02-03-2018, 06:48 PM
Hi Alan, looking forward to meeting you at some point soon.
Would second all of Chris and Luke's comments. If it's helpful to give you an idea, here is what i have currently in my collection, which I built up slowly after playing with other people's models they kindly let me borrow before I built my own.
7 New Orleans
2 Jakartas
3 Toulon
4 Taipei
= 16 total (4 sprues worth)
I am pretty happy with what I ended up building as pretty much all of these models see the table fairly frequently. It you didn't already know, it is worth having 3 Toulons even if you never put them in your list as there is a command card where you can call 3 of them (or a Rio cruiser) in as reinforcements. The Lima is probably only really worth taking if you plan to take cruisers that benefit a lot from going weapons free whenever they fire, such as the Moscow or Atlantis. Otherwise, with a bit of careful planning, as Luke says you can use New Orleans and Jakartas to active scan, which also have secondary bonuses of dropping troops or providing point defense if you end up not needing them to scan/in later turns.
Would second all of Chris and Luke's comments. If it's helpful to give you an idea, here is what i have currently in my collection, which I built up slowly after playing with other people's models they kindly let me borrow before I built my own.
7 New Orleans
2 Jakartas
3 Toulon
4 Taipei
= 16 total (4 sprues worth)
I am pretty happy with what I ended up building as pretty much all of these models see the table fairly frequently. It you didn't already know, it is worth having 3 Toulons even if you never put them in your list as there is a command card where you can call 3 of them (or a Rio cruiser) in as reinforcements. The Lima is probably only really worth taking if you plan to take cruisers that benefit a lot from going weapons free whenever they fire, such as the Moscow or Atlantis. Otherwise, with a bit of careful planning, as Luke says you can use New Orleans and Jakartas to active scan, which also have secondary bonuses of dropping troops or providing point defense if you end up not needing them to scan/in later turns.