Playing with the ISC

[Peoples Champ]

I have a very canny opponent to be sure who has both Convoy and Bamaka. He also has lots of models to choose from so you are always facing a different list everytime. Nearly everytime I am faced with 3 vs 5 models which does allow him to save his heavy hitters to last when I have activated everything.
We played two games over the weekend the first was vs bamaka with Bak and Dacke, Ngozi and Sabaka vs my ISC with the Grey Daimyo, Yellow Komuso and the Blue Ashigaru. The Bamakas revealed mission (we use random missions) was Land Protection and the ISC had a secret mission Priority Target. So he just had to get models in the centre and clock up the VP while I had to kil him. Big problem was dealing with Sabaka!! He killed everyone from memory and I just struggled to get through him.
Second game Convoy with Gretchen and Lute, Mark, Leo, Erhard and Luther vs my ISC with the Carmin Ronin, Black Kunoichi and a Green Mamushi (such a cool model). The Convoy got a random mission of "Infiltration" and ISC had a secret mission of "The Four Winds". Tough to play 3 models vs 6!!
Better game but again the numbers allowed my opponent to spread out and get past me as I did not have enough models to slow him down. I was forced to try to stop him as by merely fulfilling my mission I could only net 45VPs while he could get 100. In the end the carmin ronin struggled for 3 turns to try and kill Erhard. The Mamushi took out Gretchin but then died in the last turn to Luther and Lute. Mark just strolled down one side of the board and grabbed 35 easy VPs whilst luther got 35 and I ended up with only the VPs for killing Erhard and Gretchin.
To me the ISC seem overpriced for their abilites and the continual out activiation is a killer. I would like to see some sort of pass action brought into the rules. IE for every extra model you have your opponent gets one pass action every turn where he does not has to activate a model.