Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Dropzone Commander: Mortars, Mortars everywhere


As most of you allready know. Hawk Wargames has released the UCM mortar teams and the experimental rules for them. You can find the rules in the Hawk website.

Hawk is also releasing new infantry for Scourge and PHR. Shaltari is getting somekind of heavy infantry walker thingys, which realy are not infantry.

As we can see from the mortar team rules UCM is also getting Heavy Hazard suits, and Anti-Aircraft teams. With all the infantry comming from Hawk, they are clearly making a change into the game and giving infantry more role than finding objectives and hauling them out of the battlefield.

I dont have enough gaming experience to really comment the rules. Ill just say that the concussion shells seem really intresting and will open up some new tactics. First that come in mind, is pushing the nasty Scourge warriors back from windows and preventing them from shooting those combined shots.

Also, if the mortar teams can shoot individual targets, so two bases fire on two targets. It will give some grey hair to enemy infantry. But on the other hand, when the role of infantry is to get objectives there wont be that much shooting at them with the mortars. We just need to wait how they will play out and how they will shape our lists.

Sadly for me the mortar teams need Bear APC:s so you can field them. And atleast for the moment i am aiming for pretty air based list without them. But i will surely be getting mortars at some point!



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