Pairing for Sturgis (Jakes2, Darius, or Kraye)

If you want to make pairings you have to know what your list does. What does your Sturgis list do? My real thought is that list will have some trouble cracking armor. Sturgis is one of those casters that I think is better out of theme; I've played the hell out of him. But I'm looking at your list and thinking it's prolly a fine drop into a great many things but you'll need a dedicated armor drop. And maybe something to handle Circle.

If those three casters and lists are your only options I'll give you these thoughts:



Darius can be built to crack armor but I really hate this list. I hate it a lot. Darius wants reach jacks and Centurions and Stormwalls and I feel like you're fighting an uphill battle here. Plus you got a handful of heavies and no lancer. If you want Darius to run all these heavies you'll need a lancer to make use of jackhammer. This list has big time problems and you'll find Darius' position on the table will be an exercise in frustration.



I like this list and I've played a ton of Jakes. I do think she wants a Sentinel. I do question the lack of a junior in a list with Max Lances. I'd drop the lancer straight up (+10 pts), trade a Stormclad for a Defender (+2 pts), and add Junior and a Sentinel (-12 pts). Maybe have Junior run the Defender so Jakes can use the Sentinel as her Escort buddy. I think this list is doable as it sits, though, but with some minor tweaks could be really serviceable.

Jakes is an armor cracker and can prolly pair okay with Sturgis. I like Darius more but dislike the list you posted. I don't have any experience with Kraye.

I personally run Darius with 3 Centurions, when you cut 3" off your enemies threat (more if they rely on Boundless charge or similar stuff), and given the fact that you can run and Jackhammer for a 10" threat, it is fairly often you get the alpha, especially with Fortify stopping any drags.

Do you think him and Jakes are the definite choice then? Allowing for cracking some heavy armour?

Snarly, have you had a Sturgis session on Storm Chamber yet?

Hahahahahah ok well I do play a bit of an attrition game, every turn I'm making attacks with Sturgis. At a recent tournament I went 2-1 with him (the loss being only landed 3 out of 14 attacks needing 8's to hit with sturgis on his caster leaving him on 3 boxes when I clocked). I regularly have him out front of my army, or with very little between him and an opponent. I skirmish a ton, using his flash to jump over centurions to feat or buy attacks then tp back to the other side, or leave charge gaps in the Centurion wall for Sturgis to go through. Definitely have him upfront though, and have on several occasions advanced then tp'd up field turn one to threaten an infantry blob. Not the first time I've heard that though about the list I bring with him.

I agree that attrition is paramount with him. Tabling balanced armies has not been hard so far. And by turn 3 or 4 so far I've always had an open avenue on my opponents caster. I feel like 9/10 times I win I assassinate, whether that be from attritioning down an opponent, so he has to expose his caster, or using the feat to shuffle screens out of the way. First 2 turns I always scalpel out opponents tools. For examples from recent games: Top of 1 vs circle recently I killed a shifting stone from his only unit and put an AP shot on his caster forcing a transfer of 11 point of damage. second turn putting 2 AP shots onto Ghetto and a pair of boostable hand cannons ended up finishing him off before using stormlances to elimante a pureblood. from there I use spacing and pressure to force my opponents hand and eventually go for an assassination or scenario depending on if they're willing to move their caster up. If not, scenario. If so, Darth Maul enters the fray. I don't think theres been more than 1 turn after turn 1 where sturgis himself is not killing 3 or so infantry models or wounding a heavy. That's where the list started and grew from.

From there I realize I have issues dealing with armour. Hence my attempt at making a jack brick with casters that run the hard hitters rather efficiently. Kraye allows me to get to an opponent's armour quickly and efficiently, while keeping spacing afterwords. Jakes allows the same thing, while not quite as efficient, but provides more punch and secondary infantry killing potential. Darius provides a skew in himself that helps answer armour bricks as if his don't finish mine, I get a second round of it while still providing efficient and accurate jacks over spacing.

I appreciate the reflection Snarly!  Let me know if you ever want to gush about Sturgis