Shaking The Rust Away

This is my focal point!

"Alright boys, bring her in and get her on the lift. Oh lordy, it's worse than we thought. I didn't know that rust could grow on top of rust! Bloody things weren't built to last five years, let alone two hundred and fifty. Right, get the WD40 out, we could be here a while!"

While my boys work on the latest Alfa Romeo they have brought in to be reconditioned and pimped out, come in and sit down in the office of my underground garage bunker and share some whisky. Well, more moonshine than whisky. Well, more pure diesel than moonshine. Living in occupied New London is hard...
On Tuesday I had my first game with Resistance since playtesting, and I can tell you that I've been really looking forward to this. I've been a total Jellyhead for the last nine months or so, and to shift to the other side feels strangely liberating!

For starters, the models! The beautiful, riveted models! Cars and tanks and trucks and helicopters - it's all so cool. I now get to fiddle and play with my collection of the best looking models in the game (I mean no offense to the Scourge, but y'know...)! They're not necessarily all made yet, but who really has time to assemble and pin a Thunderstorm; the size of the model makes me feel like I should take it to an actual garage. It's like a kit-car! Generally though the reason most of the models haven't been finished is that I have grand plans for this army, so a lot is blu-tac'd together and will be for a while. Apologies to my future adversaries, but you're going to be playing against Scourge Warriors rather than Occupation Vets for a while.

Let's talk about the list and the game. I've been preaching for a while now that the Resistance are a shoe in for a duel commander lst, and as I think the saying goes 'If a man ain't worth his word, he ain't worth salt'. The more I read that the less correct it feels. Who's valued in salt? Anyway, duel commanders. One Thunderstorm and one Alexander, forming together to become the Thundexander! These units form the bulk of the AT (and points), so I have filled the rest with the general units required to win at DzC. I say general units, the list may have three squads of Occupation Veterans in it... At first glance it may look light on AT, but never underestimate a drive-by Veterans unit. I've lost a ton of units down to just forgetting that these guys pack an E11 shot that veeeeeery rarely misses. Here, take a butchers at the list:

The list delivers a hard punch, but lacks in areas

For the game I played Alex (Mr Epitude Rusk) and his PHR in Take and Extract. This is far from my favourite mission, but it posed a good general test run for all of my units.

The result of the game was unexpectedly great. I won by six to five VPs, and if using the KP table it would have been by a large margin more. The only walker poor Alex had left was his Zeus... The Vets took out two Helios and an Odin; I told you not to underestimate them! I ran the Thunderstorm up one flank supported by the Cyclones and a squad of Gun Wagons. The Thunderstorm laid waste to a Helios, Menchit and Phobos (and a half), and completely dominated his side of the board. Meanwhile the Alexander trundled around the central FP, finishing of damaged units. 

The synergy between the Thunder and Alex is interesting. The hover-beast is undoubtedly a better unit, but in its own way the Alex is sly. It can remain on the edge of an opponents focus due to the slab of warmachine flying around elsewhere, and take pop shots at buildings and vulnerable units. It is very much a hunter of the weak. My only two complaints with it is that I keep rolling ones for the large gun (not sure I can blame the Alex for that though, stupid hands) and I wish the E7 guns were E8. It would mean that they can do more than simply shoot buildings!

I'm looking forward to getting more games in with these bad boys, and will keep you posted on every step of the way!