2nd that starco vibe!

Thankyou :)

Hey Matt - how soon is your event? I'm happy to do a report with that army and mission pair but if the event is coming up soon I'm also happy to respond here with some thoughts about how CA can approach it and some limitations we have in the scenario - just in case I can't get to it before the event.

@@R0bertShepherd that'd be great! the event is May 25th. The missions are: Round 1: Evacuation. Round 2: Mindwipe. Round 3: Supremacy. Round 4: Unmasking. Round 5: Decapitation I've watched most of your CA videos and enjoy using the Charontid quite a bit as well, so any input is welcome.

​@@mattstamps6341 ok so - for most factions, Evacuation is a mission that's more about managing your scoring expectations than *necessarily* adjusting your list, and focusing in particular on whatever it takes to get to 5 OP and stop your opponent from doing the game. The same is still somewhat true for Combined Army, but we have the additional caveat that all our REMs and all our Impetuous troops aren't going to be able to interact with the mission at all. So ideally what we want is a list that does some basic core good Combined Army stuff but flexes just a little to give us a few extra tools to get civilians extracted. Here's a sample list adjusted just very slightly from one I was looking to play at some point soon: glkNY29tYmluZWQtYXJteRRFdmFjdWF0ZSB5b3VyIGJvd2Vsc4EsAgEBAAoAgfIBCQAAg8UBAgAAhuMBAgAAgf4BAQAAhh0BAgAAhPsBBAAAgfgBBAAAgfgBBAAAgf8BAQAAgg8BAQACAQAFAIHzAQEAAIYkAQEAAIUQAQIAAIIUAQEAAIIUAQEA This is pretty much exclusively just cool and good things (TAG, giga-hackers, missile and pitcher play, warbands, plasma, etc) but it makes a couple small changes to accommodate Evacuation. Firstly, it adds a Motorised Bounty Hunter, who will be deploying non-impetuous and aiming to get to one or two civilians, pick them up, and then drive them back to the evacuation point for a qualified specialist to actually evacuate (the Charontid Hacker is outstanding for this with his stonking great WIP16). Otherwise we'll be using our hackers with pitchers to move up the field and grab specialists, do annoying hacker pitcher things and retreat back, or our more mobile elements like the Raicho and Vector to do things similar to the biker. (To note, on the Vector, I'm not totally sold on the B3 weapon unlinked so might cut the libertos mine to upgrade it to a spitfire) We'll want to fight from behind a repeater network, scalpel out targets, trade with our warbands, and generally focus on getting the all-important 5 points while staying ahead of our opponent and keeping them down. This list should also serve your other scenarios quite well and I'd honestly happily play it in all five missions, potentially alongside something like a Charontid + Anathematic list or maybe a Charontid HMG + Sheshkiin 1SWC Gun Club list. Another option if you wanted to tech specifically for evacuation, and it's a bit spicy, is the Avatar. At WIP17 on a 6-4 move platform with more orders than god, the big kahuna doesn't need to roll to pick up civilians (17+3=20) and can grab two, get the back to the beacon, and then pop out the scindron to perform the evacuation on 13s typically with orders to spare. The downside, like all Avatar lists, is that you have to manage the risk of losing the Avatar. But if you're comfortable piloting the mother of all TAGs, it's a viable choice.

@@R0bertShepherd that list is spicy and I like it. what would your "general gameplan" be for each turn with that list (assuming things go as planned in a vacuum)? Evacuation feels so order intensive that I have a more difficult time determining the best time to play the objective, given orders can be quite depleted by turn 3.

​@mattstamps6341 for evacuation in particular I'll usually spend the first turn trying to damage my opponent and set up a repeater network if one will be useful. Any attack that limits their capabilities is worthwhile to set up the rest of the game. From turn two onwards you shift focus to the mission, doing things like grabbing civilians and pulling them back toward your extraction point. Generally I've found you want to just get them back to your part of the table then spend all of turn 3 yeeting them into space and doing whatever else you can to score points.

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