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Is there a definitive better one over the other? what are the roles for each and how do they overlap/override each other?

Dcaps Gozanti isnt a thing... and I dont see why it ever would be.

Assault Gozantis in a fleet with IF! will be amusing though

26 minutes ago, shmitty said:

Assault Gozantis in a fleet with IF! will be amusing though

Tried it, wasn't impressed.

Suddenly you have Gozanti that want to go straight at the enemy with rather smallish front arcs. It usually doesn't end well.

Also, if CF, you're not comms netting or doing other useful stuff, like pushing squads.

I don't think their volume of firepower would be worth the points invested. On the other hand, with intel officers it's a way to shoot off evades or squeak in some damage points.

I mean if you're spamming activations with these things, might as well make them useful right?

Dcaps saves 2 pts

I used to run an assault Gozer fleet with Vader - 2red die out the front is pretty good en masse.

I mean, the rest of the list was hot janky garbage, but it was fun to play a few times

4 hours ago, Ginkapo said:

Dcaps Gozanti isnt a thing... and I dont see why it ever would be.

I had some interesting thoughts on this. Basically, it's possible to turn D-Caps Gozantis into an absurd Opening Salvo or Most Wanted super list. You can open up at long range with a 5-die double arc using a Concentrate Fire command.

27 minutes ago, thecactusman17 said:

I had some interesting thoughts on this. Basically, it's possible to turn D-Caps Gozantis into an absurd Opening Salvo or Most Wanted super list. You can open up at long range with a 5-die double arc using a Concentrate Fire command.

Add Blockade Run, Sensor Net, Chiraneau, and Lambdas with escorts and it could work. If it works too well, people would finally stop thinking the DCaps VSD-2 isn’t amazing.

The DCaps Gozanti also has the advantage of being able to double-arc (the once) at long range, which with Intensify Firepower, could get some results.

Overall if you want something to go with Intensify Firepower, I'd probably go for the Assault Gozanti, though, because it doesn't need a trick to fire out to longer range and its flak is also longer-ranged. You need to be careful not to over-rely on concentrate fire, though, and keep it useful with Comms Nets or whatever other fleet upgrade you're bringing.

If you're not bringing Intensify Firepower, I'm not sure I'd bother with either, though.

I actually just put together an Intensify Firepower list with Assault Gozantis today. 2 of them, a Cymoon with gunnery teams, an Arq with qbt, instigator with Tua, ews, external racks and oe. And jonus, a lambda, and 2x TIEs for deployment.

The fun part is that it's a Tarkin list with Sovereign.

I do play Assault Gozanti version from time to time (caveat - only with Vader) and I feel that it would be better than DCaps one almost always due to longer flak range and the possibility to threaten long range more than once.

23 hours ago, Snipafist said:

The DCaps Gozanti also has the advantage of being able to double-arc (the once) at long range, which with Intensify Firepower, could get some results.

Overall if you want something to go with Intensify Firepower, I'd probably go for the Assault Gozanti, though, because it doesn't need a trick to fire out to longer range and its flak is also longer-ranged. You need to be careful not to over-rely on concentrate fire, though, and keep it useful with Comms Nets or whatever other fleet upgrade you're bringing.

If you're not bringing Intensify Firepower, I'm not sure I'd bother with either, though.

IF is literally the only reason I'm considering playing with G-2's. My CC list is based around 5 of them(mostly as a joke) with an ISD, glad and an arc. No squadrons, I'm expecting to get murdered.

5 minutes ago, dominosfleet said:

IF is literally the only reason I'm considering playing with G-2's. My CC list is based around 5 of them(mostly as a joke) with an ISD, glad and an arc. No squadrons, I'm expecting to get murdered.