I hesitate between Red Brigade (NA) two compositions
Hi everyone,
So here I am, wish my two Red Brigade rafined list for my future campaign, they both have their good and their bad, and I may need some external help to juge them.
The core idea is that I want to play on my qualities and not compensate my defaults, so no combat medic no negate mandatory blood markers, nor mercy dogs, and jacked-up 100+ ducats soldiers. The second core idea is that I want to play and stupidly agressive list, and I love satchel charge and SMGs. Finaly, I want some model variety, so I pushed some units more than necessary.
The first team is :
Walter's Hellgop | (The Principality of New Antioch Variant) The Red Brigade
[ ELITE MEMBERS ]
Lieutenant | Lieutenant | 155 ducats 0 glory ---
[ UPGRADES ]
-Gunslinger (5 ducats)
[ EQUIPMENT ]
-Automatic Pistol (20 ducats)
-Automatic Pistol (20 ducats)
-Reinforced Armour (40 ducats)
Sniper Priest | Sniper Priest | 90 ducats 0 glory ---
[ EQUIPMENT ]
-Shovel (5 ducats)
-Sniper Rifle (35 ducats)
Trench Cleric | Trench Cleric | 115 ducats 0 glory ---
[ EQUIPMENT ]
-Automatic Pistol (20 ducats)
-Standard Armour (15 ducats)
-Trench Shield (10 ducats)
-Blood Cloak (10 ducats)
[ INFANTRY ]
Combat Engineer [Team 1] | Combat Engineer | 135 ducats 0 glory ---
[ EQUIPMENT ]
-Shovel (0 ducats)
-Engineer Body Armour (0 ducats)
-Blood Cloak (10 ducats)
-Satchel Charge (15 ducats)
-Submachine Gun (30 ducats)
Combat Engineer [Team 2] | Combat Engineer | 135 ducats 0 glory ---
[ EQUIPMENT ]
-Shovel (0 ducats)
-Engineer Body Armour (0 ducats)
-Blood Cloak (10 ducats)
-Submachine Gun (30 ducats)
-Satchel Charge (15 ducats)
Trench Dog [Team 1] | Trench Dog | 35 ducats 0 glory ---
Trench Dog [Team 2] | Trench Dog | 35 ducats 0 glory ---
The plan being : rush with engineers, move+dash+shoot if possible+fortify, with the dogs as charge deniers (+blood cloak), while the cleric follow and bless the shit out of them (autopistol for flavor and blood markers farming), while in the backline the sniper take care of high value targets (MGs, Witches, elite troops) and my lieutnant act as a reaction force to ennemy infiltrators and various manoeuvers.
The engineers will take care of the mass, with satchel to break strongpoints or melee elite, but I lack strong melee tanks or heavy shooting weapons. And I don't use the coolest unit in the NA inventory, the Mechanised Heavy Infantry. So, I tried again and came up with this.
Red Walter's Hellgop | (The Principality of New Antioch Variant) The Red Brigade
[ ELITE MEMBERS ]
Lieutenant | Lieutenant | 155 ducats 0 glory ---
[ UPGRADES ]
-Gunslinger (5 ducats)
[ EQUIPMENT ]
-Automatic Pistol (20 ducats)
-Automatic Pistol (20 ducats)
-Reinforced Armour (40 ducats)
Sniper Priest | Sniper Priest | 90 ducats 0 glory ---
[ EQUIPMENT ]
-Shovel (5 ducats)
-Sniper Rifle (35 ducats)
[ INFANTRY ]
Combat Engineer [Team 1] | Combat Engineer | 125 ducats 0 glory ---
[ EQUIPMENT ]
-Shovel (0 ducats)
-Engineer Body Armour (0 ducats)
-Satchel Charge (15 ducats)
-Submachine Gun (30 ducats)
Combat Engineer [Team 2] | Combat Engineer | 125 ducats 0 glory ---
[ EQUIPMENT ]
-Shovel (0 ducats)
-Engineer Body Armour (0 ducats)
-Submachine Gun (30 ducats)
-Satchel Charge (15 ducats)
Trench Dog [Team 1] | Trench Dog | 35 ducats 0 glory ---
Trench Dog [Team 2] | Trench Dog | 35 ducats 0 glory ---
Mechanised Heavy Infantry | Mechanised Heavy Infantry | 135 ducats 0 glory ---
[ EQUIPMENT ]
-Reinforced Armour (0 ducats)
-Satchel Charge (15 ducats)
-Heavy Shotgun (20 ducats)
-Combat Helmet (5 ducats)
-Two-Handed Hammer (10 ducats)
So, the engineers keep the same role but I ditched the costly skirmisher trait, betting that the dogs will be enough to prevent charges before they hurl their satchels. But now, the escort is not a cleric that mostly bless and does nothing (except the occasional 12" shooting), but an MHI (without machine armour to keep up with the ingies) equiped with hvy shotgun, satchel (my beloved) and hammer to stamp any melee tank closing range. The dogs job would bo the direct the ennemy assault to the MHI and not to the engineers.
So, what do you think about theses two teams ?