A WOLF NEVER GIVES A BIRTH TO A SHEEP. (5MAN LINKS)

Hello guys. 

After N4 has arrived, new options appeared later on the stage for fireteams.

If you want to get possible power of a 5man link , you need to bring all members with same keyword. Lets check the situation in Kazakhs.

Most strongest 5man link in TAK consists of units which have "veteran" keyword. Veteran kazakh, frotovniks and colonel voronin have the keyword. So here is an example of a strong, button pushing 5man link.

 

Kazakh Punch

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 VETERAN KAZAK AP Heavy Machine Gun / Heavy Pistol, CC Weapon. (1.5 | 46)

 COLONEL VORONIN T2 Boarding Shotgun / Pistol, AP CC Weapon. (0 | 21)

 FRONTOVIK Heavy Rocket Launcher / Assault Pistol, CC Weapon. (1.5 | 21)

 FRONTOVIK (Paramedic) T2 Rifle ( | MediKit) / Assault Pistol, CC Weapon. (0 | 24)

 FRONTOVIK (Engineer, Deactivator) T2 Rifle, D-Charges ( ) / Assault Pistol, CC Weapon. (0 | 26)

 3 SWC | 138 Points

Veteran kazakh is the destroyer here with 5 burst Dmg15 BS19 AP hitting power. Main attack power of the link. There are also other options as below. Nice thing is Except Voronin, everybody has mimetism -3 in defence.

Check wonderful weapon options they have.

Assault pistols at Frotovniks , Bs18 5 burst in close range.

Boarding Shotgun at Colonel, Bs21 3 burst in close range.

Heavy Rocket Launcher at Frotovnik, BS18 3 burst in long range.

Close Combat power with guard, CC 22 with martial arts level 2 for a total of CC25 mighty attack.

This band brings medic,engineer for missions and sensor ability to find out the reality behind camo troopers. Medic can heal our Kazakh Veteran with PH12 and save him against Imm. and marked states with Wip13 of Frotovnik.

New meta on guided missiles and easy to achieve spotlights are the first threat we will face and we need to take care. We need to keep hackers away. But how ? 

Mine throwing bikes and mines of streloks are among solutions. An irmandinho can march -pass the link and take a defence state to defend our link coherency area with a chain rifle.

This is our best possible link option. So use and defend it wisely.

An other link option we can create is consisting of kazakh line infantry. 

Leading Colonel

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 LINE KAZAK AP Heavy Machine Gun / Pistol, CC Weapon. (1 | 23)

 LINE KAZAK Rifle, Grenade Launcher / Pistol, CC Weapon. (1 | 13)

 LINE KAZAK (Forward Observer) Rifle, Flash Pulse / Pistol, CC Weapon. (0 | 10)

 KAZAK DOKTOR Rifle / Pistol, CC Weapon. (0 | 13)

 COLONEL VORONIN T2 Boarding Shotgun / Pistol, AP CC Weapon. (0 | 21)

 2 SWC | 80 Points

Colonel is valid as a kazakh and this link brings +3 bs bonus too.

2 button pushers, one guy to heal our troops and sensor is nice.

Bs14 5 burst with AP HMG, BS21 in close range with T2 boarding shotgun and BS14 grenades that we can use for alternative strategies.

You can use your 5 man link defensively too. Here are two options.

Defensive Colonel 1

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 FRONTOVIK (Multispectral Visor L1) AP Sniper Rifle ( ) / Assault Pistol, CC Weapon. (0.5 | 30)

 FRONTOVIK Heavy Rocket Launcher / Assault Pistol, CC Weapon. (1.5 | 21)

 112 FTO Light Shotgun / Pistol, CC Weapon. (0 | 12)

 112 FTO Light Shotgun / Pistol, CC Weapon. (0 | 12)

 COLONEL VORONIN (Lieutenant [+1 Command Token], Strategos L1) Rifle / Assault Pistol, AP CC Weapon. (0 | 25)

 2 SWC | 100 Points

Frontoviks are coming with mimetism -3 , so this solid defence maybe lacking of bs+3 but brings two good defensive 2 burst with mimetism in cover.

Instead of 112, you can an other frotovnik for +1 BS.

Defensive MSV1

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 LINE KAZAK (Paramedic) Rifle ( | MediKit) / Pistol, CC Weapon. (0 | 11)

 LINE KAZAK Rifle / Pistol, CC Weapon. (0 | 9)

 LINE KAZAK Sniper Rifle / Pistol, CC Weapon. (0.5 | 16)

 LINE KAZAK Sniper Rifle / Pistol, CC Weapon. (0.5 | 16)

 FRONTOVIK (Multispectral Visor L1) AP Sniper Rifle ( ) / Assault Pistol, CC Weapon. (0.5 | 30)

 1.5 SWC | 82 Points

Classical and cheap defensive power. 4 kazakhs bring extra 1 bs. That will bring us a sniper with mimetism(-3) in cover with bs13 and bs12 snipers to assist him.

There could be other options to make 5man links. However i guess these are the main options to be used.

In new meta with the changed fireteams , i believe kazakhs are among in better ones.

See you next time.