Editing Infinity/N4 Tactics/Nomads (section)

==Why play Nomads==

''Do you want to:

-Out shoot everyone on the field?

-Take hundreds of shots without care?

-Honorably take the fight to your enemy?

-Charge the enemy in a wave of terrifying close combat?


If you said yes to any of these, probably choose another faction.'' 


Nomads excel in two things: their flexibility and their infrastructure. 

-Nomads will not out-perform any other faction when playing to their strengths. You cant out-shoot Pano nor out-CC JSA, so don't bother trying. Nomads excel when forcing the enemy to waste time and energy. Place deployables in obnoxious spots that take 1-2 order to clear out. Run chaff units in their face that they need to deal with before they can start attacking you order generators. Ideally every time your opponent needs to make an ARO descision they should be put into an unwinnable situation. Did they reset, then shoot them in the face! Did they dodge, hack them!

-Nomads have one of the best abilities in the game to build out repeater and deployable nets early. Koalas and mines may not dent TAGS or HI, but there's always the chance that they can get a wound through.  Many opponents wont risk key units to something avoidable and will burn orders to move out of the way or just shoot them. Either way its a win-win. If they burn 2 orders to kill a koala that's 2 orders they aren't shooting something that's actually useful. Similarly, our repeaters can be places in '''extremely''' annoying places, especially the fast-panda. Hiding them behind boxes, around corners, under bridges, or on-top of buildings can be debilitating. Free spotlight ARO on all units and crippling debuffs on HI, REM, and TAGS is something your opponent must respect. thats not even getting into barrages of guided missiles raining down on spotlight units...... 

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Because everyone else does!

Nomads are by far the most popular faction in Infinity and their inclusion in Operation: Icestorm and Operation: Crimson Stone solidified this position. It's not because they are OP or anything, quite the opposite – Nomads are the most "middle ground" or jack-of-all-trades faction, with good stats across the board, Medium Infantry focus and access to most tools in the Human Sphere. Sure, they're expert hackers, but hacking has quite limited applications.

Simply speaking Nomads can do everything quite well without deviating too much in one direction (aside from sexually deviating that is).