Just seen it - 199 points bare, with Homing Beacon and a 14 inch range - damage ain't great, but that HB lasts a long time.


Pilot get's this ability.

HEART OF IRON (optional) When this unit is the target of an attack, roll one six-sided die. On a result of 3–5, this unit gets +1 to its defense value for the attack. On a result of 6, it gets +2 to its defense value for the attack instead.


’Mech: SHY-B1-H “Breath of Fire” Shen Yi

Not much SE on it, but decent.

mm makes a 12 attack on ballistic, not bad, shows similarity with the other shen yis, 14" and armor not much on specials except the HB is really nice.

Nice to see it's back!

I'm not really digging the SU Homing Beacon to get to 4 damage and lose 1 point of defense and heavy armor.... but otherwise it's pretty decent imo. (Just the mech itself)

Just noticed this. WK says he's an Elite, and he's got the Warrior House Orders sword on his 'Mech's leg, but where's the green?

I always like that mech... hopefully this one will be as good to me as the others when played. ;)

I kinda like it. But it is rather expensive to place a pilot that ramps up the cost on this to a 234 point unit with a base 10 av, 9 movement and 22 DV, all to propel a 3 damage heavy mech. I do love the homing beacon though.

I guess it is not the mech that I am dissapointed in though. I actually find it stable, even with the SU Beacon that would push it beyond its two clicks of armor and its best DV of a 21. Kind of a hash for me.

The Pilot on the other hand is I think pretty sad. 1,1,1 pilots are little used. Oh well.

At least Liao gets one of their faction totem mechs back. Maybe one of their other pilots can make this mech pretty good. But honestly when I noticed that this unit has very similar stats to a medium mech that costs less with pretty much the same gear I will tend to spend less to get something else to support my forces.

Good point, ThePlasticOne. That Shen Yi is rather devoid of green in his colour scheme. Oh well, it's still decent camouflage when having to fight in deserts, I guess.

Read that again - in 2/3s the time, he's a +2 DV pilot, and 1/6 of the time he's a +3 DV pilot. Changes things a little, doesn't it?

It's a bit of a gamble, but it looks like that pilot's ability is actually worth it.

Not bad, if not great. The post-AoD Liao schtick seems to be "we're boring", or alternatively "we're low-quality Kuritans without the backwards attack thing." Still, 199's pretty cheap for a non-GS unique heavy.

Kinda surprised to see a Shen Yi, though -- I would've thought they would hold those, the Tian Zongs and the Yu Huangs for a hypothetical future Army Builder...

I do hope some of the other Liao unique units are a little better than this one. I can like the pilot a bit and I do like this but it is just uninspired. I would have perferred just one mech with these stats in a set. Especially if the medium non is cheaper.

dont forget on regular ranged combat orders he does have a 12 av with pilot, stable 4 clix of 9 av (+2 homing beacon) so somehow i dont think people would prefer assault orders with it.

when looking at gear its as usual as all other liao uniques, still this one can be customized atleast with lets say armor piercing, something most Liao units lack.

He looks boring, but for 234 points is darn cheap for a Unique heavy plus pilot.

Factor in:

1/ At least a 23 defense 66% of the time.

2/ An effective 12 attack with the homing beacon.

3/ 14" range, 19" assault order

4/ A long, stable dial

5/ Access to House Liao's Faction Pride card, witch add extra damage to Green or Vetaran units.

Add decoy, and this unit should do well I think, especially in an army with lots of long range ballistic units able to follow up on that Homing Beacon.

Also do not forget that the Cappies now have some of the best artillery left in the game, so this will likely be guarding a Long Tom or Paladin.