The smaller board size that makes Combat Patrol more manageable and interesting makes Incursion-level games frantic and dangerous.
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At this level a full game should last two players anywhere from 60-120 minutes depending on the army and player experience.īe mindful of army construction and deployment – Incursion is a very different beast than a “normal” Strike Force game.
Given 6 Command Points (CP) to start, its possible to select more than one detachment (though choices beyond a Patrol might be too costly to be worth it). With 1000pts to work with most armies can fill out a solid core and then populate some of the more powerful and varied options.
Credit: Kevin Genson Incursion GameplayĬompared to the model-light Combat Patrol, Incursion greatly expands the possibilities for army construction by allowing any type of detachment(s) instead of locking you into a single Patrol. As you might expect, units and factions that can assault after advancing can be extremely powerful when they have such little distance to cover. The need for multiple fast scoring units places a bit more weight on units that have flexibility, but interestingly also devalues the use of units with special movement abilities such as Infiltrators because just about any unit with a “normal” movement rate can make it a good way across the table in a single turn. After some initial apprehension we’ve found that with fewer units to manage objectives keeping them distant (even occasionally at 1″ from the table edge) makes things a bit more interesting than a general clash at the center of the table. Considering they wanted to go with ease of use and “use the board size you want” it makes sense to standardize distances, but as you shrink the table for smaller games it just “looks” off. The 44″ x 30″ board size can make things feel extremely claustrophobic and some of the objective placement is scaled for full board size which translates to objectives in odds locations. For players used to competitive games at large scale, you may find that these play levels and missions have a surprising amount of depth.Īs we mentioned in our previous article on the subject, there are positive and negative aspects to the missions and game scale. For players looking for something that allows them to use their new models or just play a fast game, these new mission variants are very handy and fun. In a somewhat surprising move, Incursion-level missions are also included in the Grand Tournament 2020 mission pack. Combat Patrol and Incursion-scale games now have official Matched Play missions all their own.
Yes, in older editions you could play at any scale you wanted, but the level of balance you could achieve was often very strange and/or unfair and if you elected to play an official mission you were stuck on a huge table with little to work with. Among the many shakeups of 9th edition, one of the more interesting changes has been a new emphasis on different levels of game play.
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