Goonhammer: Tournament Report: Steel City Skirmish March 2023

Wizzy · Apr 20, 2023

Indexation this articles. On the Goonhammer blog, Genghis Cohen wrote an article about the Infinity Tournament Report: Steel City Skirmish March 2023.
Full article: https://www.goonhammer.com/infinity-tournament-report-steel-city-skirmish-march-2023/

After my last report I had the chance to attend another one day event, this time in Sheffield (a small city in Northern England, for anyone who doesn’t know it). They have an established Infinity group and this was actually a relatively large venue by UK standards. So we had 14 tables, 29 attendees (one got a bye).

The three missions were Frostbyte, a custom mission called Extrication which you can read here, and the dreaded Biotechvore. I looked at these, or more specifically at the stock missions, and thought this was the time to bring out my Military Orders. I needed some incentive to get priming and basecoating on them anyway. Praise the lord and pass the ammunition!

Table of Contents

The Lists

List 1: Frostbyte & Biotechvore

List 2: Extrication

Game 1: Frostbyte

Pre-Game & Deployment

Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

Summary

Game 2: Extrication

Pre-Game & Deployment

Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

Summary

Game 3: Biotechvore

Pre-Game & Deployment

Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

Summary

Conclusion

The Lists
Just for fun, I thought I’d try making these lists around 1 combat group. Just pack in the armoured elites. MO are so expensive points wise and I feel it’s very awkward to make even 14 models, you end up with every list taking the maximum number of bots and supporting 1W models. It’s sort of the opposite of how everyone envisions the Sectorial, IE a holy hit squad of space knights. If you want good examples of all round competitive MO lists, a player used them to take 3rd place in the recent IGL satellite, winning 5 of 6 games which must have been against very strong opposition. Both their lists include Teutons, Trinitarians and the Tikbalang, the holy trinity of MO tools, and pack in the unarmed bots to make up the numbers. I think it’s basically a solved faction at this point. But Biotechvore is a very different kettle of fish and Infinity would get very boring if we all did the right thing.

List 1: Frostbyte & Biotechvore

Now I was committed to the bit, but I’m not mental. So my starting point was 3 Teutons, and as the first list was for Biotechvore and Frostbyte, I backed them up with a Crosier Paramedic to try and revive things. I knew I wanted to play with the Tikbalang, which I acknowledge is the apex predator in the Sectorial and which I don’t have much experience with. So I threw a Curator engineer into the Core Fireteam as well. Normally I prefer engineers to be solo and use Servant bots, but for Biotechvore I wanted to move everyone up the table together. To add to the full core and Tik, I took the Montesa Paramedic, a super useful mission specialist and OK assault piece, Mendoza, just because I wanted to use him, then a flash pulse bot and Warcor because I was running low on points. This was efficient enough that I could afford a Trinitarian sniper in the second group.

I am actually really happy with this list for Biotechvore, and it’s fine for Frostbyte too. I have one big Fireteam, 4 regular models that can Coordinate and are actually fast enough (or can try to Forward Deploy) to leave the zone quickly. I have a Core missile launcher and a TAG to post AROs to stop the enemy leaving their zone, and a sniper ambush on top, although revealing him without being able to move him into he first group is obviously very dangerous in Biotechvore. For Frostbyte, ultimately I have the Tik and Mendoza who can put a LOT of points into the zone and specialists in the biker and the Fireteam, it’ll do.

List 2: Extrication

With that done I went on to write a list for Extrication. This has a hacker bonus which piqued my interest and caused me to commit to De Fersen and a Santiago KHD in two hacking-capable HI Fireteams. Maybe a false basis to go on; reading the mission again, there are only 2 objectives to WIP roll activate, and each player only really needs to do one of them. So the WIP roll bonus should not have been a big part of my list planning. In any case, I went with a 4 model Core Fireteam of De Fersen, as my Lt, and 3 Teutons inc a Tinbot Firewall-3 and ML. Then a Haris of Hospitallers Doctor, HMG and the Santiago KHD. Sticking with the single group precept I added in a Knight of the Holy Sepulchre NCO with AP HMG, squeezing in tow cheap bots to fill the group.

In hindsight, and not to spoil you on the list’s performance, I was a bit of an idiot here. The other missions are well suited to playing with fewer models. In Biotechvore it can almost be an advantage! Whereas this Extrication mission actually did want players to spend more Orders on movement, picking up and depositing Objectives, etc. I 100% should have gone with a conventional 14-15 model list. I even drafted one, and rejected it. I was very proud of my Tinbot-protected hacking in this list, but didn’t consider that I’d included no repeaters to extend my hacking or guided missile to capitalise on it. While I had specialists in both teams, one was my Lt and in both teams they were 4-4 movement and starting in my DZ. We’ll see how it played out in practice, but man this was not a sound idea.

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