A group panorama from the Campaign: Paradiso launch event at Tabletop Nation last month. See the event report, part one and part two.

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Because I'm a nerd, and because I wanted to see how army-building requirements are going to shift with the new campaign book missions, here's a breakdown of what unit types you need for the various objectives in all fourteen of the main Campaign: Paradiso missions.

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Continuing on from part one...

Mission Three - Central Seizure

Overview - divided forces are approaching a ruined alien spacecraft from different directions. The table was divided into quarters, with the winner of the initiative roll-off having his two forces deploy in random quarters. The other player then took the other two quarters. Each player's forces had to be split into two Combat Groups, each with at least 140 points in it.

The objectives were to get into the spaceship, shut down a security system that did nasty things to people inside the ship, put down beacons in the ship, stabilise some systems inside the ship and check out some consoles outside the ship. All of these required either Hackers or Engineers (but could be done remotely) except placing the beacons which could be done by any 'Specialist'. For what counts as a Specialist see the Prisoner 09 mission or the New Rules PDF for more details, but the Forward Observer models listed below count for this.

So, this weekend a bunch of us from the Exeter and Reading areas headed over to Hockley on the far side of London for an event put on by Corvus Belli and Tabletop Nation. This was the UK introductory event for the new Campaign: Paradiso missions and campaign book for Infinity.

All we really knew in advance is that we would be playing the first 'chapter' of missions from the book and that they would have very different requirements from previous Infinity games we'd played and that Baggage Remotes would be really important. In preparation I loaded up as many of my painted Nomads as possible and (shock! horror!) got a few new ones assembled and base coloured including an ALEPH Probot for baggage as I haven't yet got the Nomad Salyuts.

Anyway, on with some photos!

The main table with derelict overpass. Carlos distributing objectives.

The results for the Autumn Challenge. The total number of tournament points from each game was the main criteria with victory points as the tie-breaker. We also kept track of crits suffered by each player.

For some time now I've been a committee member of a wargaming club in Exeter called the Exeter Inquisition. After a period of dilution and dispersal I'm proud to announce that we have a new regular venue in the Scout HQ in Marsh Barton, Exeter!

Over the years we've met in a number of different locations, initially meeting in the local GW on our own evening, until GW retail HQ changed policy and stopped the arrangement.

I was walking through the local newsagent the other week and saw this mysterious package attached to a magazine:

Turns out it was a 1/72nd scale die-cast Chinook, part of a collectible helicopters magazine. As I'm always on the look out for more things to clutter up an Infinity battlefield and a Chinook is just the kind of old work-horse design I can see Ariadna using, I picked it up for the princely sum of £7.99.