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are these baboons? good paint job? lousy minis

Look nice, I actually find those minis growing on me for some reason... I think it's your fault. The faces could use a bit more highlighting, but otherwise I like them.

These are really nice, I like the detail on the gem stones, things like that really give the miniature depth. The only thing I wish you had done more of is the hair. Maybe drip a little ink into the grooves to give the hair a more flowing look and it will also add depth. Its a really nicely painted unit.

I really like these guys. The paint job is really well done, but I do agree with Drake...the faces could use a bit more highlighting to make them "pop" a bit more. On a side note how does the infinity game play?? After I saw your mini's yesterday...I found myself interested in the game, but I am not sure if I need something else distracting me ( I am like that...Ohhh a new game? Wow, those mini's look great...loads of money gone, wife complaining, dust settling...Know what I mean??)

Thanks,

Chappy P!

Heh.

[John and D'Argo are playing 'Rock, Paper, Scissors']
John Crichton: Again?
General Ka D'Argo: Yeah.
John Crichton: One, two, three.
[John throws paper. D'Argo throws rock]
General Ka D'Argo: [Laughs] Again, I win.
John Crichton: No, I win. Paper wraps rocks.
General Ka D'Argo: No, paper cannot possibly beat rock.
John Crichton: It does. Paper beats rock.
General Ka D'Argo: Rock rips through paper.
John Crichton: D'Argo, that's not how it works. Paper beats rocks.
General Ka D'Argo: That's unrealistic.
John Crichton: Well, it's the rules. And it's not supposed to be realistic, it's supposed to be entertaining.
General Ka D'Argo: My coma was more entertaining.

Farscape FTW

Okay; not really sure what the last post means... but I'll try to respond to the rest.

@ Fab: Jealousy becomes you.

@ DM and Delephonte: While I think my touching up in photoshop bled the blue-grey out of the hair, you're right about the faces. I touched them up with a dot of tanned flesh in my red and they look much better. I also went a highlighted the pennants on the Daturazi up to orange to seperate them from the Flesh.

@ Chappi P: The game is ultraskirmish. Think Necromunda (or previous edition Confrontation, 1 or 2). The first expansion due out is a Dogs of War/Necromunda experience and campaign system that will introduce a couple new troop types for each race and a whole whack of missions.

The universe is very Warzone/VOIR/ VOR/ with a touch of Star Trek / Wars. Humanity is factionalized and internecine wars over resources are the norm. Along comes huge conglomerate super race led by this thing called the EI which is looking for ultimate knowledge by absorbing/destroying races (Domninion, Covenant, etc). Will humanity band together to hold off this juggernaut or will they fracture and succumb?

As for the rules; they're VERY different from anything out there right now. Models give you a pool of 'orders' you can spend doing all kinds of things (running, jumping, hacking computers, shooting, etc)... and a model can spend MORE THAN ONE order per turn (eg: You can hunker down you troops while your HMG guy spends three orders hosing the opposition). The consequence of that is that every time a model spends an order, it generates and automatic response order (ARO) from the enemy that can see him. AROs can be used to do things like shoot back(!), duck, run, etc. so basically each player is immersed in the turn no matter what as the active player acts and the other player reacts. It also means that lists tend to be fairly balanced. Take a lot of guys and your opponents sniper with a good view of the table has a field day. Take too few and you don't have a lot of orders to do much during your turn.

So really; it's NOT a wargame. It's a squad combat game on a scale smaller than Confrontation or Warmachine (300pts is a BIG game, 8-10 models a BIG force). It also uses D20's, which means that stats may look weird to you at first glance.

I recommend you check out the complete rules as they're available online. The rulebook is really nice, but I had a friend who works for a printer make me a rulebook as the binding started to get loose really fast. Anyway, all the armylists, rules and weaponsheets/counters can be downloaded off the corvus belli site here;

http://www.infinitythegame.com/eng/descargas.asp

Fantization minis carries the complete line and has a standard bundle deal where you get 10% off for every hundred bucks you spend. They are the ones I've been dealing with so far and they've been AWESOME (like respond to your emails within hours awesome).

Later

Thanks Achilles for the reply! It sounds like a cool game, is it intuitive, and easy to learn?? I like the idea of being able to play a game that only takes a few models and won't cost you an arm and a leg!

Keep up the good work.

Chappy P!

Not THAT intuitive. But it's not unplayable either. It's on par with something like Necromunda.

Nice work, and good to see these models outside of the commercial pic. You're definitely making me check out the Combined Army again - none of the other factions totally do it for me, the basic troopers falling short - especially these Morat lads. Who knows, with GeeDub's price raise Infinity's $$$-tag is looking more managable, and with fewer models to buy/paint ...


Now if anyone carried or played around here

- Boss Salvage

The prices of these models are pretty much on-part with GW figs. I'd daresay their robots are actually more expensive.