Boltmeet infinity tournament.
4 games in a weekend. How hard can it be?
Very is the answer I bet none of you were thinking!
I selected my lists prior to the tournament. I wanted a ‘get stuff done’ list with lots of midfield button pushers and a ’heavy hitting’ list as I knew the JSA (
@Kixz. ), Panoceania (
@Edelweiss ) and Yu Jing (
@Resmire ) all had access to heavy infantry (HI)options I could only dream of.
If you have the infinity Army App you can see my lists by copying and pasting the following codes:
A team:
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B team:
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note, those codes only work on the mobile app version of infinity army, and not the PC version.
Round 1 Vs
@Resmire - Battleground
Battleground is about dominating table thirds in between the deployment zone. You get more points for dominating the zone furthest from your deployment zone. My first dilemma was which list to run. I picked my B list as I felt certain that
@Resmire would be packing a lot of HI and I knew he’d brought his TAG - TAGis Tactical Armour Gear, basically a gundam style dreadnaught. However, he played his pain train list for this one which meant he had some pretty epic stats for his core fire team packing +1 burst & +3 BS for a pure core. I realised early on I would have to deal with his doctor as he kept a Yao Zao with his core and kept healing everyone I killed. Up stepped Duroc to parachute in behind enemy lines and double-chain rifles the doctor in the face.
while the pain train outflanked my main force, I essentially stayed out of their way moving into the zones
@Resmire had just left - his dilema was that because he had such a large concentration of points in his core team, he was too thinly spread to contest the other zones. My Kosmosoldats with their portable autocannon and HMG kept them locked on the flank whilst I sauntered into the remaining zones with William Wallace and his Varangian body guard. A particular highlight was when Liang Kai in a Harris of Shaolin Warrior Monks somersaulted onto the roof to attack my cammo marker, who promptly revealed herself to be an SAS forward observer and calmly shot gunned them all dead, although she also died in the process is was a good trade. A hard fought win for me here, with my manoeuvrability just about edging it 6-4
Round 2 Vs
@Edelweiss Cut-throat.
Cut-throat is as straightforward as it gets. Kill more enemies than the enemies kill you. I picked the A team for this one for one main reason - the Bear!
So the game started really well for me. I got to go first, and seeing as I had some pretty nasty ARO pieces in there with my volkolaks in a core (a burst 2 missile launcher and burst 4 HMG from BS15 is no joke. I used a command token to be able to deploy these after
@Edelweiss had finished her deployment. shed left who I thought was Joan of arc (but just turned out to be a grunt) vulnerable so I smashed her with missiles from my volkolak and ended up killing fake Joan, her lieutenant and both her doctors in the first turn. Annoyingly she did have a sniper in a really good position pinning my guys down meaning I was having to use a lot of smoke to get around the place. This worked particlu well with my Varangian/unknown ranger Harris. Able to drop smoke with the Varangian and the ranger able to shoot through it with his MultiSpectral Visor (MSV). Edelweiss was crucially short of MSV. I was able to kill off her remaining forces on the flank in turn 2 and this meant the bear could come to play - and cocaine bear is an absolute BEAST! He chomped his way through the remainder of the army with
@Edelweiss moving her sniper to counter the bear she got shotgun Ed in the back of the head by a cammo’d up SAS (it was a very lucky roll to be fair) which gave bear the freedom to eat through the rest of the army, taking down her bulleteer drone and 3 knights including the hulking knight of the holy sephulcre with his rocket powered trench hammer. An overwhelming victory for me here.
