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Apr 11, 2016 18:49
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6 hours, according to the Facebook announcement.
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Apr 11, 2016 18:54
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Oh. Well, there you go. I'm not on FB, so this is news to me. Works pretty well on Win10. It's nice not having to wait five seconds to select a unit.
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Apr 11, 2016 19:13
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Desktop app seems to work well, though the hacker lists still seem to steadfastly refuse to put GADGET 1 on the list.
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Apr 12, 2016 00:26
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Would this work on Android? That would be pretty rad as my FLGS has terrible internet and cell reception in the gaming dungeon.
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Apr 12, 2016 01:22
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What's wrong with Zerats? I'm new and poo poo, but they don't seem that bad.
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Apr 12, 2016 02:54
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Sir Teabag posted:Would this work on Android? That would be pretty rad as my FLGS has terrible internet and cell reception in the gaming dungeon. WIndows and Linux only right now. But according to some facebook responses they're working on Mac and "mobile" apps. 
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Apr 12, 2016 03:05
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Sanguine posted:What's wrong with Zerats? I'm new and poo poo, but they don't seem that bad. They're absolutely poo poo skirmishers w/r/t points efficiency (which in CA is your lord and master second only to the EI itself). Their cheapest specialist option is a hacker at 25 pts and 0.5 SWC. With mimetism. In comparison, in vanilla CA 25 pts gets me a Shrouded FO, with full camouflage (which improves its survivability a lot as the enemy has to waste orders to discover him and still possibly fail), mines (again, poo poo some mines around a console and make the mission more annoying to your enemy), and an automedikit which saved my rear end more than a few times. And if you play area control you have to kill him dead-dead because even unconscious he scores area control due to the Shasvastii rule. And if I want a hacker for the 5 pts /0.5 SWC more, there's a chance that the enemy won't know that one of the camo markers is a hacker and will stumble into the hacking area. Zerats don't have mines, don't have medkits, don't have camo so even behind total cover they'll get splattered by the first speculative LGL shot that comes their way and they can't set a hacking trap without hauling their asses to the target, what do they have? The Morat rule, which makes them incapable of ducking into total cover (where you'd want a lovely mission-oriented skirmisher) without passing a Guts roll. Oh, and D-Charges I guess. Which I have on Ko Dali and Rasyats too. And that's for CA, aka the elite faction. A camo infiltrating specialist in Ariadna is 18-19 points. In HSN3 Zerats get a FO profile for 22 points, which might mean they'll get fielded in Morat lists every once in a while (still not a chance in vanilla CA).
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Apr 12, 2016 03:19
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StErN posted:Babby's first Infinity model Looks pretty good. Would probably brighten up the orange in the helmet if you feel confident highlighting in that tiny space.
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Apr 12, 2016 03:39
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Some really excellent tournament reports and pictures coming in over the past week! Did not fully realise we had such an impressive lot of tournament players around. Great writeups Mr Squarepants and Sir Teabag. EDIT: do these titles mean that tokenbrownguy is now Lord Tokenbrownguy?
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Apr 12, 2016 23:55
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I've been absolutely stomped by a tiger soldier for about 5 games in a row now. We're playing 150 pts, I'm maf, and he'll manage to pick off 80% of my monkeys in the first turn. How do I counter him? With the initiative he can wiggle just right so it's always his B4 on 9 or 12 against my one on 6 or 9. Anything I should try, or is the counter to mimetic airborne troops just luck?
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Apr 13, 2016 09:35
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Sanguine posted:I've been absolutely stomped by a tiger soldier for about 5 games in a row now. We're playing 150 pts, I'm maf, and he'll manage to pick off 80% of my monkeys in the first turn. As I understand the counter is to position your rear-line troops so they're capable of AROing to good positions he might drop in on, so he has to waste orders moving him around into a good position after dropping him farther from the battlefield than you'd like. I'd suggest that multi-wound or pseudo multi-wound models are even worse. Tohaa and (Vanilla/Onyx) EI drop troops are super good for that reason, because you can hot-drop them into places where the enemy has a line of fire, and the Caskuda was ridiculously OP because of the same reason.
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Apr 13, 2016 09:52
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Genghis Cohen posted:Some really excellent tournament reports and pictures coming in over the past week! Did not fully realise we had such an impressive lot of tournament players around. Great writeups Mr Squarepants and Sir Teabag. EDIT: do these titles mean that tokenbrownguy is now Lord Tokenbrownguy? Not if I get stomped at GenCon! Sanguine posted:I've been absolutely stomped by a tiger soldier for about 5 games in a row now. We're playing 150 pts, I'm maf, and he'll manage to pick off 80% of my monkeys in the first turn. I ran into these profiles the other day. My buddy is trying Yu JIng lists to get a feel for the faction. I think a decent counter for scary AD in general is Camo'd models in the DZ. Folks will be much less eager to go rampaging through your order pool when there's 360 vision silhouettes chilling out in LoF. Bonus points if those silhouettes are packing long range, heavy damage guns, and can safely punish an aggressive model from cover. Trying to discover well placed camo in the friendly DZ should be painstakingly difficult, due to the range for enemy models placed in the enemy DZ/regular infil, and because of the risk for aggressive models in the DZ due to overlapping friendly LoF. TRO bots are nice, but they can get Shotgun'd or Hacked to death pretty easily. With a camo model, your opponent never knows what they'll run into. They can only theorize your defensive camo and spend orders to reveal it. On the other hand, imo the real counter to aggressive plays on Turn 1 is orders. Who cares if your opponent knocks out a few regular orders or a specialist when you're packing an order heavy list? If they burnt a good 75% of their orders on killing dudes, their specialists and backline should be exposed/vulnerable or played extremely defensively. Now you get to punish their aggressiveness, wipe out their (now visible) Hidden Deployment models, and set up against/strike back against their regular deployment models that have now advanced up the field. As for Turns 2/3, be sure to coordinated order up some side-map/good AD spot location dudes to put into suppressive fire. You can't ever stop the threat of AD, but you can make it, as MJ12 says, expensive for their order pool. Unfortunately, as CA Morats, seems like you have neither cheap orders, nor good defensive camo. As someone who isn't super familiar with the faction, I'd say bring all the cheap templates and TRO you can possibly afford.
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Apr 13, 2016 10:55
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Sanguine posted:I've been absolutely stomped by a tiger soldier for about 5 games in a row now. We're playing 150 pts, I'm maf, and he'll manage to pick off 80% of my monkeys in the first turn. Careful positioning and sacrifical lambs. I play USAriadna so I have some grunts with heavy flamethrowers guarding my flanks. Switch the playfield and pretend you are your opponent. Identify any units he will want to attack and protect them with your sacrificial lambs, or identify any spots where they can jump.
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Apr 13, 2016 15:57
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Also, play with more points. Given the expensiveness of MAF troopers, 150 is kind of hamstringing yourself. Our resident angry ape player (BlackIronHeart) has encountered some of the same kinds of problems in low-points games because it's hard to get decent damage dealers yet still have enough points left over to feed them orders. But in addition to the suggestions others have given, if you're worries about your cheerleaders getting taken out by an AD trooper before you even get your first turn, deploy your Vanguard as a link team, especially if you can position it to cover some likely avenues of approach. Yes, it reduces your overall board control, but no AD trooper in his right mind is going to drop anywhere near the ARO rat's-nest that is a Link Team. Then, once it's your turn and/or his AD trooper is on the ground, drop the Vanguard link and burn a Command Token to reform a link with your primary damage dealers (Rodoks or whatever). AD troopers are good, but unless they get super lucky and manage to drop exactly into a spot where you have zero LOS to them, you always get at least one free shot on them.
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Apr 13, 2016 19:58
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Id just like to say.. gently caress Yuan's Yuan's
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Apr 13, 2016 20:21
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Speaking of links and AD. Let's say I have three Hellcats. Can I link them off-table? If so, does link-leader triggering AROs still apply, like charging a TR bot with a disposable link? Because that sounds like an expensive way to annoy the hell out of someone when they can only ARO one model as they all drop in.
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Apr 13, 2016 20:30
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Exmond posted:Id just like to say.. My QK starter should arrive today, i'll keep this in mind!
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Apr 13, 2016 22:00
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grassy gnoll posted:Speaking of links and AD. Hellcats aren't linkable, are they? Just Wildcats.
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Apr 14, 2016 08:05
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grassy gnoll posted:Speaking of links and AD.
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Apr 14, 2016 12:06
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Dang. I need to research before I get smart ideas. I really hope that gets attention at some point. It'll break my greasy little heart if the next book rolls around and Margot and Duroc don't get Duo, if nothing else, though I guess AD: Inf isn't as beastly as AD: Superior.
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Apr 14, 2016 15:53
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grassy gnoll posted:It'll break my greasy little heart if the next book rolls around and Margot and Duroc don't get Duo
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Apr 14, 2016 15:57
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Nah, Acheron or whatever it ends up being, not HSN3. MRRF didn't get bumped again, did it?
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Apr 14, 2016 16:33
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grassy gnoll posted:Nah, Acheron or whatever it ends up being, not HSN3. Nah we are in the next book, you know whenever that happens.
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Apr 14, 2016 18:12
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Pierzak posted:Mutually exclusive. Can't you coordinated order a mass jump though, which only allows 1 ARO?
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Apr 14, 2016 18:12
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MJ12 posted:Can't you coordinated order a mass jump though, which only allows 1 ARO?
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Apr 14, 2016 18:19
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MJ12 posted:Can't you coordinated order a mass jump though, which only allows 1 ARO? Yes you can. http://wiki.infinitythegame.com/en/Airborne_Deployment_(AD) However all troopers using the coordinate order have to use the same rules and enter/jump on the same side/template.
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Apr 14, 2016 18:20
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Pierzak posted:It's not linking. You still pay a command token and lose the units' regular orders, and you don't get the extra order efficiency afterwards. So you are paying a CT for no benefit?
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Apr 14, 2016 19:23
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Not a viking posted:So you are paying a CT for no benefit? Drop the same bunch of guys on the same template or board edge and only provoke 1 ARO for the lot. Still not a great benefit IMO but it's something.
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Apr 14, 2016 19:28
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Not a viking posted:So you are paying a CT for no benefit? Well, technically the whole group triggers a single ARO, and if you hosed up your AD1 declarations you can override them with Van Zant's Tactical Jump, but generally, yeah, that's very niche and inefficient otherwise.
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Apr 14, 2016 19:28
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Apr 15, 2016 12:23
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ze gogggles, they make me outrageously good and undercosted
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Apr 15, 2016 16:22
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If I had Marksman L2 I'd never stop hip-firing either. Gotta arc them bullets.
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Apr 15, 2016 17:19
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Is this a Locust?
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Apr 15, 2016 19:39
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Cat Face Joe posted:Is this a Locust? Spetsnasz HMG I believe.
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Apr 15, 2016 20:29
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Spetsnaz HMG with Spetsnaz sniper's exact body and legs, but recast with a reposed head and new tactical crap. 
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Apr 15, 2016 22:51
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darnon posted:Spetsnasz HMG I believe. Pierzak posted:Spetsnaz HMG with Spetsnaz sniper's exact body and legs, but recast with a reposed head and new tactical crap. Hm. The Fusiler beret threw me off.
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Apr 16, 2016 00:09
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You can tell he's a Rodina model because he's got the blue and white ring shirt, which all Russians are born with.
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Apr 16, 2016 00:29
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when I was living in russia I started to grow a telnyashka, it truly is the most russian of clothing looks rad too
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*Plasters the walls with cum*
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