Help!! 25pt Highlander

[mongoose1]

Hi everyone,
I was hoping to enlist some help for ideas in an upcming highlander tournament.
Im not having much luck coming up with a list I like the look of so thought I would ask some fellow swans.
The format for this tourney is: 1 caster, 1 Jack, 1 Unit and 1 Solo then the rest of the points will be made up of warjacks and battle engines.
No Mercs are allowed Unless its a Merc army.
I was originally going to go with Darius a unit of field machanics, Arlan then load up on jacks but the TO severely nerfed Darius by making the halfjacks the solo then allowing me to only have one. (there goes my idea of a fun not so competitive list) So im just gonna have to go all out on this one.
I have pretty much every unit for Cygnar with the exception of trenchers but would be willing to buy a unit if I thought a list had good potential.

Any help would be much appreciated.

cheers

[Hughmanx]

Have you thought of asking the TO if the Halfjacks count towards the solo count because it's not like Darius needs the disadvantage and to be honest it makes him unplayable which would be so bad if he was the best caster in the game however he is not.

What casters are you looking at aside from Darius?

[mongoose1]

Yes the halfjacks do count as the solo choice which I would have been fine with cos it leaves me more points for jacks but I would also be limited to having only one halfjack in play at the begining of the game so by the time I get three up the game would just about be over at 25pt so I totally disagree with thier decision and ruling as other casters with solos also are allowed them however most of them actually have a melee ability. ***.

So Ive decided if I go that I may use Stryker2 Haley2 Caine2 or maybe Nemo2 but im really not sure plus I may need to come up with 2 lists as chances are at 25pts I may not be that good against both hordes and warmachine in the one list.

cheers

[mongoose1]

Back again.
Got my minuteman today and was thinking of putting him in an Caine2 list this is what im thinking:

Caine2 +5
Defender 9
Minuteman 5
Squire 2
ATGM 6
Officer 2
Hunter 6

I think this could work but im not sure how well it would work in SR2012
Anything you would change?
Only one im really not sure about is the squire as im not sure I really will make much use of him in this list.

cheers

[george]

you might like to try this list:
e.haley (+5)
stormclad (10)
thorn (8)
stormblades (5)
w. u.a. (3)
1 storm gunner (1)
junior (3)

[bStyker]

Interesting Format. Seems like a bit of a bother with the rules however...

I'd probably bring this:

eStryker (+6)
-Rowdy (9)
-Lancer (6)
Stormlances (max) (11)
Katherine Laddermore (5)
=25pts
Or

pHaley (+5)
-Defender (9)
-Squire (2)
Storm Strider (9)
Stormblades w UA & 2 WAs (10)
=25pts

Both of them would do well, having answers for multiple major threats and some board/zone control.

Best,

[DonJean]

One other thing I would suggest you check wether or not you need you need to fill each requirment. I'm building a list myself and in my tournament I must field a Unit and Solo. this means I can't just fill a list with jacks or beast. If you don't need to field either it can free up some points/