I’ve been fiddling with new lists, specifically fitting in as many ships as we can. Some people have posted some interesting lists but no one has really pushed it so lets see what we can drop down at 2,000 points (what’s the typical tournament list size these days?). List 1: Basic Ships
Iron Clad, Great Volley Cannon – 510pts
Iron Clad, Great Volley Cannon – 510pts
Iron Clad, Great Volley Cannon – 510pts
10 Arkanaut Company (Aethermatic Volley Gun, Light Sky Hook, Sky Pike, Volley Pistol) – 90pts
10 Arkanaut Company (Aethermatic Volley Gun, Light Sky Hook, Sky Pike, Volley Pistol) – 90pts
10 Arkanaut Company (Aethermatic Volley Gun, Light Sky Hook, Sky Pike, Volley Pistol) – 90pts
Navigator – 100pts
100 spare points
Total 1900pts
Ironclads have a whole heap of firepower, You can’t take 4 at 2000pts which sucks (old KO book you could alongside 30 ark’s and a 140ish point hero iirc) but the output they have can be significant. Navigator is a solid option but really we have 200 points to play with once battleline and 3 Ironclads are in the list, so one hero minimum and yeah.
Then I was thinking a little more practical – we could run Barak Zilfin and take Frigates s battleline, this’d llow us to get 4 behemoths/ships in the list and also free up points by dropping out the need for 2 units of arks:
List 2: Barak Zilfin Ships
Ironclad, Great Volley Cannon – 510pts
Ironclad, Great Volley Cannon – 510pts
Frigate, Heavy Sky Cannon – 250pts
Frigate, Heavy Sky Cannon – 250pts
10 Arkanaut Company (Aethermatic Volley Gun, Light Sky Hook, Sky Pike, Volley Pistol) – 90pts
Aetherkhemist – 90pts
1700pts For the core list
As a core list this is pretty solid, gives us 300 points to play with. 9 Riggers would be useful, but so too would 2 Grundstokk Gunhaulers with Drill Cannons (or Sky Cannons, the Drill Cannons give us more range and better rend so swinging towards those). List 2: Zilfin Ships:
Ironclad, Great Volley Cannon, the Last Word (great endrinwork) – 510pts
Ironclad, Great Volley Cannon, Hegsson Solutions ‘Old Reliable’ Hull plates (great endrinwork) – 510pts
Frigate, Heavy Sky Cannon – 250pts
Frigate, Heavy Sky Cannon – 250pts
Grundstock Gunhauler, Drillcannon – 150pts
Grundstock Gunhauler, Drillcannon – 150pts
10 Arkanaut Company (Aethermatic Volley Gun, Light Sky Hook, Sky Pike, Volley Pistol) – 90pts
Aetherkhemist, Staff of Ocular Optimisation (artefact) – 90pts
Total 2000 points
6 Ships List 3: Barak Urbaz Grundstock Corps:
Hero – Navigator, General – pick a command trait to your style any work – Svaregg-Stein ‘Illuminator’ Flarepistol (artefact) – 100pts
Behemoth – Frigate, Great Endrinwork Breath of Morgrim – 250pts
Battleline 1 – Grundstock Gunhauler – 150pts
Battleline 2 – Grundstock Gunhauler – 150pts
Battleline 3 – Grundstock Gunhauler – 150pts
Battleline 4 – Grundstock Gunhauler – 150pts
Battleline 5 – Grundstock Gunhauler – 150pts
Battleline 6 – Grundstock Gunhauler – 150pts
Battleline 7 – Grundstock Gunhauler – 150pts
Battleline 8 – Grundstock Gunhauler – 150pts
Battleline 9 – Grundstock Gunhauler – 150pts
Battleline 10 – Grundstock Gunhauler – 150pts
Battleline 11 – Grundstock Gunhauler – 150pts
Total = 2000 points
Aethergold Shares – 14 to 16 (D3 units have 2 not 1!)
12 Ships
NB: This could be a lot of fun heh.