Revving Up The Engine Again

All I have so far, and this is about a third done...

With Invasion now in the past, I have decided to put my Scourge to bed (do Scourge dream of electric hosts?) and bring out the Resistance once more. I got my first game in with them for a while last Friday, against as fate would have it another Resistance army; even more coincidentally, the same one I played at Invasion (The gent attends our club, and had lent his army to my foe the evening)! Having stopped playing with our friends from Fury Road to practise with my Jelly's for Invasion, it was refreshing to jump back into a weather beaten, written off wagon and take it for a spin.

I punched out a win in a mission of Secure the Flanks, but with us both using an unfamiliar force it more of a lesson exercise. And, excuse the pun, boy was I rusty. On no less than three occasions I blocked the route for my Thunderstorm with a Kraken! Let's have a quick look at the list I was using.

This roster is deliberately a little experimental. Having been firmly embedded in the thought that fast movers are too unreliable for some time now, I've decided to pull a Quaid and open my mind. This game wasn't really the one to test its true worth (due to a lack of low armour, high importance units) but it did blow a Cyclone out of the sky! It turned up on turn 2, and by holding my forward observers back and out of harms way attack runs were never a worry. I have to admit that I enjoyed the threat that a Pathfinder can bring. My opponent, a chap named Adrian, said to me after the game that he positioned his Zhukovs to try and counter it, which more or less took them out of the game (thankfully). I did miss having 5 battle groups on the first turn mind you.

The Hannibals were also a surprise inclusion in the roster (I even surprised myself when taking them!). With the drop in points I thought them worth a pop as I needed a little more dedicated AT. Sadly I deployed them stupidly and got jumped by a Thunderstorm (yes, Thunderstorms can jump things, and yes it's terrifying) which left one limping about with a single DP. I think this turn out has actually made me reapect them a little, as being able to take multiple wounds is incredibly useful. Also due to the two average strength shots they are great at flanking and taking out lightly armoured targets. There are a couple of downsides however. The heavy tanks are poor at targeting A10 targets, and they need air support which can't always be available due to the almost erratic alpha-strike nature of Gun Wagons. One aspect of this Rusty Knuckle I did enjoy though was the Cyclone's; at close range they are lethal! Well, if you can roll a 4+ that is... Also when you place a large barrage template down, it's more or less impossible to miss. I'm looking forward to using these birds against the four other races!

The rest of the army forms a solid backbone, with ample AA, AT and Infantry. It's a shame I couldn't afford the AA upgrade on the Hannibal's Lifthawk, but oh well. I'm not particularly happy with the group lay outs at the moment, and I'd rather have the Gun Wagons split over two battlegroups. This of course would mean that all my infantry is one mega BG, which is even worse! This problem is due to taking the Pathfinder, as it takes has an activation all to itself. I can see this causing me a headache when it is shot down, as going down to five BG's can hurt. 

Giving the list a glance again now, I'm tempted to lose the drill. I have always, always, always said it should be a +1 unit in a Resi list, but if I drop it I can squeeze in a second squad of Freeriders and AA on that Lifthawk... Hmmm...

Such is the way of list building though. If you have any thoughts on my current list I'd love to hear them!