Infinity/N4 Tactics/Haqqislam

The unit overview and tactics for generic Haqqislam.

Why Play Haqqislam

Haqqislam has the widest and most versatile range of Light Infantry. Many of their troops are lightly armoured but have amazing super-human abilities such as regeneration or enhanced mobility.

Their troopers have the highest average willpower - WIP - value (essentially how good they are at technical actions) compared to any other faction making their Doctors, Engineers, and Hackers very potent in their profession and in ITS missions.

Haqqislam also has a wide variety of design aesthetics and styles from the rugged Djanbazans, to outlaw Kum biker gangs, mysterious masked Hassassins, and even a scorpion TAG.

Faction Features

Special Skills

• Doctor Plus and Akbar Doctor: Haqqislam are the masters of medicine. Their doctors are the finest in the Human Sphere. Doctor Plus gives an automatic +3MOD to the user's WIP roll to heal a fallen trooper. The Akbar Doctor skill will fully recover a multi-wound model on an unmodified WIP roll. Akbar Doctor also includes the Doctor Plus skill. Those skills cannot be combined.
• Bioengineering: Due to their advances in medicine, Haqqislam also has a high number of enhanced troopers with Regeneration or Super Jump.
  • Remember that Regeneration also grants Shock Immunity.

Weapons and Equipment

• "The Shotgun Tax" Almost every Rifle comes with an underslung Light Shotgun adding more versatility to the trooper. The shotgun has the incredible +6 short range which deters enemy camo units from getting too close.

• Viral Weapons: Being the frontrunner of biomedicine in the Human Sphere, Haqqislam has a decent collection of Viral ammunition from the Rifle and Snipers of the Lasiqs, the Ayyar's Viral Pistols, and even Viral Mines from Muyibs.

• Holoprojectors and Impersonation: Haqqislam has more Holoprojectors than most and is one of the two factions with access to Impersonation, the other being CA. Both are incredibly useful tools with fewer counters than the more common Camo.

Units

Light Infantry

• Ghulam Infantry: The Ghulam Infantry is the basic trooper of the Haqqislam nation. However, compared to most other factions, the Ghulam have a wide selection of loadouts including multiple Lieutenant options. The most notable are the Doctor Plus and the Forward Observer. Both are WIP14 specialists. The Doctor can confidently patch up unconscious troopers on a WIP17, and the Forward Observer can fire his Flash Pulse at WIP14.

• 'Ghazi Muttawi'ah: Not the monster they once were, N4 split its profile up along different lines. Still good, but they're a tighter profile in N4 now that orders are limited to 15 and you'll be running a slightly more elite list. You won't be taking 4 anymore.

TAGS

Yes. TAGs. Welcome to N4 - let's meet your two options.

• Maghariba Guard: The old standby. She got more expensive, but for very good reason. Her 360 visor is now base, but she costs a lot less than any of her old 360 Visor profiles. She comes with options for either mine dispensers and flamethrowers, or Heavy Rocket Launchers and Grenade Launchers. Either you're dropping templates left and right, or you're filling the board with mines. It remains to be confirmed, but her Baggage implies the mine dispenser can reload off of herself - and Mine Dispensers are Burst 2 thanks to the double shot trait. Judge for yourself.

• Shakush Light Armored Unit: A cheap, standard, light TAG. No frills for a TAG. 60pts - serviceable, cheap, and straightforward. A diet N3 Maggie - people seem to like them.

Skirmishers

• Hunzakuts: Just as important as ever, especially now that Ghazi have been (reasonably) nerfed. Of note is the forward observer profile. Does objectives, lays mines, puts down a deployable repeater, shotguns dopes. Take one, probably two.