Enter Tarkin. Last time I used him was for 800-point monster truck (no smalls) games. Sovereign + Chimaera and 2 Quasars to lift squads. It worked extremely well, as nothing could withstand 12 imps squads unloading 1 million blue dice over 2 activations. And the 2 ISDs gave a TON of flexibility.
So I went with that basic idea, but added a couple of Arqs. Since we're at 1000, I made them command arcs and gave them way too many upgrades 😛 I also swapped the Dictor I had last time for an Onager SD with Sunder. Mostly bc I'm tired with Cataclysm, and bc I wanna take the SD/Sunder combo out for a spin. And yeah, I realize Tarkin + Cataclysm could be a thing, but no. With the setup areas so crowded it's bad form to shoot things round 1.
But let me in on a secret: the REAL reason for running this is COUNTER 5. It will never trigger by virtue of its mere existence. But that's ok.
Objectives I think are solid. Surprise Attack kills enemy flagship early. There is no escaping 2 ISD, 1 Onager and that squad ball. Fleet In Being is maybe not THAT strong, but fuck Asteroids. I want to get 3x3 + 4x2 = 17 tokens at start lol. It also pushes fleets forward ASAP, and we want to be killing from the get-go. Infested is just awesome regardless.
I'll make sure to take pics and make a battle report once this happens.
