So confession time. Since the new season of ITS began I've never won a game. Not a single one.
I can probably chuck it up to two things why. One, taking units I have to use who I have no experience with. Two, my mind set for ITS scenarios is totally wrong.
Lets start with having to take units (specialists for taking objectives) that I never really used before. So chalk it up to inexperience with some units I guess. So something like the Sophotects who I rarely used before but see myself taking them because of there speed and durability in objective games. However, I have learned they are not combat units and can't keep an objective without a true combat unit for support. That's just one example.
I originally got into Infinity because I could put anything in a list and have a fighting chance. With ITS though I'm forced to take units to accomplish objectives so I can win the game session at hand.
That leads me to my second point is that I'm just used to a YAMs, custom scenarios, or basic kill 'em alls, compared to the new ITS scenarios. I've tried to force myself to get better at ITS scenarios but when you already hate something for one thing it's kind of hard to change to it.
I guess I can roll with a SP force who based of talking to other players is "too damn" good at ITS scenarios. However the SP sect doesn't interest me. I like my vedic and posthuman units to much to drop them for a Greek fest.
I could change to regular CA from MAF but it's the same as going from vanilla Aleph to SP. I have no real interest in vanilla CA. However in MAFs current form its and up hill battle during any ITS games do to expensive specialists and a lack of them.
Maybe the current ITS scene is not for me. I don't mind that but that means I'm not going to compete in official tournaments because those are all use ITS. I like playing in tournaments and I used to play in them a lot before we had official ITS scenarios. To my surprise as well I actual got a podium spot at a tournament early last year. Sometime after I've tried the new ITS and its scenarios. There I am dead last in those tournaments and not just for one tournament. I don't mind losing but you can find yourself kind of getting tired of it when it keeps happening over and over.
I guess I'm like the Dodo bird almost. Something that has failed to evolve to something new and is bound to die out. For me I'm not dropping Infinity but the tourney scene might be over for me unless something drastic happens to the current system.
Sorry to hear that, I feel for ya. I'm not a fan of the ITS either and it eventually led me to stop attending the monthly tournament 40mi down the road because of that.
ReplyDeleteOn the bright side, after finding out the rest of my group here also didn't really care for the ITS, I started running YAMS tournaments here and now we do have a tourney scene that caters to us.
Maybe there's some other people in your area also interested in trying something like that as well?
Sorry to hear. :( I'm actually really surprised that you like YAMs - we don't really play it around here, because it seems too randomly wild and secretive. That said, ITS has a few very weird scenarios (let's not allow Infiltration for some!), and I can definitely feel your frustration.
ReplyDeleteAs a related issue: for the last few months, we've been running a homebrew slow-grow campaign. Prior to this, most players stated that they would be interested in scenarios where killing wasn't the priority and where achieving the objective would be paramount. Now (almost inevitably), I've written up such scenarios and I *still* receive feedback that "well, I won...but I lost because I couldn't grab the scenario", as people are having a hard time adjusting from kill-em-alls to prioritize-objectives-kill-if-necessary. So, I don't think it's just you experiencing this disjunct! Hopefully this helps!