Raindog

On Father's Day, I played Seth. Seth was given a day pass free from his children to anything he wanted to do, so he spent part of the day at the club playing Infinity. I think I have known Seth for seven years. He has yet to beat me at a miniature game: first at Warhammer Fantasy, and now at Infinity. Our Infinity games are always close. Seth jokes luck tends to favor me. And yes, my dice tend to shine when we play. I set up my personal table for us to play on. It is an industrial site / ship interior, so it perfect for Wotan. Seth prefers corridor / ship interiors where there are no dominating sniper towers and static, long range fire teams can grind down the game. At the club, we have been playing two hundred points of limited insertion, so prepare for the upcoming Ordo Fanaticus Club Challenge. Seth plays remote heavy Yu-Jing. He rocks two total reaction HMG bots, a sat lock bot, and a Ru-Shi, so he play the smoke game. Finally, he has a pair of hidden deploying Ninjas to go with a handful of cheap troops. I have been playing the same list for weeks: A cheap Ghulam fire team, an hunting Muyib team, and two role players. There is nothing fancy of tricky. Today, we were playing Hunting Party. It is an odd scenario. Killing models is not what you want to do. Stunning Lts. and specialists is hard. If you have a choice in list design, you take a minimum amount of specialists. I won the roll off. I had Seth deploy on far side. He elected to go first. I was surprised since he had two TO Ninja Killer Hackers to grab tower at the last moment. Seth said he thought I had fire superiority and did not want me to shoot his pieces off the table before he could use them. The Celestial Guard guard launched smoke to let the Ru-Shi attack the Ghulam link. L.Shariff held out and burned orders. On one attack, she saved on a double 20 armor save roll. Ru-Shi advanced enough to kill the link leader Ghulam Doc and ended his turn. I advanced my Muyibs and took a transmission tower. A Ninja decloaked to attack. He rolled a 2 two dodge engage. The Muyib Spec Op responded with an 8-9-10 for shotgun blasts. The Ninja died with Coup de Grace to achieve my classified card. My Farzan took out one total reaction bot in the gantry and stunned the doc behind it. Seth let the Ru-Shi go with more smoke with little success wounded a Muyib. The doctor Muyib killed the wounded Muyib. I peeled back a few more orders and including taking out the Ru-Shi. In his final turn, Seth revealed his final Ninja and claimed the opposite tower. He was low on orders and made a mad dash. I tried to shooting him twice and flash pulsing the Ninja to no avail. At that point, I had the game 5-1, but I decided to go for more. First, I tried to take the opposite tower. That resulted in the Ninja stunning my Ghulam dodging for the tower. If I had been smart, I would not have dodge and had just tried to alter the tower. So instead of 4-2, I was at 3-1. Finally, I tried to stun the sensor bot with my Farzan with my remaining orders to lift my score back up, but failed. It close and fun. We both felt we were able to push our game agasint the other.

I don't always roll double twenties for armor saves, but when I do, it is usually against Seth.....

There are no bad units in Infinity. What does not work for you, may work very well for somebody else. It is about styles of play. Some people like Jay like Heavy Infantry and hard hitters. I like cheap troops and playing piece trading. Some people like to set up defensive teams and have a few action pieces to take the objectives. That being said, the Scot ML to is burley in the right hands. Doziers and SAS are solid. I like Highlanders. They are cheap and can link with William Wallace for and order battery. I would use them as piece traders, but that is my style of play.

The Barid is almost done. I am working on the base. I sprayed the blast walls at the club. The power room dried over night, but a few days in the heat of the club house should be good.

I have three models and one building (like in the center left edge) and three blast walls to paint for OFCC.

The great thing about playing Joel, is he demanded I not let up and push the attack. He did it with a smile and sincerity. It is a rare thing. It is great to play him, but a greater honor to have him in the club.

The table is getting closer to completion.

I played Joel and Seth tonight. We played the Hunting Party Mission on my table. I won initiative and had Joel set up to the right. He had me go first. The game lasted one turn. He hid, so I pressed the game. Ny Muyibs took tower and went into suppressive fire. The Ghulams went up the long gantry and won every firefight. The Ranger went down, then the Grunt HMG, two Mavericks, and the rest of the Grunt team. Joel started his first turn in retreat with this in his dead pool. I failed to hunt anything, but Joel had a minimum of specialists, so there were few targets.

Seth vs. Eric

PaladinX our battle code is: dm7Ltdg85rkcP98 Joel Vs RD

Stephen Furst died today a the age of 63. He was a voice actor, but most most known for his roll as Flounder in Animal House, and my favorite, Vir Cotto, in Babylon Five.

Maybe, I just really want to meet him?

Back to models. The uniform is done on the barid, now for the helmet. The last muyib had it's first base coat of brown (Dryad Bark).

When you get the model assembled, come down to the club and we will run you through some learning scenarios.

Sprayed the new power room. The new gantry has a warp in it, so I need to let it sit for a while. I built three new blast walls, but was dumb and left the glue at home...... Come home. Glued them together, but could not spray them.....

I am heading down to the club to work on projects for the newt few your. Stop on by if you want to hang.

Joel?

Seth, Guardian is notoriously bad with their orders. I am still waiting for one from August of last year. I have checked about 9 times so far...... Jay has had similar luck.

Caledonia is getting several kits over the summer. The next one will be released in June 23rd. My advice on how to start to to pick up the starter kit and flesh it out to 200 points. The list should her at least 10 orders. What from there? Have your range bands cover. Have a chaingun or shotgun. Have a rifle or two. Have a few medium range weapons like Molotoks, spitfires, or HMGs. Finally, a have a long range gun like a missile launcher or sniper rifle. If your local group is playing missions, you will need specialists to accomplish the mission: Forward Observers, Doctors, Hackers, Engineers, etc. I highly recommend playing 2-5 games with the same list before changing out units. It is easier to learn the weapons and abilities if you are not changing models all the time. I also recommend playing 10 unit, " limited insertion" games to keep track of your units and not be overwhelmed.. The diceabide is a local guy. He has a good article on the subject..

Making another smaller causeway/gantry and finished another generator/ power room.

I may have been sidetracked in painting by modeling more Mantic terrain for my OFCC table........

I sure cash will be accepted.....

What if you win out of your skill or my terrible luck?

I would love to play you Seth!

That is still a very good reason.