How I play Nomads

I want to address four themes in terms of the Nomad style: assymetric match-ups, midfield control, orders and tricksy shenanigans.

How to Play Steel Phalanx

As always, I think Steel Phalanx is one of the best factions to be taking to CanCon. They've just got everything you want except a flood of infiltrating specialists, and the missions where you really want that, like Tic-Tac-Toe, don't feature in the CanCon mix. They don't have all the things on my Antenna field wishlist, but they bring other tools that make up for it. Here is what I was thinking:

Yu Jing listbuilding for CanCon 2017

Yu Jing was one of my first thoughts for Cancon 2017 because they have the units to hold buttons in Antenna Field. These units need to have some combination of the following, though preferably all of them:

Club Tournament Report 2016

The Blood Angels took the field over the weekend in our annual club tournament, which might be the last time I play Warhammer for a very long while. I had some wins, everyone was friendly, but this game is just not right anymore, as we shall see.

MOAB Tournament Report

I took the Onyx contact force. I went 4-2, finishing 5th out of 17, equal third. The only players I lost to came 1st and 2nd, and they were both close games (indeed, if Unidrons could go prone, I would have won the second). 

                               

I went to MOAB hoping to play some tough opponents and hold my own. Did that in spades, so I'm happy with the result and won't be second guessing my theories as much anymore. All the games were great fun against great people, which is one of the best things about the Infinity Community in Australia - no salty, anal retentive, rules lawyering dickheads trying to see a millimetre of your silhouette like in Warhammer.

Playtesting the Onyx Contact Force for MOAB

Onyx Contact Force listbuilding for MOAB

The Mother of All Battles Gaming festival will, as usual, have an Infinity event this year (longest running Infinity event in Australia). It's going to be a grueling 6 round tournament with only around 20 players, meaning that losing doesn't necessarily spell a fall from the top rankings because your opponent might in turn get beat. As such, having one mission that you aren't great at isn't a disaster as long as you're really strong on the others.

This is good because the mission selection is quite unusual (more in a moment). Complicating matters is that the organisers have decided to incentivise elite lists by giving commanders who only bring 10 order count lists an extra command token each game and 1 extra battle point for the entire tournament. To be frank, I'm happy about this, because 10 orders is hard to win with and the help isn't much, and it means I get to play against more lists I can swamp and run over.