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I'd highly recommend newer players start at the 100-150pt range and try to use mainly basic troops. It's not so much the complexity of the rules that is hard for players (really in their essence they are very simple), but rather the tactical know how.

Infinity is very realistic as funny as that sounds. List building is about 5% of winning in the game and about 85% is strategy. For this reason you have to get the basics of movement, cover, firing ranges, and simple tactics down before you try and jump into special rules. If you jump in knee deep at 200-300pts you'll get a sour taste in your mouth when a Caskuda air drops into your backfield and lights up your whole army with a heavy flamer.

There is a LOT of nasty tactics, tricks, and maneuvers you can do in Infinity that you simply won't know how to deal with as a new player. Once you have seen them though you learn how to counter those tricks. Everything is so insanely balanced in Infinity that it is generally accepted by it's players as "It's not your list, it's you" as the reason for wins or losses.

When a game has things like this melon-fether here... who needs a reason to get into?

So I just picked up the Infinity rulebook and I'm starting an Ariadna army and I had a few questions.

How do the minis work? I mean, when you buy them, do they come with multiple weapon options in the box (soldier that can be built a number of ways with what's in the box), or do you buy specific models (i.e. soldier with chain rifle)? If you buy specific models, how do people normally model their troops if the mini has not yet been released? Is there a weapon pack you can buy somewhere?

Thanks!

Models generally come with one type of weapon.
Often there are multiple sculpts of a troop type with different weapons.

There is NO weapons pack available - although certain models DO come with a spare weapon (because they are holding a sword or whatever and their hands are already full).

The minis are also metal and multi-part often with fiddly bits.
If you can't deal with metal models then regardless of how pretty you find the minis, you'd best be advised to steer clear.

Nope, love me some metal models.

Well, then. Get to it.

Corvus Belli have said they will not be making weapons packs.
Despite repeated demands from "enthusiastic" infinity players (who approach a certain type of 40k player in their rabid consumption of all things CB).

Certain of the hacker models come with a combi rifle and no way to hold it.
Certain other models also.

Actually the weapons packs do in fact exist. However they are available via retail but rather CB saves them for special tournies.

BlueDagger wrote:Actually the weapons packs do in fact exist. However they are available via retail but rather CB saves them for special tournies.

I think we wrote about this point before.
While I have also heard about weapon blisters included with tournament packs, no one in the official forums has confirmed their existence yet. No one has seen a weapon blister ever. Not as a product, not even as a special gift from CB.
Is this an idea? a project? candy for the ITS season 3?
I don't know.

But... while I would like to have weapons for my miniatures, I think that CB does not release them because they sell miniatures, they are a company. if you want to use an Akalis Sikh Hacker in a legal tournament you have to buy an Akalis Sikh Hacker to do so. That's the system.

They were given away at the ITS in Spain a few months back, my guess is the winners are from the Spanish forum therefor it didn't show up in English forums.

Fernando with CB told me about it when he advised me my ITS # of players record had been beaten :/

After reading this thread and checking the website I wanna play could you guys help me pick an army something that plays like eswat from appleseed.

So you want lots of heavy infantry and some TAGs (battlesuits/'landmates") with an emphasis on hacking and heavy weapons?

Multiple TAGs are not common, but one of them accompanying a squad is more so (TAGs are expensive and you would find yourself starved of orders).

PanO, Yu-jing and Nomads can all do these types of force.

After reading this thread and checking the website I wanna play could you guys help me pick an army something that plays like eswat from appleseed.

Well, after seeing all those miniatures and designs, I'm pretty sure that it goes like this:

PanOceana = Appleseed
Yu Jing = Ghost in the Shell

Thanks guys I've decided on PanO and Yu Jing,so the misses can play. But do you have to paint them a certain way or are you free to use your creativity?

You are free to use your own colour schemes and creativity.

porkchop806 wrote:Thanks guys I've decided on PanO and Yu Jing,so the misses can play.

YuJing and PanO are bitter enemies, therefore if you're a true player that cares about the fluff then you don't want to collect the eternal enemy of each faction:
-PanO vs YuJing
-Aleph vs Nomads
-Aleph vs Combined Army

I collect Nomads, Aleph and Combined, among others - so don't listen to that advice at all!

I collect PanO, Yu-Jing and Aleph.

Their (core) play styles are different (long range, close range and general pain in the ass) which allows me mix it up, preventing burnout.

Alpharius wrote:I collect Nomads, Aleph and Combined, among others - so don't listen to that advice at all!

LOL. I collect the same 3 forces. Plus with the new releases over the past few month I getting read to start a PanO and YuJing. Then there the new Muls, damn you CB.

I'm get close to having the whole Nomad line lol.

Nice thread and Infinity certainly looks good. So damn good in fact I'm ordering some minis! The Haqqid faction really grabbed my eye and I'm gonna buy some of the ones I liked. Looks like a popular game as many of the models and nearly every starter kit is currently sold out on warstore.com.

I don't imagine I'll have a good chance of actually finding a game where I live, but it'll be fun to paint those models, as they're quite amazing.

Oh and BlueDagger you live in CO? I live up in Fort Collins!

Yep, count me in.

I just ordered both rulebooks and two 200 point armies, Yu Jing and Ariadna.

Can't wait to start playing. Really interested in making terrain for this game, as well.

Cave_Dweller, your actually lucky since Colorado has a lot of infinity players. I know of several players up that way lol. Head to Dark Matter Games in denver if you need Infinity stuff. They have practically the whole line in stock.

BlueDagger wrote:Cave_Dweller, your actually lucky since Colorado has a lot of infinity players. I know of several players up that way lol. Head to Dark Matter Games in denver if you need Infinity stuff. They have practically the whole line in stock.

Nice I'll have to check that out. Do they have a game night for that with scenery etc?

I know of at least 3 guys up that way that have Infinity Specific terrain that play at Total Escape Games. I'm usually at DMG Wednesday nights and keep a 4x8 worth of my personal Infinity terrain at the store for people to use.

If you want to poke around for a match just follow the link in my sig.

There's about 6 of us fellas here in Southern WY that are starting Infinity up. Both myself and a friend have signed up for the Infinity tournament at Adepticon too. We may be looking at travelling to CO for tournaments on occasion. Is Total Escape Games the best location for that? Is there anyway to stay informed of tournaments that crop up in your area?


Edit: Just noticed the rm40k.com link, very nice! I'm assuming this is way to keep track of Infinity tournaments in CO?

Yep, if there is one going on it'll be found there. There is a tournament in the planning for Dark Matter Games (Denver Area) I believe for next month which I believe will be 300pts.

Total Escape will have a 150pt tourney eventually I think.

Janzerker wrote:

porkchop806 wrote:Thanks guys I've decided on PanO and Yu Jing,so the misses can play.

YuJing and PanO are bitter enemies, therefore if you're a true player that cares about the fluff then you don't want to collect the eternal enemy of each faction:
-PanO vs YuJing
-Aleph vs Nomads
-Aleph vs Combined Army

Why not? I'm not sure what you mean. I'd love to have a Tanith IG army and a Blood Pact army for 40k. And both armies would have a lot of character. It's not like he is going to mix the units or something. I think that an army is fluff-friendly by the units wich are chosen. Not by what other armies are being collected for a gamer. And, if he wants to play some demos with friends, using opposite armies is the most usual. The starter boxes of other games don't use to include two friendly armies.

I'm hopefully going to get my first playtest of Infinity tonight at Maelstrom, I have a friend painting up my Pan-O so I will be having a shot with some friends gear. Like the idea of Aleph, so might get some of their stuff as a secondary force.

Ordered up a starter pack, I guess there goes one more army/system to drag to Adepticon with me.

Captain Jack wrote:I'm hopefully going to get my first playtest of Infinity tonight at Maelstrom, I have a friend painting up my Pan-O so I will be having a shot with some friends gear. Like the idea of Aleph, so might get some of their stuff as a secondary force.

I've got this.

PanO as primary (currently at 22 figures) and an Aleph secondary (because I also play as Neoterran sectorial, which can take some Aleph units).

My PanO are a two-tone blue and white scheme, with the Aleph taking on a TRON scheme (Devas are general programs, Asuras are Sirens (game grid armourers).) Only have the Aleph starter at present though, so no Garudas or other models yet (and I won't be getting fabio ever - I just don't like the model).