Totengräber's Workpläce

Hordes Blackclad Wayfarer - Front

The other day while in my FLGS, I picked up the newest issue of No Quarter with the intent of checkng out the stats of one of the new Minion Warlock Rorsh and Brine. In the course of flipping through the pages, I noticed they had pictures from the Gen Con 2008 Privateer Press Grand Master Painting Competition. On the bottom right corner of the Warrior models Honorable Mentions is my Blackclad Wayfarer! I just about had a fit of joy over this. I immediately bought the magazine, which I wasn’t originally planning on doing so I could show my wife and friends.

It’s the first time I’ve had the joy of seeing my name in print on a national level. It’s a pretty awesome feeling, too!! It definitely makes me want to continue to participate in painting competitions like this in the future. I think next year I’ll submit an entry for Warlock/Beast using Rorsh and Brine.

Brian and I scheduled an Infinity game for last Thursday over at Games To Die For. We decided on 300 points and we’d use the new 2nd edition rules. I decided to play the following list:

• Khawarij (Lieutenant)
• Djanbazan w/ HMG
• Janissaire w/AP Rifle
• Janissaire w/HMG
• Tuareg (Doctor)
• Nafftun
• Hassassin Fiday w/EXP CCW
• Ghulam x2

I think his list went something like this:

• Charontid (Lieutenant)
• Gaki
• Daturazi Witch-Soldiers x2
• T-Drone
• Morat (Hacker)
• Morat (Forward Observer) x3
• Shrouded (Forward Observer)

(I know that’s short on points, but I didn’t see his whole army)

so we set up the terrain and rolled off for deployment. This rule had changed in the new edition. Now it’s a WIP Face-to-Face roll and the winner chooses to either deploy first or to go first much like Warmachine/Hordes. He won the roll since my Lieutenant failed his F2F roll.

The game really didn’t go very long for one 81 point reason: Charontid with his Plasma Rifle. I made the mistake of putting three of my guys behind a single piece of terrain, but leaving one of them within LoS of the Charontid. He fires and hits all three guys with his blast template. Two of them survived (Ghulam and Janissaire), but the Khawarij died a quick death. I nominated my Fiday as the Lieutenant after that, who in Brian’s next turn was toasted by the Plasma Rifle again. We called the game there. Actually, to be honest, I called the game at that point. I would be losing at least one figure a turn if things kept going this way. The only shining moment was the Fiday shooting the Gaki from far enough away that the blast from the self destruct didn’t affect him.

It’s been so long since we played Infinity and with the new rules, I think we could enjoy it again. I look forward to throwing down once more and maybe I could play better next time.