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Looking to get into the game. I've already read through the free pdf's on their website but I was hoping to be able to purchase the full versions of their books. Does Corvus Belli not make their rule books available in PDF format?

Nope. They are beautiful pieces though, the fluff is very bearable.

Man, sadface Paizo has ruined me with their quick pdf support to lighten my gaming bag. Thanks for the quick reply!

As far as the weight of your gaming bag is concerned, the free PDFs do cover most of the rules and all of the units. The only stuff not in the PDFs are the Campaign rules/scenarios in Paradiso, which is a single book (and not needed for most gaming).

If you want the fluff in the books, you need to buy the books as that is not available as a pdf.

Same for the artwork that isn't in the rules part (but the rules pages they do have are direct ports to pdf - that is how the rules look in the actual books - diagrams and all).

Yeah, the only reasons so far to buy the books are - Artwork and fluff, and the campaign system.

All rules, army lists, weapon stats, unit profiles, etc you need to play a non-campaign game are freely available. There's actually more freely available than there is in the books - Dire Foes stats, certain pre-release units like the Anaconda squad, Miranda Ashcroft, etc are only available as PDFs.

The only gripe I have is they're rather scattered, as the online PDFs are just what was printed in the books. It would be nice if they spent a couple of days consolidating, for example - all weapon stats into one PDF, all lists and unit profiles for each faction into their own PDFs, all weapon special rules into one PDF, all equipment special rules into another PDF, etc.

There is, however, a Corvus Belli supported reorganised rulebook PDF that's meant to be much better laid out, but I can never remember where it is.

Tenabrae took the original link down, I believe (he is working on rejigging it to put the Paradiso stuff in (NOT the campaign or mission stuff).

IJW's wargamestrader site might have it there.

Yep. http://wargamingtrader.com/infinity-rules

I cannot wait until the Re-Edit gets all the new rules into it too!

It is a really helpful work, and much appreciated!

Aha! There it is. Saved to my iPhone.

 IJW wrote:
Yep. http://wargamingtrader.com/infinity-rules

Awesome, thanks!

As a new player, the various PDFs on the official site were kinda confusing. This is a great resource for newbies.

There's also a searcable Wikki that's invaluable to my group.

http://infinitythegame.wikispot.org/Home