Huge deal when CA players in your meta try to spring Sepsitor on your precious fire team. Same thing goes for the Su Jian.
Add in some Quack Sheep and their handler, a Zhanying Hacker (I know, no model but we can proxy), and a Dakini Paramedic.
http://goo.gl/nD2j8H
3 specialists isn’t terrible for 200pts in ITS, but it’s hard enough to do so and stack a HI fire team. Especially, since the Wu Ming has 2 juicy ARM3 BTS3 PH13 wounds to get through.
Cheers
Good and tough list, GhostWolves. The ones in the article are just one of the countless options available! 🙂
True, there is a cost. But I see no reason to save 4 of them for a ‘later moment’ that might never come! 😉
That’s why I love Infinity. No two lists have to be the same. We both offered something interesting and playable. This is what makes Infinity unique and fun. The list is a small facet that can show off a players skill.
Agreed! 🙂 These articles are meant for the new players, in a way of showing the flexibility you can bring! 🙂
last night i played with one of your lists. Since i have problems with list building in IS. I used list based on Su Jian. Only things i have changed where 1 celestial guard hacker instead of regular one and i have added Ninja Hacker. Changes where made as we played for 250 pts. During my 2nd and 3rd ,I have made bad tactical decisions (like going in h2h with Armored Brigade and getting hit by combi rifle from last specialist from my enemy) Should have just shoot that guy (last specialist) and i would have win that game, as my opponent didn’t had sized any objectives by that point. Kuang Shi, they ended up dead in my 2nd turn, but they returned themselves but killing around 100 points [great unit]. Next on my list to try is your list with Crane (as i love that model). Over all very good army list (sujian one) thanks a lot for your effort of helping noobs like me 🙂
You’re welcome! 🙂 It was a joy coming up with some lists. I’m a big fan of the Ninja Hacker in N3, but I feel it’s too expensive for a 200 point list. Good choice to pick that one if you expand the list to 250 points!
And you took out 100 points with a couple of Kuang shi? That’s not bad! 😉 Points well spent!
Enjoy your game with the Crane list. 🙂 I’m still waiting for the model myself.. 🙁 LGS is a bit slow.