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Well! Finally, some infinity.

me and my roommate (Ian) have been working on getting infinity started up in saskatoon (canada) for quite some time, and recently we placed our first order! We've played a couple tester games, at lower points, but last night, we decided to jump in both feet first, and do a 300 pt (large for infinity) game.

Battlefield:







The armies!!



WARNING; being our first big game, we made a lot of mistakes, so please, bare with us. First big mistake? The Agema was supposed to have a missile launcher, not a heavy rocket launcher, which ended up being a pretty major game changer as you will soon see

Onwards!






Ian sets up his troops in cover, and begins moving down the field! Nothing really happens first turn, except the marut gets a bead on one of my gwailo troopers (he decides discretion is the better part of valor and rolls for cover, and the heavy calibur shots harmlessly ricochet by).





my batroid books it up my left flank, looking to cause some problems. He ends up causing little to nothing sadly

My malignos hacker, in full TO:camo, speeds up a side alley, looking to place some mines, making sure I dont get flanked in return! Another gwailo looks on.



My anathematic in TO:camo, and my Aswuang in camo, roll up the middle...

NOW... This is where having played 40k for the last 9 years, is detrimental to good tactics. This was a silly idea. I should have been sneaky with these units, but, thanks to "new fig syndrome" i wanted my shiny new big boy to run up the center and murder everything! silly me...

turn ends with me sniping a thorakitai off a rooftop with my Sogorat with HMG (this guy is a tank, but a big fire magnet!).
First Blood to combined!


THEN... IAN REVEALS HIS NEW TACTIC..

SMMMMOOKKKEEEEEE and MSV2!!!




As my boys batten down the hatches and try and stay away from the "mecha in the mist" my anathematic sees pray by the stairs at the foot of the huge stacks.



My malignos drops off a antipersonnel at the end of the back alley, and swings around to harass the back of the aleph lines.



Funny Aleph turn begins.

The myrmidon hacker and eurodos start tossing mad grenades, and it must have been windy that day, as you can see, nothing was hitting anywhere near the marut...



The naughty agema marksmen realizes that the top of the stairs to the large stacks are smoked, runs up, shimmies to the edge for a perfect shot on my TO:camo boys... (the agema has msv l3 as well!)



What happens next is a bloodbath...

The agema, being in smoke, and being able to see the TO:camo units clear as day, lines a heavy rocket at the aswuang(remember, we thought this was the right weapon at the time, a missile would have a totally different effect), the shot scatters and hits both markers with fire damage! Fire damage destroys camo, revealing both my assassins!
The blast nukes the aswuang, but just manages to piss off the Anathematic. In its ARO (automatic-reaction-order) the anath plasma blasts the now-revealed agema right in his stupid face!





Aaannnnd then things went seriously south for the combined...

I stupidly decided to try a To:camo combat hack on the myrmidon, if I could just kill her, no more smoke! Now, any sane person would have popped out of camo, blasted her with a multi-rifle, and peaced before the marut could turn around! But no, I had to get close and try and hack her.

So...



Dead malignos....


At this point I needed to kill something bad. The anathematic was my favorite weapon of choice this game (much to my chagrin later) so I sent it and its huge claws after a lonely thorakitai trooper defending Ian's left flank by the stairs.

2 orders and 4 CC combats later...



pretty messy stuff, this mono-filament blade tech.

I then lost all sanity and ramboed my anathematic back around the corner, and through a thin strip of un-smoked air, and assaulted the Marut. While in theory a good idea (monofilament can autokill the marut, ignoring armor, wounds, special rules etc, TAG killer for sure) i spent every single remaining order that turn doing absolutely ...nothing

and then:



by by anathematic. The marut gets pissed at the pony-tailed robot chicken, and slices it to bits with her AP weapon.

At this point I knew I was in trouble, and then the marut blew away my Sogorat, and I was done.



Really fun game! We spent a lot of time looking up rules, and arguing interpretations, but it was very intense and tactical.

We played 2 other games after, at 150 pts.

smarting from aleph's smoke shenanigans, I whipped out the Combined trump card via a skiavoros: The Sepsitor attack.

Needless to say, I took over a lot of models, and Ian wont let his nice fancy myrmidons close to my EI aspects pretty much ever again on my active turn

Lots of mistakes, but fun to write and draw up, hope you guys enjoy! (and if you notice any glaring flaws, feel free to point them out, we are learning, and have no-one to show us the rules!)

That's a very nice looking report, the posprod effects are toned down but very effective looking.

I love your in-picture captions. Might have to steal that for my next report

40k and Infinity do indeed work very differently. I think that it comes from 40k being about list building and target priority, while Infinity is more a game about 'how do I get from here to there without dying?'

That was AWESOME!!!!

Very nice looking Batrep.
So fun to read!!!!!

Dig the report, super fun effects And I too love me some Anathematic rampages

- Salvage

Love the batrep, I really like the captions etc that you have put in. It gives it a really awesome unique flavour. MOAR!!

That was fantastic. I loved it and I hope you do more.

Yes, fantastic! Give us more! Love the style of your report...

Those effects!!! You work for ILM, don't you?

I've had to face the same learning curve as you regarding 40K. It's not easy, but we'll get the hang of it!

Great Bat Rep! looking forward to seeing more as you guys learn...and then play for fun

Haha, that was shear awesome. It looks like there may have been a few misplayed things, but overall the clever use of what I would consider one of the best impromptu boards I have seen + hilarious comic effect made this a blast to read.

if you guys ever have Infinity rules questions feel free to PM me here on Dakka or Infinity boards and I should be able to get you an answer within a minute or so. Both of these forums shoot me an email when I get a PM. It's a lot easier when you have someone that knows the rules available for questioning.

Can more of us pick you up on that offer? :-) Pwetty pwease?

Haha better yet lets do this. I have created an email account you guys can just email directly at InfinityGameQuestions@gmail.com

Shoot it an email and I'll try to get you a response as soon as humanly possible. Anyone can feel free to use this or pass it along.

OP: Sorry for derailing a bit