Rotation 6 – January 7th to January 28th
Its that time again! only about a month late its time for another War Journal. This time around I will be looking at my play experience with and thoughts about Commander Starblaze. I also played some games with Zarathur, and have moved on from Old One Eye. I’m not sure how much I have that is worth while so they won’t be included today. With that out of the way let’s dig into the 41st millenium’s anime space fish.
Starblaze
| Army (32) | |
|---|---|
| 4xArdent Auxiliaries | |
| 2xAssault Valkyrie | |
| 3xBork'an Recruits | |
| 3xExperimental Devilfish | |
| 2xFireblade Kais'Vre | |
| 2xIron Guard Recruits | |
| 3xRatling Deadeye | |
| 3xRecon Drone | |
| 2xSanctioned Psyker | |
| 2xStalwart Ogryn | |
| 3xTallarn Raiders | |
| 3xVior'la Marksman | |
| Support (5) | |
|---|---|
| 2xCatachan Outpost | |
| 2xStaging Ground | |
| 1xStarblaze’s Outpost | |
| Attachment (4) | |
|---|---|
| 3xIon Rifle | |
| 1xSearing Burst Cannon | |
| Event (9) | |
|---|---|
| 2xBond of Brotherhood | |
| 2xDeception | |
| 3xSuppressive Fire | |
| 2xTense Negotiations | |
Life has been busy and I didn’t get as many games as I would like in and its taken me a lot longer than planned to write this. Starblaze was interesting but really didn’t capture me as much as other warlords have. I tried to construct a deck that focussed on unit efficiency as I believed that is the inherent strength in his signature squad. Using Ardent Auxiliaries and Experimental Devilfish you can build a persistent first planet bully. Add in the effect of Starblaze and you can move around your powerful Astra Militarum army units.
The command presence this deck provides is also very hard to compete with. Again Starblaze’s ability and the constantly ready units provide efficiency in the command phase. AM and Tau also have quite likely the largest combined selection of two command icon units.
While the basics look good on paper the reality seems to be less exciting. Neither AM or Tau have the trick available to most other factions to carry them through combat. It also seems that at least this version of the deck just doesn’t have the punch needed to win big fights.
I think that maybe a heavier focus on attachments or the use of harder hitting AM units might be a direction to go as far as experimentation is concerned. I’m not sure we’ve gotten any real wow card to update it with though. I’ll probably leave Starblaze alone for the next while.
Moving forward I’ve already begun to play with Ba’ar Zul, the Hate-bound and I’m revisiting Colonel Straken. I haven’t managed to get many games in in February so I will be continuing with these decks for at least a few more weeks.
Until then, SKULLS FOR THE THRONE OF KHORN!!!