Robotech Reinforcements - UEDF

Here is where progress stands on the UEDF. The new additions are the dismounted infantry, orbital fire support, and a pair of Defender destroids.

The overall UEDF force

The infantry are US troops from GHQ Miniatures. (I couldn't find a source of specifically Japanese infantry, but at this small a scale these will work plenty well enough). I've used my standard basing for loose 6mm infantry - a 1" steel washer, using polyfiller/spackle to texture the surface and cover the hole in the middle. The painting is not finished obviously, but good progress is being made.

Three platoon mechanized infantry company, making 19 stands (including company command)

The orbital fire support will be represented by this model from Ground Zero Games - a Centauro class Escort Carrier from their FSE range. Obviously this isn't a canonical Robotech vessel. But I think its fits in fairly well - the overall design style and seeming tech-level are about right, and it has a launch bay for fighters. So I'm going to use it as a substitute for an ARMD carrier.

The last "new" addition is the Defender destroids. New is in quotes because these models are part of the RT starter box, but my preference has been (and is) not to include them in the force. Ideally I would like to add a couple more Tomahawks, or maybe some Phalanxs. But those models are hard to find, so for the moment I have added the Defenders to bring up the strength of the force.

Which nicely segues into the matter of points costs. Now I'm not playtesting exact points values at this stage. I want to lock down the unit stats and profiles first before starting on that. But just to get a very rough first pass (mainly to get a sense of whether I need to be adding more units to reach 3000 points) here is what I have;

• If each destroid is roughly equivalent to a Warhound (which is where I'm aiming for the statline to be), that would make them 500 points for a pair, so 1000 points for the Tomahawks and Defenders combined.
• The tank company for now I'm using Leman Russ stats, so 650 points for the company of 10.
• Mech infantry using Steel Legion stats would be 400 points for an under-strength (two platoon) company, or 575 for three platoon.
• Treating the orbital fire support as a Lunar Class Cruiser, 150 points.
• And lastly the Veritechs, which present by far the biggest challenge to points cost. There just really isn't any existing Epic unit that's comparable. Having thought about it, the closest I've been able to come up with is the Thunderhawk Gunship. It's a war engine, it's able to operate as an aircraft, but it can also let you land a ground formation anywhere on the board. A Thunderhawk is 200 points, but for the comparison to work you'd need to add the points cost of the embarked marines (as opposed to the Veritech which transforms and itself becomes the ground formation). The Veritech I'm thinking should be DC 3-4 (versus DC 2 for the TH), it's a single activation versus a Thunderhawk + complement being 2, the Veritech has the Guardian mode which right now I'm thinking will operate as a skimmer. While the TH is the closest comparison I can think of, there are still a ton of differences. For the moment the closest I can pin it down is a single Veritech might be between 400 and 600 points.

So using those values, I think I should have enough models to make a 3000 point army. The (relatively) well estimated destroid/Warhound and Imperial Guard unit equivalences total to 2200-2400 points. Add in anything 800-1200 for the two Veritech's and I'm well over. So at this point additional units will be about variety and preference, not just getting to 3000.