Yes, sadly no Malifaux this last weekend, though I am all but guaranteed a game this coming weekend versus Tom. He stomped my Mei Fang crew a few weeks ago, in a game that Leveticus would have nom nommed, so I'm ready to bring out the Outcasts for this one. But enough of the future, lets dwell on the past, shall we?
Game one was versus Nabors' Pan O. He is running a tri-Orc list with Fusilier back up. The Orcs are hard to take down, but not impossible. This board was covered by bunkers, which give a -6 mod to BS, which increases to -9 if the model is in base with a wall, all of which we were playing wrong. I came in at the end of another game on this table, and was told that they gave -3 like normal cover + another -3 for obscuring, which my MS Visor negates, so I was only rolling -3 with my TAG and he was rolling -6, but taking the plus arm even though not in base. So, beyond some inadvertent cheating, likely mostly on my part, it was a good game. I brought my TAG up the right side(you can see him in the above picture), I then dropped my Garuda in the far right corner. I have to mention, I love this guy. With this move, I am generally able to put my opponent in a position where he can face the Garuda or the TAG, but not both, and I just use the other one. And thats what I did. He had two models over there, and I took one down at a time. I then used the Garuda to target some models hidden behind a bunker(behind from my side of the board) who turned and killeded him, though not before he was able to do some damage with his shotgun. I was able to take out his rocket launcher in some ruins, which left two Orcs in his Bunker. It was just a matter of getting LoF on one at a time and plinking them to death. In the end it was 5-3 to me.
I have been itching for some 40K lately, and it doesn't look like its gonna stop any time soon. for this one, I threw down my Dual Eldar list versus Patrick's IG. He is currently running a Hydra, Aegis with Quad Gun, 3 Vendettas, a ton of 10 man squads with heavy weapons, either Assault Canon or Lascannon, 3 or 4 mortar teams, and Creed(I think) and his cronies. I do have to say that my Eldar list is super fun in the new edition(yes, again), and I think it was only trying to make Chaos work for me that pushed me from 40K for a bit. This game was all about my Eldar doing what they do. An entire round of shooting and I lose a guy. Then I use Terrifying(one of my new favourites BTW) and a squad exits the board, then I kill some stuff and another unit gone. I should probably point out that we were playing Kill Points. My Razor Wing got delayed as did my Hellions. I had the Warlord trait that allows me to reroll, but I wanted the Razor Wing to wait for the Vendettas and nothing was in range of the Hellions yet. Turn 2 went almost identical to turn 1, a kill point or two to me and a guy or two to him. Turn 3 I bring on the Hellions with a reroll(he had an Officer of the Fleet, so I needed 4s) but the Razor Wing stayed off, as he only had to Vendettas, and I wasn't ready for it yet. On this turn I screwed up. The Vendettas came in and oh look who is on the outside wing of my seer council. The fortune Farseer died this turn, though I was doing a fairly decent job of not needing the rerolls. Did plenty of damage though, then moved my council into the middle of his line, daring him to drop some templates on me to scatter onto his own guys. I did lose some warlocks, but still felt confident that they would still be doing their job. Turn 4 forced my jet fighter on, which promptly did nothing to his Vendettas. My Hellions charged into some IG, did a ton of attacks, wiping that squad. My Seer council flamed creeds unit and another in between, leaving both at two mean. Then they failed the charge, even with fleet, leaving them in the open. At this point Patrick called it, though I was starting to take a bit of a beating. The game ended with me having 5 KP versus his 1. A good game, though I didn't really get to try out my Razor Wing, which is what I really wanted. The Reavers weren't much more than a nuisance in the previous list, so I dropped them and some other stuff to add the Razor Wing, and had hoped to get a chance to see if it performed. Ah well, there is always next week. Though I do think missiles into his squads would have done more that Lances into his Vendettas. As and aside, Destructor flame templates make a mockery of Aegis Defence Lines.
As it was the first Saturday of the month, it was paint night. Having spent the whole week planning an executing a 4 year old's birthday party, I failed to remember. Thus, I had not paints with me. I had, however, purchased a box of Hellions to proxy as proxy Hellions I had been using. So, I began to clip and clean, using borrowed tools. I only made it through the skyboards. Nobody had any plastic glue, and I was tired and having issues staring at the plastics. So, I shanghaied Nabors, who was procrastinating on some Marines, and started another game of Infinity, at 11:30, much to Shaffer's dismay. But we were done in a little over 30 minutes, because I'm awesome. We played on the red rocks board. I really like this one. It works well for my army, as I can single out models a little easier than on my facility board, which tends to snag two or more models at a time. For this one, I went up the left side, dropping in the Garuda on turn two, and using it to take out a problem before moving my Marut in. The Garuda also died in this one, along with my grenade launcher Dakini. He lost everything else. I even had a Netrod scatter to dang near his zone(rolled a 19), that lived. He couldn't touch it, there was a giant TAG staring him down if he tried. I made a circle around the side, mopping up as I went. After two turns, I basically had free rein to finish my objectives.
I am looking on playing in the Infinity tournament at Genghiscon, and I have seen some of the tables they use, and I feel confident that, as long as I don't get to excited, I will be able to do fairly decent on the killing side. It will be a 300 point event, so I have a couple months to nearly double my force and get it all painted. The down side is going to be that they are using Campaign missions, which I am pretty sure require specialist troops, which my theme won't allow. I think I will likely be going with my theme intact and planning for three table the opponent draws. Unless its a wipeout = win.
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