Building the Canyon Table

This is my primary Infinity table. Ain't she a beauty? This post will explain how I built this thing.

Preliminary Tohaa lists

Some stuff to start playtesting. I typically build one list for ground control missions and one for missions that require a few more specialists. Season 8 (TAGline) does not have missions that require specialist spam (like beacon race), but it does include highly classified, which requires it's own list.

Esoteric Infinity insights yielded by recent playtesting 1

This is a catalogue of some stuff that playtesting has thrown up lately, just so I don't forget.

Review of Tohaa Units (initial planning)

I'm going to the UK for a few months at the end of the year and need to take a faction that doesn't require a lot of models. I was tossing up between shock army and Tohaa. Tohaa seem more powerful, so I'm going with that. I'm not looking forward to painting these bastards. I thought I'd start my tactical journey by jotting down my initial thoughts on each unit:

Nomad Listbuilding for CanCon

Here is the thinking I used to inform my list-building for Nomads at CanCon2017. I found that frontline, firefight and supremacy went together, so 1 list for them, and separate list for supplies and Antenna field. I found that firefight dictated list building among the first 3, whereas Antenna field absolutely dominated listbuilding among the second 2 missions. Later on I realised that the list that I had for frontline, firefight and supremacy was actually fantastic for supplies, so I ended making a list just for Antenna Field.

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Combined Army (Avatar) listbuilding for CanCon2017

I have this weird feeling that the Avatar can actually win at all missions because people are never ready for an Avatar list in anything except annihilation, but especially not in missions that otherwise seem to require a lot of specialists, like supplies and antenna field. It's just not worth preparing specifically for it when every other list will be so different. Yet despite killing all of our opponent's specialist, my mate and I recently lost a team game to an Avatar in Engineering deck because it stole our specialists and pressed the buttons with them. Every time I look at my lists for just about any missions I think, "an Avatar would wreck me". This is doubly the case because you usually only have one or two units that could stand up to an Avatar, and the speculo can take them out often with no worries (e.g. she crushes Zoe and Interventors, and with a WIP roll she can start behind a Hsien and kill it in CC with stealth).

Military Orders list-building for CanCon2017

Military orders went from being just above average to being top-tier after HSN3. The major change was that magister knights could join Hospitaller links. This dropped the price of that link by 60 points at no cost in effectiveness. Indeed, it is arguably more effective now. You have a HMG with a base BS of 17 (hits on a 20 in the good range band - on 11s with 5 dice against a TO camo sniper in cover!), a WIP13 Doctor surrounded by cubes with a MULTI rifle for fierce suppression, and 3 panzerfausts and light shotgun magisters for amazing ARO action. The magisters also have Hyper dynamics so the whole team dodges on 14 or better. Combined with 2W and ARM3 or 4, this team is extremely hard to kill, especially in a bunker.