The Importance of Heroes with Infantry
Heroes play an important role leading infantry units in AT-43. While remaining fairly easy to kill, they bring many benefits to the battlefield. Some questions come up fairly often though. Why would you want to put your hero on foot vs in an AFV where they arguably are more protected? The Fire at Will combat drill is why. A unit that has a hero as an officer can spend 1 LP to increase the number of re rolls on their weapon profile by 1 if the unit doesn’t move that turn. This means that you can increase your effective range substantially.
For Red Blok you will find that Fire at Will is a tremendous benefit as you can engage units sooner and you’ll have more of those 2 damage rockets hitting home. For UNA it means you can add a reroll to your missiles. Therians can engage with their sonic guns from father out and karmans don’t have to worry about their rocket launchers or drum pistols missing as much.
This will help to remove some of the disadvantages some of your units have, while still being balanced. A hero is easily sniped for instance. They have the same armour profiles as regular troops so there is nothing godly about them. This also creates incentive to bring lower ranking heroes as they easily become well worth the additional cost.
Heroes are a tactical choice, not a necessity, they can be point sinks if your opponent has snipers, but can give a unit the edge it needs to perform above and beyond its standard level.
Where is the “Fire At will” drill laid out? Ive never heard of it?
I’m a relative newbie to AT-43 but it seems to me that the effective use of combat drills is the key to victory
cheers,
Paul
You’re right your LP are very important to use effectively, it really can make the difference between success and failure. I would say the activation sequence (and spending LP to reorder it) is equally important as well. Fire at Will is one of the new combat drills in Operation Frostbite. The Shield Formation and Eject combat drills are also found there.
Thanks for that Vasatum, I’ll check it out.
BTW you have a great site here. Ive found it very useful and enlightening – many thanks!
Paul