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Yeah, the green haired Alguacil was the runt of the litter. Got his arms to line up the first time, stepped back and realized he was aiming with his forehead. All the others went together perfectly.

Glad to see I was not the only one who had trouble with him!

I now have most of the Nomads together. I should finish assembling Operation: Icestorm tomorrow!

I have finally finished assembly. Now I just need to stop changing my mind as to which faction to collect and I can start expanding into a 200 point list

Well, some folks will tell you to treat it like pokemon and collect all the factions. Personally, I settled on Haqqislam as the main faction, but so that I would have another faction to let others use in demo games and the like, I started the Acontecimento Shock Army ( a sectorial army of Pan-O) Two factions, or sectorials, seems about right. But pick the one you like the most, and if you cannot decide, play a few games with various factions using whatever minis you have as proxies to help with the decision.

I too was going to stick to Haqqislam. I started Tohaa then with all the new Haqqislam releases I was preparing to sell them... I've decided not to.

I don't suggest collecting everything, but multiple factionslets you experience different aspects of the game.Tohaa lets me experience some of the higher tech gadgets in the game, plus some of the things unique to them like the new pheromone tech.

Corvus Belli makes it too hard to pick a faction: there are a lot of good-looking minis! The only faction I really do not like the look of is Combined Army, though I am not too fussed on Yu Jing or ALEPH either.

I like PanOceania, Nomad and Tohaa minis the most, with Ariadna and Haqqislam coming fourth and fifth. With PanOceania and Nomads I tend to like all of the newer sculpts and am less fussed on the older ones. The newer sculpts are predominantly NeoTerra and Corregidor, so that biases me to those two sectorials over the other options, though these both sound like they are relatively dull options on the table (ie Acontecimento and Bakunin seem to have more mechanically-interesting units). I have not had the opportunity to see the Tohaa models up close (no one plays them here), but the photos and concept art give me a general impression. While I really like some models (eg Clipsos and Nikoul), some of the more core Fireteam models (eg Ectros and Sakiel) rub me the wrong way; it is not that I dislike them, they just do not grab me the way a PanOceanian Swiss Guard or Nomad Hellcat does.

By the fluff, Haqqislam is the only faction that really appeals: they are trying to return to a golden age of art and science. That is a background I can get behind. Super-consumerist/super-capitalists trying to maintain the status quo, super-communists seeking to be the dominant power, anarchists/general crazies roaming space and running organised crime, anachronistic Yanks/Russians/Scots/French giving the finger to Earth, and probably-evil alien 'allies' manipulating others into fighting for them. None of those really grab me. Actually, I like the Combined Army fluff more than most, and they are definitely my least-favoured faction! Honestly, this stuck me as a little odd, as I expected to be drawn into the fluff more than I was.

On the table (from what I understand of the rules/my limited experience), PanOceania seems pretty underpowered and dull (+1BS and lots of access to TAGs seems a poor trade off for the worst specialists in the game). I do not really 'get' what Nomads do (outside Tunguska, which looks like it will be a hacker-crazy sectorial when finished). Tohaa Fireteams sound really interesting on the table, but, again, those are the models I am less excited about. Then again, I do not yet know the game well enough to make a meaningful judgement on mechanics. After years of 40K, I still do not know my playstyle there, so I do not expect to have a clue with Infinity yet

Pan Oceania are definitely not underpowered, but their available tactics are just more limited. They're basically all focused around bringing a big gun to bear. They have good access to advanced gadgets but lower access to lower tier stuff like cheap warbands. Their lower WIP isn't as huge as it's made out to be on their baseline units, it's more on the expensive units that don't get as high as in other factions.

Nomads are the dirty trick faction. Hacking is Tunguskas thing, but Nomads in general get a lot of ability combos that are just rude. For example, Intruders are offensive camo units - with MSV's that make them super effective at hunting other camo. Generally you get one or the other.

Tohaa is weird in that a lot of people went berserk on triads because you can run 3 links in a list, but IMO that's missing the point. Tohaa have some fantastic solo units that really get their job done - light with symbiont armour which makes than tougher than they deserve to be with things like sapper+viral sniper and spitfire+superjump, with things like Clipsos TO specialists, Rasail Boarding teams, jump infantry with HI level toughness and the like sprinkled in. Triads make the list order efficiant, but focusing solely on them misses the amazing solo stuff Tohaa can bring. Two triads and 4 solo units in a combat group is a great combination of efficiency and attack vectors.