[SST] Air Units - how often
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Iain McGhee
Mongoose
Most games, mainly Ripplers for the Bugs and the UAV for the MI. Don't use the MI Dropships and fighters that much.
shotgun-toting chipmunk
Mongoose
Every game. I love me some drop capsules. 
I've used them for the bugs about 20% of the time.
I've yet to use them as the MI (though I don't play them much), but I'm REALLY itching to try a Viking and or TAC fighter. I (semi) recently got a TAC-UV but I've not played the MI since.
And the Skinnies really need more flyers to balance things out.
I've yet to use them as the MI (though I don't play them much), but I'm REALLY itching to try a Viking and or TAC fighter. I (semi) recently got a TAC-UV but I've not played the MI since.
And the Skinnies really need more flyers to balance things out.
Almost every game.
Drop Capsules and Missiles in practically every game, flying bugs in almost every and TAC Fighters (mostly Ground Support), too. Dropships appear from time to time, but not that often (though this could change when our pathfinder player gets his Spectre Slingshot^^).
Drop Capsules and Missiles in practically every game, flying bugs in almost every and TAC Fighters (mostly Ground Support), too. Dropships appear from time to time, but not that often (though this could change when our pathfinder player gets his Spectre Slingshot^^).
Before I sold my models and moved on with my life - every game. TAC UAV was an integral part of my marauders/pathfinder force, and one form of air unit or another would feature in any and all of the MI forces I would deploy.
Never much got into using flyers for the bugs though (aside from the overseer).
Never much got into using flyers for the bugs though (aside from the overseer).
When I play Mobile Infantry?
Every. Single. Game.
A single TAC fighter can wipe the table against the bugs. Even the plasma bug is not immune as the fighter can loiter outside AA range and salvo missiles at long range.
Even a Skyhook or a Viking provide fantastic air support - forcing Brains underground and diverting assets away from the troopers on the table.
For Bugs - Hoppers/Ripplers by the barrel. Mostly due to their stunning Hover attacks, but for use as CAP against the MI as well (though they don't stand up to TAC fighters real well).
Not played with Skinnies a lot - though they seem light on air assets.
Every. Single. Game.
A single TAC fighter can wipe the table against the bugs. Even the plasma bug is not immune as the fighter can loiter outside AA range and salvo missiles at long range.
Even a Skyhook or a Viking provide fantastic air support - forcing Brains underground and diverting assets away from the troopers on the table.
For Bugs - Hoppers/Ripplers by the barrel. Mostly due to their stunning Hover attacks, but for use as CAP against the MI as well (though they don't stand up to TAC fighters real well).
Not played with Skinnies a lot - though they seem light on air assets.
