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I’ve gone back to the M3 Alex as a commander (cheaper in points and easier to move around with the new firing rules after getting dropped off from a transport) and with the speed and weapon upgrades, I spammed a bunch of Freeriders to harken back to their pre-nerfed glory.\u00a0 I also jumped back to a bunch of Cyclone helicopters because the scenario boosted Barrage, which suited them better.\u00a0 A Barrel Bomber and two sets of the ever annoying Gun Wagons rounded out the group.<\/p>\n
As I try to do with all of these games, I try to make a list that forces me to paint up my backlog of units so this time I needed to complete the helicopter wings, allowing me to swap out the unit type (via the magic of magnets).<\/p>\n
Running this many Freerider biker squads meant I needed to paint up a bunch of new stands.\u00a0 Likely overkill as I don’t see myself running eight of these ever again but good to have them done and painted.<\/p>\n Last, I needed to get another set of Gun Wagons up to snuff.<\/p>\n This round is a little wacky.\u00a0 My friend is pretty annoyed at these lame-ass trucks having better anti-air guns than most of his advanced weaponry. Add to it that they are pretty fast at 6″, take 2 damage points to kill, and have armor high enough that small weapons fire does work and you get a lot “wtf” throwing around.\u00a0 To add insult to injury, I decided to put two of them in bright “we don’t belong on the battlefield” colors.\u00a0 I think it makes them look like broke-down fruit stand trucks, which maybe makes for even more gnashing of teeth with they take down unsuspecting aircraft.<\/p>\n That other odd duck is a little pet project of mine that got roped into service. The poor guy is so confused, being a kit bash of two of the truck models and sporting the wrong weapon type, this is a flame weapon, not an anti-air.\u00a0 The only thing he really has going for him is a nice shout out to another favorite famous truck of mine.<\/p>\n roll out!<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n Ok, enough about him.\u00a0 We’ll revisit him later.<\/p>\n It was another great game day at Funtastic Games and I drew our other PHR player as my opponent.\u00a0 This was great as I really don’t know much about this faction and it was a good learning experience.<\/p>\n I totally forgot I even had a camera until about halfway through the game but that was just a testament to how involved this one was.\u00a0 With all the environmental rules happening and the learning curve of figuring out what all those slightly different PHR walkers do, pictures were the last thing on my mind.<\/p>\n To start things off, we had massive debris chunks rain down on us over the first three rounds.\u00a0 Aside from wiping a particularly annoying AA walker in round three, all the debris ended up doing to smashing into buildings.<\/p>\n All this orbital debris funness did force a lot of use out of my random direction spinner I made for the last session.<\/p>\n The spinner proved easy to use and effective. I think I’ll finish it out by painting it up as well.<\/p>\n My opponent made great use of these open firing lanes with his AA walkers (at the top of the image on the road) and it started choking up my flight lanes so that I either had to go way out of my way to avoid them or risk some reaction-fire and some damage.\u00a0 Later on, I risked it and ended up losing things badly most of the time.<\/p>\n In those first three rounds, my bikers crashed into the closest building and picked up an objective right away and made it out of the building only to be the target of a fast-moving interceptor jet (the same model as what is on the spinner).\u00a0 Lucky for me my fruit truck AAs were wide awake and ended up taking it down early in its flightpath before it could take out the lone biker.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n