LGT Infinity Tournament: Day 2

 

Day 2 of the LGT, and the mission was Frostbyte, against my buddy Riker playing Hassassin Bahram. I ran the ten order list again, as it had more models capable of surviving the cold.

I split my fireteams at the far ends of the table so it was harder for a Fiday to assassinate everything in one go.

Unfortunately, Riker successfully worked out who my Lieutenant was, and got the hit in, meaning I spent the first turn in Loss of Lieutenant.

My Guija tried to clear the ARO pieces but ended up stunned and damaged. Things didn't improve from here, and I got handily dismantled.

Once McMurrough got into my lines it was pretty much all over, but the game finished 10-1 to Riker, with 251 of his points left up to 0 of mine. Oh dear.

We had another Resilience Operations mission, and this time I was up against vanilla Haqqislam. It was back to the "two John Hawkwoods" list to see if that fared any better.

My Chaksa Longarm got taken out by a Haqq gun fighter, and the Kunai Ninja had to try and stop it. Was this the sole point it was useful? I sadly don't recall.

Weirdly, Taowu went on an absolute tear and took out a whole flank of the Haqq force, pretty much on his own.

I tried to take out a few more Haqq forces, but it was ineffective and my force basically collapsed. The score ended up being 10-5 against me. Could I get a second win for the event in the last game?

So, last game, and a Firefight against Nomads. Time to try and regain some honour...

... it did not go well. An initial attack by the Uberfallkommando damaged the fireteam, but I was able to take out the Chimera to stop being completely overwhelmed. Unfortunately, I just couldn't land a solid hit on the Nomads to take out more points.

In the end, the Gator went on an absolute rampage through my lines, and while I tried to get some points back by taking it out with a shotgun, it managed to stay up, meaning the Nomads finished ahead 10-3.

After five losses and one win, I ended up solidly winning the Wooden Spoon. It turns out taking all the weird profiles that no-one takes leads to you discover that people don't take them for a reason... Still, it was a good way to see off N4, even if N5 has been a little bit held up since.