The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

A movie from our childhood and suitable for to define our less used specialists in tohaa. Before the new year, here is my final thread of 2017.

Kosuil, Kumotail and Aleis Keesan.

These 3 specialist units are now part of the history like the original movie. It is hard to take one in to your lists and only when all the situations are right, they become fruitful.

we have fantastic specialists nowadays. Sakiel paramedic or fo, sukuel fo, chain of command keltars and clipso fo are cool options. After taking some heavy hitters, most probably you wont be looking these old options. Lets evaluate them and find together the possible best ideas to use them in right way.

IL BUONO (The Good) Kosuils

Kosuils are still selectable. The models are good and when you need to deploy a Gorgos, you may find them, even essential. However, there are better options now.

Kosuils are wip 14 specialists and a good way to use the bombs with their symbiont armor. K1 rifle with engineer option though a bit expensive. You will rather spending 3 more points to take a sukeul forward observer.

Engineer is an expensive skill but fruitful but... not in tohaa. There is nobody around that you can heal at all. Even you cant heal your tag. There is only kaauri that you may think about healing which will be wasting time and orders for me.

If you are planning to take a bomb, wip14 is cool enough and maybe you can take the shotgun version. Shotgun variant is the cheapest specialist one available. 24 points is not bad. i give this variant 67 points out of 100 points.

You can take the minelayer option not as a specialist but a hitter in triad which is a good idea. mines/k1 ammo are two nice things and you wont be spending on expensive engineer skill. Still nice wip that gets well with bombs. i give 69 points out of 100 points for this variant.

Kosuil engineer with k1 rifle is 29 points. That makes me think twice about him. Anyways, valuable second hitter when you are taking HI and Gorgos profiles. i give 65 points out of 100 points.

We have concerns but kosuil is still a good option, that you can take in your games.

IL BRUTTO (The bad) Kumotail

I have never liked you. There are many players that like kumotail and have used kumotail time to time. Being engineer and a doctor at the same time, which are completely out of place for tohaa for me, hard to use unit for your armies.

In tohaa, we have the best paramedics and you can gain their help with no negative modifier on ph on symbiont troops, which you will spend your orders to heal them back. You will use ph10-11 sometimes 12 and it is still good chance to revive your troops.

Kumotail coming with fireteam, which doesnt allow you to use your servants at all. Sakiel paramedic is 2 points cheaper than kumotail. Comeon, why will i take a kumotail ?

After kaauris, situation is abit better. Now you can use kumotail alone with 2 servants and can put servant near a kaauri sniper, while keeping the other for w troopers. But paying extra for fireteam and using solo still sucks.

Kumotail is a bad option. I cant see my self using one. i give kumotail 30 points out of 100 points.

IL CATTIVO (The Ugly) Aelis Keesan

My ex love Aeleis dont seem to me beautiful any more. Spending 32-33 points and getting a specialist with a good weapon for a price level of sukuel forward observer.

Aelis model is also not beautiful for my eyes, more ugly thing is good ideas are killed with needless costly details.

Sensor + specialist in a triad in fantastic. Especially if you have k1 and viral weapons in hand. Good killer with sensor is nice. Why she has many pistols on model is still such a misery.

Regeneration is an expensive skill. Defensive hacking device too. These 2 skills on same model sucks and increasing the cost a lot.

there are also coming flash pulse, nanopulser and dcharges to increase the cost more.

I would prefer Aelis with some pheroware tactics. Instead of defensive hacking, a specialist. Getting rid of regeneration but gaining ODD for instance. Close range fighter with odd is awesome.

Sensor + triangulated fire is the only reason that will make you think about taking Aleis to your army. Sensor + bomb is an effective tactics against camo troops. triangulated fire + k1 is a bane for mighty Avatar and one of the best combinations of the game.

Anyways, getting harder to take her in competitive games. I give Aleis 56 points out of 100 points. At least she needs a very quick change to white hacker but i keep my hopes for logical change with the coming new book.