Infinity; N2 to N3 and future plans

I love my girlfriend. For Christmas this year she got me the new Infinity N3 rule book and Yojimbo(ooooo), meaning (I think) I now have every JSA model (bar a few REMs). This is awesome! However with the release of N3 it has bought through an interesting change to things…

And the Combat Company, who she ordered it through, gave me some free dice!!!

…there is a distinct lack of JSA profiles in N3 currently! Seriously all we have are ninjas, Saito and Mumashi! Flip side ninjas now have tactical bows and cost 26 points and have DA ccw (but totally lose the EXP ccw loadout L). Because of this I’ve been playing with Vanilla Yu Jing using only the profiles that exist.

This, alas, does mean using proxies but holy crap it’s a lot of fun to play as Vanilla Yu Jing! And I haven’t even started using some of the serious His (Dao Fei and Hac Tao) that they possess. All of this is making me want to start playing Vanilla Yu Jing over JSA (which is awkward…kinda).

4 Wu Ming, a Shaolin and the support guys, some Zhanshi, a couple of basic REMs, two Tiger Soldiers and a Ninja...
All the valid Yu Jing!!!
Note I have more that I can use as proxies (Celestial guard, Bao, Shang Ji

My favourite unit has to be the Tiger Soldiers.

Boarding Shotgun and Combi/light flamer

The no longer Valid Kao Dali and HMG

Even with N2 I used Yu Jing a few times for a bit of a laugh and holy crap are they awesome! My mate Daboarder is scared of these guys as every time one drops it’s taken out an entire flank or rear guard units, and popping it in cover gives it a straight up -6MOD meaning they are difficult to dislodge. With N3 and the shorter HMG neg MOD it becomes viable to sneak up on total reaction REMs with a boarding shotgun and just lay waste!

Soon to be Tiger Soldier Sculpt

Alongside that there are a lot of new interesting changes to N3, one being close combat (which I actually haven’t gotten a chance to use yet) which will be great for JSA when the profiles are updated. Another serious over haul is hacking, something I should try in my next game in conjunction with a REM or two (1 order for an upgrade of a total reaction HMG REM to have marksman lvl2 for two turns sounds nice).

One really interesting thing IMO is the Saturation rules, which reduce burst. Other than nimbus grenades (new addition too), forest/trees have this rule, meaning that if you are firing through trees your burst is reduced, along with a -3MOD! Add this to our house rule of not being able to see through 2 lots of trees and now attacking out of trees isn’t a smart idea!

And finally getting back to my little boarding shotgun Tiger soldier, those hit by template weapons don’t get cover ARM bonus’ anymore! I can’t wait to do this with my Domaru kill squads with chain rifles going left and right!

Old School Tiger Soldier

Anywho, I guess the point of this post is saying that I’m going to start moving into Vanilla Yu Jing with N3 and see how things go!!!

Cheers!

dulydude

HAPPY 2015!!!

HAPPY 2015 EVERYONE!!! Hope you’ve all had a good NYE and a great start to another year of wargaming! I’m personally impressed with how well I’ve started off the year, especially with the complete lack of posts I’ve been placing up here. I’ve actually been painting!

YAY Painting bench!!! I was working on the bases before returning to the rest of the mini.
I hate painting bases...the way I base means so much paint has to be used :(

Well in the process of painting…all the Haramakis, a few left over Keisotsu and some other bits and pieces. I still have no idea how to paint my Aragatos, my Domaru or my ninjas…which makes me sad currently but it’ll come to me!!!

Anywho I thought I would make this post to wrap up some loose ends, and also to cap of 2015 with a plan post for what to do this year in an effort to motivate myself to do things!

2014 Wrap up

Oh god I haven’t touched anything Necromunda related bar Cypher related in ages and that makes me sad. I really should try and finish that Plasma Cannon conversion, and finish sticking the heavies together. HOWEVER I do have my enforcers to show you…who are also in a lack of painted state…however they are cool and you will see them sometime this month!

Also the terrain is still very much a WIP, currently it's all at my FLGS in a box.

Infinity JSA

I plan on giving this one a better update later. Basically I haven't finished painting anything bar what you've already seen and the stuff in the photo above is my current WIP. With N3 new stuff is happening so as said a post will be in order about that.

Terrain

It’s undercoated, but at a higher priority than my Necromunda terrain, they need to be sprayed with a matt vanish before I do anything.

Infinity at the FLGS

Terrain hasn’t progressed too much but we now have a commission painter painting stuff for us (adpaint, check it out). The Slow Grow League went really well as well (had a 5 or 6 game winning streak for a bit there!).

Yeah, the game hasn’t taken off here yet and I actually don’t like how the models look IRL (the renders were so awesome though). Rather sad about this kickstarter, especially because Mantic are having issues getting off the ground in Australia as well. However the terrain looks sick and I will eventually be getting more. In the same veil as Deadzone, I rather like the look of the mats made for Mars Attacks. Might have to get a couple

2015 Looking forward!

Paint all the JSA miniatures!!! No seriously I want to slowly paint them over the year, should try and do 2 minis a week with any luck! Also with N3 in existence I plan on expanding into Yu Jing as a whole…should be fun!

Also with my terrain try and finish it over the course of the year…I have less than 52 weekends to it so year should be do-able!

 




Is coming! At least I know what the minis will look like (unlike Deadzone). So pumped for this! I’ll try and get 2 of the factions up and running asap (with paint too) and try and kick of a MERCS community at my FLGS. Seriously, I'm getting all the factions and a stack of NPCs. My mate Sync Wargaming has a lot of awesome MERCs stuff on his blog. Check it out!

 

Backed at the starter level and got some more Council bits and bobs as well. I plan on using them in Infinity as a Mercenary company my friend Daboarder has helped me name; Cierna Slnko, the Black Suns. With the Infinity RPG coming out they will be handy there too. Found out as well from one of the Last Saga sculptors, who also sculpted most of the Nomads in Operation Ice Storm, that they are the same scale as the new Infinity minis, win!!!

He made this nice Company logo for me too!!!

Very little, finish some conversions and maybe leave it at that for a while…or do what I did in 2013 and kill Infinity and bring Necro to the FLGS…will play that one by ear.

Ok this is actually a pen and paper RPG with a cyberpunk horror vibe set in Japan in 2065. Another mate ran a campaign back in 2012 and it was a lot of fun, I’m planning on making a short 6 player campaign with a military vibe.

TL;DR

- Paint all JSA minis

- Get into Vanilla Yu Jing (Lone Pathfinder would be proud)

- Paint two of the factions of MERCS when they come in

- Write a short Kuro Campaign

- Paint Last Saga Minis

- Finish my Infinity Terrain

I should be able to do that in a year right?

ANDANOTHERTHING

Before I forget I noticed a few months ago that one of the blogs I keep tabs on has added me to their blog roll! Thankyou Wayward Warcor aka Certs for putting my blog up on your site! Means a lot to have one of the bigger Infinity Blogs having my little blog up there! Cheers!!!

Cheers

dulydude