Druze for CanCon 2019

I'm taking Druze to CanCon next year. They're pretty weak in my opinion (MOD stacks are really hard to come by, and you need to use terrible units like Valerya), and require a tonne of finesse to play. I like that. Making the final with Tohaa is one thing, doing it with Druze - now that's special. However, I won't be writing pretty much anything about how to play Druze, because I like to keep my tech not just up my sleeve, but in my armpit, especially when I'm playing a faction that relies on shennanigans. I'll write occasional tactical pieces about other stuff. I do want to have one post though about how I'm going to proxy everything. This is that post.

Short story: I want to use all of the Outrage models - Emily Handelman and her gang - in part because I paid for them so I want to play with them, and in part because the Druze models are ugly.

CanCon 2018

We had the Australian Infinity Championships over the Weekend. I was one of the TOs, but also playing (see the tournament blog for heaps more info, especially on the narrative: infinitycancon2018.wordpress.com). People seem to have had a great time, which is the main thing. I also managed to make the top table for the final round despite being totally fried and sleep deprived. Adrenaline is a hell of a drug. Lost there and ended up 8th, but I'm pretty confident in my Infinity abilities now. Which is why I'm retiring! Lists and rounds below:

Camilo Potocnjak-Oxman designed the event logo and Sam Benson free-hand painted it (whhaaaaaaat?!) onto the base of this CSU, which was the prize for best sport.

CanCon Playtesting Tohaa

This is a log of all the playtesting I did for CanCon with my Tohaa. It starts from after War of the Worlds in the first week of October 2017, by which stage I feel like I had the basics of Tohaa down, and the Totally Crit Open the week after where I placed 3rd/14 running a Gorgos in a limited insertion setting (undefeated but I had a draw in a 3 round event).

That's me in the light blue shirt at CanCon 2018

Note that CanCon 2018 has the following missions in the following order: Capture and Protect, The Grid, Power Pack, Acquisition, Highly Classified. It is a spec-ops class tournament i.e. all the missions had to be drawn from the special operations variety of missions.

EDIT: I came 8/68 at CanCon (not so great), but I was on the top table for the last round (i.e. the winner wins the whole tournament), and I played Damien Stallard in round 1 (I reckon if there was a vote people would say Damien is the best player in Australia) so I like to think I know what I'm talking about.

Tournament Report: Wayland Games Christmas Bash

This is a tournament report from December that I put off posting until now because I am a competitive bastard and was paranoid about people getting intel on my lists before CanCon. I'm posting it now.

Toaha listbuilding for a 400 point direct action tournament

Got a tournament coming up. It's a weird one - 400 points and all direct action missions. Frontline, transmission matrix and biotechvore. I note that CA have a massive advantage in this mix. Biotechvore and the high points count mean you really need to bring a lot of link teams, TAGs and HI. But in transmission matrix that means you're going to be getting E-drone exiled all the time. I only have my Tohaa, and this mission mix happens to be quite good for Tohaa provided you don't run into the E-drone. Note that transmission matrix and frontline are both amazing for Chaksa auxiliars with baggage, flamers and sensor for 10 points. Onwards, to my lists!

Totally Crit Open (TCO) tournament report

Went to another tournament last week and managed to bag 3rd place with an undefeated performance (an amazing 2 draws out of 3 rounds though!). It was a limited insertion event with Frontline, Looting and Sabotaging and Decapitation. A classic "joint operations" mission selection that doesn't actually require any specialists (which is fine, just misleading of CB). I did no playtesting for this tournament as I had War of the Worlds the week before. I intended to use this tournament as a chance to get three games in with the Gorgos (hence art below) and try out Neema in decapitation. I ended up using my decapitation list in Frontline as well, so I used her a fair bit. Thoughts below.

Playtesting stuff from Tohaa

These are some things that have turned up in playtesting or that I want to playtest.