More Infinity Painting

So a few quick pics, Its late and im tired so this is a very basic post.

Im still trying to find a good style for painting infinity figures. Slightly over highlighted edges seems to work ok so i may stick with this for a while and see how things go. 

More pics and some thoughts about the figures in the next post.

X-wing game and Infinity painting

So im been a tad quiet over the last couple of weeks, the lads have been busy and the weather has been awesome so ive spent a fair bit of time at the beach (when not working of course!)

X-WING

Yesterday though Rob and Will were free so we busted out some games of x-wing.

I took a very small 100 point list.

Really i just wanted to rock out my Tie-Defender. i just love this model.  Rob wanted to rock out his transport so this would be an interesting game as he got 125 points to defend with whilst i would have six mines which i could use one of each turn to inflict some sort of damage on Robs force.

I went with a really simple split deployment. My Tie Defender  had the swarm tactics upgrade so i kept one Tie Interceptor (the one with the shield upgrade on the right with a single interceptor on the left hand side.

Our forces collided very quickly, although x-wings are good Tie interceptors and the defender are faster and more  maneuverable and with 2 ships with a higher combat speed Rob was in trouble. Rather than attacking the x-wings i concentrated all my firepower on the transport because if it died Rob would lose.

 One thing that was apparent is that the big ship got in the way of maneuvering and both Rob and myself had issues and ended up bumping into the Transport. however whilst the Defender just seamed to bounce off and keep ticking one of the x-wings was unlucky.

The Tie interceptors are so quick their best tactics remind me of how WW2 German pilots used the ME-262 - long strafing runs past a bomber and then away before any response could be made.

The last turn of the game was interesting in that Rob finally managed to gang up and destroy my interceptor - 4 hits one being a critical and i got zero successes with my defense roll.
 

Thankfully mt Defender and the other Interceptor nailed the transport with 6 Hits and finished it off spectacularly!

Overall a great game and much was learnt on both sides. Im looking forward to using the defender again.

INFINITY Version 3

So version 3 of Infinity is out (or N3 as its now being called). This has rekindled my interest in the game and after looking through the new rule book i have to say that all the changes have been for the better and the game feels better. I've been looking at models that i have owner for a long time but having got around to assembling and painting.

So today's Infinity figure is the Morat Raicho T.A.G. This thing is a beast and looks really impressive on the table. i need to do a little more work on the base i think but its fine for gaming at the moment.

 

Tomorrow ill have some pics of the Authorized Bounty Hunter model that came with the N3 Book.

First games of 2015

So today was the fist gaming day for 2015 for me and the lads. Rob was away and will was going to be a little late so Phil and i threw down a game of x-wing.  I  love x-wing, it's such an easy game to pick up after a long time of not playing and for someone like me with too many rule sets and a poor memory that's always a blessing.

So Phil and i did 95 points a side.  I did the rebels and took 2 B-Wings and a YT-1300 piloted by Han Solo with the gunnery upgrade card.  Phil took 4 Tie fighters (some named but i cant remember which ones at the moment.) and a Tie Advanced (Not piloted by Darth Vader thankfully!)

we set up and our ships quickly moved into range of each other and the shooting began. A lot happened in the game and i don't remember all the details.

Phil's Ties split up quickly, he had numbers on is side but i had shields - the question was whether or not i could reduce his numbers before my shields ran out!  

I managed to take out a Tie that was next to the YT-1300 with a solid set of point blank shooting. The B-wing and on the left also took out a Tie at point blank range with a good round of shooting  which left the other Tie on the far left in a very bad place as it wasn't in a position to fire back.. 

Phil did an odd choice of maneuver and turned in front of my B-wing. I think he thought i was going to do a big sweeping maneuver but i only did a move one straight ahead. This put me in the best position to destroy his tie. (point blank range so 4 dice to damage!)  

As you can see the results were fantastic with Phil failing to avoid any of the hits.

Meanwhile on the other side of the table the YT-1300 had moved slowly forward. This was messy with 3 ships touching each other, many shots were aimed at the YT-1300 but Han skillfully avoided all the shots.

In the next turn the B-wing did a 2 move role over putting it in a great position to shoot up the Tie advanced that had tried to get past the YT-1300 which had again only moved forward 1. The Tie Advanced Pilot failed to move past the YT-1300 and was so concerned with not crashing he failed to avoid the B-wings shots and lost his shields.

Next turn the Tie Advanced moved off as fast as he could with both B-wings in pursuit. The Tie did a sharp turning maneuver hoping to shoot at the B-wing as it chased the Tie Advanced. Unfortunately for Phil i did the same maneuver in the YT-1300 which unleashed a devastating round of shooting vaporizing the Tie before it could shoot at the B-Wing.    

At the same time the Other B-wing did some long range shots. Great rolls on my part but Phil also rolled well and just avoided death by one hit. The Pilots days were numbered.  

Another turn of maneuvers and the Tie Advanced thought he was safe. 

2 more quick turns pass and the poor Tie Advanced pilot is in serious trouble but Phil wanted to go out fighting!

I appear to have not taken a photo of the final shots fired but it didn't turn out well for Phil!

So with the first game under our belts and with Will arriving with a big Ship we played a bigger game and a proper mission. i will leave the telling of that tale to will on his blog: www.willsramblingsnz.blogspot.co.nz

I enjoyed writing a report of the game. I think for 2015 i will try and do a battle report at least once every 2 weeks.

Till next weekend may your die always come up 6's.

Mark
:)