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Also trying and failing to resist the new Haqq Stuff. Am building a bunch of stuff for a friend and eventually painting them for him probably and this stuff is gorgeous. Really want to see the older stuff redone in the future. E; new reply isn't edit Flipswitch fucked around with this message at 21:44 on Oct 16, 2015 |
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grassy gnoll posted:http://www.miniaturemarket.com/catalog/product/view/id/47275/s/cvb280007-0540/ The Army Pack box, which I assume means a specific thing. It's a good box but it doesnt' really go with what you bought already?
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Pierzak posted:Major tournament this weekend. Wish me luck because I'm a muppet and didn't playtest my lists enough
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Corbeau posted:My JSA opponents usually do quite well ignoring my dudes and using enormous order pools + super-fast specialists + smoke to take objectives en mass. We ... we get smoke? Why haven't I noticed them before? edit: ah. Special Characters have them.
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Flipswitch posted:Mate this is legit how I do competitions now, just yolo ot and smash it. Best I've done in a tournament is the one where I brought a faction I hadn't even played before. Pretty sure all my overthinking leads to shittier lists.
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Flipswitch posted:Tbh barring some of the ALEPH outliers and maybe Joan, I think characters in Infinity are quite reasonable. Oh, quite definitely. I know that I just generally prefer unnamed generic dudes in a game, but when your options are as limited as they can be in sectorials, it's important to make sure you check them out. They're reasonable, and a lot of the time can fill holes in the sectorial's options.
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Hortism posted:Best I've done in a tournament is the one where I brought a faction I hadn't even played before. Pretty sure all my overthinking leads to shittier lists. Signal posted:Oh, quite definitely. I know that I just generally prefer unnamed generic dudes in a game, but when your options are as limited as they can be in sectorials, it's important to make sure you check them out. They're reasonable, and a lot of the time can fill holes in the sectorial's options.
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Flipswitch posted:Yeah, it ties in better with the kind of faceless Spec Ops the game is meant to be, rather than a bunch of named heroes running around. I mean a lot of the characters in the game are really loving good, but I don't think they're quite on that cusp of being utterly mental. Yeah, I agree that they tend to add a little something over a troop type they are based on or compete similarly with, but in Infinity you pay for whatever you get, unlike some other games! So a Corregidor example would be Carlota Kowalsky, a Tomcats special character - 8 points more than a conventional tomcat engineer, bumps in a couple key stats, comes with an ADHL - both good things for her niche, but for 8 pts? Not a must-take or anything. Even characters with inspiring leadership or a command ability (Joan of Arc, William Wallace, Sun Tzu) you pay the points and you make a very obvious Lt, so it is a trade off. Over my holiday I hit my target of the 4 models I wanted to paint:  2 Intruders and 2 Hellcats.  Hellcat HMG is a pretty nifty model, I would normally use AD2 over AD3 on this loadout, interestingly he does come with E/Maulers, ie EM mines.  Standard hellcat is a less attractive option to me, behind boarding shotgun, assault hacker etc, but it can be a cheap and 0SWC specialist with paramedic.   The newer intruders. My pinch hitters. I have painted punisher skulls (as you can see) to help them live up to their fearsome reputation as the Corregidor elite. Looks a bit shite on these huge blown up photos, like all my painting, but they turned out pretty well from a table top perspective. Looking forward to using these in a game. I would say my painting is improving, red is where it needs to be, greys are improving. I know what I want to do with weapons (black with small dark blue grey and then v small light grey highlights) but my painting needs to be neater. I have to work on finding neutral colours that work for things like cloth, botots, and ammo pouches. I realised my heavily 'Ryza Rust' drybrushed bases were way too orange so those have been painted over in a simple matte colour to represent oxidised metal. I have no idea how to mimic the red-brown, slightly metallic fade Angel Giraldez does on his. Anyone know? Do I need an airbrush for that? Any tips appreciated.
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I quite like the Skull Face Intruders, but to be fair Intruders look bad arse and are begging for that bit of flair on the table. For the rust effect, you could try using weathering powders? I own a few different types and they usually get that sort of corroded, dusty look. I'm playing a game tonight (Transmission Matrix vs Haqq) with a buddy using:  Combined Army────────────────────────────────────────────────── Group 1   10  0  0 CHARONTID Lieutenant Hacker (Hacking Device Plus) Plasma Rifle, Nanopulser / Heavy Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 73) ARMAND (Multispectral Visor L1) MULTI Sniper, Nanopulser / 2 Breaker Pistols, Shock CC Weapon, Knife. (1.5 | 45) MAAKREP TRACKER HMG / Pistol, Knife. (1.5 | 33) KO DALI Combi Rifle, Nanopulser, D-Charges / 2 Assault Pistols, Knife. (37) IKADRON (Baggage, Repeater) 2 Light Flamethrowers, Flash Pulse / Pistol, Electric Pulse. (9) IKADRON (Baggage, Repeater) 2 Light Flamethrowers, Flash Pulse / Pistol, Electric Pulse. (9) M-DRONE Combi Rifle, Sniffer / Electric Pulse. (17) Q-DRONE HMG / Electric Pulse. (1 | 26) SHROUDED (Minelayer) Combi Rifle, Antipersonnel Mines / Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 25) SHROUDED (Forward Observer) Combi Rifle, Antipersonnel Mines / Pistol, Knife. (25)5 SWC | 299 Points Open with Army 5 I think the list is perfectly fine for the scenario, but man I kinda feel at a loss for list building at the minute, I seem to keep hitting dead ends but then I think it's because I'm slapping miniatures onto lists rather than actually thinking them through. Granted it's a lot of casual play and casual-competitive play at the minute so it isn't too bad, and it's a good way to learn out my models properly. I think I could maybe have more Hackers in that list, maybe an Umbra? or rag in a Speculo Killer to really shove it down someones throat and eliminate their hackers early, but at the minute I'm kind of relying a lot on Cybermask Strikes and Fairy Dust with my Charontid going first to get hacking supremacy on this one. I've never really used any hacker in faction other than the Anath/Charontid/Umbra yet so I need to look into the other options. One of my buddies raves about the Nocitfer and some really like the Malignos. So I'll have to look around. Maybe a Fractaa Hacker instead of the Ko Dals? I like her ability to disrupt the backline though. E: Combined Army────────────────────────────────────────────────── Combined Army────────────────────────────────────────────────── Group 1 9 1 1 SKIÁVORO Lieutenant Plasma Rifle, Nanopulser / Pistol, CCW. (52) UMBRA LEGATE Hacker (Hacking Device Plus) Boarding Shotgun, Flash Pulse / Pistol, DA CCW. (0.5 | 43) ANYAT K1 Combi Rifle, Chain-colt, Smoke Grenades, E/M Grenades / Pistol, Knife. (25) MAAKREP TRACKER HMG / Pistol, Knife. (1.5 | 33) Q-DRONE HMG / Electric Pulse. (1 | 26) MALIGNOS Hacker (EI Assault Hacking Device) Combi Rifle, Antipersonnel Mines / Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 41) SHROUDED (Minelayer) Combi Rifle, Antipersonnel Mines / Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 25) SHROUDED (Minelayer) Combi Rifle, Antipersonnel Mines / Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 25) IKADRON (Baggage, Repeater) 2 Light Flamethrowers, Flash Pulse / Pistol, Electric Pulse. (9) GAKI AP CCW. (4)Group 2 1 2 2 IKADRON (Baggage, Repeater) 2 Light Flamethrowers, Flash Pulse / Pistol, Electric Pulse. (9) GAKI AP CCW. (4) GAKI AP CCW. (4)4.5 SWC | 300 Points Open with Army 5 Or Combined Army────────────────────────────────────────────────── Group 1 10 0 0 CHARONTID Lieutenant Hacker (Hacking Device Plus) Plasma Rifle, Nanopulser / Heavy Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 73) FRAACTA (EI Assault Hacking Device) Combi Rifle, Nanopulser / Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 35) ARMAND (Multispectral Visor L1) MULTI Sniper, Nanopulser / 2 Breaker Pistols, Shock CC Weapon, Knife. (1.5 | 45) M-DRONE Combi Rifle, Sniffer / Electric Pulse. (17) Q-DRONE HMG / Electric Pulse. (1 | 26) SHROUDED (Minelayer) Combi Rifle, Antipersonnel Mines / Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 25) SHROUDED (Minelayer) Combi Rifle, Antipersonnel Mines / Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 25) SPECULO KILLER Boarding Shotgun, Smoke Grenades / Pistol, Monofilament CCW, Knife. (1 | 34) IKADRON (Baggage, Repeater) 2 Light Flamethrowers, Flash Pulse / Pistol, Electric Pulse. (9) IKADRON (Baggage, Repeater) 2 Light Flamethrowers, Flash Pulse / Pistol, Electric Pulse. (9)5.5 SWC | 298 Points Open with Army 5 So many choices. Flipswitch fucked around with this message at 15:20 on Oct 17, 2015 |
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I don't have a problem with painting my models, but I'd have more fun jabbing a fork into my scrotum than trying to assemble some infinity models. These PanO Drone kits are unbelievable pieces of poo poo. Nothing fits, the feet have no pegs to attach to a base, the legs are attached via a bal socketl to the torso, so if you try to pick up the model by the torso it will rip off the legs, if you try to pick it up by the legs it will rip off the base. The 'arrms' pegs don't fit at all, and are basically just two flat surfaces glues to each other. There was so much flash on the model that it ruined the missile launcher, the holes were covered up with flash as was the divide between the two silos. A lot of this newer stuff is pretty drat good. The Squalo and Aquila Guard went together like a dream and are rock solid. Then there is complete garbage like Machaon's jacket attachment, or every female soldier's 0.5mm arm attachments with the arm perpendicular from the body.
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I'm starting the Imperial Service, so far I only have Starter (3x Celestials, Hsien, Wu Ming and Pheasant), and a single Ninja (sniper). Any tips on where to expand from here, and maybe general strategy hints? My main problem for now is me and my friend are planning to play for 150pts at the beginning. But from what I tried to calculate on the army builder, Hsien is would basically take more then 1/3 of the points. If I wanted to also put the sniper into the roster, I might end up with 4 orders in total and I don't think that's the best idea.
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At that point scale I would definitely cut one of them and up the amount of regular dudes you're taking to get the order minimum. If you're looking to expand for ISS, I'd definitely consider a Yaoxie & Celestial Guard box and probably a Kuang Shi one as well. The new unit for ISS in N3 are really baller so Id keep an eye out for when they eventually come out, same as Govads for Haqq players (lol Corbs). I'd also check over ChoKonnit's split box stuff on the Infinity forums and see if you can nab a Sophotect as well, I can't remember if ISS uses the Yudbots, but apart from scenario or scenery ISS don't have much use for the Netrods. Down here we've last minute decided to run one of our little pod tournaments with our spare ITS Code, so a 4 player 2 round event. Scenarios are Transmission Matrix (using a list different to the one I posted last night) and Supremacy/Quadrant Control. We're starting in about half an hour, so looking forward to it. Flipswitch fucked around with this message at 12:32 on Oct 18, 2015 |
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Also, as has been said, Infinity ITS scenarios only work at 250-300 points; and even then 250 is pushing it. Infinity's objectives are very important to the game, and having done YAMS, 'death match' and ITS, ITS is my favorite of them all.
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Flipswitch posted:We're starting in about half an hour, so looking forward to it.
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Flipswitch posted:the best bit of its is the muh camo meta arguments that come with it playing at low points creates a lot of bad habits and misunderstandings of the ITS and scenario meta that ppl have to unlearn... its why I don't really consider it 'learning the game' because the strategies and habits you will pick up have to then be unlearned.
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Thanks Flipswitch, for the tips. That Chokonnit's thread is gonna come in handy. How viable are Wu Mings? They are fairly cheap, and they are HI (that's the direction I wanna eventually focus on with my ISS). We are planning to move to 250+ and ITS scenarios eventually, but we are just starting and we prefer to learn the basics and our own figures first, and only then expand and meet other local players.
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Tournament's over. Won a few blisters and resin markers, and drew an autographed Icestorm box in a raffle that I have no idea what to do with  Yep, the lists could really use some AD, my infiltrators were not enough and I paid for it. OTOH, Charontid HMG is tons of fun. Hipster Rooster posted:I'm starting the Imperial Service, so far I only have Starter (3x Celestials, Hsien, Wu Ming and Pheasant), and a single Ninja (sniper). Any tips on where to expand from here, and maybe general strategy hints? You want the Celestial SWC box, Kuang Shi, Yaoxie drones. the Ruishi is a viable budget replacement for a Hsien, especially if you throw the Marksmanship hacking upgrade on it. Wu Mings are fairly cheap for HI. That's the biggest difference. You'll see them if HI are played, you won't see them when points are tight and every order counts. The FO loadout goes a long way towards making them viable, especially in links.
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/modiphius/corvus-bellis-infinity-roleplaying-game RPG Kickstarter is over in a few hours - pretty good backing so far. A few friends and I gave the quickstart rules a look and its fairly crunchy, but with good story mechanics. Most interesting to me is the three 'health' trackers of basically Morale, Tech, and Wounds (they have different names).
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Pierzak posted:Tournament's over. Won a few blisters and resin markers, and drew an autographed Icestorm box in a raffle that I have no idea what to do with Are you in the continental United States, and if so, how much do you want for OIS?
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Pierzak is from Poland land which is the super duperest land of Infinity as soon as they discounted him from it. e: I won. Will post bat rep when I get home
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They did not. I exterritorialized and formed my own country. Can confirm the neighborhood being super duperest though, we had like 5 different local Infinity-related sponsors. There's a ton of small companies doing wargaming stuff here and the Infinity meta is huge and growing.
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A fascination with wargames is understandable when your country gets invaded from literally every direction for hundreds and hundreds of years. Flipswitch posted:Govads 
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Righto dudes BIG POST, played two rounds today as it was only a 4 man ITS event, but thanks to CB's codes you can buy solo, that qualifies people for ITS points! We played Transmission Matrix then Supremacy which are quite hacker heavy missions and our group quite liked that, except our Ariadna player who grumbled "muh Wardrivers" twice. But he likes hackers secretly but you know, there's a rep to keep and all that. R1: Transmission Matrix Vs Nomads (Vanilla) My list: Combined Army────────────────────────────────────────────────── Group 1 10 0 0 CHARONTID Lieutenant Hacker (Hacking Device Plus) Plasma Rifle, Nanopulser / Heavy Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 73) UMBRA LEGATE Hacker (Hacking Device Plus) Boarding Shotgun, Flash Pulse / Pistol, DA CCW. (0.5 | 43) ARMAND (Multispectral Visor L1) MULTI Sniper, Nanopulser / 2 Breaker Pistols, Shock CC Weapon, Knife. (1.5 | 45) SPECULO KILLER Boarding Shotgun, Smoke Grenades / Pistol, Monofilament CCW, Knife. (1 | 34) MAAKREP TRACKER HMG / Pistol, Knife. (1.5 | 33) ANYAT K1 Combi Rifle, Chain-colt, Smoke Grenades, E/M Grenades / Pistol, Knife. (25) Q-DRONE Plasma Rifle / Electric Pulse. (1 | 25) IKADRON (Baggage, Repeater) 2 Light Flamethrowers, Flash Pulse / Pistol, Electric Pulse. (9) IKADRON (Baggage, Repeater) 2 Light Flamethrowers, Flash Pulse / Pistol, Electric Pulse. (9) ÍMETRON Electric Pulse. (4)6 SWC | 300 Points Open with Army 5 So with this list I went for flat out hacker supremacy and I'm glad I did, because I came up vs double Interventors. We rolled off and I won the FTF Roll on a WIP16 dead on (hail the Children of Charon) and my opponent rolled a 20, but I felt jammy anyway. I opted to go first and my opponent picked a board edge with some better vertical cover for his Sin Eater (bastard). This game was a bit swingy because my mate had a bit lovely deployment at the start and I basically managed to eliminate an Interventor Lt (Lucky guess) and a Sin Eater HMG on the first turn without any losses which basically tilted the game in my favour, reducing the amount of hacking attempts I had to deal with. My reserve mini was my Speculo, which I deployed 4 inches behind one of his Interventors, the other looked like it was just in a Repeater zone but actually was out, so I didn't try to risk any attacks against it. Either way, my Speculo spent the first order of the game walking up and slitting his Interventor Lts throat with a crit and crippling his first turn response. My Charontid hit Cybermask and walked into a zone whilst my Umbra moved a bit forward into the central zone with Armand watching one side. My Speculo popped smoke at 9 inches in front of his Sin Eater (which had a huge fire lane down a good diagonal of the map which was stopping my Umbra moving forward) and then my Maakrep moved up and hosed the bugger down. The Sin Eater opted to dodge from the Zero-Vis attack and failed with my Maakrep landing 3 hits, with the Sin Eater failing all of them. His first turn didn't really accomplish much thanks to Loss of Lt, he moved some stuff forward and tilted a bit, moving his other Interventor into a hacking zone and tried to hack my Umbra, who hacked him back, with both of us failing.  My Charontid then Surprise Hack Brain Blasted him into smithereens on my following turn. With both of his hackers gone I basically just rushed my Ikadrons into areas to score me some objectives and the game kind of pressed on from there. I did managed to disable a Tsyklon with an E/M Grenade, that was nifty. Not much to say from there because i can't really remember it other than Armand being pretty sweet, he only got a few ARO's off all game and never any active shots, but my buddy really didn't like how much lockdown he can have on a flank with the Umbra shoving the close quarters, quite a nice combo, especially as they both deploy a bit further up and save you some orders moving into position. Fun list, really didn't like relying on that Imetron for 10 orders, I'd prefer to have that Imetron be mid-game Order 10 after a causalty or a bolster to a second group, but he landed so it was k.My Classified was HVT: Engineer one which I promptly looked at Anyat, said "gently caress that!" and dropped it for Secure the HVT which me Umbra rushed last turn and got it for me. This game was also the first time I've ever played vs non-Corregidor Nomads and only saw one Zero on the table. I think the end times are approaching. I kinda think it was a garbage/strange list but am too polite to say that, so I'll let him read it here instead. Second game was vs ASA and a loving Dragao (aids) on Supremacy: Combined Army────────────────────────────────────────────────── Group 1 9 1 1 SKIÁVORO Lieutenant Plasma Rifle, Nanopulser / Pistol, CCW. (52) UMBRA LEGATE Hacker (Hacking Device Plus) Boarding Shotgun, Flash Pulse / Pistol, DA CCW. (0.5 | 43) MAAKREP TRACKER HMG / Pistol, Knife. (1.5 | 33) ANYAT K1 Combi Rifle, Chain-colt, Smoke Grenades, E/M Grenades / Pistol, Knife. (25) Q-DRONE HMG / Electric Pulse. (1 | 26) MALIGNOS Hacker (EI Assault Hacking Device) Combi Rifle, Antipersonnel Mines / Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 41) SHROUDED (Minelayer) Combi Rifle, Antipersonnel Mines / Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 25) SHROUDED (Minelayer) Combi Rifle, Antipersonnel Mines / Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 25) IKADRON (Baggage, Repeater) 2 Light Flamethrowers, Flash Pulse / Pistol, Electric Pulse. (9) GAKI AP CCW. (4)Group 2 1 2 2 IKADRON (Baggage, Repeater) 2 Light Flamethrowers, Flash Pulse / Pistol, Electric Pulse. (9) GAKI AP CCW. (4) GAKI AP CCW. (4)4.5 SWC | 300 Points Open with Army 5 Muh list, muh Gakis. So basically I realized at the start that apart from ambushing him in the dense mid-table, I had zero way of dealing with this Dragao on Supremacy other than a cheeky Malignos hack or a cheeky Anyat shot (neither went well for me). So deployed off, I ended up going first again (aww yeah, CA Lts boys) and turn one was pretty amusing. My buddy had a single Naga deployed behind total cover which one of my Gaki's promptly ran up a wall, over the roof and down the building (not generating a single ARO) and into a Naga. Who shot him with a pistol (what does the Gaki do?  ) who blew up and took the Naga with him. My buddy immediately goes  Shove that up your ALEPH jumper, you prick.The other two got gunned down on the approach, one by the Dragao after trying to dodge and passing on a 1. Turn one was a bit approachy, move up into any ground I can take, Anyat popped smoke for my Umbra to run into a choke hold and enter Cybermask to hold the area off. My Shrouded didn't do much other than play the guessing game of which Shrouded Was The Mine All Along. My Malignos stayed in hidden deployment slap bang in the middle of the table, waiting for his time to strike. My buddy shoves forward, my Maakrep goes down in a hail on HMC shots (although only taking one wound surprisingly, so I tried to automedikit later on in the game which was neat) and he gunned down an Ikadron. He managed to discover one of my mines and one of my Shrouded, the Shrouded ended up going prone after a dodge and hitting the deck. Anyat managed a smoke dodge vs a Dragao because I positioned her really, really badly. On my next turn my Malignos moves forward, hacking device in hand and cackling away aaand the exposes himself to a ASA Regular ARO whilst attempting a hack. I sort of went "oh bugger" because the ASA critted the fucker and the Dragao reset anyway. Ooops. Anyat tried to go for an ambush around a corner with her K1 and fluffed the shots and took a HMC round to the face which was the point I (realized that maybe I should have thrown E/M grenades rather than pissing away Anyat pointlessly) decided to go for everything else and just abandon the Dragao in whatever zone it sat in. My Umbra started moving around the map and shotgunning whatever he could get near (including a Bagh-Mari Paramedic facing the wrong way, all hail 6 inch cautious move) and slowly starving the Dragao of the order pool. My Maakrep passed his Automedikit check, stood back up and gunned down a Bulleteer, a single Bagh-Mari BS (part of a link but others didn't have LOS) and his Machinist. My ending point at this turn I managed to kill a Bagh-Mari BS, a Machinist, a Bagh-Mari Paramedic (breaking the fire team) and a Bulleteer. I ended my turn using my Strategos Order to re-cybermask up my Umbra who was pretty far into his backfield and taking one of his points solo (costing more than his Sapper who was on the other side of two buildings). From there game sort of dwindled on until I outnumbered the Dragao and basically just positioned around it as safely as I could, really, REALLY wish I had more smoke grenades (rip Anyat) so I could keep moving around it, but I didn't actually get many points from this mission because of the Dragao's presence keeping me in check. Good fun game though, I won only by 3OPs in total with our 2nd and 3rd place being decided purely by Victory Points, but we all tend to pack a lot of Baggage Remotes so those help with those ties. Key things to note: Be more proactive with my Skiavoros, I kind of forget him at times compared to other Lts like Kornak or a Charontid, and he's kinda pricey at 54pts and with Mnemonica I need to start throwing him into combat more, he only fired one shot in the second game and that was against a Pathfinder. Ikadrons are excellent, really great at defending flank rushes, really great at dealing with AD (didn't see any here tonight to be fair). Good at being mobile repeaters and good at just suicide into link teams with flamethrowers blazing. Baggage owns for scoreboard positioning too at the end or half way through of a bigger tournament. I really think every ITS list should try its best to include one Baggage REM. The Umbra continues to be my MVP game after game, just street sweeping with Cybermask Shottie attacks, 6-2 means he's fast as gently caress, Flash Pulse is amazing at helping him stay alive in the mid range if he can't avoid an ARO and 6" cautious moves is great for clearing space. 10/10. I'm a bit lovely at using Anyat as a non-smoke bot, I need more practice with her. Charontids are Charontids Speculo are Speculos, it's been repeated before here but the amount of orders people spend on killing them are often worth it on its own, great stuff. Gakis, lol. I might crutch a bit too hard on Maakreps, but I'm still madly in love with PanO Nisses and this is as close as I can get. Flipswitch fucked around with this message at 21:10 on Oct 18, 2015 |
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I've been tempted to play vanilla CA, to be honest, since I love a lot of the Morats, but the difficulty getting ahold of an Anyat model keeps stopping me. The really ironic part is that I own Bipandra. If only I'd just bought the pack...
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Oct 18, 2015 21:34
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I'm in the exact same situation, but I managed to nab a free Oznat and am using her instead.
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Oct 18, 2015 21:56
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Corbeau posted:
Did the exact same thing, except I managed to snag a pack eventually. So now I have two Bipandras. Joy.
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Oct 18, 2015 22:28
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Flipswitch posted:I'm in the exact same situation, but I managed to nab a free Oznat and am using her instead. Not a bad idea. Could take off the sword and with a little greenstuff make it look like she's holding a smoke grenade.
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Oct 18, 2015 22:46
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BlackIronHeart and I just picked up that pack, specifically because he wanted Anyat and I needed an HVT (poor Fusilier Angus). I'm also going to decapitate Bipandra and use her in a Ghulam conversion (Rifle + LGL).
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