Infinity Starter League Week 1 Scenario

101 Data Retrieval

Mission Objectives
Each player must attempt to hack computer terminals and transmit the data back to their side. Each system is self-contained. The data must be hacked from one terminal and then transmitted back from another terminal.

Forces:
Players must agree on a force size. The force must contain at least 1 hacker. Players do not have to pay the SWC cost for a single hacker for their force.

Deployment:
Roll for first turn/deployment as normal.

Scenario Set-Up:
Deploy terrain as normal. Five Counters will be used to represent terminal locations. The terminal should be at least the size of a 25mm base and no larger than a poker chip. One terminal will be placed in the center of table. Four more terminals will be places 12” from the center terminal along the horizontal and vertical center lines of the table.

Scenario Special Rules:
• A hacker must be in base to base contact with a terminal to hack the terminal.
• Terminals may not be hacked through a repeater of any kind.
• Hacking a terminal to retrieve the date requires 2 short actions:

o Hacking the terminal security (Hack vs. BTS-6)

o Retrieving the data (Hack vs. BTS 0)

• Once the data is retrieved it must be transmitted from a different terminal. This requires base contact with the transmitting terminal and two short skills:

o Hacking the transmitting terminal (Hack vs. BTS -6)

o Transmit the Data (Hack vs. BTS 0)

• Defensive Hacking

o Enemy Hackers in base to base with any terminal may attempt to defensively hack as normal, against the hack attack on the terminal or against the transmission of the data.

• Transmitting the Data between hackers

o If a terminal is successfully hacked and the data is successfully retrieved the data can be transmitted to another hacker of the same player.

o Transmission requires a successful WIP roll on a long order. If successful the data has been transmitted to a new hacker.

o Intercepting transmission- When the enemy attempts to transmit the data between hackers a defensive hacking may take place to cancel the transmission. On a critical roll the defensive hacker has obtained the enemies data.

End of Mission
Victory points are scored for each piece of data transmitted back to the player’s side.

Each successful transmission of data scores 1 VP. The player with the most Victory Points at the end of the game is the winner.

I have no idea how this scenario will play out. We'll see.

Rather than setting match-ups I'm going to see how much actual participation we have show up. In general from week to week play against a different faction from your own and against a person you did not play against last week.

I will be bringing 2 tables worth of Infinity Terrain to the store tonight so we may not have to cannibalize much of the 40k stuff.

I haven't received my models yet, maybe I will get them sometime this week. I'm planning on showing up to the store tonight to maybe watch or get a demo game in if anyone is willing to let me borrow some models. Thanks again for this, I'm looking forward to participating with my Imperial Service army :)

Again this is super casual so no problem. Really this is just an excuse to play with Scenarios instead of straight kill scenarios, and for people to be exposed to as many different armies and rules portions as possible.

Scenario looks interesting, nice work!

what if the repeater is in base contact with the terminal, jeesh!?

btw, Does Ariadna even have hackers? Is anyone playing Ariadna?

I'm Playing Ariadna. No we don't have hackers but I have access to the merc hacker Valerya Gromoz. Since we're just starting how about low point builds between 150 and 200 pts?

You can play any size game you and your opponent agree on. I think 150 is very reasonable for new players.

I may look at a specific victory condition for Ariadne but since these scenarios are meant to both playable and teachable, so the rules get learned, I will probably leave it as is.

Don't worry about the hacker stuff I can take one. If my opponent kills her then I'll have to table them. :D

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Originally Posted by Psyberwolfe

Don't worry about the hacker stuff I can take one. If my opponent kills her then I'll have to table them. :D

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Hrm. Y'know, if I had read this I wouldn't have played the game expecting you to pop another hacker out of stealth at the last second. Not that you didn't make it clear (and that I didn't kind of tip my hand in doing that).

The mission itself was simple enough to follow; a few questions came up but I think we had basically the same idea for how to handle them and just needed confirmation.

The new terrain created some great LoS-block obstacles, but I did notice getting cover was much harder (especially once I figured out that I'd been mentally superimposing the Dust rules for cover, not the Infinity rules...). Without the Gears of War effect (aka, chest high walls for the masses) most fire basically came down to "I can see you cleanly" or "I cannot see you," with a few notable exceptions where one or two models got around a corner to fire. Not sure if that's good/bad/otherwise for game balance - just an observation that getting cover for a shot was much rarer than my games with the pipe terrain.

You got cover at that wall where you smoked my hacker. I will agree that this terrain was more absolute in I either see you or I don't. I think more half inch scatter for cover and one inch scatter for blocking is needed. Overall I liked this mission. The game was very swingy which I liked. I think the security BTS on the terminals was a bit high and that really bit Matt in butt.

Haha, the BTS didn't matter. I rolled 4 20's, 2 19's, and 3 17's. I do agree -6 was a bit rough with a defensive hacker on the board, but I had other problems!

BTW E.H. - for what it's worth we didn't really have a defined end condition, so we went with "the game is over when neither player has hackers on the table any more."

Any word on the Week 2 Scenario?

Stickied in the forum now.