Passing Time and Rolling Dice

Art is from the Clash of Rhyfles 2-player starter set featuring Crusaders and Coftyrans. I'm not 100% sure who actually created it, but im presuming it's someone from the Rhyfler crew Today we saw myself set up a smaller table than I've usually been setting up to play games, a 2' x 3' table using a mat I have not broken out is something around 2 years. The game? This Quar's War: Clash of Rhyfles . To the folks who know me all too well, why another skirmish game when our local group plays so many already? When I barely have time to sneeze somedays, why another commitment to another skirmish game?  Well, because the models of course. They look a lot like bipedal anteaters for the most part, with the fatigues and equipment that mimic World War 1, albeit with a grimsical twist. Starting my journey into Quar's War CoR, I grabbed up the 2-player starter set, which has 2 12-model sides (one side represents the Crusaders from Tok, the other the Royalists from Coftyr...

Today we have the first game in what I am calling "The Tales of Blue Ridge," which follows the continuing career of Colonel Kraznitsky as he has various encounters on the planet Shinju. This will just be the moniker I call my normal games that don't take place within a narrative or learning series of games of Infinity N5. This game is a pseudo-learning game between myself and a local named Darren. This is one of Darren's mere handful of games that's trying to introduce him to infinity, where I tell him beforehand that I will likely bring up rules and stuff that he hadn't experienced prior, as his prior experience to this point was also running through the "operation" style games like Operation Bone-Rustler Part 1 , Part 2 , and Part 3 . Big things we touch on here is fireteams. Darren did not want to use fireteams himself, but I was determined to introduce this key part of the game, since even now there are more than just Fireteam Duo's within th...

On February 22nd, myself and 18 other Infinity players in the local region all converged on the local game store around me to attend our first ever home-grown ITS tournament, known as the Patuxent Prime! This is the first of hopefully many local ITS events that we host down this way. My buddy Ric/Ghost00 was the WarCor organizing the whole affair, which let the player pool be wider than if anyone else locally decided to try and run an event. The mission set for this list was set to actually have players have to think about a mission with objectives that are deeper in thought than "remove enemy units better than they can." The mission set was: Round 1: Unmasking Round 2:  Frostbite Round 3:  Mindwipe In usual fashion, we have prepared 2 lists to use between the missions; to which my lists will be displayed further below, with a little insight on each one. All of these events are using the ITS 16-2 missions here . Below are the tables the we had. We did have a bye-round, where...

We're back with another Infinity N4 battle report; this game was played on November 30th, 2024. This time, we saw me take control of my Tartary Army Corps to take on a newer player (Connor) playing his Japanese Sectorial Army. We played the Direct Action mission Uplink Center at 200 points. This is Connor's first game of Infinity in easily 6 months, so this was more of the learning/reminder game of how Infinity is played at the basic level. Hindsight being what it is, I should have approached this more like a demo series using one of the Operation books instead; as will be pointed out later on. That thought was more-so on my part, as I find the older Operation booklets to be a better framework for teaching the game instead of just running a small point game to teach, since they give the tier escalation approach to introducing new rules. Neither of us have a full painted force either, as Connor is preparing to repaint his collection, and I am just lazy and have not painted much ...