Editing Drones (section)

==In All Quiet on the Martian Front==

The drones are an interesting unit to compliment your force of large, somewhat unwieldy war walkers.

The first thing to keep in mind before things like firepower and survivability is the the range at which you can actually use these little machines. If your drone starts any phase (Move, Attack, Move Again) out side of 12 inches of a tripod with a drone controller, than the drone cannot carry out any actions until its back into the drone bubble. This means that you have to slow down your tripods so they don't out pace their drones who only have a speed of 6 inches.

With that out of the way, the drones are actually quite robust for infantry. With a defense of 6 and an armor of 7, they are only 1 armor less than a Steam tank. Prey creature infantry will find taking down the drone machines to be quiet the challenge.

Drones have two built in weapons, a light heat ray and a reaper tentacle. Light heat rays don't get sweep and only have +1 power, but that means that a swarm of drones has the same firepower as a Mk I steam tank platoon. Reaper tentacles get an additional +1 power for a total of +2 but can only be used in assault.

You may add 3 drones to a Martian force for 60 points.

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