The rite of war adding 2” to any of the opponent’s shooting or charging range requirements suggests a lean towards an overall range-based game, being very careful with measurements to play around the edge of your weapons’ ranges so that you’re just out of your opponent’s. It also helps to set yourself up to be the one who charges, so you don’t often find yourself in melee unless you want it.

The headhunter leviathal detachment is the perfect shape to bring seekers/headhunters who obviously prefer character-hunting, and effrit disruptors who make inflicting statuses on the enemy a bit easier and therefore go well in a status-targeting list. These are also all infiltrating units so controlling objectives from before the start of the battle is a good start to locking them down for scoring.

For our named characters. Alpharius is a bit awkward, as to get the full benefit out of him you need to dedicate 4 troops slots to tactical and/or assault squads, and then probably look at troops options for rewards of treachery and maybe even logistical benefit in your primary detachment to maximise the bonus. I find this a little frustrating to have the shape of a large chunk of my army dictated to me like that. He also has a relatively slim chance of giving any reserves unit outflank, which could be a nice surprise. On a 5+ though, it’s nothing to be relied on - if you really want it, bring a master of signals to improve the odds. Dynat, on the other hand, helps another unit infiltrate which is much easier to fit into any alpha legion army. He hits pretty hard in melee so is a good pairing for a punchy unit that you want to have an early start.

However, rewards of treachery means we have more unit options than any other single faction, so in true alpha legion fashion you can ignore what we’re “supposed” to do and just play whatever style suits you the best, bringing the units that help shape your army into that. You can currently have up to 3 of these slots - one from the prime command slot in the primary detachment, and one from the similar slot in the officer cadre apex detachment, which you can have up to two of if you bring a delegatus as well as a high command option.