Totengräber's Workpläce

Fred and I have been playing SWM pretty regularly every Tuesday evening. Earlier this week I finally received some of the minis I’d traded for. Specifically Mara Jade, Jedi. I made the following squad to play with:

• Mara Jade, Jedi
• Boba Fett, Mercenary
• Kel Dor Bounty Hunter
• General Wedge Antilles
• Ugnaught Demolitionist x3

Fred played a list like this:

• Kazdan Paratus
• Junk Golem
• Kel Dor Bounty Hunter
• Gha Nackt
• K-3PO
• Elite Rebel Commando
• Nikto Soldier
• R2-D2

We played on the Death Star map and Fred ended up on the hangar side of the map. Wedge pretty much stayed in the middle room the whole game while Mara, KDBH, and 2 Ugnaughts went up the top side of the map while Boba and an Ugnaught went up the other side. Mara ended up getting hung up by the Junk Golem and took damage from hits and from Splash damage. Boba tried to avoid getting hurt badly by the KDBH’s Self Destruct, but ended up taking 50 damage in one turn. After Boba took out Kazdan and Gha Nackt while Mara set her sights on the ERC, Fred conceded the game. As always, it’s a blast playing against Fred.

Right now, I am really enjoying playing this game. I missed going to a tournament last weekend (even though my awesome wife was totally cool with me going if I’d wanted to), but I think the next one I’ll try to make it there and see how I do in a more competitive environment.

Joel and I played Infinity almost a week ago on Thursday. We were going to be playing with the new 2nd edition rules, so I tried to vary my army up a little bit to test out some of the changes. Joel had also warned me he’d likely be using a TAG. I’ve only ever played against one once (Jim’s Armored Cavalry) and it gave me fits. So, I tried using a lot of AP weapons and a hacker to try out some hacking.

My army:

• Janissaire Lieutenant
• Janissaire w/HMG
• Tuareg Doctor
• Djanbazan w/HMG
• Nafftun w/Light Flamethrower x2
• Ragik Hacker
• Hassassin Fiday w/AP CCW
• Kum Biker w/AP CCW x2

His army (I don’t know the Nomad army very well, so these are guesses):

• Szalamandra
• Securitate
• Aguacil w/HMG
• Aguacil Forward Observer
• Aguacil x2
• Meteor Remote
• Zoe & Pi Well
• Intruder

Once we laid out terrain and chose sides, we rolled for deployment. I deployed first placing the Tuareg doctor toward the center of the board in hopes of being able to rescue some folks once they had moved forward. The Lieutenant was deployed on top of a short building, but just far enough away from cover to not benefit from it. Fiday got deployed just outside his deployment zone in some pretty good cover. Everyone else was pretty much out of LoS.

This game went pretty quick. In round 1 he killed my Lieutenant (bad placement) and one of my Nafftuns. In my round 1 I took out the Aguacil with HMG and some other lackeys with the Fiday. Of course, the next round he got taken out himself. Later on I managed toPossess his TAG, but not really cause much damage with it, not to mention we did the BTS roll incorrectly. In the end, I conceded due to losses.

TAGs are a real pain and if you’re not properly prepared for them, can really ruin your day. It was still fun game, though.