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So, in all the Infinity games that I have seen or played, they mostly seem to be fairly urban combat. However, this seems to me to waste all the great multi terrain abilities, and I am wondering if anyone here has any experience using wilderness terrain in infinity. Does anyone here have any experience with this, and how does it affect you game?

We have few elements of it but strictly we haven't played in a total jungle or desert.

As you suspected, terrain abilities can come very handy. Though we haven't been playing exactly according to the rules. It can be a bit difficult to remember how you classified every piece of terrain so most of it falls into "difficult or very difficult" category with possible low visibility. Trees and sufficiently high rocks will still provide cover.

My Shock Army loves such terrain to play on. The Acontecimento Regulars do not have any ARM so it's very handy to use wood or jungle terrain for my benefits. High trees are great, not because they'd provide cover but also block LoF from vantage points, so an enemy sniper or your own will have more difficult task to do. Retrieving an objective in the middle of a wood or jungle can also be rather frustrating, depending, if low visibility is taken. Generally troops with some sort of terrain ability will feel comfortable, skirmishers will always love it, sensors and MSV become even more useful and HI/MI/REM unit will hate fighting on difficult terrain. I like to see an obstacle that makes HI link teams a bit less attractive, otherwise I feel that group will have too big impact or perhaps turn the game into "stop my big scary unit". It can be interesting but after a while it becomes awfully dull.

Marshes and lakes are death traps. We usually add low visibility to them, because they don't block any LoF and slow down just about any infantry without "aquatic" special rule. If you dislike someone make him deploy on a side that has aquatic terrain inside or just outside of his deployment zone. However, if you add some cover in the marsh the results can be very scary. Low visibility and cover will add -6 to hit penalty, before any other modifiers are taken in.

We've tried with some wilderness terrain.

"Woods" we tend to play as difficult ground but it also counts as a low-vis zone (-3) and the trees themselves still count as cover IF you are in B2B with one (so -3 to hit, +3 armour).

I'm about the only one to field "skirmishers" (some who have "x" terrain skill) and it's really only certain terrain that bothers skirmishers. My HI tend to be anchors. My LI and SK are the doers.

The main reason I think you see so many urban tables is because it gives people a reason to go make that dense, urban sci fi table they always wanted. Coupled with some very affordable HDF terrain flooding the market, there's no reason to not make such a table.

My Reason is that urban terrain is far easier proxying if you have not enough. Just add in a few more boxes (am I ever glad I'm too lazy to throw away my mini boxes!) and you're essentially good to go. A lot harder to do that with forests, though I really like to play in them

I´ve build a jungle themed table this summer. I think it´s great fun playing on it. We play jungle parts as Low Visible Zone and looking through two parts of jungle zero visibility zones.

I think the phenomeon originates from the fact that majority of Infinity players were Warhammer players (Fantasy or 40k), and every WH battle is played in a damned jungle / forest or wasteland type board. So after the countles forest battles it's refreshing to battle on a dense city street.

The other thing is fluff: Infinity is about 'black-ops' not open battle fields. So what in the hell would two corporate-financed spec-ops team could do in the middle of nowhere ?

Maybe a shuttle crashed or something. Maybe there is a hidden research facility.

The first mission of my homemade campaign written for the community here in Warsaw is explicitly stated to take place in a jungle, where a shuttle carrying a VIP crashed.

The problem was that due to lack of LOS buildings, Snipers and HMGs were very powerful.

We played the same as chromedog, so LVZ and cover for the forests + official difficult terrain rules for them, too, meaning HI would be moving at half their MOV.

I think Paradiso has shown there is the background there for taking the battlefield beyond the city.

I've made a terrain set-up, representing the home base of my 'Black Cats' Qapu Khalqi mercenary force. These are the best photos I have of it so far (sorry not very good ones) although I have since added bits:





We use the tree-areas as complete LOS blocking, unless you are stood within them and then they count as reduced vision. As you can see, you can still get fairly good LOS blocking and have a themed, non-city board.

There was another chap on here who had made an awesome looking jungle board - with some Warmill roads running over the top of it, looked extremely characterful.

Sorry, it's hilarious seeing an Infinity table with a skullpit.

But that's a great non city table, and basically what I'm aiming for with my 'colony' terrain.

Haha yes it is pretty funny.. unfortunately it was the only surface available where we were playing.

As soon as those Mat'o'war go on sale again, going to get one of those to base this on..