Druze tactics and playtesting

Alright let's dive right in. Druze have a couple of things going for them:

How to beat Tohaa

As a farewell to the artichokes (I almost never play a faction again after I've taken it to a major tournament), I thought I'd write up the stuff that scared me the most while I was running them. People say Tohaa are OP. While symbiomates are indeed broken (in the sense that they undermine some of the core mechanics of the game), the rest of Tohaa is really manageable. The reason why they seem broken to people is that the meta currently (or has been) plays right into their strengths.

Let me start an explanation by looking at things that are really scary to Tohaa

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!