by daggaz
In round one, you are lucky enough to be presented with this choice and can afford either one or the other with relative ease. There is only a single copy of each.What do you take, and why?
The free action is hot especially in round one, but that allows your neighbor to pick up the shields (and potentially use them against you). And how useful are those extra actions if you get surrounded by ancients and can't quickly field a squad to take them out? IH can be hard to pick up as well if everybody else is waiting for it in the next few rounds. Same can be said for adv robotics.
I can see the immediate onboard advantage of IH, but still conservatively lean towards Adv. Robotics and using the extra flexibility to adapt.