Second Infinity
ITS tournament in as many
months and after the great introduction I had in Preston, this time it was the Northern Alliance Open No 6 held in Leeds.
Another 300pt event where you could bring two lists for your
force, which I did do this time and again consisted of 3 games covering the
following ITS Scenarios:
As I have no other faction available/painted etc I once
again took my ALEPH - Steel Phalanx Sectorial force.
This time with two lists,My force
consisted of:
List A:
Achilles
Myrmidon Officer
Myrmidon with a Spitfire
Myrmidon Hacker
Myrmidon with Combi Rifle
Agema Marksman with Mk 12
Thorokitai Forward Observer
Thorakitai Engineer
Thorakitai Paramedic
Zayin HMG Bot
Netrod
Netrod
List B:
Eudoros
Myrmidon Officer
Myrmidon with a Spitfire
Myrmidon Hacker
Myrmidon with Combi Rifle
Myrmidon with Combi Rifle
Myrmidon with Chain Rifle
Thorokitai Forward Observer
Thorakitai Engineer
Thorakitai Paramedic
Agema Marksman with Missile Launcher
Netrod
Zayin HMG Bot
Game 1 - Supremacy vs Tim and his Pan Oceania - Neoterra.
In my first ever ITS game I played this
scenario and got absolutely battered, so with some lessons learnt I went with
List B for this game. I was going second and deployed with practically everything
hidden. Forgetting to strip Tim of two orders by using a Command Token, he
quickly used this mistake to rush a Locust along my right flank and tried
repeatedly to deploy dropbears and mines. I was fortunate that none of these
caused any damage. In the centre and on the left Tim had a Total Reaction HMG
that would cause me trouble all game and a Camouflaged Uhlan TAG!
I responded in my first turn with my Agema, shooting missile after
missile at his HMG Bot only for him to shrug off any damage, then it was the
turn of my Zayin. HMG vs HMG and although tons of lead was thrown around the
battle field not much damage caused.
Moving up my dual Enomatarchos link teams turn 1 ended and we both
had 2 quadrants, drawing points.
Second turn and Tim again using his Uhlan and Locust started
causing casualties in my Steel Phalanx troops. My Myrmidon hacker managed to
get to the console on the left and tapped in a controlling subroutine, claiming
it for ALEPH. My Thorakites FO managed to gain Telemetry on a Neoterran downed
Bot and Tim also managed to gain a Classified Objective.
Moving into the last turn and my Hacker was taken out along with a
couple of other troops and the Neoterrans managed to gain control of two
consoles on his side of the board. In a last ditch effort my Myrmidon’s and
their Officer popped off some smoke and Nibus grenades and the Officer dived off
the building she had been using for cover and pelted towards a nearby console.
Just then A Neoterran Black Friar using MSV through the smoke loosed off a shot
which hit the Officer square in the chest just as she was diving at the console.
As the life drained out of her, her fingers slammed down on the consoles
command pad making ALEPH its prime controller.
End of the game and all throughout we had
drawn points for the quarters, with my last ditch order I had managed to gain
two consoles, as had Tim and we both had claimed our classified objective. Result Draw 6-6 objective points.
Game 2 - Rescue vs Olly and his ALEPH - Steel
Phalanx.
Rescue, I thought seemed a straight
forward mission but proved to be extremely difficult. Both players had 4
Objective Civilians which were placed on the on opposition’s side of the board.
Objective points were scored for rescued civvies in certain areas of your side
of the board with the highest amount being awarded if you got a civvie back in
your deployment area.
As we both had Steel Phalanx forces (Olly’s obviously being False
ALEPH) it was going to be fun as both of us could cancel each other out. Olly
had a hard link team including Phoenix and Machon as well as the amazing sniper
Atalanta. I set up using my List A including Achilles this time round, hoping
his speed and high armour would help.
First turn and Olly locked down my right hand side of the board
successfully with a centrally deployed HMG Bot and Atalanta. Her first sniper
shot took out my Thorakites Engineer through a window and quickly negated my
HMG Bot as well. My Agema in this list only had a MK12 and tried to get into
position to take down the Bot but even with his high shooting skill couldn’t manage
it as it was quickly repaired by a remote engineer.
Thrasamedes on the other flank made an error in his movement and
Achilles was on him straight away, gunning down the Chandra Spec Ops.
Olly moved Phoenix and Machon linked down the flank close to one
of his civvie objective markers but suddenly found himself out of orders and
under the guns of Achilles. A hail of Spitfire rounds later and Pheonix, Machon
and an escorting Myrmidon were on the ground bleeding out. I then sent a lone
Thorkites FO running as fast as he could towards a civvie objective.
The Thorakites managed to sync the civvie and dashed back towards
cover but finally fell to a well placed shot from Atalanta. Atalanta also
managed to down my Mymidon Hacker but she was quickly revived by a timely
Thorakites Paramedic.
Olly was in loss of Lieutenant which seriously hindered him, plus
having his link team decimated didn’t help. Fortunate for me this left his turn
pretty ineffective and I entered my final turn.
I moved Achilles into position and gunned down the false ALEPH HMG
Bot although he took a wound in reply. With the centre fire defence negated I dashed
my Spitfire Myrmidon around the large building on the right, hugging cover and
then managed to gun down Atalanta from behind.
Achilles now free to roam headed straight towards the civvie that
had been escorted by the poor Thorakites and synced him. Using his fast speed
and my remaining orders I got the civvie back in my deployment area.
End of game and I had killed his Lieutenant, killed more of his
troops and claimed my classifieds to win the game 6-2.
Game 3 - Supplies vs Jake and his ALEPH –
Steel Phalanx.
Next game and versus Steel Phalanx again! This
time round it was for supplies. This mission entailed 3 Tech Coffins placed
along the centre of the table and each Coffin contains one supply box. The owner
of the most supply boxes at the end of the game gets the most objective points.
Back with List A which included Achilles (Jake had Achilles as
well as a link team consisting of Phoenix and Machon-see the pattern here) I
got to go first for a change. Straight away I used my Zayin HMG Bot to reduce
his bot to complete scrap and my Agema happily gunned down his Agama, who was
in cover but it did no good.
My Myrmidon link team ran straight towards the central tech coffin
and the Hacker happily broke it open and dashed away with the supplies. On each
flank I moved up a Thorakites specialist towards the remaining two tech
coffins. Whilst Achilles loitered moodily, waiting for targets.
Jake responded immediately with his Hero heavy link team. Phoenix
rocket launched to death my Agema and also downed my HMG bot. His link then
moved closer to the Tech coffin and took out my lone Thorakites on that side of
the board.
False Achilles moved next to the abandoned bus and set up in
suppressive fire, over watching the other tech coffin.
My engineer crawled towards the Zayin and repaired it. The HMG bot
opened up on Jakes link and caused some wounds but not enough that Machon couldn’t
heal them. Phoenix’s reaction with his rocket launcher completely destroyed my
Zayin and took the engineer down as well.
Not being able to get anywhere near the supplies controlled by the
False Phoenix and his link I sent my Thorakites FO to snatch the remaining ones
under cover of smoke from the friendly Myrmindon link. After grabbing the
supplies the FO ran for his life but was pursued by the False Achilles who
managed to kill him, leaving the supplies unguarded. The False Achilles was seriously
wounded by my Achilles however during this exchange.
My last turn and I broke the Myrmidon link to send the Myrmidon
with spitfire to the rear of False Achilles and with a double crit sent the
pretender to his death.
The Myrmidon Officer dashed forward, grabbed the loose supply box
and then used a Command Token, reformed enough Myrmidons into a link and headed
towards a building to defend their hard won supplies.
With no chance of gaining anymore advantage Jake ended his turn
after maliciously gunning down one of my Netrods.
At the end of the game I had killed his Achilles, controlled more
supplies and had completed Classified Objectives. Jake managed right at the end
to trade a Classified into a control HVT but I had won 6-3
My second Infinity ITS tournament done and I had Won 2 Drawn 1. Very Spooky
I came 6th (the same as my first tournament) out of 22 and once again came away
from the tournament extremely happy and had a great day meeting new people.
Just a few of the very nice tables we got
to play on
Most of the Awesome array of painted forces used on the day
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