Monday, December 15, 2014

Infinity Demo #2

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First off, what the hell happened to Thursday's post? Well...to be honest, I just plain forgot about it till after it should have been posted. Not having accomplished a whole lot on the hobby front aside from base coating an Ariadna Moblot I decided to just skip it all together.

Skip forward to this past Saturday in which we played a 3v3 Infinity demo game, and jeez, you'd think I'd have thought to take a photo or two. Nope, not a chance. In truth there was only one fully painted mini on the table, so even that wasn't all that photogenic. Well, aside from that one painted model. Scott's Yu Jing Zuyong Incinible in power armor is just fucking beautifully painted! I was completely blown away by it! Thanks to the interwebz' instant messenger though, Scott was able to send me a pic of it. Check it out:


So awesome!

Anyways, we had fun (and we won). Wolfy's contingent suffered no casualties, and as expected, her Wulver was kicking ass and taking names (and she never even made it to combat)! I still can't wrap my head around the face-to-face rolls and armor saves. Our friends who were giving the demo explained it a dozen times or so, but always in the same way. Repetition does not equal understanding if its not understood to begin with and it was quite frustrating.

This Hasslefree mini (Wolfy's is primed black, which is why I used the pic from the HF site) was what we were using as Wolfy's Wulver, named: Beyonsey (resembling but not to be confused with the singer Beyonce).

My Lt., the Moblot (again, the official pic).

 Still, the game has potential, especially as there is as much attacking in your opponent's turn as you own (which initially was also infuriating as I couldn't make any advance w/o getting lit up by 3-4 opposing models). I lost 2 of my 4 models in the first turn! That said, i found out really quick that I really like my Moblot's mimetism skill! That made up for (or at least balanced out) the Ariadna's lack of effective shooting at range! lol, as soon as I said 'mimetism', there was a volley of profanity sent my way from the other side!

I also got to see the size of the circular template in the game (apparently there is only one, and is about the size of a large blast in 40k), and damn! Our Traktor Muls are gonna be disgusting to play against! Who needs to worry about accuracy when you can just carpet bomb someone (whenever I figure out how to use it and considering the above, its probably not high on anyone's list to teach me)!




6 comments:

Imperial Recruitment said...

Boy, I tell you... No Thursday post, no pics from the game, no nerd rage posts, etc... Quality of this blog is going down hill. :D

Werkz said...

I'll help with a game anytime man. Saturday was fun! We need to play again sometime and tone it down to a 1v1 :P

Da Masta Cheef said...

@I.R.: Sounds like all the more reason to start your own Chicken:30 blog!

@Scott: Thanks man, and yes that would probably work better for a demo...

Imperial Recruitment said...

Lol. As bad as I kid you about how bad your blog has gotten, mine would be 10x worse.

Da Masta Cheef said...

Just as long as you keep it above the Lesser of all Evils level you ought to be fine!

Imperial Recruitment said...

Well THAT goes without saying...
I haven't suffered any major head trauma, and my editor isn't a dead squirel on the side of the road... so that's really setting the bar basement low.