New Infinity New Faction - Haqqislam

Here we go. First round was a simple game. 150pts and just kill your opponent. A bonus point is awarded for:

1, dodging
2, entering suppressive fire

Escalation league games are training games so nothing too complex.

My opponent brought the Combined Army. Generally a lightish list to support a Charontid along with Dr Worm to keep it running.

For some reason sharing the army code for my list isn’t working. I took:

3 x Ghulams (1 a doctor)
a Krakot Renegade, merc cheap with two big templates
Shihab Total Reaction remote with an HMG (proxied PanO remote)
Miranda Ashcroft merc, she has a monofilament blade
Tariq Mansouri just ‘cos.

I won the lieutenant roll and chose to go first.

I kept the TR bot back and placed it in a fire lane facing his Charontid. The Charontid has a plasma rifle, fearsome at short range but here the range favoured me.

The right-side portion of the board was clear and I moved the Krakot forward, cautious moving past a gap. Took a few orders but he’d have the position to catch a lot of the enemy under two chain rifle templates. Ah ha ha ha ha. He chain rifled a lot of units and only one went down. In return the Krakot went down to AROs. Poor luck on my part.

For the remainder of my turn I sliced the pie with Tariq to get favourable fire arcs on one of his troops. I had two orders left. Plan was Tariq would gun down the Unidron I could then enter suppression fire with the Charontid in his fire arc. It would be trapped between Tariq and the TR remote. I somehow failed to kill the Unidron and didn’t want to give it a free shot on me by putting Tariq in suppression. I fired again and moved Tariq back, this time killing the Unidron.

My opponent’s turn started and he decided to take on the TR bot. Plasma will place a template where it hits and he thought he could catch a few of my units. But as I said, the range favoured the TR bot and it kept winning the face to face rolls. Eventually he pulled the Charontid back after it had taken damage. Having used a lot of orders he attempted to place units for AROs.

My turn began with Tariq going on the rampage. He moved back to his previous position and took on the Charontid. Tariq gets +2 damage which, combined with his spitfire gave a damage 16 weapon. This time my opponent’s luck deserted him and Tariq slaughtered the Charontid. Following that demolition I got quite bold and moved Tariq out of cover to take on more units. He killed all but one.

Come my opponent’s turn he conceded. First round to Haqq!

Early escalation league games can turn quickly and one good round can give you the game. It’ll get tougher but for now I’m happy with how my force performed.