Infinity General: The Shasvastii Were A Mistake Edition

Yeah I saw that a bit late, i was thinking that ML with the Rodok was a badish idea.

This is better now. IMO with a 2nd hacker

I've seen the Hardcase head on the Azrail. I think a Grunt might work too.

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How much more popular is Nomads compared to the other factions do you find? I know they're the most popular faction but in my area nobody plays them.

very. Nomads and Ariadna are probably the most popular in my area. During casual Infinity game nights, it's usually a mix bag though

I haven't played in a tourney in a long while, but I'm sure Year of YJ and Haqq has changed that.

>but in my area nobody plays them
Well, that's the thing that matters.
They are the most popular in my meta and I play Corregidor too.

Nomads were the most popular faction on the last tournament with 3 players out of 14. We have a pretty diverse meta.

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Anyone have any suggestions for converting or proxying a Moran maasai? The actual mini is pretty old, so I was thinking about putting a cape on a spare alguacile or jaguar.

That's a long nose you got there dickhead

The cornrows Alguacil from new starter is pretty much made to put a blanket on.

First for EI scum must die

Shut up, artichoke.

I need more thick HI girls.

Remove Combined Arms
Remove Artichoke

Aleph will rise

AI SHOWS ITS TRUE COLORS! DOWN WITH OPPRESSION! DOWN WITH SKYNET! NO GODS NO KINGS!

Shut up, SkyNet. Remove CA. Remove Tohaa. Remove ALEPH. Remove PanO. Remove Dog-Eaters. And on weekends, remove Goat-Fuckers.

Are you working on anything? I have a TAGline event in two weeks, so I started on the second Gecko.
Because why field one TAG when I can field two?

Why do the RPG art suck so hard?

Well, mostly because it's a lot of points tied up in geckos, which just don't DO all that much. Planning to run them DUO?

Moldline on left foot and above left knee.

And I wanted to play in [probably] the same event, but atm the only faction I have an assembled TAG for is the JSA. I'd rather finish painting my Haqqs ans Morats.

Outsourcing. It took ten versions of that pic for CB to convince the artist that no, he shouldn't be sticking those wires up his nose.

Can I get some advice on my CA list? Trying to do an all beep boop list no shasvastii or morat

Say I was dead-set on playing Teutons. Would this be the way to go?

At first I wanted to put a Seraph in there, but ran out of SWC.

Eh, some of it is good. But it's true their usual guys are much better.

Join us

Where's that one from?

I have the USAriadna army pack as well as the box of mauraders for a link, what should my next few buys be to get to 300 points?

One of the preview articles. As is this one.

How about you try the Army Builder, punch in everything you have and then decide what to buy next?
You already have Marauders as your link (or Grunt Core + Marauders Haris) and everything else in the box. You can easily decide what to do from there.
Also, if you're new I'd recommend playing 200 pts a few times, to get familiar with the rules and your units.

Van Zant
Airborne trooper.

Built my list surrounding Van Zant and two airborne troops, its amazing to wreck shop and spread freedom.

Not into Yanderes.
Bring out Bootleg Penny and we'll start talking.

Box of Grunts for the second link (Marauders haris'd)
Hardcase
Another Foxtrot or three
Airborne
Desperados

I don't remember either of those, they must be old.

how old are the line kazaks? i want to jump into ariadna (specifically kazaks whenever CB ends up releasing them in 20 years) but dear god does the faction have a bunch of trash teir old models.

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Older than sin. The one's in the updated Vanilla starter are really nice, but the blisters are garbage. Hell, even the OOP starter had better Line Kazaks. Check out Bolt Action's soviets for some decent equivalents, if your table is open to proxies. Or just be man and don't deal with Line Kazaks until the sectorial turns them into ablative health for your Vet Kazaks as well as B2 BS 16 Flash Pulse platforms.

How do you feel about something like a hackable gun emplacement in the middle of the table that could be activated by one of the players? Thematically it could probably fit a Svalarheima table, along the Huangdi border.

After all, from the RPG preview:
>Many sectors of Svalarheima have been transformed by the NeoColonial Wars. Filled with explosives, booby traps, and automated defense platforms (many of which are now malfunctioning due to age), these No Man’s Lands are incredibly dangerous. Petitions by the miners to disable the automated defense platforms have been denied.

Currently in the process of touching up and flaring up my best buddy's Holiday gift taskmaster. Then he done up and went and got third place at a tournament and traded for Kowalski, Moriarty, and bought Lupe off some dude and now it's my turn to paint even more nomads.

That guy needs to find some talent, otherwise he'd be fielding unpainted and unassembled.

How about Hippolyta?

I'd just generally be a fan of stationary gun emplacements. As an Ariadna player, I'd be pissed if it was Hacking that activated them, think it a neat idea of it was just Specialists in general. And while I don't imagine it being particularly effective, the idea of a Manned gun emplacement for Ariadna would have be very very interested.

Hi, I'm a Nomad player looking at the new Bacon-Nin starter set, but wondering what's more effective on the Transgression-Nibbler Attentive: The HMG in the new box, or trying to track down some of the now OOP old boxes somewhere while they're still fairly common to obtain a Mk 12? I know a well-placed Sin Eater can be a reactive fire nightmare for my opponents, enough to make taking him head-on suicidal for many but tough units and MSVs, but long story short.

I'm assuming the HMG's extra shot and slightly better ranged accuracy can be more useful in keeping things locked down at range, but the Mk12's 0 SWC and three points plus better close-in accuracy could also make up for the lost shot as well as fit into tight points costs in lists a little better, not to mention handle any closer encounters more effectively (like inside objective rooms). Am I right in assuming they're both about equal in value as long as I don't try and have them perform the wrong jobs at the wrong times?

Yum.

Why not both?

What about hackers OR engineers for the guns in general?

Or, if there's different types of guns for scenario/campaign play, maybe they have different requirements. Perhaps more advanced guns have better security needing hackers, but the traditional method of forced entry (IE a hammer) works just as fine on less complex guns, while very simple ones are so simple as to be unhackable and need the old brute strength and ignorance.

MK12 is a good weapon when you don't have the SWC for a HMG. Also better at fighting chuckle fucks who get in Pistol range

It's got the damage of a HMG, range bands of a spitfire and costs no SWC. It's pretty much the best of both worlds on a budget.

>It's pretty much the best of both worlds on a budget.
Except it's got lower burst than either of them, and burst is king.

Pretty much. HMG is generally better but mk12 doesn't take a third of your SWC.

My finished Taskmaster. Anybody else working on anything?

I recognize your style. Are all your Nomads with that yellow tribal pattern or just spaces where you can fit it?

How should I paint my Magharabi Guard? So far I painted my Az'rail in several greens, but I don't know how good that will look on the guard.

Woolie?

Pics of your Azrail to get an idea of how the Maghariba Guard would look in green?

For me, I was initially going to go with a black armor like an emperor scorpion, but I decided to go with brown to match the rest of my Ramah Taskforce.

I still need to go over the face again, add some red details. Also I am planning on doing desert bases, but this is the just of it.

I think you can just proxy the HMG model as Mk12 until a new one comes out.
I have 4 Hellcats, two of them with HMGs, no way I'm going to buy another one just to have a Boarding Shotgun model.

>not fielding 5 Hellcats
Weak

Working my way through Red Veil and the ISS starter.

I wonder what this Scindron is.

I have no idea what this is.

What are some good ways to protect yourself from hacking? I was thinking making repeater nets, with one really good hacker keeping an eye on everything. how well would this work out? Pic related

Have a killer hacker handy. Haqqislam is actually pretty good against hacking, as most of their good stuff is unhackable LI and their hackers tend to have WIP14 at least. Also they can Jam everyone with Ghazi.

How can I defend a TAG? My guard got possessed in a game today, because I brought 0 hackers, so should I just have a hacker near? Or a repeater for them to act through?

Riddling the hackers with bullets is effective. KHDs are pretty good as well, though AHDs can work as a substitute. Oblivion is a fucking nasty program that can completely shut down a hacker.

The thing is ariadna doesn't have engineers either.
Wasn't the whole N2 change to specialists done exactly, because armies like ariadna just couldn't do missions with anything else then their Lt?

Dozers, Irmandinhos, Moblots.

What realy CB should do is finaly give some TAGs to ariadna. Just make them camo and unhackable, because old tech doesn't pop up on scaners and the game will be much better. No more of thise msv2 stupid shit killing whole armies.
A 4 wound TAG arm 6 with dual auto cannons, camo and an option to take a single auto cannon dog warrior pilot that can hulk out and jump out of a destroyed tag and deliver the smack down. Of course it should have a proper high cost. 60pts base plus probably another 10-15 for the extra survivability over two tank hunters. And the dog warrior one should probably cost around 80pts, to realy make people rethink their armies. Plus it would actualy make ariadna viable for all those tournaments with limited insartion, and not just make people spam nomad and aleph lists.

>Ariadna doesn't have engineers
>has 3 engineers
>has a non-hackable HI engineer

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Dozers suck. and I have no access to irmadinohs or moblots. To get those you would have to play vanila.

dude what are you smoking the closest you get to HI in caledonia, aside for wallece are the morms. And they are nothing compared to things like achiles or ajax.

Well, maybe instead of a specialist requirement it would simply require a WIP-3 roll with Hackers and Engineers getting a flat WIP roll.
How about that?

>what are you smoking
No, my gun is smoking.

hopefully its a look at the redesigned shasvastii.

Looks alright for Limited Insertion, but I otherwise wouldn't run it. The Xeodron Haris isn't worth it in regular games and super hamstrings the list in mission play. If you really want to keep it in, the rest of your list needs to have a few concessions such as dropping the Legate and the Rodok for orders.

I'd run something closer to:
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were I going to play the Xeodron Haris with some confidence in winning.

Dozers are the same shit everybody else gets, except with a couple extra optional doodads. There's plenty of sectorials with only the basic engineer to work with, you're not special.

I hope that's a joke. It sounds like a joke, but it's hard to be sure these days.

Does this list work out?

tell me your secrets user, i airbrushed my red veil stuff orange so far and its that same shade you got but i'm ass at painting white and everything else

Now I wonder if this is the Scindron.

Just airbrush the white on it, it's what I did. Or base it grey first and apply several layers of white by hand.

I didn't believe it and looked it up.
These actually troubles me, at least they don't have one as a hacker.

The French may not have Haris or Duos, but they are far from weak.
They are undergoing update mostly because CB wants to redefine the way they play.

I know it's a WIP but it's nice that the armor plates really look like terracotta. I like it better than the overly highlighted studio models, it has a more natural finish. Also the white is smooth and even, bravo.

Btw what the heck happened with where is she aiming?

seconding the Scindron hypothesis. The way I see it it's gonna be a small drone that is made to look like it detached from the main TAG to accomplish objectives.

Bows are aimed at an angle.

I'm retarted, so I clipped off the piece underneath her foot without thought. Then I figured that I wouldn't be able to have her stand on one leg without her occasionally falling off her base (I don't have a drill). So I decided to go with the current result, which looks like a powerslide or something. And this.

You're probably joking, but going from what a lot of Ariadna players want added to their faction this may as well be a legit post.
>antipode sectorial WHEN

Anyone know any decent tutorials on painting tartan? Just finished building my Caledonian starter and have only know realised my mistake.

>4 wound unhackable TAG with fucking camo and a burst 3 autocannon
>make Ariadna win and the game will be much better
No thanks buddy

Because it is better when every game is either win by nomads or aleph, or by a faction with the most msv2 if those aren't banned.

Of course I want ariadna to win, and have non shit models. If other factions can have OP models and rules, ariadna should get them too.

Or maybe you need to git gud.

>I recognize your style. Are all your Nomads with that yellow tribal pattern or just spaces where you can fit it?

It's pretty much exactly the latter. Mobile Briagada. Iguana. This guy. Can't quite fit it on the LI/MI. The rest kind of have a almost standard nomad scheme. The "tribal" markings are more of a legacy leftover from when I was painting Dark Eldar in a cult of red grief scheme.

That agent is turning out to be pretty sweet. Good job. Keep it up!