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Actually starting a thread in the sub-forum for scenarios would be a really cool thing to do...

Knight, in the US the TO usually announces the list of scenarios to be used in advance of the tournament,, like days or weeks before, at least that is the way around here. Also the time allowed per round etc...

And speaking of scenarios, we are supposed to get new ITS scenarios at some point. I believe the number was 4 more. Anyone hear a timeline on that?

What do you play for your preferred pick up and play format? Do you have preferred types of scenarios? Do you make a list in advance or on the fly?

When it comes to TO/events, we do the same. Probably very lenient with time.

I know there was "Patient Zero" on the sneak peak preview. I was rather intrigued by the name only. I hope the big announcement wont be creating more hype based on something that will happen in the future.

There is a scenario thread on the official forum. Sadly, the guy who made the first post disappeared and a mod hasn't updated the links so none of them work. I managed to find the links to some of the more fun ones on the 2nd page of that thread, and a couple of other people have done the same there so might be worth a look!

http://infinitythegame.com/forum/index.php?/topic/4355-player-written-scenarios-collection/

Great idea for a scenarios thread in the Infinity section right here though!

So, here's a thought, why don't we go toss up a post down in our little Infinity section and toss around some ideas for custom scenarios and games. Pool some ideas of our own and see if we can whip up some interesting missions?

Obviously it isn't anything remotely close to official, but if we can playtest a few and find them fun, we could put them up for other folks to use?

EDIT - Gotta practice what I preach. Here ya'll go for whoever is interested! http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/591528.page#6756205

 Knight wrote:

Savnock wrote:From what I read on forums, it has become so in most other places too, 2014 flaws and all.

Interesting. Official forums? I still believe there's higher interest in YAMS. Though ITS varies, perhaps not surprising to find out that certain communities favour specific missions for their pick up. How do you guys in the US manage it? Are missions pre-determined, do you talk about the type of a ITS mission on the spot and then write a list?
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We do it how CB suggest we do it, well here anyways. Meetup, decised on mission, tell what faction/subfaction we are playing, them write are list. Unlike someother games with set play styles for each faction you don't have to worry about the other guy write his list to counter yours. Well unless your predictable with your amry list, but thing it really doesn't matter as he know what you bring anyways.

For tournaments here in my area, it is list in advance, but for casual play in my group it is more or less mix and match... sort of a what do I want to play tonight, but list is done before missions etc are set.

So how quick to post info will BoW be anyway? As I recall, the Spanish forum was a bit, erm, lazy, about posting news the last time there was an event. I hope don't have to wait until Sunday night/Monday for the news.

I really want to see what those Infinity dropships may look like.

Edit: However, Bostria's presentation is at 5:30pm (11:30am EST) until 7:00pm on Sunday. We may not get much news until Monday. :(

 Knight wrote:
What do you play for your preferred pick up and play format? Do you have preferred types of scenarios? Do you make a list in advance or on the fly?

YAMS every time for us.

I greatly prefer YAMS. There's an ITS fanatic or two in the group that keep us mostly ITS, however.

Very mix and match around here, sometimes people even just want to play a standard killfest.

 Knight wrote:

Savnock wrote:From what I read on forums, it has become so in most other places too, 2014 flaws and all.

Interesting. Official forums? I still believe there's higher interest in YAMS. Though ITS varies, perhaps not surprising to find out that certain communities favour specific missions for their pick up. How do you guys in the US manage it? Are missions pre-determined, do you talk about the type of a ITS mission on the spot and then write a list?

The group up here in Seattle have talked about doing exactly this and are slowly approaching it (having recently playtested rules for mass-TAG combat, arena combat, bunker/boarding action combat, and some of deflatermouse's great missions). If anyone out there is looking for a way to make one's fellow Infinity nerds super happy, write and publish scenarios!

Mind dropping me scenarios, once they're all finished? Here, on the sub forum or PM, either way is fine. I'm mostly looking for new missions.

Sure, happy to send you the missions once we're done! I'll also be posting them in the forums here of course.

Actually, if you'd like to try out our massed-TAG-combat special scenario, the playtest version is on the CB forums here: http://infinitythegame.com/forum/index.php?/topic/21936-scenario-iron-fists-tag-vs-tag-battles-v-20/.

We also play a version of Seize the Beacons (from ITS 2013) with half the table being a bunker represented by Space Hulk tiles and the other half open territory. Objectives are all in the bunker part. It's tons of fun, and totally changes the game (boarding shotguns are great in there).

When we've got time to pre-arranged games we often play custom scenarios, like rescues, heists, escort missions, etc. Paradiso games get played every few weeks, but the heavy emphasis on specialists is a bit wearying.

As for managing pickup games with ITS, we tend to build our lists just like we do for an ITS tourney: one for objectives, one for straight smash-ups. Using a 12-XP Specop has also become pretty standard around here. And even "killfest" games tend to use the Annihilation scenario, as the Classified objectives and strategic value of keeping troops alive makes it more interesting than the static firefights which no-scenario games tend to degenerate into.

YAMS was the default here until we started playing ITS last year. YAMS is just... well, kinda boring after a while. We tend to prefer more narrative, even in pickup games. Even ITS scenarios have just enough narrative to get by and can become a bit "gamey" as others have pointed out.

Now if someone revamped YAMS to have some more-exciting objectives, I would love to give it more play. But only so many times can one kill the damned civvie.

What exactly is YAMS, besides being tasty?

YAMS stands for 'yet another mission system', made by the chap who runs the Wargaming Trader site and organises a lot of the UK Infinity events scene

http://wargamingtrader.com/yams

I play a mix of straight-up games, YAMS, Paradiso, and narrative games. There are a lot of player-made scenarios on the Infinity forum, am in the process of updating all the links for those at the moment with PsychoticStorm, as it really needs doing!

I'm hoping to revamp/expand YAMS in the second half of the year.

To anyone knocking YAMS, the feedback thread is linked directly on the download page:

http://infinitythegame.com/forum/index.php?/topic/7737-yet-another-mission-system-11-download-link-post-147

If I don't know about your concerns they're not likely to be fixed...

 IJW wrote:
I'm hoping to revamp/expand YAMS in the second half of the year.

To anyone knocking YAMS, the feedback thread is linked directly on the download page:

http://infinitythegame.com/forum/index.php?/topic/7737-yet-another-mission-system-11-download-link-post-147

If I don't know about your concerns they're not likely to be fixed...

Hey IJW, I don't mean to knock your work. It used YAMS quite happily for a year or so, and appreciate the effort you put into it. Thank you for doing that for the good of the Infinity community!

YAMS is very well-balanced. But after quite a few games the objectives felt a bit too arbitrary and un-narrative. That could also be true of static missions like ITS: the 2013 set got a bit old after a year's play too. I'll make some comments on your thread with ideas that players around here floated for enhancing the way that separate objectives can link together to tell a story.

Also: Were you behind the NUSU tournament special-table rules? Those have been used a lot here in Seattle for various things, especially the bunker rules.

Anyways, sorry if that came off rude. YAMS is really good player-generated material that can eventually become something even better.

Yep, NUSU was the first Infinity tournament I ran.

This is it!

We're on the verge of BIG NEWS WEEKEND!

All operatives - deploy to Spain!

I'll start swimming east just after work. It's only a few thousand miles of open ocean...

Bostria will give the Infinity presentation on Sunday, at 5:30pm local time (so 11:30 am EST?). We may not get news until Monday morning :(

Shame there is no live feed on Ustream or something like that. Haven't these people heard of the internet?

Beasts of War are usually quite fast with the updates, hopefully they will be on the ball!

Plus of course nothing to stop a Dakkaite making a quick post with summary via their smartphone?

 Pacific wrote:
Beasts of War are usually quite fast with the updates, hopefully they will be on the ball!

...you're joking right?

Often times we know weeks before BoW posts the updates they're given, because BoW sits on them.

There are already pics coming out before the event !

He sure looks happy

 PsychoticStorm wrote:
He sure looks happy

I think Warren looks exactly like he actually is, a bloke terrified of flying that just got off a plane.

Is Warren even old enough to have 'experienced' Atari when they were, well, really Atari?!?

Looking forward to the "BIG NEWS"!

Well I'm pretty sure that I'm younger than him and had an Atari 2600 when they were new, so it's quite possible he may have done!

Big internet kudos to whoever posts the news on Dakka first then guys - do we have anyone who posts on the forum who is attending the show?

I don't think so. We basically have to wait for the Spanish forums/BoW.

I'm in the other corner of the country, I'm sorry D:

Not acceptable Erasoketa, get there now! You still have time ! *cracks whip*

Judging from facebook, the BOW guys are mostly wandering round taking pictures of the cosplayers at the moment. There's some tournament pics but not big news yet.

Very nice looking table at the event, looks like some of the more recent terrain release



I have dreams about playing on such a table..

Nice looking table!

And it looks like they're going to tease this out a while, aren't they?