Working on Blood, Sweat, and Tiers List for Gencon 35 Points

[PG_Crump]

Tournament is 35 points, tier 1 required. All of circles options seem lackluster to me so I looked at mercs. I'm not sure what theme forces are good in mercs, other than shae's so I've built the following:
Shae
-Nomad
4 Commodore
4 Aiyana & Holt
6 Press Gangers
11 Sea Dog Crew
-Walls+Rifleman
5 Sea Dog Crew
1 Bosun
1 Doc
1 Hawk
1 Rockbottom
1 Meg

Is meg worth having in the list over a rifleman? I don't have experience with mercs, to me I would think not but its nice to have 1 point solos to go control zones.

What are your thoughts on the list? What are other good merc theme forces? (Tier 1 only, just did Tier 3 shae because...well...why wouldn't you?)

[Eredhiel]

shae list pretty much writes itself. Meg is good for marshalling and is better with more jacks, but for 1 pt stall is a pretty good effect on her weapon, surely better than a rifleman.
personally, I prefer the freebooter to the nomad, but it's really up to your playing style

another easy list is Ashylinn. something on this line:

Ashlynn d'Elyse6
Freebooter6
Arcane Tempest Gun Mages (Leader and 5 Grunts)6
Arcane Tempest Gun Mage Officer2
Mule8
Captain Sam MacHorne & the Devil Dogs (Sam and 9 Grunts)75
Precursor Knights (Leader and 9 Grunts)85
Precursor Knight Officer & Standard2
Gorman di Wulfe, Rogue Alchemist2

[JohnOSpencer]

I like Dirty Meg. I don't think a single Rifleman can compare to her. She can repair your jacks and she has a pretty decent gun with a good special ability (Stall).




I like the MacBain theme list, you get a lot of cool units for cheaper and can include a weird variety of solos in it. It's almost like a combination of highborn and four star.

I usually run:

Contract/Theme
Soldiers of Fortune Tier 1
Model/Unit Pts
Drake MacBain (6)
>Nomad 6
>Talon 4
Taryn 2
Rutger 2
>Vanguard 5
Croe's Cutthroats (6) 6
Sam MacHorne & the Devil Dogs (10) 6
>Buccaneer 3
Dannon Blythe and Bull 3
Kell Bailoch 2
Alten Ashley 2
35

There's a lot of room for modification in this list. I rarely go above tier 1, but higher tiers aren't bad...just a bit scattershot.
Tier 4 at 35 could look something like this:

Contract/Theme
Soldiers of Fortune Tier 4
Model/Unit Pts
Drake MacBain (6)
>Nomad 6
>Nomad 6
Steelhead Cavalry (5) 10
Steelhead Halbrediers (6) 4
Steelhead Halbrediers (6) 4
Dannon Blythe and Bull 3
Gorman diWulf 2
Rhupert Carvolo 2
Alten Ashley 2
Kell Bailoch 2
35

If you don't mind going 1 point short, you can replace a solo and Blythe & Bull with Stannis.

[PG_DaveZee]

I have played that list, minus the nomad and second min sea dog unit, and with a rifleman, Mariner, and Buccaneer. Fast and effective and Tier 3.

[absent]

Drop your riflemen and 2nd unit of dogs, take a nomad, 2nd list either gorton or damiano. That is for the pastry, ask no more.

[PG_Crump]

Haha. I traded those out last night. I'm debating having that unit go to min seadogs and adding 3 riflemen. Wasn't sure if 3 rifles is better than 4 seadogs. Thanks for the suggestion on the second list, but it's a 1 lister.

[absent]

I'd just leave it a max unit, the cra's are nice in bigger games to mess with the enemy early, but they aren't really something i'd lose pirates over.

[Zeta_One]

I've used this list a few times and has worked out great.

Points: 35/35
Tiers: 4
Captain Phinneus Shae
* Buccaneer
* Nomad
* Nomad
Commodore Cannon & Crew
Lady Aiyana & Master Holt
Press Gangers (Leader and 9 Grunts)
Sea Dog Crew (Leader and 5 Grunts)
* Mr. Walls Sea Dog Crew Quartermaster
Bosun Grogspar
Dirty Meg
Doc Killingsworth
First Mate Hawk
Lord Rockbottom

[perilsensitive]

35 pMags T4:

Magnus
-Mangler
-Nomad
-Renegade
-Renegade

SH Halberdiers (max)
SH Cavalry (min)
Saxon Orrick
Gorman


35 Shae T3:

Shae
-Nomad
-Nomad
-Commodore

Sea Dogs (max)
-Walls
Press Gangers (max)
Aiyana & Holt
Doc
Hawk
Rockbottom
Grogspar
Meg