Non-Dwarf Mercenary Condensed Tacticas

[PG_Valkine]

There are two reasons to use the Tactica's gathered here. The first is if you're interested in picking up a Mercenary army for the first time and want to know both if you should and what would best suit your interests. The second is if you want to add Mercenaries to an army you already have, be it a Merc army or one of the 'real' factions. The articles below should be pretty self explanatory but for the sake of the first group I'll try and outline some of the key elements of the Merc play style.

It's quite hard to nail down exactly what the Merc play style is as Mercs are first and foremost a diverse group. The Talion Charter under Shae plays very differently to Searforge Commission under Gorten. That having been said there are a few trends that apply to the majority of Merc armies. Firstly, Mercs are not a faction for you if you just want powerhouse warcasters and amazing character jacks (although this latter one might change with the release of Wrath). Merc warcasters are good, don't let anyone tell you otherwise, but they tend to be good all rounders with no one caster being picked out as the best caster in the game at X thing. This means that we tend to have fewer bad match ups but we also depend more on player skill. Our warjacks aren't the best in the game (there are no Death Jacks or Avatars here) but they're all around good. In fact, the best way to describe Mercs would probably be jack of all trades master of none. Other players may of course disagree with this assessment, and I shall aim to edit this paragraph to reflect their criticisms/suggestions. In any case, Mercs are fun, give 'em a go!

General Merc Advice:
Mercenary Contracts by TheUnknownMercenary
Join the fight for a free Llael! By Brandubh
Ahoy Matey! Starting Talion are ye? By Mael
Mercenaries Battle College Page


Warcasters:
Captain Shae, Riding the Storm: A Pirate's Life Tactica By Vytzka
Captain Shae By Mael
Back in Black: A look at Fiona the Black By Devilsquid
Les tactiques de la Résistance: Ashlynn d’Elyse By Vytzka
Magnus1 by baronvonchaos
eMagnus, Way of the Warlord by Walter
Magnus1&2 by SpiralingCadaver [External link]
Drake Macbain By pRophaniti1978
"Broadsides" Bart By Mael
Rough Sale - A Bartolo Montador Tactica By Thamarite Merc
Captain Damiano By Vytzka
Constance Blaize ~ None Yet

Warjacks:
Buccaneer ~ By baronvonchaos
Renegade By baronvonchaos
Talon By Ger
Vanguard ~ None Yet
Freebooter By Canadianone
Mariner ~ None Yet
Mangler By baronvonchaos
Nomad ~ None Yet
Someone Get Frank! -A Mule Tactica by baronvonchaos
Rover ~ None Yet
Gallant ~ None Yet
Rocinante ~ None Yet

Colossal:
Galleon ~ None Yet

Units:
So you want to field Steelheads? By Devilsquid
Sea Dog Crew, Press Gangers, and Deck Gun By DaughterofFrankenstein
Alexia & the Risen By Ger
Same MacHorne & The Devil Dogs By Raincaller
Croe's Cutthroats By Lamoron (Warning: External link. Warning: May Contain Cryx)
Cylena Raefyll & Nyss Hunters ~ None yet
Greygore Boomhowler & Co. ~ No full tactica, but there's a good discussion of how to use them here
Dannon Blythe & Bull by Skywise (from Trollbloodscrum.com)
Lady Aiyanna & Master Holt By DaughterofFrankenstein
Arcane Tempest Gun Mages By Raincaller
Longgunners ~ None Yet
Idrian Skirmishers (Ally) ~ None Yet
Kayazy Eliminators (Ally) ~ By Tulsy
Kayazy Assassins (Ally) ~ None Yet
Precursor Knights (Ally) by Swashbuckler

Solos:
Lord Rockbottom, Doc Killingsworth, Bosun Grogspar, and First Mate Hawk By DaughterofFrankenstein
Dirty Meg By Raincaller
Eiryss, Mage Hunter of Ios ~ None Yet
Eiryss, Angel of Retribution ~ None Yet
Gorman Di Wulfe by baronvonchaos
Harlan Versh ~ None Yet
Kell Bailoch ~ None Yet
Madelyn Corbeau ~ None Yet
Orin Midwinter ~ None Yet
Ragman by daveholliday
Reinholdt ~ None Yet
Rupert Carvolo ~ None Yet
Saxon Orrick ~ None Yet
Gudrun the Wanderer ~ None Yet
Stannis Brocker & Steelheads By Devilsquid
Rutger Shaw By Raincaller
Taryn di la Rovissi ~ None Yet
Victor Pendrake ~ None Yet
Rorsh & Brine ~ None Yet
Wrong Eye & Snap Jaw ~ None Yet
Sylas Wyshnallyr ~ None Yet
Epic Alexia ~ None Yet

What about Searforge?:
Relasine has a pretty comprehensive write up of Searforge models located here.

More tacticas are always welcome. Many of the key Warcasters have been covered but some more information on 'jacks, units, and solos would be awesome!

[PG_Valkine]

Maybe I'm supposed to reserve space?

[PG_Valkine]

Others seem to do it for their tactica threads, so I guess I will too.

[PG_vytzka]

I approve of this thread!

Here's one of the better tactica articles I remember, Magnus theme forces by SpiralingCadaver:
http://privateerpressforums.com/show...e-list-tactics

[PG_Valkine]

I approve of this thread!

Here's one of the better tactica articles I remember, Magnus theme forces by SpiralingCadaver:
http://privateerpressforums.com/show...e-list-tactics

Included it above, cheers!

[HoldTheLine]

Walter has a pretty nice writeup on eMagnus here: http://privateerpressforums.com/show...of-the-Warlord

[viperidae99]

Don't mind me, it's already there...

[PG_Valkine]

Re-did opening post and edited the formatting a bit. Will probably go through a few more edits before I'm happy with it. As always, feedback is greatly appreciated. I'm thinking I might re-do the structure to be more Warcaster/Warjack/Unit/Solos instead of by Contract since there's a lot of overlap between the various contracts.

[PG_Valkine]

While the people this is of interest too might just be mostly myself and Vytzka I have re-edited everything again. I changed the structure and stole the idea of putting up Tacticas that have yet to be written from the Menoth forum. I also re-wrote the opening in hopes of it being more helpful than my earlier filler (which was mostly written to amuse myself), as always feedback and suggestions are greatly appreciated as are links to old tacticas.

[Thamarite Merc]

Mael's piece about the Talon chapter in general does cover the Talion units and solos pretty extensively, so you could just put the general link to the specific entries. If someday, someone writes something better and/or more specific, you could still enter a second link to the entry, I guess.
And, if someone is completely new to the game, and wants to find out about one of them, he might not be savvy enough to click on the general article, so I think it would be a good idea, too.

Same is true, afai remember for the general Steelhead article and at least Stannis Brocker and the Piper.

You probably should also make entries for Longgunners, Gun Mage Strike Force, Trenchers and Idryan Skirmishers, and for the available lesser Warlocks. There is quite a number of solos missing, too.

[PG_Valkine]

Thanks for the input! Updated the main post again to include more units and solos and links to main articles. Does anyone know how to link to a specific post in a thread? (I've seen it done but I don't know how to do it myself). Right now the Talion stuff just links to Mael's thread in General and I'd love to have it link specifically to the relevant posts, same with Devilsquid's Steelhead write up.

[PG_vytzka]

Look at the top right corner of my post. You'll see #12 there - that's the link to the post.

[PG_Valkine]

Look at the top right corner of my post. You'll see #12 there - that's the link to the post.

Cheers, will go fix the links now.

Edit: Fixt, also broke down Raincaller's excellent Jack Marshall thread into its component parts.

[amazonwarlord]

No one wants to write a McBain !!!!!! Tactica? He's the only (released) caster without one.

[raincaller]

Cheers, will go fix the links now.

Edit: Fixt, also broke down Raincaller's excellent Jack Marshall thread into its component parts.

Thats awesome and its nice that our sticky clutter has been cleared up too.

[Ger]

We now have a Talon Tactica thread. Link to it when you wish. I'll likely do more for the other jacks in a similar style. I expect I'll be less abusive however. (I say as I am totally planning to try a list that involves 3 of them)

[PG_Valkine]

We now have a Talon Tactica thread. Link to it when you wish. I'll likely do more for the other jacks in a similar style. I expect I'll be less abusive however. (I say as I am totally planning to try a list that involves 3 of them)

Added the link. I always approve of more tacticas, especially for warjacks since they were looking mighty underrepresented.

[Ger]

It's why I did the Talon. Figured it'd be pretty straight forward. Working on an Alexia one as you may see now. Finally found an old write up of mine I've been looking for. Should have just google searched the forum for it to begin with.

::EDIT::
I'll spend some time cleaning up the Talon Tactica again in the future. Next time I feel like working on it. What's up there didn't take too long. Though I put my usual level of "Look stuff up to make sure then post" and other crunching. Any criticism on the formatting would be useful to make it neater.

Btw for tacticas. What are the limits on stat posting? I'm trying to avoid but it's kinda hard not to go "And then you have a MaT 10 Pow 14+3d6 attack" at the end of trying to make a point.

[raincaller]

I typically use those kind of stat listings in the tacticas I wrote. Though you can just say with a boost hits def 18 on average rolls etc. Which probably help more people understand them... maybe

[pRophaniti1978]

I'm having a go at a Drake MacBain article, but I'll need some other input as I've only really used him in a tier list. I'll post it up late after I've done the first draft.

[PG_Valkine]

Hey guys, just a heads up that my computer died a couple of weeks back so I've been having less regular access to the internet than previously. As a result I haven't been able to check the forum as much so if you write up a tactica or see one that someone wrote that isn't stickied drop me a PM and I'll add it next time I'm online. This will really help me so that I don't have to scan through pages of topics that I've missed looking for any tacticas that may have dropped from the front page.

Cheers!

[Skywise]

I have a Dannon and Bull write up I did for trollbloodscrum that I could share here. Here's the link: http://www.trollbloodscrum.com/2011/...fe-bounty.html

[PG_Valkine]

I have a Dannon and Bull write up I did for trollbloodscrum that I could share here. Here's the link: http://www.trollbloodscrum.com/2011/...fe-bounty.html

Cool! I put a link to it up top.

[cannonball]

I've been play Ash now for a few games and must say having both Harlen and the Master Gunner open up with two Quad Irons on the feat turn is nasty. Good RAT's and the feat giving extra dice its impressive what the two can do. Also go for double powder ration and you extend the range to. For 4pts I think the duo is a great addition for her.

[canadianone]

http://privateerpressforums.com/show...the-freebooter

I just finished this write up for the freebooter if people think it is high enough quality for the tactica thread.