ROUND ONE, FIGHT!

My found one opponent was Mike C. he played a NeoTerra force. The mission was Cold Sleep. I started this round of with a stout, I think.  Something Floridian. In a can, definetly in a can. Anyways I ended up with deployment and I had turn order. So first turn I ran my Cameronians and Mcmurrough up my right flank. One ended up tied up in cc with a total reaction baggage bot. Second Cameronian took cover in a building right of center only to be taken out later in the turn my a sniper hexa. Mcmurrough and the third Cammeronian pressed the far right flank battling it out with an Aguila Guard, man I hate them. Both of them fell to the Aquila, but not before getting him into a more favorable position for me. With the Aquila out of the way Uxia was able to grab the three objectives on the right and get back into hiding. 

Mike attempted to pick apart my left flank with a Spitfire Deva, not doing much damage. I believe only a volunteer fell. Mike pressed his Auxilia up towards the objectives on my left flank, Mr. Cateran was having none of that and dropped them both. 

At this point we were running out of time so the second round was shortened. I brought back McMurrough and the Cammeronian nearest him with a Volunteer Paramedic and attempted to take out his fusilier link with the Cateran on my left but to no avail. Mike attempted to secure the HVT but was unable to pull it off. The game ended in a 5-1 win for me. 

Round 1 table I deployed on the near side. 

Part 3 of stories of an I-4 invasion

After approximately 2 hours if sleep and hearty-ish hotel breakfast the misses carts me off to the Invasion. 

We arrive at beautiful Bill Fredrick Park, only 15 minutes from the hotel nice hotel choice wifey, and are greeted by a gate guard that seem bewildered by all the pop culture tshirt wearing fellas streaming through the entrance so early. 

A short drive through the wooded park we arrive at the venue. Side note, palm trees plus regular trees equals a weird forest.  Anywho the venue was a cabin with a covered eating area. There were tables set up for play both inside and out. Here's some pics. 

After going through the pics it looks like I missed a few that weren't finished being set up. 

Up next Round 1 FIGHT!

I-4 invasion continued.

So we finally board and to my surprise the entire back of the plane is empty. All children are seated up front, which means I'm prolly not going to get kicked. Yeah. The misses and I take our row and attempt to go to sleep.  That ain't happening. Even plied with alcohol I wasn't going down. 

We land in Orlando at 1am local time. With extremely un popped ears. Shuttle to the rental car and low and behold they didn't have the car we rented. Instead;

Mmmm mopar muscle and empty roads. 

The trip to the hotel was quick, of course, and luckily ticket free. 

To be continued.....

The I-4 Invasion

My journey to the I-4 invasion has been frought with peril. It started Friday evening at Midway Airport where I faced my first trial of this quest. 3 jumbo char dogs and two orders of fries. Challenge Accepted. Now there wasn't really anything on the menu of Gold Coast Dogs really challenging me per se but if they offer such a meal on said menu I must eat it, right? 

After devouring the dogs and companion spuds it was time to board. I don't get to travel much, so my knowledge of such things is limited. What I do know is I hate Southwest. So when the misses planned the flight I was reluctant. The lines and cramped seats are a nightmare. With our boarding numbers in hand we wait to be called   We felt pretty good about b-11, thinking we'd get on with a reasonable choice of seating. I didn't know that 60+ people were ahead of us. 

To be continued...

Cameronian Attack @ Leisure Hour Hobbies

On Saturday July 26th a group of eight Spec Ops embarked on a secret O-12 mission. They were tasked with breaching a secret underground laboratory beneath an abandoned military base. The mission was frought  with danger as the area surrounding the base had a large population of Dog Warrior rebels that were drawn to the base for unexplained reasons. The labratory was also rumored to hold several captured Combined troops that were no doubt unhappy to be experimented on. 

We had a better than expected turnout for this event. The rules for which can be found:

http://chicagolandinfinity.proboards.com/thread/214

There were eight players that pretty much stomped their way through the two maps. Every player took the die rolls for XP and the lowest score was 55 I believe. There were some beefy Spec ops running around. 

Looking back,next time we do something like this we will be capping the amount of XP that a player can get. Probably using 25 +1D6 as starting Xp. That should give everyone a more even playing field. The more powerful characters were able to do the missions far too easily and left nothing but scraps for the others. We will also be instituting another method of determining activation order. Players will roll a WIP test at the beginning of the game and will activate starting with the best roll. 

Thanks to everyone that came out. It was awesome to meet some new Infinity players. 

Not enough pics were taken as I was too enthralled in the game. 1 vs. 8 is a lot if AROs to keep track of :)

July I.T.S. Tournament and logging festival.

On Saturday we had another tournament. This one was a primer for the 2014 Gencon Invitational where we hope to send Scadugenga from our group. The top prize for thst event is a trip to Vigo, Spain to compete in the 2015 Interplanetary Tournament. 

The tournament format was a single 300 point list with a 12 Xp Spec Ops model.

The missions are Lifeblood,Antennae Field and no ones favorite Beacon Race. These are some of the toughest I.T.S. scenarios for this season. 

This was one of the oddest tourneys of the season. The first round went off with out a hitch. We decided to take a lunch and most of the guys went to go get sandwiches only to return to this:

That's tree was in my front yard then it was in the street. So after feverishly clearing it from the road we ate our lunch and finished up the tournament. I have to thank all of you for helping get that beast out of the road. 

The rest of the day was relatively uneventful with the final standings being

1. Scadugenga 

2. Turlisk

3 . Bebot

4. Sphendule

5. Celestial Dragon King

6. Angron

7. Kelreth

8. Kuozar

Here's the layouts we used;

June I.T.S Tournament

On June 28th I hosted ( and got to play in ) a 400 point Spec Ops I.T.S. Tournament. There were eight of us for this slobber knocker. We did three rounds with the missions being LifeBlood followed by Antennae Field and wrapping up with Annihilation.

Here's some (bad) pics of the action

Jp was kind enough to bring 4 tags for his Annihilation list 

The standings ended up:

1 Scadugenga
2 Jmeis982
3 Sphendule
4 Benot
5 Celestial Dragon King
6 Kuozar
7.Angron
8 Kelreth

Can't wait for next months tourney!

Leisure Hours Demos a SUCCESS

On Friday I went out to Leisure Hours Hobbies for an Infinity Bootcamp and it went great. I did three introductory games and all three players enjoyed the game. Two of them already had armies, just hadn't played yet. 

Thanks to Jon over at Leisure Hours for having me, can't wait to do it again. If your ever out in Joliet you have to check this store out. They have one of the most well stocked Infinity sections around.  

Doing Work, Warcor Style

Coming up on Friday the 20th of June I'll be doing my first Infinity Bootcamp at Leisure Hour Hobbies in Joliet, IL. I will be there from 6ish PM until they close at 9PM.  

I'm super excited, not only for the opportunity to share the awesome game of Infinity with other gamers, but my favorite BBQ  place is right down the street. 

Chicagoland Region Infinity Players Escalation League

Locally we've decided to do an Escalation League. It will last for the final six months of the year with each round lasting the whole month. We're playing this super relaxed, it's not getting submitted as an ITS event and you have a month to play one game.

I couldn't decide what to play for this so I put a poll up un our forum and let the rest of the crew decide. I ended up with Tohaa.

The first round is a simple Annhilation scenario with no Lieutenant required and no Hackers allowed. You are allowed a 120 point army. The army I'll be using for this round is:

 Tohaa - Untitled Roster (120/300 | 2/6)

Group #1 | 6 Models |  6  0  2

 Gao-Rael Sniper | Sniper Rifle, Pistol / CCW (1 | 37)
 Kamael Light Infantry Sniper | Sniper Rifle, Pistol / Knife (1 | 18)
 Kamael Light Infantry Combi | Combi Rifle, Pistol / Knife (12)
 Kamael Light Infantry Combi | Combi Rifle, Pistol / Knife (12)
 Sakiel Regiment Lieutenant | Lieutenant, Viral Combi Rifle, Swarm Grenades, Pistol / Knife (26)
 Makaul Flamer | Heavy Flamethrower, Zero-V Smoke Grenades, Pistol / Viral CCW (15)

 




The basic plan for this army is to park a triad consisting of the Gao-Rael, Kamael sniper and a Combi Rifle Kamael.  This group is going to provide covering fire for the other triad that will attempt to take the fight to the enemy.