Tactical Awareness - N5 LAUNCH EPISODE 001 - The Top Five Biggest Changes!

[@supachigga]

In the future, please please please have one speaker fully read out the rule word for word without interruptions when switching to a new topic/mechanic. Once the rule and all its wording has been fully announced, then everyone can jump into discussion about it. It would greatly improve the listenability to these podcasts.

[@asuranshadow9491]

Happy to say that now that I've played a few games of N4, this all made sense, and is helpful for making the transition to n5. Thanks! I havent had the energy to start a full rules read, but knowing these are places to dig in is A+.

[@stijncallant457]

Nice to see you guys are back to cover Infinity.

[@ragedrako]

As a casual player that hasn't played since N3, but have followed along and dreamed about playing more, I'm very excited about the new edition. Especially Armour rolls being just like any other roll (roll lower is good) finally irons out the one annoying thing to explain during intro games. I'm sad to see Code One go as a format, since it was easier to hold all the rules in my head, and Infinity is intimidating as hell, but oh well. My favourite models, my Caledonians, also got the cut, but I think I have made a vanilla Ariadna list where I can fit my entire Caledonian collection as proxy for different stuff, so I don't mind as much. Although William Wallace in vanilla does have Inspired Leadership, but he's not allowed to be Lt. in vanilla Ariadna, only in Kosmoflot...

[@adambarlev8992]

On the unceded territories ✊🏾🍁

[@RalfSchemmann]

Yay, great to see you guys back. :)

[@dlfleetw]

Great to see TacAware back

[@AdamsHobbies]

Glad to have the show back, I really enjoyed your guys’ positive takes. I was getting kind of down on Ariadna from the (officially unofficial) discord chat

[@GuerrillaMiniatureGames]

@@AdamsHobbies I think the important thing to remember is NOBODY is an expert at this point. The game is super upside down and everything has potential because of it!

[@mikey_vengenz]

As a newer player drawn to O-12, I'm just glad my faction only had 2 sectorials with mostly newer models lol.

[@Space_Ranger]

Vanilla O12 is great too. Gamma haris!

[@klasclaywood2667]

I certainly think they should have cut the soup factions instead of the sectorials, but I get that they need to make space on the shelf. I also really appreciated that Ash called them soup instead of just vanilla

[@fleshterror77]

So excited. Bummed my varuna are dead, but other than that it wasnt too bad. Now if i could get a list of what i can use my varuna as id love you long time

[@piotrkrasowski515]

You need to incorporate the new TacAware purple into your colour scheme! ;)

[@klavakkhazga3996]

I was excited about this edition but my army not just getting legended but straight up deleted killed that fast. Will see with time if it's worth coming back

[@GamingwithTheCooler]

Which army?

[@michaelgrey1351]

Owen and Dan are in Calgary? Prove it. I demand to see their cowboy hats.

[@RattlerNxt]

Dope opening song.

[@shinankoku2]

Here to slay with JSA

[@andrewjacksonbr]

All my PanO lists with Cutters are gone. My Starco list…wow that went away.

[@Grithertime]

Lost Varuna and Spiral corps. I was surprised by some but the playable but out of catalogue was a telegraph of what was going. I wish they had done that for all the factions that were going to get axed.

[@corbeaubm]

I'm a huge fan of almost all the N5 changes, but the turrets and speedball are both real problems. In both cases, the issue is that they further advantage the first player. In both cases, they could be fixed with relatively simple changes - but it's up to CB to actually do the fixing.

[@erchicheck244]

Baaaack!!

[@jakec5550]

As an Acontecimento main for most of N3/N4, I'm a bit frustrated with having to restart a new faction, but also it's kinda cool to start a new faction. "Well fuck me, I guess" definitely went through my mind

[@johnfogleman4036]

Im having a good time so far.

[@skeletor957]

Hmmm, havenf made it to reading the rules yet, can maggy still reload itself?

[@GamingwithTheCooler]

Yes

[@LukeMartinVideo]

Of we go again ❤

[@AnarchicGoose]

I basically skipped last edition, but as someone who mostly played JSA in N3, N5 feels custom designed to target me personally and make me get back into the game.

[@tragicthegarnering3619]

I had just manged to get enough models for my caladonian army, so rip.

[@hamsternchips]

I am finding N5 a big letdown so far. I do fully own my addiction to werewolves in kilts though.

[@Ralai14]

This game is in such a sad state.

[@GuerrillaMiniatureGames]

How so?

[@Ralai14]

@GuerrillaMiniatureGames the 15 model cap killed list diversity in the game. Playing 8+8 was fun. 10 model lists were also fun. Elite factions were adjusted to reach 15 models + extra orders during N3, but cheap factions were not properly adjusted to the 15 model cap. If ariadna or haqqislam is forced to play with the same ammount of models as combined army or aleph and with less orders on top of that, something has gone wrong in terms of gameplay design and balance. At the end of the day it's just boring. Everyone is forced to play the same game, with less asimetry than ever and some armies are just better at it than others. If you add to that the deleted armies and ariadna the 4 nation army soon with vanilla tak, tak sectorial and a second flavor of tak a la NA2... CB is not particularly good or fast fixing problems, when they don't care they just make some minor changes and avoid the problem for a couple of years, MRRF has never been good since their release and CBs just changes something a little bit and ignores it. It's the same with everything else.

[@GamingwithTheCooler]

​@@Ralai14 what stops you from playing a 10 order list?

[@Ralai14]

@@GamingwithTheCooler command tokens removing orders from single group lists.

[@GamingwithTheCooler]

@@Ralai14 if you have 10 or less (order, irregular + tac aware) they cant reduce your order pool anymore.