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@ Morathi's Darkest Sin

Welcome to the cause! Awesome catch dude. Those models are something special are they not? ....and, congrats on getting your wife to play as well...

Now, off with you, and spread the word....come on, chant with me...INFINITY, INFINITY, INFINITY

Is there a faction that seems to be more popular than the rest among the players? I'm mainly interested in PanOceania because they look cool (don't care about who's best or whatever), but I can't shake the feeling that they're the equivalent of Space Marines in Infinity.

From following Infinity threads here, I see more folks talking about Nomads and Yu Jing overall. Of course that is just a snapshot.

PanOceania is the biggest faction in the background, but I'm not so certain it equates to biggest player faction.


On a side note, reading the background as I pause to type here, loving it so far. Like some of the themes and ideas they came up with, probably going to buy the Human Sphere book asap now, more so for more background info than the Aleph rules and extra units.

Human Sphere's artwork is drool worthy.

On the note of the most played I have gotten the sense of it this way:

Nomads or Yu-Jing
ALEPH
Combined Army
Ariadna
Haqq or Pan'O



I'm not sure what it is about Pan'O, but not a ton of people play them or those who do keep to themselves.

I don't think you can draw realistic parallels to WH40K from Infinity, it's just different.

Pan O, is not the Space Marines of Infinity, they are a faction that is (within the fluff) one of the most powerful....a bit like how the USA might be considered in the modern era.

This doesn't make them the poster boys, Corvus Belli have elected (intelligently) not to do the whole "promote one at the expense of all of the others" model that GW seems to favour....which means new players are certain that not only can they pick any faction they wish, and it will have a measure of balance within the game, but, no matter what faction they pick, Corvus Belli will support them all evenly.

How refreshing

Though Combined Army, being the big bad aliens, doesn't get any large chested or provocative posed models lol. This may be seen as them getting the short end of the stick

Yeah, it certainly seems that way Delephont.

Really enjoyed the background, I could see myself getting into at least another faction if I enjoy the gameplay. Although not one stood out to me as a 'meh, I'd not bother' based on their background, they all had at least one interesting quirk that could of drawn me in.

Hell the only issue I see now, is Corvus need to release more figs, I could easily see myself having a dedicated force in Infinity based from each of the three Nomad ships, I'd also love a full squad of Moria's.

I have just seen in the Corvus Belli online Store that they have put an "Out of Stock" banner over both english version books. Seems like the Infinity week has nearly sold out every copy.
I guess it is just a matter of time they print more.

Hell the only issue I see now, is Corvus need to release more figs, I could easily see myself having a dedicated force in Infinity based from each of the three Nomad ships, I'd also love a full squad of Moria's.

Corvus Belli release at least 5 new products every month. More than usual miniature companies.
By the way, about Nomads... They are just focusing in 2 of the 3 Fleets: Bakunin (Moiras, Zeros, SinEaters, Moderators...) and Corregidor. (Alguaciles, Intruders, Hellcats, Tomcats, Moran...)
There are a few miniatures that belong to the 3rd ship, Tunguska, but they say that the Tunguska (Securitate, Interventor, Spektr...) sectorial army will be released with the 3rd expansion book.

Within Yu-Jing... do you see mostly the Chinese version or Japanese?

Very mixed. JSA prob pulls ahead jsut a bit for the whole "Invisible Lightsaber Uber Ninjas" and "Motorcycle Drive-by" factor, but Imperial having Celestial guard and Kuang Shi linked teams has huge appeal.

Though playing nomads I just refer to them all as Eggrolls

Are any of the factions widely regarded as less competitive, more monotonous to play, or just less fun than the others, or is the game pretty well balanced at present?

I'd say they're all pretty well balanced. At the moment, a new player can roll with what-ever hey feel suits their tastes and still be competitve with other factions.

I've been told that Aleph may require a bit more finesse, but I'm not sure why that is the case

BlueDagger wrote:Though Combined Army, being the big bad aliens, doesn't get any large chested or provocative posed models lol.

How dare you, check out
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and of course,


now that's a big girl!

I've seen the movie Species I know how that ends.

Damn I've not been this inspired in years.

Put them together within 12hrs, based them, undercoated and began paiting within 24hrs total.

Thats a record over the past ten years.

Going for a yellow/cream and Grey/black colour scheme for Corregidor. Pink/purple, red, blue and white for Bakunin and black/grey, red for Tunguska.

Going to try and eventually have teams set to each ship, with the nomad symbol tie them together in games where I use troops from the various ships together.

Despite the lack of tanks, the models and game look very intresting. Probably see if I can't drag someone in my WH40k group to get into this so we can try it. Question is now, Nomad (lawesome sci-fi look) or Ariadna (more modern army look.)

One question for you guys; will my CoD terrain be sufficient for this game, or should I invest some time into making other terrain?

_Tim?

Not sure, I'll be using mine to start, but I plan on adding new terrain for Infinity as soon as poss.
I'm probably going to do some outdoor battles as well, see how rocky outcrops and tree cover plays out.

Some_Call_Me_Tim? wrote:One question for you guys; will my CoD terrain be sufficient for this game, or should I invest some time into making other terrain?

_Tim?

It'll work for a start, but you WILL want more LOS blocking stuff - the GW "swiss cheese" terrain will get you killed a lot quicker in infinity games.

I've added boards to the inside of some of the "windows" (cut up wooden coffee stirrers) to block out several of them on mine - I have 3 CoD ruins out of 6 tables worth of 40k terrain.)

We'll(Aurelia and myself) be trying our first battle tomorrow, will share how it goes. If I can use a jedi mind trick on the camera I might even get some pics up.

Would love to see that! Have fun!

Is Infinity a "what you see is what you get type of game"? I know a lot of models have different weapon options, are there different blisters for each weapon type, or is it a separate arm type of deal?

Most of the arms seem to come seperate, but they don't ship models with alternate weapons - actually one of the May releases, the guarda assalto, has 2 different weapons, that's the first one I've heard of, maybe it's a sign of things to come. I have seen pictures of arm/weapon swaps between models, since lots of units have weapon options available that aren't supported by current models.

The other thing I've been told is that proxying different weapons and such is more approved of in Infinity than 40k. Perhaps it is because Infinity revolves around trying out new units and tactics game by game, rather than bringing all-comer lists against multiple opponents.

The models for Infinity are indeed WYSIWYG, but it is generally accepted that proxying weapons for another and similar looking model with the correct weapon, is fine. As per the Infinity Tourney rules if there is a missing model from the Infinity range, any other model from the Infinity range may be proxied in it's place as long as it is the generally accepted size for said model and has a similar weapon.

Nomad Szalamandra = Nomad Iguana

Pan'O Cutter = Nomad Iguana

Yu-Jing Gūijiă (prob without the sword) = Nomad Iguana

Combined Army Caskuda <> Nomad Iguana

Nomad Tsyklon Sputnik <> Nomad Iguana

Okay, I think I have decided on my first two purchases. I am liking PanOceania and YuJing at the moment, so I will be picking up the Military Orders Box for PanOceania. And also, the Imperial Service box for YuJing. As all of my commission work earnings provide my Miniature budget, I will have to wait a bit to pick these boxes up. Really excited!

_Tim?

I think I'm going to go with those two factions as well. Pan Oceania because of the cool anime style of a lot of the troops, Yu Jing on the basis they have samurai and cyber-zombies which impetuously charge at the enemy then explode when killed

The wonderful thing is though it is so relatively cheap to complete a force, there is nothing to stop you (other than painting man-hours) to get all of the factions you like!

Pacific wrote:I think I'm going to go with those two factions as well. Pan Oceania because of the cool anime style of a lot of the troops, Yu Jing on the basis they have samurai and cyber-zombies which impetuously charge at the enemy then explode when killed

The wonderful thing is though it is so relatively cheap to complete a force, there is nothing to stop you (other than painting man-hours) to get all of the factions you like!

Yep, that is the beauty of the thing. Once I get my first two starters, I might even pick up the Combined army starter box, just so I can have 3 nice small!) armies to paint. I love the way that this game is all about small armies, it gives me more time to lavish on each model.

Speaking of painting, I am thinking of doing a Jade green trim, earthy orange for the main armor color, and black for the cloth color scheme for my YuJing. For the Panoceania army, I think that I might go with black armor, offwhite cloth, and either red of grayish blue trim.

_Tim?


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Stupid question, I know, but where is the weapons chart? I can't seem to find it anywhere!

_Tim?

Some_Call_Me_Tim? wrote:
Stupid question, I know, but where is the weapons chart? I can't seem to find it anywhere!

_Tim?

It's the first page of the Army List.
The new weapons in Human Sphere are in their own seperate pdf - http://www.infinitythegame.com/infinity/downloads/rules/%5Ben%5DWeaponsHS.pdf

quozl wrote:

Some_Call_Me_Tim? wrote:
Stupid question, I know, but where is the weapons chart? I can't seem to find it anywhere!

_Tim?

It's the first page of the Army List.
The new weapons in Human Sphere are in their own seperate pdf - http://www.infinitythegame.com/infinity/downloads/rules/%5Ben%5DWeaponsHS.pdf

*Faceplam*

_Tim?

There is a quite excellent write up on Infinity on this blog:

http://thefrontlinegamer.blogspot.com/2011/05/infinity-best-game-theres-ever-been.html?showComment=1306764098653#c1730481764416627075

As a new recruit to the game I found it very worthwhile reading, and also well written, definitely worth a look-see!