Xilos Campaign - Scenario 5 - Defenders 1000 points

Ghar Empire defending?  Surely not?  What could possibly have the great Ghar Empire on the back foot..? Oh yeah, that accursed, disgraced slave of an outcast Fartok!!

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As noted in the previous post for the Rebel list, the Xilos book suggests either 1,000 or 1,250 point forces, I’m going to stick to just 1,000 for now.

As the Ghar Empire is being attacked by Rebels lead by Fartok, seems the obvious choice to take is Karg, that ought to show those arrogant little upstarts a thing or two.

Force Selector

Force size	Points Value	Tactical (t)	Support (s)	Strategic (g)	Auxiliary (a)
Combat Force	1000	3-5	0-2	0-1	0-2

We need a minimum of 3 Tactical Choices.  Knowing that most of the Rebels have inferior (and probably scavenged from those abominations) putting our reliance into good proper well-made Ghar Battle Suits seems the right thing to do. 

Add in a Karg and see where that take us.

Scenario

There are 6 holding pens dotted around the battlefield.  As defenders we must stop the Rebels from opening any more than three of them due to the Victory Points on offer.  Therefore we’ll need units that can sit and hold objectives, is anyone else thinking battle suits?

Selecting the army

Karg is first on the list.  Let’s give him all the upgrades too, he deserves the extra few points, unless we run out of points of course.

Then a few units of battle suited Ghar and perhaps a Bomber squad too.

These are all quite expensive, so lets take a quick peek before we end up having to chop bits out…

(t) Battle Squad (184), Plasma Amps (+30) = 214
(t) Battle Squad (184), Plasma Amps (+30) = 214
(t) Assault Squad (184), Plasma Amps (+30) = 214
(s) Karg (264), Plasma Dump (+5), Plasma Amplifier (+10), Hand Picked Crew (+10) = 289
(s) Bomber Squad (127), Plasma Amps (+20) = 147
Total = 1,078 points & 6 (+5 Amp) order dice.

Well that awkward.  5 units and still over the limit.  No spare unit to put a “disruptor” dice on either.  How many units had I anticipated the outcasts bringing?  More than 10?  Hmmm…

There are 120 points in Plasma Amps in the above.   

The agonising question for all Ghar players.  To Plasma Amp or not to Plasma Amp?

I think in this scenario, as we’re defending I am going to risk not taking Plasma Amps throughout. 

Karg can also lose his Plasma Dump and Hand Picked crew too.

We’ll add a unit of outcasts which would allow only 14 points left...

(t) Battle Squad (184) = 184
(t) Battle Squad (184) = 184
(t) Assault Squad (184) = 184
(t) Outcasts (43) = 43
(s) Karg (264) = 264
(s) Bomber Squad (127) = 127
Total = 986 points & 7 order dice.

There’s not much in the Ghar list you can get for 14 points.  It is tempting to give the Outcasts plasma grenades in the hopes of letting them create minefields for the poorly armoured rebels to try and get past.  They could hopefully get a mine field or two down around some of the objectives too.

I think that’s sorted it then.

This makes the final list:

(t) Battle Squad (184) = 184
(t) Battle Squad (184) = 184
(t) Assault Squad (184) = 184
(t) Outcasts (43), Plasma Grenades (+12) = 55
(s) Karg (264) = 264
(s) Bomber Squad (127) = 127
Total = 998 points & 7 order dice.

We have 5 units that could potentially just sit on objectives and hopefully mutually support each other.  In fact we know we only have to defend four out of the six objectives, so perhaps 5 reasonably resistant units would work.

The minefield sowing outcasts are an interesting twist.

Just hope the lack of Plasma Amplifiers doesn’t come back and blow up in my face.

Until next time!