![]() ![]() My initial mission analysis made me want to write one list for Power Pack/Quadrant Control, where I prefer going second and where Infiltration and other Forward Deployment is extremely beneficial, and one for Firefight, where I love going first, forward Specialists are a liability, and and 16” deployment zones give a relative boost to warbands and other non-infiltrating pieces. The event details including all final placements and game results (spoilers) can be seen here – the ITS website is actually really good at publicly recording events. We also had a good mix of interesting factions, including vanilla and Sectorials. So although it was a small event on paper, with just 16 players, I was looking forward to challenging games. More importantly, perhaps 6-7 of the other players there I know as being top rate, players who would absolutely be in competition for the top table. ITS Rankings aren’t a rigid hierarchy in the relatively small pool of the UK Infinity scene, since they are based on a limited number of event results, but the current top UK player was in attendance, as were a few others in the top 10. One thing I want to commend about the Smackdown is that we had a fine turnout of gifted players. Those were my opening thoughts on the missions – it’s interesting in hindsight to see how my games worked out! The Players And in my opinion, with the current strong meta lists, the player going first has a strong advantage. ![]() But on the other hand, this means it’s the mission played for the top table game(s). Interestingly, the TO’s decision to make it the final mission is praiseworthy, because usually a simpler and more aggressive mission is easier when everyone is mentally exhausted at the end of the day. Quadrant Control, I don’t mind, but my criticism is that it normally heavily favours the second player – so much so that it’s almost impossible to score a full 10 OP, or even 9, if going first against a strong opponent. Its Objectives favour going second, it’s quite difficult to score highly on, but easy enough to make a few OP if you don’t get absolutely smashed. Power Pack is a really weird one with split deployment zones in the corners of the table. The Missions for this iteration would be Power Pack, Quadrant Control and Firefight. Round 2: Quadrant Control, against Nomads.Round 1 – Power Pack, against Operations Sub Section (OSS). ![]()
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