Oops another tag

Just finished my second (third if you count the Acontecimento one I painted for the sectorial) Panoceania tag.  Got a converted cutter to paint then I need CB to release more so I can expand :-)

Infinity N3 Armoury Rematch

My regular opponent challenged me to a rematch of the armoury tonight.  I jumped at the chance and decided to take my untried Shock Army of Acontecimento force (I really Really REALLY wanted to use my Dragoes)

I apologise that my arboreal themed board is not done yet.  I need to repaint the buildings from Sarissa Precision, and rebate them.  Likewise, I need to do the jungle scatter terrain (in my defence that hasn't arrived yet).

It is a nice change playing on a green natural ish board.  It was a great fun game, with things getting brutal rather quickly. 

Here is a link to my list

Here is the link to the video

Bolt Action Battle Report

We posted a quick bolt action battle report on YouTube tonight.

We had a great time with the game.  Scenario was quite tense, especially in the first turn where my paras were staring at a heap of guns daring them to get the objective.

We played a "what if" scenario where to erstwhile allies clash over secret documents. My British paratrooper force was made up of:-

Second Lieutenant (Vet)

medic (vet)

fAO (regular and free)

2 full para squads

Flamethrower team (vet)

jeep (vet)

Airborne recce jeep (vet)

Sniper team (vet)

My opponent had a ton of troops it would seem, and the most annoying mortar EVER.

2nd Lt (reg)

Medic 

Mortar (reg)

2 SMG squads (reg)

3 LMG squads (reg)

Rifle squad (free and green)

Here is a link to the video

Infinity Evening

after purchasing presents and roses for my darling wife, I got to spend the evening hammering out several games with the usual suspects.  My wife has painted the microart studios objective room for me (it was nearly done on the weekend but is fully finished now). It is a cool bit of terrain, and it allowed us to play the armoury scenario from the N3 book.

We had a good evening, and the scenario was quite a challenge.  In the scenario, you have to be able to use specialists to enter the room and search for items, but you also need to be able to keep the opponent out.  The usual light specialists do not cut it at this, and required some beefier support.  It was ok for me, as I was using my tohaa, and so a triad could have a specialist, heavy hitter and some DTW/zero v smoke to keep pesky intruders at bay.

The initial game was great, albeit a little excessive lol.  Daf, one of our new players brough a Combined list with Ko Dali and an Avatar in it.  The avatar was a beast, but as he was too big for the doors, had to guard outside and leave the job of storming to an Ubra Legates hacker and some Unidrons.  His opponent had a Saladin list with Al Djbel and a Fiday.  The Fiday didn't do much other than scare a Maakrep and cause him to expose to sniper fire, but the master himself killed some morat before taking out the Avatar in CC, no mean feat.  This didn't swing the result though, as the nasty Ubra held the room til the end.

The second game say the CA lose the avatar in favour of a Skiavoros and a Speculo Killer.  The later removed a link team with ease, but the Skiavoros forgot about AD (Gao Tarsos HMG) who walked on from the side and had a perfect shot as his exposed rear.  Game was tight, but a victory to Tohaa (had 38 vs 37 points in room at end, after getting carried away and shooting Ko Dali allowing her to dodge into room, doh!)

We recorded this for a Batrep here

Luckily we had Diablo on the XBOX One to keep the rest of the people entertained whilst we recorded (as we had several beers and ciders for those not driving or organising (at least until later lol) it was the best choice to keep them quiet and the video family appropriate lol.

The rest of the evening saw the tactics getting less "precision strike" and more "john woo" as after the video, I joined the guiness appreciation society, and the person driving decided a sofa was a better alternative.

The next match was Aleph vs Pan Oceania.  Trying to explain to my wife how Ajax couldn't go into the room was a challenge.  We did decide that his hammer was big enough to smash an Ajax size whole (we made him do 1 extra Str damage) but he was then hit by an ADHL from a croc man FO (looted from the panoply).  Took several more orders to kill him though, as apparently panO "train to hit targets that are ducking and weaving, not standing still at short range" which explained the series of misses.

The next game had some more insane misses.  We decided the troops must also be imbibing the refreshments, as it too a Tank Hunter auto annoy 3 attempts to hit a wall.  This has lead to the adaptation of a famous phrase... Can't hit the broadside of an objective room at 10 paces, as after the Ariadna example, a Swiss guard missile launcher failed in the next game.

Generally a good time was had by all, and we will put up some pics when we find the SD card for the camera (oops)

Battle report

Had an impromptu game after the show this weekend.  Yes I know it has been a long time before I blogged this, but I have been so busy in work :-(

I will write the scenario up on the site.  It is a really simple one as we were super tired lol. Hopefully my objective room will arrive soon, so we can do the armoury mission.

It was a 300 point game, with my opponent borrowing my Yu Jing against Panoceania.

Yu Jing (what I remember)

Aragato hacker

Aragato spitfire

Ninja sniper

Ninja hacker

Oniwaban

Shinobu Kitsune

Domaru

Kempeteia CoC

Panoceania (Neoterran)

Bolt BS

Bolt Hacker

Bolt sniper

Bolt Spitfire 

Bolt drop bears

Aquila HMG (Orc proxy as mine AWOL)

Aquila multi

2 auxilla FO

Deva with bot

Link to video

Impromptu painting challenge

Have decided (against my better judgement) to have a 2 week challenge to paint an Acontecimento force for the forest board.

This is a foolish task, almost a Herculean endeavour, as I have 4 later work nights, 2 evenings out and a weekend away!  Still I will try lol.

Started today on the Tag, here is the WIP

Crusade Penarth

Awesome day running a demo and participation games of infinity.  Support for the game was great, and the board was well liked and garnered lots of enthusiasm (tons of people went off to buy the game).

One of my gripes did surface though... Getting emails on the warcor form.  Run games for tons of people (lost my voice by the end of it) but getting people to give email address was a nightmare. I guess a lot of people here value privacy too much to just give out the email.  

Will share photos of the day here, when I get them all from my wife (who was slightly less hectic than me, but only slightly lol)

We run a massive 600 point game where people could drop in and out of.  This had a ton of cinematic moments, and created some instant fans.  We also ran a series of "intro games" using some of the ice storm terrain and 3-4 models a side.  This introduced the basics to a lot of people.  The local game store were kicking themselves by the end of it that due to limited room on their stall they only took a few copies of the game and one or two new releases (they had to cover their whole stock range) after a stream of people asked about the game and wanted to buy stuff lol.

Set up early in the morning - and NO BACON SANDWICHES!!!!!