Passing Time and Rolling Dice

 If you somehow found this blog post before reading part 1, you can read that here. This time, we are on the next step of the "Operation" series of games between the forces of the Tartary Army Corps and the JSA Shindenbutai forces. This is the final one of the "standard escalation" missions we are using for this Operation bundle. We elected to modify our "final" mission lists to be 150 points, but using the same models that we would normally have in our teams. ### ### ### Prologue ### ### ### The Pelican for Charlie Team approached wide for their combat zone, the pilot being one of the local "crazies" from the Blue-Ridge 1st Pelican squadron, which is still located out of Kaksin as Blue-Ridge does not have the infrastructure for the two needed Pelican bays. Charlie Team disembarked from their Pelican surprisingly quick, eschewing any sort of stealth as they are being deployed with a suit of Ratnik armor. The team got right to work getting into a ...

 If you somehow found this blog post before reading part 1, you can read that here . This time, we are on the next step of the "Operation" series of games between the forces of the Tartary Army Corps and the JSA Shindenbutai forces. ### ### ### Prologue ### ### ### The Pelican for Bravo Team came in screaming, taking more small arms and MANPAD fire than the other Pelicans on approach. While the Pelican was peppered with fire, Bravo Team was able to deploy from the dropship to their fire zone. Taking up firing positions, Bravo Team came under immediate fire from a more aggressive defense force. ### ### ### ### The Board ### The board did not change one bit from the board in Part 1. All terrain and the mat are from Corvus Belli and their Operation Sandtrap box set. ### The Mission ### Just like in Part 1, this is essentially playing Annihilation. This time though, we're exploring the wonders of more Advance Deployment skills, such as Forward Deployment and Infiltration. I k...

This is a cropped image; the full image can be found on the novel "Fifteen Hours" By Michael Scanlon; a phenomenal Imperial Guard novel It has not come up much on this blog, as I mainly post Infinity-related battle reports for the time being, but I have a decent history with what is likely one of the most popular tabletop wargames in the world: Warhammer 40k. Over the years, I participate either as a player, judge, or tournament organizer (T/O) of numerous events in my local county-wide area. Numerous Extra-life Charity Mega-battles, doubles-tournaments, the occasional RTT (in the annuls of yesteryear for those), and a handful of escalation leagues from late 6th edition to the current 10th edition. One of the tournament formats that I truly enjoy running is one I initially threw together as a joke ruleset in 7th Edition, but it has grown over the edition with the rules changes; this tournament is known as Highlander. If you're here and only want to see the game results sp...

Today, we're back with a game of Infinity N5, seeing the first of a series of escalating games between my Ariadna from the Tartary Army Corps versus my buddy Connor, piloting his JSA from Shindenbutai. This game was played on January 4th, 2025.  The escalating series is somewhat similar to the older "Operation X" mission packs, such as within Operation Black-wind, where players can learn to play the game using baby-steps to introduce new rules and units. While Connor has played a handful of games of Infinity, no one actually walked him through an Operations series to learn. Running this series would be helpful for both of us, as Connor learns about the newer rulings for Infinity N5, and I can better understand how some of the new rules interactions will work.  Also, as a note for those who like the Lore aspect of these batreps, this batrep will cover the beginning slight lead-up to Operation Bone-Rustler, with Part 4 holding the results of the operation. ### ### ### Prolo...