HIDDEN WOLVES HUNGRY FOR BLOOD (PAVEL AND BEASTHUNTERS)

His mother was a Scout and his father was a Galwegian and he decided to join our ranks. Welcome Pavel. We will talk about him today and an other units called "beastmasters" together. I will tell you why later.

Pavel pavel pavel. He has brillant abilities . Hope that i can count all in this thread. Lets start.

Pavel Aleksei McMannus is a CC monster and you deploy him close to mid table with his forward deployment (8inch) ability in camouflage form. So you can evaluate his style like a ninja. (but better) to sweep mid table specialists. 

Since there are many camo options in TAK, you can show him inside this camo mass like a mine and not use it till you need him later.

He is a specialist. After killing some units, he can push the buttons for you.

Lets check Pavels' close combat efficiency. CC23 cool. martial arts level 2. Add extra +3 , minus -3 for opponent. Makes CC26. Berserk+3 My god, he can reach to CC value of 29. So if you have LOF to an unit, you can move 9 inches and attack him in camo marker state with CC29.

Natural Born Warrior will eliminate martial arts bonuses of the victim. More over , related opponent unit will get -6 to her CC.  (Suprise attack-3,Martial arts-3)

So what we have here is an unit, who crits with 11 or more on 20 sided dice. (45% crit chance) and hits with a dcharge or T2 weapon in his hand. It is already damn deadly.

However you can make a "FINISH HIM" move , if you can take a help from a strelok or beastmaster for double burst. Imagine that you make a tactical suprise attack when a strelok is near by(sometimes with a K9 too ) . So you roll 2-3 times CC29 . You can use 2-3 dcharges at once with 2-3 extra arm checks.

Pavel Aleksei can kill anything in this game. Avatar,Jotum,Marut whatever you can imagine of. You have more chance even against Achiles.

Achiles will get -6 in close combat against Pavel. New CC is 19 for him. Meanwhile Pavel can attack with CC26. (If you use berserk, there is a chance of loosing the face to face and pavel can die after damaging Achiles. )

Movement 

Aleksei has terrain total ability. So he gets an extra 1 inch movement in all terrains which makes him to move 5-4 all the time. It is essential to notify once more that , berserk lets Aleksei to move 9 inch! and make a close combat attack. 

 Arsenal

P.Aleksei has a serious arsenal for CC, for short range and long range too. He has ojotnik in his hand, with bs12 stat and camo ability, he is a scout also. He can kill units in long range with a suprise attack easily.

You have a template weapon chaincolt. You have shock mines. You can leave a mine and attack with a chaincolt for double template attack against links.

Pavel has T2 CCW in his hand. This simply makes the victim two loose to wounds from the attack. You can attack the notorious myrmidon Eudoros with that for instance. CC23 eudoros will loose cc values and will become CC17 without any martial arts against Aleksei with CC26.

Mines are always nice. We all know that how deadly they can be against soft targets.

BUT

He is frenzy. There can be times that frenzy can help. But on camo troops this is deficiency in my book. Same happens with Igao in Tohaa too. Once you kill something, you suddenly become impetious, loose cover bonus and you can not recamo again. That is why also Pavel who is a blood hungry wolf is cheaper. Scout FO is 29 points and Pavel with this much extra thing is 32 points just to compare.

What If i tell you that you can get a similar unit with almost half of the price ?

Now we get to the point. 

BEASTHUNTER WITH FORWARD DEPLOYMENT

After you check Beasthunter profile, you start to think twice.

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 BEASTHUNTERS (Surprise Attack [-3], Camouflage, Forward Deployment [+8"]) Heavy Flamethrower, Panzerfaust, AP Mines(+1 Dam) / Heavy Pistol(+1B), DA CC Weapon. (0 | 17)

 0 SWC | 17 Points

Beastmaster is a camo unit that have the same forward deployment skill. He can attack like a demon in close combat. CC21 with 2 burst of heavy pistol (dmg14+2 for 16dmg) Maybe CC is not that high. But burst is the king. He can recamo like a standart camo troop. No frenzy as well.

Natural born warrior skills eliminates CC skills like Pavel do.

Stronger AP mines with 14 dmg, Continous damage with heavyflamer. Panzerfaust option for a suprised shot, 

Terrain (total) for 5-4 movement. Superjump and a cool heavypistol with 3 burst in close range.

Beasthunter has cube and it means you can have reroll option when you try to heal him.

So here is my conclusion.

Pavel is great but.... Better you take a beasthunter instead most of the time, which is better according to points spend. Think about our main efficiency rule. Beasthunter can recamo and has no frenzy. He can keep on doing his duty. Beasthunter makes almost the same job more cheaper most of the time. If you guess that a Marut,Avatar is coming for you in the tournament, sure that Pavel will be fantastic option.