So for Adam’s (TheDiceAbide) birthday, we threw him a Frostbyte Showdown Tournament! 7 of us showed up to play and wish him many happy returns. Sadly, it was a odd number, so I didn’t get to play, but I got to hang out with Adam’s lovely wife and make snarky comments as our friends rolled some dice.

Table 1 – Only one TAG? I brought two!

Erik — Zelaponeepus (VIRD) versus Adam — TheDiceAbide (MAF)

Varuna Immediate Reaction Division GROUP 1 | 10 CUTTER Lieutenant MULTI HMG / . (3 | 115)

CRABBOT Flash Pulse / Knife. ()

ZULU-COBRA Hacker (Killer Hacking Device) Breaker Combi Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 28) FUSILIER Paramedic (MediKit) Combi Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 12)

FUSILIER (Forward Observer, Deployable Repeater) Combi Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 12)

FUSILIER (Forward Observer, Deployable Repeater) Combi Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 12)

FUSILIER Combi Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 10)

KAMAU HMG / Pistol, Knife. (1 | 28) MULEBOT (Minesweeper, Repeater) Electric Pulse. (0 | 8)

FUGAZI DRONBOT Flash Pulse, Sniffer / Electric Pulse. (0 | 8)

FUGAZI DRONBOT Flash Pulse, Sniffer / Electric Pulse. (0 | 8) GROUP 2 | 3 1 TECH-BEE (Remote Assistant Level 1, Specialist Operative) Flash Pulse / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 5)

FUSILIER Combi Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 10)

MACHINIST Combi Rifle, D-Charges / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 15)

SIERRA DRONBOT HMG / Electric Pulse. (1 | 25)

PALBOT Electric Pulse. (0 | 3) 5 SWC | 299 Points | Open in Infinity Army

SUPER RAICHO SISTERS! RODOK Lieutenant Combi Rifle, 2 Light Shotguns / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 26)

RODOK Hacker (EI Killer Hacking Device) Boarding Shotgun, Antipersonnel Mines / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 22) RAKTORAK Red Fury / Pistol, Knife. (1 | 26)

OZNAT Combi Rifle + Light Smoke Grenade Launcher / Pistol, Shock CCW. (0 | 18)

PRETA Chain Rifle / AP CCW. (0 | 7)

PRETA Chain Rifle / AP CCW. (0 | 7)

PRETA Chain Rifle / AP CCW. (0 | 7) RAICHO MULTI HMG + Heavy Flamethrower / . (2 | 89)

RAICHO PILOT 2 Heavy Pistols, D-Charges, Knife. ()

RAICHO MULTI HMG + Heavy Flamethrower / . (2 | 89)

RAICHO PILOT 2 Heavy Pistols, D-Charges, Knife. ()

IKADRON (Baggage, Repeater) 2 Light Flamethrowers, Flash Pulse / Pistol, Electric Pulse. (0 | 9) 7 3 4 | 5 SWC | 300 Points | Open in Infinity Army

Highlights

Erik: “It’s an interesting situation because there’s just… TAGs everywhere.”

Adam: “I think I want to bum-rush you with Pretas now, because you revealed yourself!” (JOTUM standing in for a Cutter)

VIRD spends most of a turn shooting the Pretas off the Cutter, wounding the TAG in the process.

VIRD takes only 4 wounds over two full turns… one of which was from friendly fire. The Pretas failed to do any damage.

5 orders worth of shooting from a Raicho fails to take out an unlinked Kamau, and the Raicho takes 2 wounds in the process…

Turn 3, Zulu Cobra dies to a HFT in the face…

but the Cutter takes out the Raktorak and wrecks MAF in Turn 3.

Table 2 – Hey, you wanted first turn!

Isaac — xammy (NCA) versus Nate — natetehaggresar (Tunguska)

Combat specialist GROUP 1 | 10 ORC HMG / Pistol, Knife. (2 | 44)

SWISS GUARD Hacker (Assault Hacking Device) MULTI Rifle / Pistol, AP CCW. (0.5 | 70) FUSILIER Combi Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 10)

FUSILIER Combi Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 10)

FUSILIER Missile Launcher / Pistol, Knife. (1.5 | 15)

FUSILIER (Forward Observer, Deployable Repeater) Combi Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 12)

FUSILIER Lieutenant Combi Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 10) HEXA MULTI Sniper Rifle / Pistol, Electric Pulse. (1.5 | 32)

CSU (Specialist Operative) Rifle + Light Shotgun, Nanopulser / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 12)

MULEBOT (Minesweeper, Repeater) Electric Pulse. (0 | 8) GROUP 2 | 5 1 FUGAZI DRONBOT Flash Pulse, Sniffer / Electric Pulse. (0 | 8)

FUGAZI DRONBOT Flash Pulse, Sniffer / Electric Pulse. (0 | 8)

FUGAZI DRONBOT Flash Pulse, Sniffer / Electric Pulse. (0 | 8)

PATHFINDER DRONBOT Combi Rifle, Sniffer / Electric Pulse. (0 | 16)

HEXA Hacker (Hacking Device) Combi Rifle / Pistol, Electric Pulse. (0.5 | 32)

TECH-BEE (Remote Assistant Level 1, Specialist Operative) Flash Pulse / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 5) 6 SWC | 300 Points | Open in Infinity Army

Jurisdictional Command of Tunguska GROUP 1 | 10 HOLLOW MEN Spitfire, Chain-colt / Breaker Pistol, Knife. (2 | 36)

HOLLOW MEN Missile Launcher, Chain-colt / Breaker Pistol, Knife. (2 | 35)

HOLLOW MEN MULTI Rifle + Pitcher, Chain-colt / Breaker Pistol, Knife. (0 | 35)

HOLLOW MEN Hacker (Assault Hacking Device) Combi Rifle, Chain-colt + 1 TinBot A (Deflector L1) / Breaker Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 37)

STEMPLER ZOND FTO (Super-Jump) Combi Rifle, Sniffer / Electric Pulse. (0 | 18) TRANSDUCTOR ZOND Flash Pulse, Sniffer / Electric Pulse. (0 | 8)

TRANSDUCTOR ZOND Flash Pulse, Sniffer / Electric Pulse. (0 | 8)

SALYUT (Minesweeper, Repeater) Electric Pulse. (0 | 8)

MARY PROBLEMS Hacker (Forward Deployment L1) Submachine Gun + Zapper, Pitcher / Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 30)

PUPPET MASTERS (Minelayer) Submachine Gun, Antipersonnel Mines / PistolKnife. (0.5 | 14) GROUP 2 | 3 1 INTERVENTOR Hacker Lieutenant (Hacking Device Plus) Combi Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 25)

HECKLER Combi Rifle, Jammer, 1 FastPanda / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 23)

HECKLER Boarding Shotgun, E/Marat / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 19)

WARCOR (Aerocam) Flash Pulse / Stun Pistol, Knife. (0 | 3) 6 SWC | 299 Points | Open in Infinity Army

Highlights

Tunguska weathers the storm of the first turn, comes out unscathed, but NCA has two heaters!

Heckler intuitive attack E/Marats some camo tokens…

This exchange happens: Isaac, when activating a model: “What does this guy have?” Nate: “Assault hacking devi– shit! He has an assault hacking device! I’ll Oblivion you.”

NCA manages to put a wound on everyone in the Hollow Man link…

and the Tech Bee can go home proud, with a Hollow Man kill marker.

Table 3 – What in CHA passes infiltration on a 14??

Jordan — sprocketgx (CHA) versus James — RomanLegion (ISS)

Wallace

GROUP 1 | 4 6 5 WALLACE Lieutenant Combi Rifle + Light Flamethrower, Smoke Grenades / Pistol, EXP CCW. (0 | 35)

HIGHLANDER Chain Rifle, Smoke Grenades / Pistol, AP CCW. (0 | 6)

HIGHLANDER Chain Rifle, Smoke Grenades / Pistol, AP CCW. (0 | 6)

HIGHLANDER Chain Rifle, Smoke Grenades / Pistol, AP CCW. (0 | 6)

HIGHLANDER Chain Rifle, Smoke Grenades / Pistol, AP CCW. (0 | 6) McMURROUGH 2 Chain Rifles, Grenades, Smoke Grenades / Templar CCW (AP + DA). (0 | 31)

UXÍA McNEILL (Covert Action) (CH: Limited Camouflage, Superior Infiltration, Specialist Operative) Boarding Shotgun, D-Charges, Smoke Grenades / 2 Assault Pistols, AP CCW, Knife. (0 | 27)

S.A.S. (Forward Observer) Rifle / Pistol, AP CCW, Knife. (0 | 24)

S.A.S. (Forward Observer) Rifle / Pistol, AP CCW, Knife. (0 | 24)

CATERAN T2 Sniper Rifle / Pistol, AP CCW. (1 | 24) GROUP 2 | 4 CALEDONIAN MORMAER (Fireteam: Haris) AP HMG / Pistol, Knife. (2.5 | 43)

CALEDONIAN MORMAER (X Visor) T2 Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 33)

HIGHLANDER GREY T2 Boarding Shotgun, Grenades, Smoke Grenades, D-Charges / Pistol, CCW. (0 | 25) VOLUNTEER Paramedic (Medikit) Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 10) 3.5 SWC | 300 Points | Open in Infinity Army

Imperial Service GROUP 1 | 10 WÚ MÍNG Heavy Rocket Launcher, Light Shotgun / Pistol, Knife. (2 | 33)

WÚ MÍNG Heavy Rocket Launcher, Light Shotgun / Pistol, Knife. (2 | 33)

WÚ MÍNG (Fireteam: Duo) Chain Rifle, Submachine Gun / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 25)

WÚ MÍNG (Fireteam: Duo) Chain Rifle, Submachine Gun / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 25)

ZHÀNYING Hacker (Hacking Device) Breaker Combi Rifle, D-Charges / Pistol, Electric Pulse. (0.5 | 32)

NINJA Hacker (Killer Hacking Device) Tactical Bow / Pistol, DA CCW, Knife. (0 | 29)

CHAĪYÌ Yaókòng Flash Pulse, Sniffer / Electric Pulse. (0 | 8)

WÈIBĪNG Yaókòng Combi Rifle, Sniffer / Electric Pulse. (0 | 16)

CELESTIAL GUARD Lieutenant Combi Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 13)

CELESTIAL GUARD Combi Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 13) GROUP 2 | 10 8 CELESTIAL GUARD (Kuang Shi Control Device) Combi Rifle + Light Smoke Grenade Launcher / Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 13)

KUANG SHI Chain Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 5)

KUANG SHI Chain Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 5)

KUANG SHI Chain Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 5)

KUANG SHI Chain Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 5)

KUANG SHI Chain Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 5)

KUANG SHI Chain Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 5)

KUANG SHI Chain Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 5)

KUANG SHI Chain Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 5)

RUI SHI Spitfire / Electric Pulse. (1 | 20) 6 SWC | 300 Points | Open in Infinity Army

Uxia lurks underneath the Wu Ming link…but gets discovered and dies immediately.

ISS does a lot of damage in turn 1. Ru Shi wrecks everything.

HRL Wu Ming finds a money shot from elevation and takes out the entirety of the Wallace link, which was hiding prone on a roof.

CHA has miserable dice in turn 1, but Jordan does his best to claw his way back up bottom of 1.

Rui Shi does all the damage this game. CHA can’t make an armor save all game.

Cateran does serious work against the Wu Ming though, taking 2 out with his T2 rifle and taking out some Celestial Guard as well.

Final Standings

Player Faction Tournament Points Objective Points Victory Points Zelaponeepus VIRD 3 10 243 RomanLegion ISS 3 10 141 natetehaggresar TJC 2 7 112 xammy NCA 0 3 25 sprocketgx CHA 0 2 25 TheDiceAbide MAF 0 1 51

… Happy Birthday Adam?