Slayerr77 Posted January 20, 2017 Report Share Posted January 20, 2017 hey guys, experimenting with my french atm, trying out different models that i own, but have never used. anyone had much experience with the furieux? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nazduruk_Bugzappa Posted January 20, 2017 Report Share Posted January 20, 2017 I own 3 squadrons. They are extremely useful for area denial, and have a very good payload of mines, but are also bullet magnets because of it. I usually run a Cherbourg (another bullet magnet) close by to force a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" decision on my opponents, to force a choice between dying by heat lances, or dying by mines Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slayerr77 Posted January 20, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 20, 2017 yeah when i look at them, their stats scream area denial. only thing putting me off is they are rather expensive for having no defensive MARs or gens (same problem i find with all the french air units) and two of the weapon systems u have to choose one or the other to use each activation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doubleones Posted January 20, 2017 Report Share Posted January 20, 2017 Keep them obscured and bomb/mine to your heart's content. A full squadrons broadsides are quite nasty too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slayerr77 Posted January 20, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 20, 2017 sadly being obscured dosent really help me much personally, my opponents roll lots of 5's +6's lol i run pascals all the time and they always die turn 1. stopped using my tourbillons as the same happens, that or they are on 1-2Hp and have been rendered useless haha im planning to run them alongside a rossoeux and a unit of 5 frelons and do a full court press, scout ships mine laying the mid board while going full pelt at the enemy, while being flanked by a bomber squad on each side. my hope is that the air units soak up alot of activation fire, that my hard hitting naval units (mainly la rochelle and dieppes) can make it a few turns with little damage taken. I was thinking advanced deployment for all 3 aswell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doubleones Posted January 22, 2017 Report Share Posted January 22, 2017 On 1/20/2017 at 0:37 PM, Slayerr77 said: hey guys, experimenting with my french atm, trying out different models that i own, but have never used. anyone had much experience with the furieux? My experience with them has been overwhelmingly positive. YMMV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slayerr77 Posted January 22, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2017 so i decided to give them a go yesterday in a 1250pt game my list was: la rochelle: cloud, GNE heavy bomber 3 dieppes 3 furieux: aggressive crew 3 light cruisers 4 lyon 5 frelon My opponents list using indian raj: carrier heavy battleship with time flow heavy battleship with shields and 2 corvettes monitor 3 cruisers with an apollo 5 corvettes 3 heavy destroyers sadly his dice rolls were insane, turn one he double critted the heavy bomber from RB3 with his monitor (i was obscured aswell). 2 furiaux (also obscured) were killed by his battleships turn 1, and the final one had 2HP and a chaos in disarray at the start of turn 2. my obscured frelons got pretty much wrecked early on as well by his dive bombers game was really fun tho, at the end i still had a light cruiser, my opponent had a carrier, 2 cruisers and 7 corvettes left. will have to run these units again as i dont think it was a good representation due to the insane dice rolls lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amiral X Posted January 25, 2017 Report Share Posted January 25, 2017 Saddly RoF medium are papercraft, so a list with 3 medium squadrons and only 1 large model in a 1250pts game has very little chance to win... Furieux are not bad, but for the price of 2 you may have a Tourbillon who whill live longer and have much more impact on the game ! Same for the marseilles : for the same price a full gun magenta with cloud generator will last far longer on the table and put more damage on ennemy fleet... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slayerr77 Posted January 26, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2017 On 25/01/2017 at 10:38 AM, Amiral X said: Saddly RoF medium are papercraft, so a list with 3 medium squadrons and only 1 large model in a 1250pts game has very little chance to win... Furieux are not bad, but for the price of 2 you may have a Tourbillon who whill live longer and have much more impact on the game ! Same for the marseilles : for the same price a full gun magenta with cloud generator will last far longer on the table and put more damage on ennemy fleet... the list tbh was more of a mess around lol saying that tho i love my marseilles, they always do really good for me. the magenta, as much as i love the model, it never does well in game, just degrades to much, same with the tourbillon sadly, which every game i use it, im lucky to have 2-3 HPs left on it come turn 2. my main goal atm is to change up my lists, try using other units as my competitive lists can get rather stale to use lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nazduruk_Bugzappa Posted January 26, 2017 Report Share Posted January 26, 2017 I normally use my Marseille cruisers as forward-ranging scouts/decoys and my Magenta as a mid-range support platform. Both provide covering fire (and cover) for my "primary" squadrons to get their jobs done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...