Infinity- My adventures with Steel Phalanx

 Hi all! As you may have seen recently, I've gotten back into Infinity and started with my Steel Phalanx army. I've had a lot of fun with it, and some of my thoughts are mentioned below. 

One major appeal of Steel Phalanx is the sheer amount of special characters in it, and their role in the army. These are a few of my favourites for their rules and sculpts and I rarely will play a game without at least 2-3 of these 4. Atalanta is just an insanely good ARO piece I can set and forget who will deal with most threats (dice permitting), while Achilles and Patroclus are a super hard hitting duo that also happens to deliver a Specialist Operative where it needs to be and in tough bodies. Penthesilea I don't use as much but using her as a guided missile to remove things with her Monofilament CC Weapon is always funny to see. 

The real core of my army are the Myrmidons. Making up my main Fireteam, I really love the way they work just as an annoying pack that can push really deep into the enemy lines as a secondary attack squad. Atalanta covers AROs and watches down one fire lane, Achilles and Patroclus charge in and start killing early while the Myrmidons act as a 2nd advance and hit later in the game. I also always take Phoenix in this link because his threat with the linked Heavy Rocket Launcher is really good and he can hit things very hard both in active and reactive. I also really like his sculpt and rocket launchers in general are great fun so I have very simple reasons for liking the link. -6 to hit all around plus smoke makes them real pests which is also something I love

One variant of my lists have a Fireteam:Enomotarchos of 3 Thorakites with Thrasymedes as a way to spread out potential for Classified Objectives, but otherwise Thrasymedes is in my list always because of what he does. The Thorakites are ok but always the 2nd Enomotarchos I'll add, while Thrasymedes is a hard to shoot Specialist that sprays out a good amount of shooting with his SMG and if not linked he can infiltrate to where I want him to be (on an objective claiming cover and then going suppressive for -12 to hit) 

Overall I really like playing Steel Phalanx because they're simple but can do a lot when they need to. Moving on to things with a lot more tricks though very soon!