LordotMilk wrote:
I agree with the above answers.
I do think however that the resulting effects in game are pretty rubbish:
An independent Leviathan carrying 16 stands of infantry breaks after 4 BMs. An in-formation Leviathan carrying 8 stands of infantry breaks after 12 BMs.
And I think the resulting effects are fine, each of the above has it's own in game advantages and disadvantages.
The lone WE carrying troops has the bonus of 2 formations during the game and if the lone WE is broken the troops carried can be re positioned with the withdrawal move ready for the next turn, or as I have seen in a game a few years ago drop those troops onto an objective it would not have been able to get to otherwise.
The WE + troops as one formation has the extra resilience but is only one activation,players get the bonus of a tougher, more resilient formation but it should be if they've spent extra points on it rather than an extra formation.
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An independent Leviathan embarking troops cannot move in the same turn. An in-formation Leviathan embarking troops can move 45 cm that same turn.
Not quite, the Independent formation can activate before the troops use their activation to embark, it only loses it's activation if it hasn't already activated.
It's the same for troops picked up by transports, they can activate before pick up but not once they are on board.
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Not to mention that Air transporters get to embark troops at 5 cm, and not Land transporters, without any valid explanation as to why.
Again each have their own in game advantages and disadvantages plus ground WE transports can pick up troops in it's own formation as a normal transport unit can (1.7.5) so has the abilty to pick up from a much wider area.