It took me a while to depressurize as well as catch up what I needed to do at work, but here I am posting the rest of the pictures I took during Origins.
First off we have the lovely "Kain's Hottie" (sorry, but that's what her shirt said) modeling the TTGamers shirt. What every amazing Game Master should wear to conventions.
We of course still had Alkemy Demos, running throughout the weekend, here we have Kain, our fearless lesder, training new initiates.
As well as several Infinity Demos:
We used the desert board the most, running with 2 to 4 players, with jereme using the same 200 point Yu-Jing and Nomad starter based forces.
My Urban/Industrial board got a demo or two
And we had a demo to test out the Swamp board.
We of course had the Infinity Beginners Tournament Friday afternoon, and while we had wished it had been better attended, it still allowed us to setup procedures and plug a few holes so we will be better prepared for the GenCon tournament. This also gave us the time to help the newer players into a better understanding of some of the more subtle rules.
First round was a kill-em-all game to drive the opponent into retreating. Both sides were playing Yu-Jing on the swamp board. We did learn what adjustments we need to make on the board setup to control some long lanes of fire.
Here we show Close Combat between a Domaru and a Guilang.
Round two was on the Ice Chasm board, with a mission of destroying your opponents markers. The weather was uncharacteristically Sunny and Clear for most of the engagement, meaning that for this board to work rougher weather needs to occur more often. And we also need to limit what infiltrators can do when deployed on the chasm floor. Where the boards meet I will be installing a water feature that will make it difficut to cross at the top of the chasm to the other side. The board was pretty bloody, thanks to the weather, with the loser retreating before all his markers had been destroyed.
In the final round, we threw the rules for the tournament away, and we gave them a 200 point Nomad force plus a Szalamandra Squadron and a 200 point Pan-O army with a Cutter. Play was on the Urban board, and the objective again was to destroy the enemy's markers. An interesting act of defiance and retribution occured. The Cutter had be previously spotted so a gutsy Intruder did manage to get into light flamethrower range to burn off the Cutter's TO coating.
Naturally the Cutter wasn't too happy about the situation and decided to return the favor.
This did end up later with the Cutter being taken by some HMG fire later.
Well here is our First Place winner; our own Garret Allegee
And the Runner Up; Patrick Donley
Found out that my Urban board could use a bit of work, especially when doing missions, as there is a lot of manuvering needed just to get a shot off, that the markers became secondary to just finding a good lane of fire.
With a bit of adjustment, we should be ready for GenCon.
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