Drop Tactics – UCM Condor & Longbow Tactics
August 14, 2015 by dignity
We have not one but two Dropzone Commander UCM units to look at in this episode of Drop Tactics. We have the dual tank carrying the Condor Medium Dropship and the Smart Smoke deploying Longbow Howitzers.
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How would you utilise the Condor and Longbow?
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I’ll say up front that I am an inexperienced player of Dropzone and I don;t play UCM, but I don’t think the Galdius and Condor cheese is as valid as it is shown in the video.
My understanding of Articulated from the 1.1 rule book, is that it if you choose to shoot from 1″ above the hull then the enemy can choose that same point 1″ above to shoot back at the firing unit until the unit is activated again. So Landing the Condor in front will either make both units hull down or neither.
@thudgutz my reading is that yes the enemy can target the articulated weapon but it counts as hull down.
which gives a +2 penalty
I don’t play Dropzone, but this tactic does look “cheesy”. I imagine that “in real life” dropships are valuable assets and no dropship pilot would risk his ship that way. Their combat doctrine probably says: “Get in, deliver your cargo, and get out”.
Well its a typical UCM dirty trick…lol would not catch the Resistance doing anything cheesy like that we just arm our Dropships with AA guns and missiles and use them in combat…
the old pawn sacrifice – I can see limited use for it game wise and fluff wise a last minute try to save the unit under fire I guess
Are transport ships cheap enough to be sacrificed for the greater good.
well it depends on the victory conditions of the scenario you are playing
As Simon said, the dropship can move after you shoot. So just shoot, then land the dropship, no?
That way, no ‘articulated’ worries at all.
You need to do the same for the whole unit :
First move the shoot or first shoot them move, so if you need to move the Gladius’s before shooting them you need to move the Condor as well.