Episode 106 - Can You Can You Cancon - Cancon '24 Review

Loss of Lieutenant - An Infinity The Game Podcast

Join Jacob, Josh and Nick as they review their experience at the 2024 Cancon and detail their "stellar" performance at the premier Australian Infinity Tournament.

As a bonus Jacob and Josh review their experience playing the new REM Racers board game.

Just a reminder that if you like what we do and want to support us, you can do so for 3 dollars a month at patreon.com/lossoflieutenant. If you can’t commit financially to support us, we get it times are tough, just let Aleph know you like us by liking, following and leaving a review wherever you get your podcasts. And join our Discord! https://discord.gg/2nVNeAd2vp

Thanks for listening!

Timestamps

Introduction: 00:00:00 - 00:01:25

REM Racers Review: 00:01:25 - 00:09:28

Challenge and Community Announcements: 00:09:28 - 00:18:23

Cancon List Reviews: 00:18:23 - 00:41:29

Cancon Review - Round 1: 00:41:29 - 01:01:06

Cancon Review - Round 2: 01:01:06 - 01:20:45

Cancon Review - Round 3: 01:20:45 - 01:48:48

Cancon Review - Round 4: 01:48:48 - 02:14:03

Cancon Review - Round 5: 02:14:03 - 02:52:40

Challenges and Community Announcements

Q1 Gaming Challenge Announcement - Make them an offer they can’t refuse

With our transition to longer form Gaming challenges, we’d love to set a real challenge for our listeners. Like crime in Hollywood's version of New York, we want you to get organised! We at Loss of Lieutenant want you to plan and run an event for your local players and tell us about your experience. If you tell us about the event and give it a real fun name, I’ll even put it on our socials for people all across the world to see and maybe come along if they are in the area.

This isn’t necessarily an ITS event. Just a group of people playing three games in your garage will fulfil the requirements of the challenge. Custom missions, resilience ops, reinforcements, free play are some of the many ways we all enjoy Infinity, so break them out too!

Submit your entry as a Google Doc to us at [e-mail]

One random winner will be selected to win a small box set of their choice from a retailer to be determined.

Q1 Hobby Challenge - New Year New Me

The New Year means the next round of tournaments, which, if you’re anything like Josh, means a new army! This quarter is a free form challenge, show us something that you have started and finished this year. Is it a model you are excited to use this year, a display board to show off in front of your silver surfer friends, or even a building/table that you would like to dominate on? We want to see it!

"Josh - I’ve got to start painting some more Caledonians. I’ll put some progress shots on the socials!"

Send your finished entry, along with any progress pictures as a Google Doc to us at [e-mail]

One random winner will be selected to win a small box set of their choice from a retailer to be determined.

Events

Some big events happening this year:

Arkfinity

Ark40k has been a premier 40k event for the last several years, and they are turning into a convention for all things gaming. So Kev and the folks at Melbourne Wargaming have put together a 2 dayer at ArcFest 2024.

When: Dates are 27-28 April, at

Where: Sandown Racecourse, Victoria

Missions are:

Superiority

Frostbyte

Acquisition

Mindwipe

Cutthroat

Just remember, like all good 40k events, this one also has a painting requirement, so we’ll see you in the discord for our regularly scheduled hobby nights to keep us all on task.

Tickets available on the Arkfest website:

https://acme.arcscore.events/t/arcfest

Borderbash

Another Melbourne Wargaming (and other Australian infinity enthusiasts’) baby is Borderbash, a spiritual successor to the beloved and missed Novacore.

When: 8 - 9th June 2024 (King's Birthday long weekend)

Where: Mirambeena Community Centre, 19 Martha Mews, Lavington NSW 2641

What: Five rounds of Infinity across two days

Missions are:

Round 1: Power Pack

Round 2: Acquisition

Round 3: Evacuation

Round 4: Frontline

Round 5: Supplies

Early bird tickets are $75, see the facebook event for more details.