Northern Open 21.11.2015

Took my new Ariadna force along to the most recent Infinity tournament in Leeds run by the night owls guys. Managed to come 8th on the table so pretty pleased I came in the top half and not really a competitive player. I did however manage to win two of three games and the game I lost was the third time I had played Luke and I had won the previous encounters against him at other events so I was not massivley but hurt about the loss. My tactics were on point  ( ish ) but it must have had something to do with the two intruders on a roof covered by smoke and also in suppression fire that made me loose. Taking a big hand full of ok units in camo is good but not when the enemy just decided to ignore your surprise shot and mimetism.

In my first game I played against Nigel king. I had also played him at two previous events and we were at one victory each so I challenged him of the internet to a grudge match in the first round. It was looking bleak to begin with. he was using his imperial service. im not that clued up on the units so all I can tell you is he had a Pheasant Rank agent with spit fire run to the middle of the table linked with 4 other dudes to grab the objective and drag it back to his lines. But little did he realise one of my camo markers was a tank hunter with AP HMG. it was quite order intensive but the tank hunter blasted away 4 guys into the unconscious state, this gave my Zouave the chance to pop out of cover and he was surrounded by the entire link on a small roof. Never used a Zouave before but he is worth every point considering he seems to have every weapon under the sun and can set up using mechanised deployment. In my excitement though He jumped down to the ground floor and pumped 8 dice from his machine pistol to make sure no one was getting up . . . then i instantly realised one of my secret objectives was to Coupe De Grace one of the guys.

Anyway enough of my rambling just check my photos of all the games that went down.

Tables at recent Northern open.

Just a quick blog to show of all the  tables that we played on at the last Northern Open tournament put on by the guys at Leeds night owls. If you ever get a chance to attend I suggest you do. Prizes to be won, games to be played and dice to be rolled. Enjoy.

Beginners ( sort of ) intro tournament to Infinity.

Last week Pete from my local gaming club found a beginners tournament in Stourbridge at a gaming store located in the town center called Phoenix Games. So off Pete, Christian ( also from my local gaming club ) and I went early morning to check it out. The store was pretty sweet it had a lot of good tables and seemed to have a good scene with many people playing different systems with pretty friendly staff on hand, the shelves were a little bare in comparison to some other stores ( although in sure they will order anything in store for you ) I have visited and seemed to sway more towards board games but over all I would defiantly give it two thumbs up.

The premise of the tournament was you take a 150pt list then get paired up with someone else who was new to the game and all the matches would be 2v2 simple right? I made two lists both Merovingienne. One list has a small link of 3 Metros but was mainly a weak but versatile force one camo, one small link, one doctor, one Commando, one Aguacil hacker one MSV etc . . Basically a little bit of everything so show people how rules and equipment worked. The second list had 5 Loup Garou's to use a death star unit and smash anything it came across. Unfortunately though all the beginners that had signed up must have heard I was coming  and bailed on the event, so we decided to make it a team tournament of Leeds versus Stourbridge. We managed to take the win in the end but only by 2 victory points if I remember correctly. I won my first game, lost me second but not by much, my last game however I got completely murked, it was almost embarrassing. Ok it was completely embarrassing. The list I played was literally the starter units from the pan O set and that was it. I chose to go second. As a standard i took away 2 orders and denied any kills by hiding everything. on my first turn I shot down his Nisses sniper with my Loup Garou in full like so he got the nice extra +3 BS. I though to myself "hmm this will be easy" and god was I wrong. He had run his father knight and Orc half way up the board and put them in suppression fire. I jumped out at him in full link and got completely smashed. lost most of the team in one turn to AROs and the game was over in about 10 minutes! and I lost every victory point going with nothing left on the board accept a crappy baggage bot and 10pt line trooper but hey ho that's how it goes some times ( I blame the dice yeah ).

The event was well organised and %100 worth the time and effort. We all put on a fiver and everyone waled away with a model, the overall winner getting to choose first then so on going down the list. And for the record I totally came last but still managed to nab myself an engineer with tractor maul control device and a blister with weapons for conversions and I was pretty happy with that as it was the only thing not WYSIWYG in my force.
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So thanks to James or Severian on Mayanet forums for putting on the event. There is a 300pt event on the 12th of December that we shall be re attending in the link below

 http://infinitytheforums.com/forum/topic/34348-sat-12th-december-2015-300-point-tournament-phoenix-games-stourbridge-west-midlands-uk/.

That time a 12pt line trooper took out A Pan O tank.

This commando walked on behind me and completely destroyed my back lines.

Got this Nomad hacker all painted up for the event and all he did was hide behind this wall.

Managed to get my Chasseur up close for one flame attack on this big ball of badness and didn't take a single unit down.

Turn three reveal for some serious gunishment from Uxia.

This was the prize pool to share between the 6 of us. Thems some good pickins right there.

Had to throw this pic in. It completely sums up how marvelously middle class the whole town was :)