Infinity Mission Focus: Capture and Protect

Welcome to the fourth installment of this series focusing on Infinity Missions. After studying the possibilities of Highly Classified, we now examine a mission where both players have to go to Hell and back: Capture and Protect.

In this mission you'll have to reach and steal the enemy beacon to bring it to your deployment zone, while your opponent does exactly the same.

Skills, weapons and equipment

🩹 Akrylat-Kanone: pair this beauty with a 5-core link and a baggage bot and you'll be shooting glue blasts from deployment zone to deployment zone at BS+6 saving on PH-6. On average, it means hitting on 18s and saving on 4s. Your opponent is eventually going to waste a lot of orders on engineering skills to unglue its troopers. By the way: only Starmada Bronzes have Akrylat-Kanone and core link so be advised. Plus, they have BS 13 so make sure you bring some smoke even if you have -6 Mimetism.

🔥 Impetuous: anything fast is good here, especially motorcycles! Just remember that these troopers can't benefit from partial cover so think twice on turn one: it may be wiser to reveal/remove enemy snipers before finding yourself in a tight spot. 

👓 360° visor: in this mission you'll definitely cross paths with your opponent so this equipment will work like a charm. Sixth sense is good too but I don't see it as a reason to push for 4-core links. 

Behaviours and tactics 

🐂 Come at me bro! Don't let your opponent taunt you unless you really want to. The risk of being lured towards a trap is high. Better send un-hackable/sixth sensed units ahead if you feel like things look a little too easy. 

📸 Blinded by the lights: picking up the beacon is an attack skill and therefore cannot be performed by a stunned trooper. It may sound strange, but a flash pulse bot can put up an excellent defense for your beacon.

🚨 Steal your own beacon: just remember it can be done. I see it as an order waste but it can be situationally relevant. 

Oooops! No you can't: only enemy beacons!

Final thoughts 

👁️‍🗨️ Out of sight: before playing this mission you'd better familiarize with all those weapons that can be used without line of fire. Speculative and perimeter weapons are always a pain to deal with and can really be useful to turn the tide in this mission. Also watch out for guided bots: all troopers (especially the carrier 😉) may be targeted by an hacker or by a forward observer and have a close encounter with a guided missile.

Useful links

• Capture and Protect text battle report by us!