I helped out at a local tournament yesterday by playing the odd guy. They were non-ITS, story driven games. I really liked that. It was a 250pt, Limited Insertion, 12xp Spec-Op. Below is the one list I had. It was a challenge to make a Limited Ikari list. I couldn’t take my favorite Yuan Yuan’s! Thank the pirate gods that I have Wu Ming! I didn’t know what the missions were going to be so that made it a bit harder. I tired taking some specialists but couldn’t do too much. That’s one of the reasons I took the Karakuri. A specialist and good heavy infantry. Ikari Company ────────────────────────────────────────────────── 9 1 KARAKURI Mk12, Chain Rifle, D.E.P. / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 40) WÚ MÍNG (Fireteam: Haris) Chain Rifle, Submachine Gun / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 25) WÚ MÍNG HMG / Pistol, Knife. (2 | 39) WÚ MÍNG (Forward Observer) Boarding Shotgun / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 31) Brawler Spec-Ops (12 XP) (CH: Mimetism, Minelayer) Rifle, Light Shotgun, Viral Sniper / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 16) BRAWLER Lieutenant Rifle + Light Shotgun / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 16) LIBERTO (Minelayer) Light Shotgun, Chain-colt, Antipersonnel Mines / Pistol, Knife. (1 | 10) BOUNTY HUNTER Spitfire / Pistol, Knife. (1 | 22) BOUNTY HUNTER Sniper Rifle / 2 Breaker Pistols, Knife. (0.5 | 21) NINJA Hacker (Killer Hacking Device) Tactical Bow / Pistol, DA CCW, Knife. (0 | 29) 4.5 SWC | 249 Points Open in Infinity Army The first game was against PanO and I was going second and got deployment. He took a Squallo with HGL! It didn’t leave him with much after that though. He tried doing the HGL thing but I dodged or took a single wound on a Wu Ming. Dodging was able to let me spread them apart a bit more. I eventually killed the Squallo with the HMG Wu Ming and it was downhill from there for him. I won 9-0. Second game was an Armory type games vs. Haqq. Ikari went first. The LIberto was fantastic. I moved him up, killed the Designated target, then laid mines near the entrance of the enemy side of the armory in such a way that he could only trigger one at a time. Then moved him up to try to LSG a Lasiq. It didn’t work and he was out in the open but he then worked perfectly in ARO to make him be dealt with before anything else. The scenario had our Spec-op captured and in the armory. My ninja got in and put it out but my spec-op was a mine layer so I put mines in the armory as we they left. So I made it really tough for him to do anything in there. Ikari win 8-0. Third was unfortunately opposite my previous games. It was against Bakunin. He killed my spec-op in the first couple orders with his Taskmaster. Then boosted his HMG TR remote and killed my obvious Brawler Lt. It pretty much went downhill. One thing I didn’t like was that his spec-op, which I was supposed to kill, had Holo 1 and was disguised as a Sin Eater. He said he didn’t have to reveal who his Spec Op was! It was okayed by the TO. That was like him having hidden deployment. How am I supposed to kill the guy if I don’t know what he is? It should be like Hunting party where you know the Lt. He could still be Holo but have to say it’s the Spec-Op. It was still a fun game even though it didn’t go well. I think the fact I was just a ringer kind of helped me to relax. So Ikari loss, 0-9. Funny thing though I did win last year’s tournament pack by being the biggest winner in the first game. So I now have a Cube Jagger!
Hey, thanks for sharing, glad you had some fun with the company! What would you say your MVPs and LVPs were from that weekend? The holo ruling from the last game does sound kinda lame indeed :/
I the first game I'd say the Wu Ming HMG killing the Squalo was pretty awesome. The second was both the Liberto and Karakuri. They both held back the Haqq from even getting close to the objective. Unfortunately I can't say much for the third lol.
