{"id":1907,"date":"2026-06-08T20:08:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T01:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/?p=1907"},"modified":"2026-06-08T20:21:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T01:21:03","slug":"harlow-kinetic-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/?p=1907","title":{"rendered":"Harlow Kinetic Solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I won’t say that the most recent painting drought has broken, but I spent a fair amount of time at the bench the past couple of weekends, getting my recent BLKOUT purchases into usable shape. The photos aren’t my best – I would swear iOS 26 lost some camera control capability. The paint isn’t my best either, but I think it’s good enough for use on the table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For my initial force, I’ve chosen to go with Harlow Kinetic Solutions. In-universe, they’re a PMC of South African origin. On the colony world of Abol, they’re largely under contract to the Authority, a somewhat mustache-twirlingly evil offshoot of the remnant United Nations that is ostensibly the planetary governing body. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mechanically, Harlow’s things are mobility and some of the better combat drills (limited-use maneuvers) in the game. In theory, this design supports aggressively going after objective points on the board over getting bogged down in fights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

First up, the assault team. Two riflemen, a machine gunner (right), and a team leader (rear). The TL can, as his action, give a Ready token (effectively overwatch) to another model in the unit that has already acted:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Control team. One rifleman, a grenadier (right), and an offensive EW specialist (center). The EW specialist’s data spike enables a data attack which, if successful, denies the targeted unit their movement for a turn:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Springboks. AI-driven combat bots. Fast, well-armored, with innate jump movement and a limited-use chaff discharger that prevents overwatch attacks:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Veterans. More CQB-focused, with carbines and machetes, as well as EMP grenades that do armor-bypassing damage to AI and drone models. Innate jump mobility. They also have the Low Tech trait, which makes them immune to data attacks:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Engineers and Crikets (sic). The engineers have an antitank rocket launcher. The Crikets are self-propelled claymore mines. In my headcanon, they run repurposed Japanese hugbot AI with a targeting filter module – hence the war crime paint schemes. My engineers have wired speakers onto the chassis so they blare J-pop with randomized interjections of “KAWAII!” as they scuttle in:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I won’t say that the most recent painting drought has broken, but I spent a fair amount of time at the bench the past couple of weekends, getting my recent BLKOUT purchases into usable shape. The photos aren’t my best – I would swear iOS 26 lost some camera control capability. The paint isn’t my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[145,42,33],"class_list":["post-1907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","tag-blkout","tag-miniatures","tag-wargaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1907"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1919,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907\/revisions\/1919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}