What To Do With A Massive Init Bonus

[SCC]

OK the Mobile HQ has 7 tons of comm gear, so it grants a +2 bonus to init; it also has the Battle Computer Quirk, meaning another +2; you could also refit it to have a Cockpit Command Console for another +2 (Maybe). So that's a running total of +2.

Now Satellite Imagers provide a +1 each, but it doesn't stack if multiple Imagers are mounted on the same unit, so put each Imager on a different unit and your fine :P that's a total of +10.

Now if you had is advantage in a game how would you use it? And how good would it be?

[grimlock1]

In a pickup game, I wouldn't allow all that on the table at once.

In a campaign, assuming that the player(s) earned all those bonuses, the opfor would be enlarged for a bigger fight.  In the case of the Mobile HQ, it would have to be on the table, in which case, the opfor would also get some kind of hunter/killer, gunning for that command center.

[ANS Kamas P81]

Alternatively both sides have equal advantages, and the point is to kill the other command units while protecting yours.  Suddenly, more realistic strategy emerges from that need for initiative dominance!

[Easy]

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[Col Toda]

I would bank initiative say you win the first 2 turns ( as with those bonuses you would anyway and at at a critical turn auto declare I have it . Who has it the first 2 turns is not important anyway normally . You can take ruthless advantage of losing initiative if you field a lot of hover tanks to occupy adjacent hexes to force non jumping flankers to go further for end run around ect .