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You played a great game.  I think that going second is a huge bonus in any scenario that you have to hold ground, since you know what you need to take from your opponent so that you can score.  The marut would have decimated me if I got out in the open, so I hid as much as I could.  Also, having my seraph start out on that side made you pile pretty heavy on the same flank when you deployed, which gave me lots of options on the other end of the board.  I had lots of luck in the last turn, but I think you played your army very well.  


And for what it's worth, I got totally stomped by Pete in the next game!

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started airbrushing. its... a steeeeep learning curve lol.  have spent more time cleaning and adjusting than actually spraying.  finding the right dilution, pressure, volume is a pain in the arse.   its somewhat hilarious looking at the differences on the terrain.  im just base painting the tops to get a feel so im not too worried as i can work over it later once i perfect it a bit but holy cow it looks baaaad in some cases and acceptable in others.  

 

as for this weekend: going up to seattle with george to get my butt kicked for three games.  ill bring a TAG list and a more typical list of mine.  Marut lists are a very strange bag.  i either crush people or get crushed.  there's no in between lol.  other list is generally overall more solid but i have a few gambles in it as well that i dont feel really confident about.  who knows, will be fun to throw dice on saturday.

 

as for thoughts about recent releases: getting super tired of pretty much all SSA releases for aleph.  They just dont appeal to me as much as the more vedic side does.  especially the play style.  really hoping they come out with SOMETHING soon to feed the vanilla crowd cause the steroid infused greeks is getting old and they have PLENTY of models in that sectorial already so they should show some love to vanilla/vedics. or heck even sectorials that dont get much love like mrrf and acontecimento.  im crossing my fingers that CB is starting to make bank and will have the manpower to start pumping out more releases.. kid addicted to the candy fellas!

 

selling a bunch of crap.  need to free up the room/space(potentially moving) and need money atm so old games are now needing to go.  so check it out in rogue trading if you feel like it.

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i guess im in a very 'infinity' mood today.  i was messing around trying to find a hilarious nomad robot list.  think i found it and i dont think its terrible lol:

 

logo_53.png Jurisdictional Command of Bakunin
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Group 1 sep.gifsep.giforden_regular.png 9 orden_irregular.png0 orden_impetuosa.png0
logo_25.png ZOE (Hacking Device. UPGRADE: Stop!) Combi Rifle, D-Charges / Pistol, Knife. (28)
logo_25_2.png PI-WELL Combi Rifle / Electric Pulse. (19)
logo_8.png LIZARD MULTI HMG, Heavy Grenade Launcher / . (2.5 | 87)
logo_18.png TRANSDUCTOR ZOND Flash Pulse, Sniffer / Electric Pulse. (8)
logo_17.png METEOR ZOND Combi Rifle / Electric Pulse. (1 | 21)
logo_20.png LUNOKHOD Heavy Shotgun, Heavy Flamethrower, CrazyKoalas (2) / Electric Pulse. (26)
logo_19.png TSYKLON Feuerbach / Electric Pulse. (1 | 31)
logo_14.png STEMPLER ZOND Combi Rifle, Sniffer / Electric Pulse. (17)
logo_18.png TRANSDUCTOR ZOND Flash Pulse, Sniffer / Electric Pulse. (8)
 
Group 2 sep.gifsep.giforden_regular.png5 orden_irregular.png0 orden_impetuosa.png0
logo_1.png MODERATOR Paramedic (MediKit) Combi Rifle / Pistol, Electric Pulse. (11)
logo_1.png MODERATOR Lieutenant Combi Rifle / Pistol, Electric Pulse. (0.5 | 9)
logo_1.png MODERATOR Spitfire / Pistol, Electric Pulse. (0.5 | 15)
logo_1.png MODERATOR Combi Rifle / Pistol, Electric Pulse. (9)
logo_1.png MODERATOR Combi Rifle + Marker / Pistol, Electric Pulse. (0.5 | 11)
 
6 SWC | 300 Points
 
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played 3 games today at Card Kingdom in Seattle with George and I carpooling.  brought similar lists to what i usually bring.  

logo_71.png Aleph
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Group 1 sep.gifsep.giforden_regular.png 10 orden_irregular.png0 orden_impetuosa.png0
logo_15.png NETROD Electric Pulse. (4)
logo_15.png NETROD Electric Pulse. (4)
logo_15.png NETROD Electric Pulse. (4)
logo_3.png DEVA (Multispectral Visor L2) Spitfire, Nanopulser / Pistol, Knife. (1 | 33)
logo_32.png THAMYRIS Hacker (Hacking Device) Marker, Nanopulser / Assault Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 25)
logo_28.png PHOENIX Lieutenant Heavy Rocket Launcher, Nanopulser, Smoke Grenades / Assault Pistol, DA CCW. (2 | 35)
logo_10.png DALETH Rebot Combi Rifle, Sniffer / Electric Pulse. (17)
logo_7.png DASYU (Forward Observer) Combi Rifle, Nanopulser, Antipersonnel Mines / Pistol, Knife. (36)
logo_6.png NAGA Combi Rifle, Antipersonnel Mines / Pistol, Knife. (27)
logo_6.png NAGA Hacker (Assault Hacking Device) Combi Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 32)
 
Group 2 sep.gifsep.giforden_regular.png3 orden_irregular.png0 orden_impetuosa.png0
logo_11.png ZAYIN Rebot HMG / Electric Pulse. (1 | 26)
logo_17.png PROXY Mk.1 Engineer Combi Rifle, Nanopulser, D-Charges / Pistol, Knife. (14)
logo_2.png GARUDA Tacbot Combi Rifle / Electric Pulse. (22)
logo_18.png PROXY Mk.2 Hacker (Assault Hacking Device) Boarding Shotgun, Nanopulser / Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 21)
 
5.5 SWC | 300 Points
 
 
So my strategy is pretty diverse with this list which is to my liking.  one thing i really disliked i think was not having my typical garuda hmg.  there was a situation in game 3 where i lamented not having the hmg.  i like the hacker and minelayer combo.  dasyu is generally my mvp.  im really starting to appreciate thamyris more(especially after today).  3 hackers in general is really awesome.  supportware is great.  daleth im still struggling learning to use.  
 
logo_71.png Aleph
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Group 1 sep.gifsep.giforden_regular.png 9 orden_irregular.png0 orden_impetuosa.png0
logo_15.png NETROD Electric Pulse. (4)
logo_15.png NETROD Electric Pulse. (4)
logo_15.png NETROD Electric Pulse. (4)
logo_17.png PROXY Mk.1 Engineer Combi Rifle, Nanopulser, D-Charges / Pistol, Knife. (14)
logo_5.png MARUT Lieutenant (Strategos L3) MULTI HMG, Heavy Flamethrower, Nanopulser / AP CCW. (3 | 120)
logo_10.png DALETH Rebot Combi Rifle, Sniffer / Electric Pulse. (17)
logo_6.png NAGA Combi Rifle, Monofilament Mines / Pistol, Knife. (30)
logo_8.png MYRMIDON Chain Rifle, Nanopulser, Smoke Grenades / Pistol, AP CCW. (16)
logo_18.png PROXY Mk.2 Hacker (Assault Hacking Device) Boarding Shotgun, Nanopulser / Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 21)
logo_6.png NAGA (Minelayer) Boarding Shotgun, Antipersonnel Mines / Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 27)
 
Group 2 sep.gifsep.giforden_regular.png1 orden_irregular.png0 orden_impetuosa.png0
logo_7.png DASYU MULTI Sniper Rifle, Nanopulser / Pistol, Knife. (1.5 | 42)
 
5.5 SWC | 299 Points
 
 
this list is my marut list with a small twist.  i think its pretty dirty tbh.  dasyu in second group is incredible with sniper.  mono mines will take out anything that scares marut.  smoke baby myrm. proxy and orders.  obviously anything after marut is just change but the supporting pieces are nice.  
 
Game 1: Jake with some vanilla CA.
 
 
 
so my experience against combined is very little.  my first run into them was one of the biggest clobberings ive ever taken and it was at the hands of a charontid so i made it my objective to get the guy off the f*^%($* table.  plus he's an obvious lieutenant but not really cause blah blah im a cheaty alien so i dont care about your typical Lt things :P .  so ive also never played against anyone that has ran a morat before so thats also a first.  good news is though ive researched the heck out of them cause i find them amazing, so i knew what to be scared of.  the umbra, charontid and makreep had to be handled.  i knew if i could somehow get all 3 i was in a good position for the game.  i obviously had no idea where the missile launcher was.  i dont know if his list is right cause im terrible at this.
 
i lost the wip roll(ill just state i lost every wip roll for initiative/deployment choice...).  he made me deploy first.  good choice as scoring for frontline was at the end of the game so he was making me make a tougher decision of taking first or second.  i was like meh objectives shmectives ill go first and see what i can punch out of those big point scorers.  so i have a building in the middle, huge weird one on the left and a building slightly out of my deployment zone along the right side wall.  there was one in the middle left and he had a large one on his side overlooking a good chunk of the board and then another 2.  there were 2 main fire lanes.  one was diagonally on the left middle area(stretching from his deployment area to the end of the long huge building on my left side.  then there was a huge open death zone on the right side with his building overlooking most of it.   i deployed the zayin in the main area in cover.  thamyris and engineer hovering behind and to the left of it behind the middle building.  dropped pheonix and msv2 deva on left side(thankfully far away from charontid and makreep).  naga minelayer on left middle firelane area.  naga hacker mid right in middle of death zone behind some scatter.  dasyu i put as a marker mid range right side building tucked away firmly from any possible charontid eyesight.  mk2 hidden.  FO bot mid left.  all netrods scattered stupidly(also a theme).  oh im obviously not playing the marut list and played my regular list.  didnt think it wise against EI.  plus scoring in high areas id need more orders to get up the board.  His deployment charontid and dr worm hid behind middle building with ability to go down either large firelane(smart).  makreep in building, of course, overlooking good chunk of board.  2 morats in the building also looking outside different windows.  had daturazi on opposite side firelane.  1 morat covering his 6 on the fare opposite side of the other building(smart as i had a drop troop).  put umbra aggressively in middle firelane prone behind some terrain.  noteably near my naga hacker... and my mk2 in hidden.  
Turn 1:  hmmm so decided i need to try and eat at his order pool.  although not a brilliant idea i decided to go at his umbra with my mk2.  cloaked with order, moved up surprise hacked his umbra with isolation.  believe i passed but he won his BTS roll.  so decided to switch opperations and deva shot and killed dr worm.  naga ran up laid a mine next to 2 of the guys near each other and sat there.  oh, pheonix and deva move up coordinate along with naga to get up the board.  think along naga hacker to get in position a little better.  thamyris put marksmanship on bot.  bot decided he didnt like that makreep and unloaded.  makreep was the first necessary target down.  forget what else happened to tbh.  nothing important
His Turn 1: guess who comes up, shocker it was charontid!  although both of us are hitting on 14s he double crits the poor TR bot. then kills the naga and FO bot.  my mk2 though gets some isolation attempts on him but he passes his BTS i believe.   umbra decides to deal with mk2 and suckerpunches it.  i get lucky and get my ARO hack through on top of his and get him isolated.  B1 hacking feels like CC sometimes lol.  cant remember what else he does.  maybe gets his classified?  
My turn 2:   before shooting i decide to repair TR bot and re give it marksmanship.  shoots at charontid.  puts 2 wounds through him.  he drops prone or something cant remember.  i bring on garuda walking on behind.  finish off charontid.  deva kills the morat on the left side table.  not much else happens.  think i immobloize the umbra for 2 turns.  heck i might be blurring together 2-3rd turn its late :P
his turn 2: honestly cant remember too much but i think he shuffles a bit and tries to sucker punch again and gets this one through.  kills mk2 i think?  
my turn 3: i know i bring dasyu out to shoot at something and he reveals his noctifier shooting it from long range and misses.  i then bring deva up and shoot the noctifier.  pheonix goes and hides to score points like a good myrmidon officer.  oh btw always giving smoke to deva with Lt order generally.  i get thinks in scoring positions.   
his turn 3: he's in l.o.l. i think cause i think he made the noctifier the lt?  or someone else i killed.  idk.  he tries to get guys in position but i have too many points in each area.  
i like jake alot.  really nice guy.  he's told me he is rather new but i think plays quite well for a newer player.  
 
ill do the next 2 tomorrow...
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logo_61.png Combined Army

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Group 1 sep.gifsep.giforden_regular.png10 orden_irregular.png0 orden_impetuosa.png2

logo_16.png MED-TECH OBSIDON MEDCHANOID Combi Rifle, D-Charges / Pistol, Knife. (23)

logo_4.png UMBRA LEGATE Hacker (Hacking Device Plus) Boarding Shotgun, Flash Pulse / Pistol, DA CCW. (0.5 | 43)

logo_7.png CHARONTID Lieutenant (Multispectral Visor L3) HMG, Nanopulser / Heavy Pistol, Knife. (2 | 79)

logo_13.png DĀTURAZI Combi Rifle + Smoke Light Grenade Launcher / Pistol, Shock CCW. (0.5 | 21)

logo_13.png DĀTURAZI Boarding Shotgun, Smoke Grenades / Pistol, Shock CCW. (20)

logo_35.png SLAVE DRONE Electric Pulse. (3)

logo_25.png NOCTIFER Missile Launcher / Assault Pistol, Knife. (1.5 | 32)

logo_5.png MAAKREP TRACKER MULTI Sniper Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (1.5 | 33)

logo_1.png MORAT (Forward Observer) Combi Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (15)

logo_1.png MORAT (Forward Observer) Combi Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (15)

logo_1.png MORAT Paramedic (MediKit) Combi Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (16)

 

6 SWC | 300 Points

 


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My next game was against Tony and he was playing Steel Phalanx.  Decided 'well, there's very few things that scare marut from steel phalanx' so i went with that list.  quadrant control.  he had a pretty interesting list and unfortunately the few things that do scare marut, were not included really.  he had atalanta, macky, officer and a butt load of myrmidons.  i definitely dont have this list right but i knew his Lt had zero vis and i know he had a hacker and at least 2 spitfires if not 3.  i have to give my hat off to tony cause this is a very different list than im use to playing!  

 

logo_72.png Steel Phalanx
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Group 1 sep.gifsep.giforden_regular.png10 orden_irregular.png0 orden_impetuosa.png0
logo_15.png ATALANTA MULTI Sniper Rifle + 1 Spotbot / Pistol, Knife. (1.5 | 43)
sep.giflogo_15_2.png SPOTBOT Electric Pulse. (2)
logo_17.png MACHAON Combi Rifle, Nanopulser, Zero-V Smoke Grenades / Pistol, DA CCW. (0.5 | 38)
logo_5.png MYRMIDON Chain Rifle, Nanopulser, Smoke Grenades / Pistol, AP CCW. (16)
logo_6.png MYRMIDON Lieutenant Boarding Shotgun, Nanopulser, Zero-V Smoke Grenades / Pistol, AP CCW. (0.5 | 30)
logo_5.png MYRMIDON Spitfire, Nanopulser, Smoke Grenades / Pistol, AP CCW. (1 | 31)
logo_5.png MYRMIDON Spitfire, Nanopulser, Smoke Grenades / Pistol, AP CCW. (1 | 31)
logo_5.png MYRMIDON Hacker (Assault Hacking Device) Combi Rifle, Nanopulser, Smoke Grenades / Pistol, AP CCW. (0.5 | 31)
logo_5.png MYRMIDON Boarding Shotgun, Nanopulser, Smoke Grenades / Pistol, AP CCW. (24)
logo_5.png MYRMIDON Spitfire, Nanopulser, Smoke Grenades / Pistol, AP CCW. (1 | 31)
logo_5.png MYRMIDON Boarding Shotgun, Nanopulser, Smoke Grenades / Pistol, AP CCW. (24)
 
6 SWC | 299 Points
 
 
He wins roll(theme) chooses deployment.  marut with first turn sure(yes i know you score at the end...)!  think he said this was his first time playing against marut and deployment kinda showed me he didnt know exactly how potent she is.  he had myrmidons flocked everywhere.  obvious macky lt to me BECAUSE i didnt see officer next to a myrmidon(why do the printouts not put that in there...).  i did notice it when he threw zero vis with it during his turn which alerted to me that it was officer and i asked if he was a CoC specialist he said no... so yup that was the Lt lol.  my deployment.  pet myrm in middle behind a large awesome brand new terrain piece(not on catalogue yet) from TDT.  had 2 other buildings in deployment zone.  opponent at 2 in his zone and 2 tall ones in the middle breaking up shooting lanes.   
my first turn: he takes 2 from me so 8 orders to deal pain.  marut steps up and shoots at two myrmidons.  think i kill 1 and other makes arm save and drops prone.  then cut the corner to take care of atalanta.  naga mono mine dude decides to pay macky's team a visit.  kills the first spitfire myrm in f2f.  drops a mine around corner to get set up macky and another 2 myrms.  then comes around and shoots.  he dodges.  i put 3 into the nearest myrm.  whom i kil but the other 2 made their dodges.  i end turn with a suppression field.  
he tries to medikit atalanta and fails i think.  then does it on a closer myrm and succeeds.  brings macky and heals another myrm.  then he goes around the other side building where i had a nasty surprise of  dasyu waaay back in corner of my deployment zone taking shots at his Lt's team.  i shoot at the link leader each time but never get one through.  regardless it did slow him down a bit which was good enough to me.  he kills the naga monomine guys by smoke and poke tactics of myrms.  think thats about it
tied quadrants 1-1
turn 2 me: this, in general, is the usual phase my marut unleashes rage.  especially since my netrods behaved themselves and dropped nicely this time.  move things up with command tokens.  so i go ahead and move prone on top of a building with mk2 to get near his hvt and move up everyone else pretty much.  marut then unleases 10 orders of rampage.  she kills pretty much the Lts entire link team including his Lt.  then picks off 2 on other side.  i always forget though this is a situation where you have to be careful not to go too fast on the gas pedal.  so i positioned again defensively but more left oriented this time which is where his remaining orders were.  i also moved dasyu up to score in quadrant marut left and marker naga hacker crawled on top to score in top right.  while marut was in bottom left.  
turn 2 him: l.o.l.  he medikits i think one guy?  shuffles his chain myrmidon forward. spitfire kills i think my daleth.  i kept forgetting he had so many spitfires(most models were not representative so i was a little confused sometimes). 
my turn 3.  i do little.  pretty much burn my orders shuffling and suppressive. think i get my classified this turn or my previous turn cant remember.  hack hvt at -3.  i got that i think all 3 games lol.
his turn 3.  he moves guys forward trying to desperately get in zones but fails doing so.
think it ended up being 8-1
 
Game 3: Chris C.
 
So this was the matchup i was eagerly anticipating after doing well first 2 games.  Found out he was playing vanilla AND knew he was playing a marut list.  Decided to not have a mirror match as honestly whoever got first turn probably wins that.... so went with the other list.

logo_71.png Aleph
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Group 1 sep.gifsep.giforden_regular.png10 orden_irregular.png0 orden_impetuosa.png0
logo_15.png NETROD Electric Pulse. (4)
logo_15.png NETROD Electric Pulse. (4)
logo_9.png SOPHOTECT Combi Rifle, D-Charges / Pistol, Knife. (31)
logo_5.png MARUT Lieutenant (Strategos L3) MULTI HMG, Heavy Flamethrower, Nanopulser / AP CCW. (3 | 120)
logo_11.png ZAYIN Rebot HMG / Electric Pulse. (1 | 26)
logo_11.png ZAYIN Rebot HMG / Electric Pulse. (1 | 26)
logo_6.png NAGA (Minelayer) Boarding Shotgun, Antipersonnel Mines / Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 27)
logo_32.png THAMYRIS Hacker (Hacking Device) Marker, Nanopulser / Assault Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 25)
logo_8.png MYRMIDON Chain Rifle, Nanopulser, Smoke Grenades / Pistol, AP CCW. (16)
logo_8.png MYRMIDON Chain Rifle, Nanopulser, Smoke Grenades / Pistol, AP CCW. (16)
logo_14.png YUDBOT Electric Pulse. (3)
 
6 SWC | 298 Points
 
 
His list was interesting.  I like it.  very obnoxious AROs but can be used very well to knife your opponent which is exactly what he did.  he won roll(typical) and decided to go first which if you are playing marut is pretty much an automatic.  especially for annihilation.  He stratego'd me.  weird having this done to me tbh lol.  never thought id have to kill a marut in a tournament where i brought a marut...
So he setups aggressively.  puts two obvious camo markers in the middle around a building making me guess which was a naga.  having my own tricks used against me was annoying lol.  I setup like a darn coward.  have zayin watch one side of board where he would have to move a lot to get to unless he brings a drop troop.  dasyu was middle left prone on a building.  pheonix and deva were prone in my deployment zone.  heads down mostly except daleth who was like 'fiiiiine ill die trying to desperately flash pulse the marut'. oh both nagas on both sides.  with hacker near side where pheonix and deva for obvious reasons.  mk2 was near the naga hacker as well.   so i was strong towards one side with zayin overlooking other side.  and thamyris prone behind building of deva and pheonix.  oh and all netrods scattered into his deployment area and one on top of a building for an easy shot.  good job netrods, you really stink at deployment this tournament lol.  grrr not being able to all be shot at once is the only reason i bring you stupid rods!
 
His first turn:  9 orders and i knew exactly what he'd do cause well its exactly what id do lol.  brought naga forward climbed ladder to get to deva.  discovered naga on way in which was good news for me.  when he climbed ladder thamyris could see him.  he went for shotgunning deva and getting pheonix with it.  smart move.  deva died(extreme sadface, but honestly he wasnt of much use this game) and thank all heavens pheonix made his dodge.  thamyris hit the naga with assault pistol.  he went dogged.  now i was in a good position.  cause he had to choose whether to split burst or not.  and now pheonix's ODD comes into play.  so he decided to lay a mine to make things annoying.  typical DP things *eye roll*.  i actually told him afterwards he should have dropped a mine before entering the room then boarding shotgun.  as that would have taken care of a lot of issues.  oh another good luck thing for me is netrods made a few saves.  so they never hit for me but not for my opponents either lol.  he did get 2 of them
My first turn: so he successfully has order starved me to like 6 orders in one group and 2 in the other.  good news is he put his marut in kinda a vulnerable location.  i was curious why he moved it so far forward after doing so much damage to me first turn.  i could see moving zayins forward but the marut is such a key to his army that it seemed a little bizarre to risk it like that without a CoC.  especially not being in suppressive either.  so i had 3 hackers within 16 inches of his marut.  take a guess at what i was going to try and do lol.  since i have 2 orders in second group i decide to move mk2 up(she's super close to marut) and try to isolate.  get it through.  makes bts save.  go for it with naga.  makes bts save.  naga dies mk2 takes a wound for her troubles.  hmm so decide to shoot a marker with thamyris.  try for isolate. fail, try again, sucess.  so 4 tries but worth it as i know he pretty much has to burn his turn trying to repair the marut.  plus it makes sophie come out which is what i wanted as dealing with her is more important than the marut itself imo.  think i put a zayin unconcious somehow?  cant remember how.  oh he moved into sight during second movement of something.  
his second turn:  burns 2(or 3?) command tokens to make regular orders(obviously in l.o.l).  sophie comes up and repairs isolation.  not too much else besides he finishes off netrods. 
my second turn:  i feel good about my chances right now.  foolish to underestimate sophie's ability to make more saves than i have ever COMBINED made with her lol.  garuda comes on(he did not protect his flanks, left me a good shooting lane).  shoots her 3 times in the back.  she takes 1 wound but saves the others.  she fails guts and gets cover.  pop dasyu up.  shoot her 3 times with no cover.  she freaking saves them all.  dasyu dies for his failures.  at this point im just annoyed as i had a plan and now im in severe desperation mode.  all i had to do was remove sophie and i could take care of marut... 'sigh'.  so i decide why the hell not and stand pheonix up eating a mine.  save the mine and win the f2f vs marut.  kill the netrod next to it and marut takes a wound(this is with Lt order).  mk2 decides to pop up and hit marut and sophie behind with boarding shotgun.  losses freaking F2f with Marut cause i rolled silly low but sophie failed dodge so i was happy... until he made both saves.... 'sigh' and mk2 blew up.  yea so shot with naga long ranged shotgun in AP mode at marut and got obbliterated for my efforts lol.  so i shoot marut again with pheonix with my last order.  lose the F2F but only take 1 or something.  drop prone and cry lol.
His turn 3: shot my marker, my last real effort in getting marut, with zayin 4 shots as he wanted that thing gone and rightfully so.  moved marut back behind building.  killed garuda.
my turn 3: didnt have much i could do.  attempt at sophie with pheonix which of course failed as she apparently is just a ninja this game lol.  thamyris was out of markers.  and i calculated it wouldnt probably be possible to get a hack off.  so i ran zayin around corner to fish for 2 wounds on marut and just aint gonna happen.  yup beaten easily hahaha.
 
ended up being 8-2, which is 3-0 him.  game was frustrating for me hahaha.  honestly didnt feel like i was that out of the game even though it ended up being a landslide.  i knew it all hinged on if i can take sophie out when i put him in l.o.l. and i just couldnt get it done in the end.  retrospect: should have moved proxies into main group and gone for possession.  that probably would have thrown it in my favor.  oh well.  also really missed my garuda hmg.  he left a huge shooting lane for me and if i had that hmg that would have been 4 shots into the back of the marut... oh well.  also i wasnt very order efficient as i failed getting marksmanship on my bot by being 2mm out of range.  things like that go to haunt you!  he was an exceptional player and i look forward to playing him again.  also just a great guy.  all my opponents were awesome.
 
ended up with 6 points in the new system.  would be 20 in the old system i believe.  good enough to get me 2nd behind chris cassiano.  if you follow the infinity forums, he's tamrielo on there.  writes all those breakdowns haha.  very good player!  we were talking a lot during the game of how our lists are pretty much mirrored with slight twists.  i like proxy girls while he loves sophie.  i understand why with marut(and ive used sophie with marut) because it gives you max orders.  im not as much of a fan of double zayins though although tactically speaking it works really well in protecting marut.  he definitely is a more aggressive player than i am so that was interesting to watch slightly different styles.  also our game really hinged on that first roll i feel.  i would have felt quite comfortable going first that game i think.  but being 2nd against a marut was really fun as ive always been the one dealing that carnage haha.  
thanks nakedpanda for running it, had a good time!  hope you enjoyed the brew as well i gave ya.  hopefully i could recruit people to come down march 26th.  sounded like a bunch of 'maybes'.  really would love to get chris c as well so you all can see his very good play along with chris m too.  
 
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so ive concluded i have zero interest in running SP.  its just not my style.  i dont have any interest in painting them really right now.  so im not going to do that for the escalation league.  hmmm.  well i painted and touched up 2 proxy girls today.  worked on terrain a bit.

think im going to just do acontecimento for a while.  plus i can utilize the airbrush eventually.  they are a challenge i want to learn how to master.  think this new ITS season will make them  happy.  i got a bagh mari hmg from gift card winnings over the weekend which means id need 2 more and Lt Rao to make a full 5 link.  think ill do that eventually(pending job situations... 'sigh').  in meantime im going to paint more on the models i have and make them nice.  have a few layers and washes on them already but i want to work on highlighting.  

here's what i got for the 20:

  1. naga minelayer
  2. naga sniper
  3. naga hacker
  4. regular dude with brown hair
  5. regular dude with green hair
  6. regular baldy with green hair
  7. regular gal with brown hair
  8. regular gal with green hair
  9. regular sapper sniper
  10. bagh mari combi(could order 2 more)
  11. sikh commando with boarding shotgun
  12. peacemaker
  13. auxbot 1
  14. guarda de assalto
  15. auxbot 2
  16. tony macayana/tikabalang
  17. machinist
  18. knight of montessa combi(LGL)
  19. bagh mari sniper minelayer
  20. Lt Rao
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today i highlighted all my regulars(6) with some rustic red lining and worked on terrain.  terrain is coming along nicely.   starting to get the hang of airbrushing.  strangely my pointer finger kinda hurts lol.   confirmed to make sure ITS kit was ordered and it has been thankfully.  i found an extra growler so ill have 2 growlers for bonus prizes.   had 2 drops but one addition so looks like i think i have a couple spots left for the tournament.  looking forward to watching people play and in the meantime learn how to play acontecimento.  ill still be playing aleph for ITS tournaments in the future but i want to learn how to play these weirdos as well.  also hopefully i can get 'acceptable' at airbrushing and will do that to the aleph guys eventually. think wife and her sister want to go to the coast on sunday so i will probably miss some fun.  did get permission to go to thursday night at Red Castle tomorrow.  i still feel stupid playing them lol.  its kinda funny...

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so last night played against ben's SP with my shock army.  we played one of the missions for flamestrike which was seize the antennas plus a -3 low vis zone.  my thought was 'well fml now i have to shoot his ODD with my msv-less army at -9 everywhere... but im up for the challenge!'.  i got first turn.  brought my tony list with my regular link team, machinist, knight of montessa and 2 nagas and bagh mari in second group.  

he had a slightly different list mixed with the usual stuff.  pheonix link with hacker, chain rifle, CoC and machaon sitting near for when it breaks.  then had a thrasymedes link with nessai alke.  dactyl engineer with ADHL.  2 netrods and a surprising probot with TR.  i havent seen anyone use the probot TR before so kudos to him.

board was kinda even but slightly worse on my side as sniper really had looks of about 1/3 of the board which is about right.  i put a heavy amount of guys on the right side though which was opposite of his myrmidons.  just thought i needed as many AROs to him as possible to prevent their advancement.  he had the thorakitai link on the other side.  

so my first turn:  wasnt great lol.  tried a single spec shot with montessa.  failed.  tried to bring up tony to kill the one threat to her which was the hacker.  he beat me with smoke.  got the naga monomine bro to within 8 of pheonix after a failed discover(hurray!).  laid mine.  naga died.  brought up naga hacker and put 3 into pheonix.  pheonix failed regular dodge(had to unless he wanted to eat mine) and died to mono bots.  ok so success there.  i tried a little more advancement and put suppression on 4 bros.  oh forgot to say he tried to land netrods in a corner and the flew off.  that is why i dont do that lol.  

his first turn: he brought alke up and around and shot up my hacker.  threw smoke and won f2f vs suppression of tony.  advanced them a little.  tried to take out the sapper but was at 29 inches with thrasymedes.  so that put him at -12 due to zone and modifiers.  sapper obliterated him.  not sure what else happened...

my second turn.  ok so im going to be at bad modifiers most the time but i gotta try at that hacker once more with tony.  hitting on 9s due to  ODD low vis and range.  triple crit lol.  dont think ive ever done that before(had it happen to me before though).  so yea that issue is gone.  then came up and obliterated alke.  killed the probot. brought my fabulous machinist up to take two antennas with her fabulous wip 12... NAILED IT.  heck that never happens with my wip 15 aleph lol.  then put tony and machinist in suppression fire. 

his turn: he conceded in frustration.  sad cause i wanted to finish it for reporting for that flamestrike.  oh well.  

 

what i learned here is SP is a really tough issue for acon.  especially in a -3 zone.  i really was only able to hit with my bs15 guys in good ranges.  something i realized when playing and looked it up to make sure later(didnt do it).  think you can move while still staying in contact with the foxhole for some slight maneuvering if need be.  checked it and didnt see anything that says you couldnt.  just if you get out of it then you have to use the special move to get out.  interesting.  

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decided to nab the acmon today for 5 bucks along with a bagh mari to complete 2 link teams(when hector comes out...).  think hector might have re-inspired my desire to play SP.  i always wanted to run a dactyl team but it seemed a bit excessive.  now with hector being able to link with them it makes it more tempting.  here's a list i just turned out.  really dislike the nessie alke model so i dont ever plan on purchasing it but might proxy her with something else.  this list feels very... very... dirty...  ill break it down: 3 link teams.  acmon, doctor dactyl and hector in one group.  pheonix myrmidon link.  nessie alke thorakitai link.  then thamyris for a cheap utility hacker/specialist to fill it out.  thats an 11 order list due to strategos.  with 3 link teams that can all dish out a stupid amount of damage.  acmon and pheonix serve very good ARO pieces as well.   i could do an ekromoi hacker instead of thamyris tbh but the extra order seems kinda necessary...  still feels a little too reliant on a few pieces as usual for SP, but there's more pieces with utility that hector gives you which is something that appeals to me.

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Group 1 sep.gifsep.giforden_regular.png10 orden_irregular.png0 orden_impetuosa.png0
logo_32.png HECTOR Lieutenant Plasma Rifle, Nanopulser, Stun Grenades + 1 TinBot A / Heavy Pistol, EXP CC Weapon. (71)
logo_30.png ACMON Combi Rifle, Panzerfaust, Nimbus Grenades, D-Charges / 2 Breaker Pistols, Knife. (27)
logo_2.png DACTYL Doctor (MediKit) Combi Rifle, Adhesive-Launcher, Nimbus Grenades / 2 Breaker Pistols, Knife. (23)
logo_14.png ALKÊ Spitfire, Nanopulser / Pistol, CCW. (1.5 | 26)
logo_3.png THORAKITES Submachine gun, Chain Rifle, Flash Grenades / Pistol, Knife. (12)
logo_3.png THORAKITES (Forward Observer) Submachine gun, Chain Rifle, Flash Grenades / Pistol, Knife. (13)
logo_6.png MYRMIDON (Chain of Command) Boarding Shotgun, Nanopulser, Zero-V Smoke Grenades / Pistol, AP CCW. (1 | 37)
logo_5.png MYRMIDON Hacker (Assault Hacking Device) Combi Rifle, Nanopulser, Smoke Grenades / Pistol, AP CCW. (0.5 | 31)
logo_18.png PHOENIX Heavy Rocket Launcher, Nanopulser, Smoke Grenades / Assault Pistol, DA CCW. (2 | 35)
logo_22.png THAMYRIS Hacker (Hacking Device) Marker, Nanopulser / Assault Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 25)
 
5.5 SWC | 300 Points
 
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so tonight i played against adam at GG.  He just moved here from california and is a very strong player imo.  also former long time whfb player.  Played with usariadna.  he has a site too if you want to check it out: played frontline as he is going to adepticon in a few weeks!  I cant recall his exact list but it was something probably not even close to this lol(first time against usa...): 

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Group 1 sep.gifsep.giforden_regular.png 10 orden_irregular.png0 orden_impetuosa.png0
logo_3.png FOXTROT Rifle, Antipersonnel Mines / Pistol, Knife. (17)
logo_11.png MARAUDER (Multispectral Visor L1) Heavy Rocket Launcher / Assault Pistol, Knife. (1.5 | 26)
logo_11.png MARAUDER Paramedic (MediKit) Rifle, Heavy Flamethrower / Heavy Pistol, Knife. (23)
logo_11.png MARAUDER (Fireteam: Haris L1) Rifle, Heavy Flamethrower / Heavy Pistol, Knife. (1 | 22)
logo_1.png GRUNT (Marksmanship LX) Sniper Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 18)
logo_1.png GRUNT HMG / Pistol, Knife. (1 | 21)
logo_1.png GRUNT (Forward Observer) Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (11)
logo_1.png GRUNT Paramedic (MediKit) Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (12)
logo_1.png GRUNT Lieutenant Rifle, Light Grenade Launcher / Pistol, Knife. (1 | 14)
logo_1.png GRUNT (Inferior Infiltration) Heavy Flamethrower, Light Shotgun / Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 11)
 
Group 2 sep.gifsep.giforden_regular.png3 orden_irregular.png3 orden_impetuosa.png1
logo_12.png DEVIL DOG Chain Rifle, Smoke Grenades + 1 K-9 Antipode / AP Heavy Pistol, AP CCW. (30)
sep.giflogo_12_2.png K-9 ANTIPODE AP CCW. (7)
logo_4.png HARDCASE FRONTIERSMAN Tactical Bow, Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (14)
logo_5.png VAN ZANT AP Rifle / Heavy Pistol, AP CCW. (38)
logo_6.png 112 Light Shotgun / Pistol, CCW. (12)
logo_3.png FOXTROT Rifle, Antipersonnel Mines / Pistol, Knife. (17)
logo_4.png HARDCASE FRONTIERSMAN Tactical Bow, Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (14)
 
5.5 SWC | 300 Points
 
 
So he won roll and took sides.  I took first.  he took definitely the best side as it had a sniper nest.  Took 2 from the pool.  Im ready for quite possibly my worst first turn ever lol.  I have a sniper with dead on his maurauder with HRL.  it sees nothing else.  im like 'yea i got this he's hitting on -3 im on 15s with B3.  crits me.  dead sniper breaks link.  .  welp... ok i can recover from this.  bring tony forward to take some shots.  didnt realize 3 dudes could see but whatever.  so i split burst with the 2 that are most likely to hit and let the long range shots hit the ground.  One crits me and the other beats face 2 face and tony loses 2 wounds.  alright... this could go better lol.  knight of montessa is in good range to hit his grunt team with some spec shots.  why the hell not.  he put a foxtrot right next to it and it lays a mine as i take a spec shot that misses.  then i obliterate the foxtrot and take a wound from the mine.  ok... not going well lol. decide tony cant get as bad luck as before so i shoot with her again.  crit and she dies.  so yup... no bueno.  still have a few orders left.  decide to re up the link and get some shots through and finally knock the marauder with HRL unconscious with combi fire.  hooray! then take a shot or two more with montessa and fails both.  so yup during my first turn i lost my best 2 pieces and killed a foxtrot and a maurader.  great job nate lol.
well, everything else after this seemed to go my way lol.  mostly nagas making every save/dodge on earth.  as impetuous devil dog comes forward, monomine is dropped by one naga.  he's scared lol.  but he's a good player and chains it perfectly in distance and gets naga as well.  naga successfully dodges.  mine destroyed.  runs dog up and gets in b2b with naga.  naga successfully evades the doge TWICE.  leaving him outside of CC at the end of the turn.  he brings on van zant though and van zant does what van zant does and kills a regular thining the link to 3.  and also kills my machinist and only way to bring tony back 'sigh'.  he's still in a good position but things got interesting.  
my turn 2:  decide to turn naga hacker around and shoot at werewolf.  he successfully smoke dodges.  regular kills van zant after 2 orders.  montessa crits a spec shot killing two grunts.  OH HOW THE WINDS DID CHANGE!.  i coupe de grace with montessa on foxtrot to get classified.  think thats about it.
His turn 2:  kills 1 of my regulars(paramedic i believe... wait now it was the sensor) and breaks link.  dog throws smoke and enters CC with naga.  funny stuff happens.  naga puts dog unconscious in CC lol.  he trys and gets the naga hacker with a hardcase but naga wins and kills hardcase.  things are starting to look decent for the jungle boys.  
my turn 3:  kill 112 with naga. spec shot and get 1 grunt.  try and hack for my objective twice and fail... think thats it?
his turn 3:  spec shots with his Lt LGL on montessa and fails.  kills my Lt with his foxtrot on my antenna roof.  montessa tries long range shots.  takes 3 orders to do so and montessa crits on the last one lol.  cause his foxtrot is worth more than my 14 point sensor guy to score.  super lucky ending for me.  he moved grunts into front zone to score there.  ended up me scoring in middle and my area and him scoring his area.  me with one classified.
Adam is a darn good player and even moreso a really cool guy.  Invited him to sundays but he has a lot going on during weekends for a while due to moving and such but hopefully he can make it sometime!  i hope to get another game in with him soon.  he's a SW guy so its easier for me to get games as well...  good fun and i hope he has fun at adepticon and am super jealous!
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today im continuing to work on my terrain.  going for a worn down rustic and moss taken over style.  it will look weird but so far i like it.  got a rust effect at GG the other day and some moss flock.  oh how i loathe flocking...... but i think it will look cooler.  today ill paint the steel parts of my terrain along with lighting effect.  airbrushing really is making this so much easier than brushing.  glad i waited as i definitely would have given up if brushing entire thing lol.  got consoles done this morning.  ill put pics up eventually.  lazily did consoles.  ill highlight them with the new rust stuff once i bust out that paint.

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well this day ended up sucky... just as i finished painting and was air drying, my dog ran into the room and broke some of my terrain(the airdrop strip).  the mdf legs were snapped.  re-glued it but it looks like complete crap.  My st patty's irish red had a catastrophe that ive never had before.  looks like the o-ring failed on my liquid adapter and about 3-4 gallons leaked out to the bottom of the fridge.  maybe have a few miserable pints left after cleaning out my chest freezer scoop by scoop of sad wasted beer.... 'sigh' guess it could be worse i suppose.  

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assembled a primed.  worst kept secret ever :P if you hated the regular sniper, this is its big brother with additional stats of msv1 and ARM2........ oh and i got the hmg model as well which now i finally get to be the jerk who uses a linked hmg after having it used against me so often.  hurray! :D  ugh they are so many points though for 4-2... but worth every penny in terrain scenerios!

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so yesterday i ran my first tournament and dont think i [big bad swear word]ed up too badly which is GREAT hehe.   Although i probably should have docked rudra off a few points for backtalk and possibly raindog for making me refill adult beverages.  :P  

I was quite pleased with the time actually.  most people finished around the normal 1:30 mark we are used to but the extra 15 i think helped finish off the remaining 2-3 stragglers a round.  there was only i think 2 or maybe 3 games total that didnt finish 3 game turns which is great.  

random thoughts:

  • There were definitely some tables i think that could throw people for loops, but i payed attention to those tables and the communication between people was spot on which was awesome!  there was only once i think i saw a crazy dominating situation and that was with one of my pieces of terrain giving a sniper too good of a view on a board that was too un-elevated in comparison.  think that was a mistake on my part.  the difference was really cool overall in terrain.  i believe jay's terrain got 10 votes and than's got 3 and i think table 2 and 3(sorry cant remember) got the remaining 3 votes.
  • there were only 2 rules questions that stumped me.  one was than vs raindog and than was totally right on something i never knew about(because it had never occured before so i had never looked it up..) involving impact templates.  another was derbrizon vs nakedpanda with CC and engage state while moving.  very weird situations but both turned out fine and actually being played the way they should be so that was a relief haha.
  • if you look at the TP vs OP(old style) it actually shakes up who the winner would be.  it would be than instead of nate.   i like both guys and both played amazingly, but i do feel like this is the EXACT reason for why i like the new system.  Nate won all his games.  2 of them handedly.  Than won 2 handedly and lost one.  Yet in the old system Than would be victorious even though Nate won all his games.  The new system puts more emphasis on negating your opponents scores and winning rather than just completing objectives for your own cause.  i like it.  obviously my opinion there.  the main issue i think is 3 games makes it kinda messy.  that is the big proponent i see in the old system because it was more straightforward in that manner because there is a possibility for greater variance in scores at lower game counts.  but i do think i enjoy the change...  also nate won by almost 200 in victory points as well fwiw.  i do think 4 games would make it more clean, but then you have longer days and most people i feel are burned out after 3(at least i am) and traveling would suck for that so yeeea... think we have to stick with 3 for our small tournaments really for cost and time effectiveness.
  • i really want our communities to be more integrated and more LGS to be supporting the game.  kinda the reason i did it at GG(with their foot traffic its necessary imo) and also why i invited people pretty much everywhere.  everyone saw many people walking around the table observing the games with curiosity to something they hadnt seen before.  thats what we need for this game to grow.  and not isolating ourselves into little 'mini-communities' but going to each other's gamenights when we can.  its really important imo i feel to get a grasp for how others play and the bigger the meta network the better for everyone.  it made me so excited that we had people from seattle AND eugene.  thats a 4.5 hour gap of integrating metas.  i also know there's plenty of other metas(such as sherwood i found out recently) we havent integrated together so we just need to keep trying to be inclusive rather than exclusive.  i actually had to turn away 5 people due to not having table space(GG wouldnt release me more tables..) but next time i do this(which might be a while...) im pondering renting upstairs so we have more space and people can hear each other more.  
  • watching games was fun as heck.  although it just made me more giddy to play haha
  • im a little disappointed in the new ITS kits.  they took away blisters and added some strange 'bling' but doesnt seem to the quality yet is even more expensive.  
  • i noticed GG accidently messed up and ordered both a tournament kit and a league kit.  is making me think about doing the ITS league since they do have the kit... MAYBE haha.
  • got bases from TDT and now have to rebase the shock army... eventually
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2nd place as opposed to a tie for 3rd....thanks CB! When's the next one Nate?

congrats dude!  

 

Answer: no idea lol.  i believe jake will be doing one in a month or so as he has a kit i know and was planning this spring.  there's also george and jonathon(seattle) that will probably both be running events between now and ofcc as both have a few kits so my guess is it might be a while BUT we should have plenty of events in the time coming so there's no worries. if there is a large gap ill seize it, but i think we should be good just gotta talk to all our peeps to figure schedules out!  you should definitely come to ofcc and save money for that.  sure ticket is pricey, but worth every penny for the nice prize support and complete insanity/fun(and will be very most likely the largest infinity event in the PNW)!  

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