Orion loadouts

[McKinstry]

So now that the Orions are hitting the shelves (and are great models), what are your 100-1500 point fleets and how are you configuring the optonal weapons mounts?

So far I'm leaning towards drone and phaser 1 heavy.

 

[Da Boss]

I don't like the mdoels so won't be getting them but your suggestion does seem a good choice.

 

[Captain Jonah]

Well the cheesey option is three Cruisers packing 6 Drones each to annoy the heck out of people with your 18 Drones per target salvo.

It depends a lot on your play style. The Orion can play as most races but with a bit of stealth, good mobility and lacking the Race special.

Drones will be the most dangerous one but with good mobility and that extra stealth a few Raiders can hug the terrain and get close enough to dump Plasmas in your rear of you are not careful.

Photons and Disruptors less useful since the ships only have a few optional mounts each though going with a Pirate swarm could be funny till you run out of raiders.

 

[MongooseMatt]

I don't like the mdoels so won't be getting them but your suggestion does seem a good choice.

Can I ask you to hold judgement on them for now? Got something coming up that may change your mind

 

[McKinstry]

From what I saw on the ADB Forum, the models were very well received and are certainly a dramatic upgrade from their 2400 series equivalents. Personally I think my Light Raiders and Salvage Cruisers are great and will look very good without having to go through great lengths on the paint jobs.

 

[Captain Jonah]

I don't like the mdoels so won't be getting them but your suggestion does seem a good choice.

Can I ask you to hold judgement on them for now? Got something coming up that may change your mind

Don't you just hate a tease :roll:

 

[storeylf]

All phasers are very nice. Power drain, what power drain, oh you mean fire phasers only.

 

[Da Boss]

From what I saw on the ADB Forum, the models were very well received and are certainly a dramatic upgrade from their 2400 series equivalents. Personally I think my Light Raiders and Salvage Cruisers are great and will look very good without having to go through great lengths on the paint jobs.

I just don't like the look of them - I like the Klingons, many (but not all) of the Romulans, the Tholians and some of the Feds - I am quite taken by some of the new style Gorn but don't like the Kzinti at all.

I am intrigued as to what the secret new Orion ships is - I have seen the proposed other new Orions on the ADB board but again not to my taste.....

 

[AdmiralGrafSpee]

I'd be tempted to go all phasers. Drones were the definite choice before the changes to the drone rules. With phasers you can just stay on going fast or powering up shields forever.

-Tim

 

[dinnermeat]

Not a fan of the all phasers too little damage and kinda boring, best layouts i think are salvage cruisers with either disrupters or more drones for long range, destroyers for mid/close range with photons. Destroyers i think are more worth the little extra 30 points and turn 3 agile, all power to weapons gets you up to a max 24 hits with photons!

 

[Keeper Nilbog]

Light Raider with all P-1 seem a no brainer = 6 x P-1, all able to fire forward, on a ship with 20 shields (BEtS anyone 8) ). The heavier ships (Raider and Salvage Cruiser) could go with heavier systems - Photon's (not sure), disruptors and drones. Don't really see Plasma's (and i;m a plasma race player) as that effect for Orion's, until they get access to 'G/S Types'

 

[McKinstry]

Light Raider with all P-1 seem a no brainer = 6 x P-1, all able to fire forward, on a ship with 20 shields (BEtS anyone 8) ). The heavier ships (Raider and Salvage Cruiser) could go with heavier systems - Photon's (not sure), disruptors and drones. Don't really see Plasma's (and i;m a plasma race player) as that effect for Orion's, until they get access to 'G/S Types'

Other than a Light Raider ship or two in an entire fleet for sneaking in a photon thump, I just don't see a twin disruptor working for the Raider and Salvage ships but a bunch of Phaser 1's in lots of initiative sink types with a core of drone chuckers seems kind of nasty.

 

[JohnDW]

As a romulan player, I'd say I would love to play against the drone orions vs my cloaks. The phasers and disruptors seem the most potentially threatening, but a lucky photon or two are really hurty.

 

[billclo]

Is there any particular reason the Orions aren't allowed to use Plasma torpedoes in the option mounts?

I don't recall seeing any errata allowing them to use them, and there is no mention of plasmas being allowed in the option mounts.

 

[mdauben]

Can I ask you to hold judgement on them for now? Got something coming up that may change your mind

The glimpses we've already seen of the Orions already have my mouth watering, Matt! The idea of even more Orion goodness just makes my head spin! :lol:

 

[scoutdad]

Is there any particular reason the Orions aren't allowed to use Plasma torpedoes in the option mounts?

I don't recall seeing any errata allowing them to use them, and there is no mention of plasmas being allowed in the option mounts.

The three Orion ships in teh core rulebook are just a taste, as it were. There are more Orions (and more weapon choices) on the way, in future expansions.

 

[Myrm]

Is there any particular reason the Orions aren't allowed to use Plasma torpedoes in the option mounts?
I don't recall seeing any errata allowing them to use them, and there is no mention of plasmas being allowed in the option mounts.

I assume its a simplistic set of Orion mounts so far with the limited vessels and we will see more in the future. Im tempted to test permitting PlasmaFs in single options and Gs in a double as an experimental thing.

 

[Nerroth]

Both the Tholian and Orion rules seem to echo the way in which both were treated in Federation Commander; where placeholder rules (which essentially echo those you see currently in ACtA:SF) were in the FC: Klingon Border rulebook, but were later expanded upon in Tholian Attack and Orion Attack respectively.

So, if book 2 is set to include at least some of the data from those two FC modules, I would imagine that more comprehensive option mount rules will be offered once that file is fit for publication.