Zonn's Mindbreakers

[macnam]

Zonn's Mindbreakers
Pirate Large Crew

1 Veteran slot, 2 Regular slots, 3 Green slots

Slot 1: Captain (Master Mentalist Hero individual) - Zonn
Quality: Veteran
Race: Logician
Heavy Armored Suit, LRF Psychic Gun (range 15, strength 2+1d6, RoF 3:1, Mental, Terrifying), Personal Teleporter
M 2 RC 4+ CC 3 A 6 S 4 DR 5 W 2
Command, Get Up & Shoot, Mentalist (w/Inspire Terror), Master Mentalist (w/Kinetic Shield), Slow

Slot 2: Quartermaster (individual) - Inferior Intellect Primus
Quality: Regular
Race: Logician
Heavy Armored Suit, Psychic Rifle (range 20, strength 3+1d6, RoF 1:1, Mental, Terrifying), Personal Teleporter
M 2 RC 4+ CC 3 A 6 S 3 DR 4 W 2
Issue Equipment, Mentalist (w/Inspire Terror), Slow

Slot 3: Quartermaster (individual) - Inferior Intellect Secundus
Quality: Regular
Race: Logician
Heavy Armored Suit, Psychic Rifle (range 20, strength 3+1d6, RoF 1:1, Mental, Terrifying), Personal Teleporter
M 2 RC 4+ CC 3 A 6 S 3 DR 4 W 2
Issue Equipment, Mentalist (w/Inspire Terror), Slow

Slot 4: Crewmen (squad of 3) - Expendables A7A, D9K, D9X
Quality: Green
Race: Logician
Personal Teleporter, Self Destruct Mechanism
M 3 RC 5+ CC 2 A 1 S 2 DR 3 W 1
Mentalist (w/Inspire Terror)

Slot 5: Crewmen (squad of 3) - Expendables B2C, C6M, H5N
Quality: Green
Race: Logician
Personal Teleporter, Self Destruct Mechanism
M 3 RC 5+ CC 2 A 1 S 2 DR 3 W 1
Mentalist (w/Inspire Terror)

Slot 6: Crewmen (squad of 3) - Expendables J2J, K4B, Q7R
Quality: Green
Race: Logician
Personal Teleporter, Self Destruct Mechanism
M 3 RC 5+ CC 2 A 1 S 2 DR 3 W 1
Mentalist (w/Inspire Terror)

Dirty Trick to be decided - Surrender would help lower DR on key targets, but Regroup is extremely appealing for setting up a sudden surge of movement from the Expendables in reaction to an officer making a long teleport move.

Twelve models, six units, total of 15 wounds and 16 actions per turn on the table to start. Typically massive numerical edge over most enemies, and scoring bounty credits should be easy. A little weak against specialist melee types, might be worth taking Telekinetic Push on some models to help breaking away. Models immune to DR loss and psychic weapons are a major problem, and will have to be swamped with suicide bombers or clubbed to death in melee.

Overall plan is to teleport groups of crewman close to the enemy, setting up so they can chain-detonate when killed and catch multiple enemies in their blasts. If you let them live instead, they do massed Inspire Terror attacks to set up easy kills for the psychic guns - try not to outright rout targets until you've reached 1000 bounty credits. The officers should try to stay in a tight group to benefit from Kinetic Shield most turns, giving them A 9 (on Logicians, no less!). Careful use of their Terrifying guns should weaken target DR rating so Inspire Terror works better, which will in turn make the guns more deadly in later shots.

[Darkson]

Now get to painting. I need to see the crew.

[macnam]

Have to order the figs first. I haven't decided whether to do them in 15mm using Rebel or GZG Grays for the Expendables and something power-armored for the officers, or to do them in 28mm using Brigade Alien Invaders for the Expendables and Alpha Forge power armor suits for the officers.

But first, a few games with proxy figs to make sure I like the way it plays enough to stick with the configuration.

[Cilionelle]

Do the Expendables in 15mm regardless, and have the officers bigger! *evil grin*

[macnam]

The'll be bigger no matter what - all the power armor suits I'm looking at for them are quite bulky, especially the chunky Alpha Forge ones. I figure the Expendables can be proxied nicely with naked Grays - their teleporter and self-destruct devices being "psychic powers" rather than traditional gear - and they're traditionally puny no matter what scale they're done in.