Infinity N5: First Game, Combined Army vs Hassassin Bahram - Frontline

 

On Sunday, I headed up to HATE (Hackney Area Tabletop Enthusiasts) at our new venue - Karamel in Wood Green. It has a café, and they were doing Sunday dinners. I ordered the pie and when it came I couldn't see the pie because there was so much food piled up on top of it!

I was playing our local Warcor, Yashar, who is running Hassassin Bahram for the start of N5. I brought Vanilla Combined Army, with an Anathematic Hacker and Charontid MSV3 HMG. Yashar is running through various different profiles, so was running a Haris led by a Lasiq and a Shakush TAG. The mission was Frontline because I didn't want too much thinking.

I managed to fail my WIP roll, so the Hassassins got to pick deployment. I wasn't willing to risk giving up first turn, which is a little sub optimal in Frontline. The Hassassin reserve drop was an Impersonation marker, though while it worried me, he didn't even reveal to shoot the Imetron he had sight of all game!

I spent the early turn using the Charontid to clear the Daylami, but it ended up taking quite a few orders. The Dartok Hacker managed to absolutely miss both his pitchers, but he'd gain an automatic reload from a nearby Ikadron.

The Shakush came up my right flank and cleared a few of my pieces, before pulling back to a safe spot.

A Haris with a Lasiq Viral Sniper moved up and took out a couple of pieces, but I was able to take a couple out with a Libertos with a Shotgun in reply.

The little penguin (here photographed at the start of the game) is the model being used for the scenario defensive turret. It simply would not die and it took a whole ton of orders to clear.

I brought out my Anathematic in the third turn, and it even took a wound from the blasted penguin turret before it was able to take it out.

I brought the Charontid up to take out a few more models and hold the centre zone, but it was in 0 modifier range and simply couldn't get the job done.

Which meant, in turn, that the Charontid got immobilised, then the Shakush could come up behind it and take it out, leaving the Hassassins firmly in the lead on zone control and firmly winning the game.

While this was a learning game, I was way too cautious with my pieces and never really advanced or pressured the Hassassins, meaning they were free to plan rather than react.

Overall, I'm liking the feel of the new edition, and I'm keen to try a bunch of stuff to see how it works out.