Infinity Escalation League: Game 1

So I have joined an Escalation League for Infinity. It will feature multiple games, 8 to be specific with increasing armies. Since I am a special snowflake I am playing Haqqislam, the faction I own that was not yet among the league's faction pool. The first game went less then well. You can read about it on my opponents blog in German or in my after action report which I am going to crosspost in the official Infinity forum.

First after action report (might have misremembered some details):

I was up against JSA with three Keisotsu, Takeshi Oyama, a Raiden and Saito Togan. I deployed in cover, with the Lasiq on a building overlooking most of the other buildings. and two nice fire lanes along two streets. Everything went well until my second order, when the Raiden's HRL took out one of my Naffatun and the Odalisque due to poor positioning. It took me some orders of sneaking around to notice my Lasiq could draw a bead on the now de-camoed Raiden and she took him out with one shot. (after plastering the wall behind him with two or three orders of viral ammo -,-)

In my opponents turn Saito Togan moved up and took out my Lasiq. When he moved up, he got a facefull of flame from the surviving Naffatun burning down his camp to Mimetism. Mr. Ninja however put a slug from his combirifle right into the Naffatun's brain and passed his ARM-roll. Bummer!

The rest of the game went mostly like this: "Hey, where does this smoke come from? And does it smell like singed Ninja here?" *explosive CCW-noises* - repeat.

The game went 10-nil to my opponent.

Then we played another game, where my dice finally woke up/ I switched to the red ones. This went much better. Lasiq discovered Raiden and shot him down (taking 4 orders to do that). Then she took out a Keisotsu. Saito Togan infiltrated and murdered a Naffatun and the Odalisque in a smoke cloud. He also got the Lasiq, but got fried by the other Naffatun, who died to his combirifle. Takes Oyama fell to my Ghulams' rifles, who carried the day and hunted down the two Keisotsu left.

Lessons learned:

I did my order declaration not as clearly as it could have been in the past. Always have cover. Unopposed enemy rolls are bad. Don''t clump up too much. Heavy Infantry dies quite easily. I-kohl as a CC defense is quite lackluster against real CC specialists. Flamers have more range then I thought. Raiden look better with hats. When I am already on the loosing end I should pull back a bit to at least save some points.

With that knowledge I hope my second game will run better.

And since Saito Togan's rampage was so impressive I decided to invest in my own ninja. Who is a hassassin. Slightly converted, so she can count as all the different weapon profiles:

In the background, two Ghulam, a Al'Hawwa and a Lasiq are getting painted

And this is what happens when you piss of the Old Man of the Mountain.

Ma as-Salama
Fenris

Infinity Painting Pledge (April)

Month is already half done and I bought the new Dead or Alive game. Countless unlockable costumes really don't mesh well with magpie like tendencies. But let none say I'm not capable of boundless overconfidence!

This is a Cutter TAG of the Varuna Naval Chasseurs equipped wit thermo-optical camouflage. In other words, a big, remote controlled humanoid robot that can turn itself invisible.


Also four new episodes of Game of Thrones just got leaked. Woohoo!


Nemo nos effugit!

Fenris

Infinity Painting Pledge (Finished)

I managed to paint my Panoceanian Fusiliers on time for the pledge. Yaaay!

Gotta love how the picture ate every highlight on the weapons and shows every error in my paint-job. And since I'd probably forget otherwise, the recipe:

Berets: Death World Forest Green
Armor: Kantor Blue, Kantor Blue and Deep Sea Blue (50:50)
Clothing: Steel Legion Drab and Tallarn Sand
Straps: Wolf Grey
Bases: Wolf Grey and Nuln Oil, Coal Black
Guns: Thamar Black, Coal Black, Greatcoat Grey

In other news, I have been playing a lot of Street Fighter, even got myself a fightstick, but I still don't know which character to main. Cammy seems to click with me, but I also enjoy Chun-Li, Bison, Poison, Vega and Sakura. Ryu is great, too, but he's Ryu, which makes him a bit bland.

Raging Heores also started their second Kickstarter since their art team is apparently chomping at the bit. There might be Dark Elves in my future. Damn, I have to read the Elric-saga agin.

I've also been playing a bit of Star Wars: The old Republic again. Either as a Sith Lord or as a gun-slinging Bounty Huntress.

Still don't know how to paint my Nomads
Fenris

People

I discovered today, that I can group the people who visit me for the first time by the first thing they do when entering my room.

Group 1 are those who take a look at my bookshelf and goes: "Oh, read that book, it's great!/I heard of this one can you recommend it?"

Group 2 has a look at my miniature display and are amazed at my painting skills (while I'm thinking: "There are people soooo much better than me.")

Group 3 asks where my TV is and look at me like I'm crazy when I tell them I don't own one.

I tend to favor people from 1 and 2.

It's Saint Patrick's day, so I'm having a beer, cheers! (apparently, it's not. Don't mind, don't care)

Fenris

Infinity Painting Pledge for March

You see this? This is gonna get painted this month.

Yeah, nothing is more motivating than the thought of disappointing some people on the Internet.

It was a hell of a ride, Jackieboy

Watched the final episode of Sons of Anarchy today. I never expected a happy end and I was dreading an end like The Shield (also written by Kurt Sutter). But the series managed a satisfying, yet bittersweet ending. 

As in all the series' episodes, at the end, there waited the Reaper.

I should get a motorcycle

Fenris

Time to take back Earth!

Today I finished Mass Effect 2 for the second time. Why a second time? Because on my first playthrough, nearly full renegade femshep turned out like Helena f***ing Caine with a sniper rifle. Also, many of my favorite characters died, because I did not know that I could upgrade my ship. 

So, I simply imported another of my Mass Effect 1 saves and this time did everything right. 

Well, mostly right. 

Okay I fucked up occasionally. But this time in ways I am more okay with.

Bring it on, Reapers!

Also, I am now a registered Star Citizen. Fenris was sadly, already taken, so my call-sign will be:

Bengal Tiger! 

(Yeah, took me hours to find something I was at least okay with. -,-) 

I'm still undecided if I should pledge for a Freelancer and live the life of a space trucker or get a Cutlass and hire myself out as a merc or bounty hunter. I'd love to splurge on a Constellation, but that's a little more money than I'm comfortable with. And to post another cool trailer: Galactic Gear on the Origin M50. 

I love those trailers.

Spaaaaaaace!

Fenris