I went to play my first Infinity tournament last week (started Infinity ~18 months ago): the Nordic Masters satellite tournament in Stockholm. A total of 51 players attended the tournament from all over Scandinavia. The tables were absolutely amazing, as was the organization of the event! The following scenarios were played: Frostbyte Unmasking Rescue Supremacy Decapitation I played Varuna using the following lists: NM List 1 ────────────────────────────────────────────────── GROUP 1 9 1 KAMAU (Multispectral Visor L2) MULTI Sniper Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (1.5 | 32) FUSILIER Combi Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 10) FUSILIER Combi Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 10) FUSILIER Combi Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 10) FUSILIER HMG / Pistol, Knife. (1 | 18) FUSILIER Combi Rifle + Light Grenade Launcher / Pistol, Knife. (1 | 14) PATSY GARNETT Submachine Gun, Nimbus Plus Grenades, D-Charges / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 37) KAMAU HMG / Pistol, Knife. (1 | 28) MACHINIST (Varuna Div.) (CH: Mimetism, Stealth, Aquatic Terrain) Combi Rifle, D-Charges / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 17) HELOT MILITIAMAN Submachine Gun, Light Rocket Launcher / Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 9) GROUP 2 4 1 TRAUMA-DOC Combi Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 14) PALBOT Electric Pulse. (0 | 3) ZULU-COBRA Lieutenant (Sensor) Combi Rifle, Jammer / Assault Pistol, Knife. (0 | 29) ZULU-COBRA (Sensor) Combi Rifle, Jammer / Assault Pistol, Knife. (0 | 29) HELOT MILITIAMAN Submachine Gun, Light Rocket Launcher / Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 9) CROC MAN (Minelayer) Combi Rifle, Antipersonnel Mines / Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 31) 6 SWC | 300 Points Open in Infinity Army This list was meant for Decapitation and Resuce, as it had good defense (croc minelayer, 2x jammers) and lot of high burst weapons for Rescue. Also, the LGL as Datatracker for Decap if going first, and Patsy if going second. NM List 2 ────────────────────────────────────────────────── GROUP 1 9 1 ORC (Varuna Div.) (Multiterrain: Aquatic/Jungle, Stealth) Feuerbach / Pistol, Knife. (2 | 43) KAMAU (Multispectral Visor L2) MULTI Sniper Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (1.5 | 32) FUSILIER Lieutenant Combi Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 10) FUSILIER Combi Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 10) FUSILIER Combi Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 10) PATSY GARNETT Submachine Gun, Nimbus Plus Grenades, D-Charges / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 37) MACHINIST (Varuna Div.) (CH: Mimetism, Stealth, Aquatic Terrain) Combi Rifle, D-Charges / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 17) KAMAU HMG / Pistol, Knife. (1 | 28) HELOT MILITIAMAN Submachine Gun, Light Rocket Launcher / Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 9) ZULU-COBRA (Sensor) Combi Rifle, Jammer / Assault Pistol, Knife. (0 | 29) GROUP 2 4 2 FUGAZI DRONBOT Flash Pulse, Sniffer / Electric Pulse. (0 | 8) FUGAZI DRONBOT Flash Pulse, Sniffer / Electric Pulse. (0 | 8) TRAUMA-DOC Combi Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 14) PALBOT Electric Pulse. (0 | 3) ZULU-COBRA Hacker (Killer Hacking Device) Breaker Combi Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 28) HELOT MILITIAMAN Submachine Gun, Light Rocket Launcher / Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 9) TECH-BEE (Remote Assistant Level 1, Specialist Operative) Flash Pulse / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 5) 5.5 SWC | 300 Points Open in Infinity Army This list was intended for the remaining missions, and I was a bit worried of not using any AD or TO camo unit here, i.e. no surprise factor. I traded that for more staying power and a solid Datatracker (Patsy). Thank you to @daboarder and @barakiel for help in discussing lists! Frostbyte (NM list 2) vs TAK 10 order list (Core with Voronin LT, Frontoviks (T2), and HMG Vet Kazak; then Tankhunter ML; HMG Spetznaz; Strelok FO boarding shotgun; Datatracker was a Vet Kazak Rifle); My Datatracker was the Orc Feuerbach. I got deployment, he first turn. He moved up his Core and ran into a Helot LRL shot covering the whole link. Voronin (LT) died from the blast. He then moved his core taking out the helot, and activating two consoles. My turn, I shoot with the Kamau sniper on his Core, but I get an aro from his Tankhunter in his DZ. I split burst and kill the tankhunter but sniper dies to the core Frontovik. I then try and attack with the Haris, but the Kamu HMG goes down. I then attack his core with the ZC KHD from the flank. This is finally successful, taking out 1 or 2 of his units in the core. He starts his 2nd turn with only 4 orders left and decides to move his Datatracker and remaining guys from the core towards the center of the table just inside the Exclusion zone in a defensive position. In my 2nd turn I throw nimbus grenade on the ZC jammer and then shoot triangulated fire on the remaning Vet kazak, which takes him down. I am worried that I may run out of time, so I break off the Orc Feuerbach from my link to move him into the Exclusion zone in a somewhat hidden position. I manage to give his Datatracker 1 wound, but not kill him. In his last turn he has 3 orders left. He moves over a camo token towards my Orc DT. With his last order he gets a surprise shot with the Strelok shotgun and scores 2 hits! The orc saves one and lives! My turn I try and move up with Patsy to get a shot at his hidden DT, but she dies to surrounding aro from T2 ammo. 4-1 to me and a great start to the tournament! Unmasking (NM list 2) vs IA. He ran 10 unit list with 14 orders (2x TA and 2x LT orders) (Core link with sniper, 2xTA HMG; Hacker LT; Flashpulse bot; Sensor bot; Zensha;) This was a beautiful table, but really difficult to play on. Despite the large amount of terrain, it was surprisingly open at ground level. He goes first (I have deploy). He infiltrates a camo outside my DZ and nails the roll... He moves the camo guy and reveal a Zensha who shoots my fusi LT to death, I try and jammer but he saves. He goes out of jammer range and shoots at my sniper taking it down... Really bad start to this game! Finally my second fusilier manages to win over the Zhensha removing him. He has a shootout with his core and my Orc Feuerbach, without result and then moves his core up to push a button but gets the wrong HVT. So I start my first tun in LoL. I spend a few command tokens converting to regular orders and spend it on the link with Feuerbach shooting some salvos, taking down one HMG in his link. The rest of my units basically stays put, except for moving up Flashpulse bots to get some aros. His second turn his luck turns around, he moves his core towards the middle console, but I notice he is low on specialists. He has his HMG as link leader but I shoot at his specialist in the link instead. I manage to kill the specialist, and the Orc takes one wound. He shoots again with the HMG and the Orc wins taking it down. He tries moving out his sensor bot to push a button, but decides to shoot out the flash pulse bot in front of him first. X number of armor saves later, the flashpulse bot is still standing! My second turn I move out the haris and takes out his sniper. My ZC KHD goes up to push a button, but gets wrong HVT. His last turn he has only a few orders and only the hacker left as specialist and moves it ahead a little bit. My last turn I take out the HVT decoy and a flashpulse bot with the haris. Patsy moves up to second console, and gets the right HVT. Patsy (datatracker) moves toward it and tries to take it out…but fails 2-3 attempts. With my last order I manage to get a shot with the ZC KHD on the HVT now hidden from Patsy, and kills it! 7-0 to me. I thought I had lost that game after the first order. The second turn swung the game back, and really showed the power of the Orc Feuerbach, managing to crack the HI link. Hero of the game! Rescue vs Tohaa. NM List1 vs (Makaul, Sukeul ML, Kaeltar, Clipsos, Baggage HMG, Makaul, Gao Rael spitfire, kamael, Kamael, Makaul, Sakiel viral combi, Kamael) This table was not very good. While it did have lots of forests, giving low visibility and saturation, it still meant for wide open fire lanes all over the table. I think that was to my advantage actually... In this game I played bad, but had good rolls. I was getting really tired, being the third game of the day. The game started really well: He brings in a Gao tarso close to my DZ. I ARO with mine giving 1 wound, and successfully jammer him. Then matters get worse. His Clipsos moves up to grab a HVT in the forest. I jammer but he saves, and I shoot with Helot without effect. He moves it back towards his DZ but gets shot by the sniper on the way back, but the Civ is in his DZ. My turn, I kill the gao tarso, the Gao rael spitfire, and strip the symbiomate on ML. Not much more… In his second turn a situation occurs... He forgets an impetuous order on his now unlinked makaul. Instead throws smoke with it to block my sniper and moves his datatracker over to sync with the civilian and hides it deep in his DZ. Then I remember the impetous order. How to solve this? We settle on letting me shoot the makaul to death and leaving the smoke and his DT as is, although my sniper would have had ARO on him without the eclipse smoke blocking him. We are running out of time and I make a really bad play in my second turn. I didn’t notice I could move my sniper a few orders to kill his DT. Instead I move up the core link to take out his ML which is pinning my haris. I try to go grab a civilian with Patsy, but fails due to his defense. Match timed after 2 hours (2 turns) due to slow play. If I had killed his DT and instead performed my classified with Patsy (Telemetry, and I had available unconscious model that I could target), I would have won 1-0. Instead loss 0-5, and a headache from a long day... Still 2 wins and 1 loss was better than I thought. Second day: Supremacy vs Vanilla Nomads on the same table as Rescue. (NM list 2) (Kriza borac HMG FA2, TR bot x2, Flash pulse bot, Zero FO, Zero something Minelayer?, Zoe Pi well, Puppetmaster, some engineer.) I deploy second and go first (!). This time I put my sniper in a better position for covering more of the table (though a bit more exposed), than I did in Rescue. I go first and take out his flashpulse bot. I then move up the link in closest quadrant and position the orc feuerbach with good table coverage, shooting out one TR bot in the process. I move up the flash pulse bots with ZC KHD in coordinated order toward camo tokens One bot dies to a mine. I then move my ZC KHD activating the console and move the Tech bee to plant xenotech. I move a bunch of units into the two quadrants closest to my DZ and take out a zero. His first turn he moves up with his Kriza and shoots at kamau hmg in haris. He tanks it and goes into total cover. Shoots my machinist which goes unconscious. He moves up his second zero to shoot at patsy, creating a stand off, then he retreats it. Moves zoe through all his deployment zone with the xenotech to give assisted fire on his TR bot which was not that well placed on a flank. End of first turn I have 3 point for dominating zone with xenotech, planting it and pushing console. He did not move the xenotech into any quadrant. My 2nd turn I revive the machinist and reform the haris. I kill the zero with Patsy, activate the second console. I fire some long range shots at some of his units, but he basically has nothing outside his DZ. I move up ZC KHD to activate console in his quadrant, as well as dominating that zone. His 2nd turn he moves out with the Kriza trying to shoot the sniper. I shoot with Stun and win. He retreats his Kriza and is completely locked down by my long range weapons and does not manage to push into quadrants. Match is timed after 2 turns. I win 7-0. Decapitation vs OSS (NM List 1) (Dakini link with Deva and CSU, Dart, Proxy MK5 FO, Proxy MK2 hacker, proxy mk1 engineer, Shukra LT, TR bot, Lamedh, etc) I lose initiative, so I thought I’d lost the game... I deploy quite well though, with my HVT being defended by a croc man minelayer, ZC jammer, two helots in camo and the Kamau sniper, without exposing my troops unless he moves up to midfield. His datatracker is the MK5 with double SMGs, mine is Patsy. He starts by moving the MK5 to shoot at my HVT, who manages to dodge! The mine from the croc goes off and kills the MK5. Sweet! He decides to move his Dakini link forward to take out the Kamau sniper, but he fires Stun ammo and wins. The HMG is now exposed to the Kamau sniper and blinded so if he activates the link the Dakini HMG will get shot at. He throws a pitcher, and then does white noise so that the Dakini link can move out without being shot by the Kamau. However, they move into LoF of a Helot LRL, who manages to take out 2 dakini and the CSU in one shot! My opponent is now very frustrated with his string of bad rolls, and goes after my HVT with Dart. Dart takes out the HVT and the ZC jammer before going down herself. My first turn, I move the haris up to take out his HVT, but get jumped by the Mk2 boarding shotgun. He manages to takes out the kamau HMG. The kamau sniper moves into position and removes the MK2. Patsy continues on and shoots the enemy HVT. After this the game is pretty much over, as I have killed much more of his units. The rest of the turns he tries to shoot some of my units without any big results, whereas I try and lob grenades on his prone LT in suppressive fire on a rooftop from across the table without success. Final score: 7-2 This puts me with 3 major wins, 1 minor and one loss, enough for a 4th place! I was extremely happy with the results! Congratulations to Zewrath for defending his title as Nordic Champion! Good luck at Interplanetario! Finally a photo of the table voted as "best table": American wasteland.
Thanks! Yes, the boards were really well made. A pity I didn't get to play on the aquatic table though..."Varuna outpost"
