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So just a quick question here, I purchased Ice Storm for my gaming group in hopes to move us out of the board game era and back into table top games. I noticed in the News and Rumors thread that Infinity is suffering from Scale Creep. Is there an easy way when expanding and adding armies that we can avoid the smaller scale items for newer sculpts? Is it easy to tell the new sculpts from the old?

It's not that big an issue, really (or even a small to big issue for that matter.. ) I own dozens and dozens of the miniature range, from the very earliest to the latest, and regularly field them within the same game. It's simply not a problem when viewed on the tabletop, and TBH not something I had even considered before I read it on the forum.

The only issue you might have is with some of the aesthetics not matching, specifically the Morats (combined army) - the older style miniatures are a different style to the new ones, although if you buy the new Morat starter set you can't go wrong. As a rule, if you look in the miniature gallery on the official Infinity website the new miniatures are at the top, older ones at the bottom.

Thanks Pacific! I appreciate the quick response. It normally does not bother me but one of the pictures was a very substantial difference. Granted in Warmahordes I still use Black 13th and they are way out of scale in comparison.

Combined are on the list of most wanted for one of our gamer so that is great news.

Yeh really don't worry about it too much there are only a few very tiny miniatures left now and as Pacific says they'll be towards the bottom of the galleries(and look a bit mince).

Although I'm a little concerned over the current issues raised I actually see it as a separate issue to the older models being smaller. I think, for me, it's much more that I'm struggling to see consistency in the changes and I'd like to know exactly where we stand moving forward. I really don't worry too much about fielding models of slightly varying scales.

If it's going to be a problem for you and you are planning on purchasing some CA then I just found out something of interest. The Vanguards in the Morat Starter are a good chunk less bulky in all dimensions compared to the slightly more recent Vanguard box.

In the corregidor starter, the models are slightly short than my O:I nomads. The heights don't seem to matter too much but what I do notice is the differing bulk. It's the bulk that makes them look different scales.

This is only really noticeable tho when they're displayed next to each other IMO. On the tabletop where they're rarely right next to each other you soon completely forget about the bulk difference.

Dropbear Victim wrote:
In the corregidor starter, the models are slightly short than my O:I nomads. The heights don't seem to matter too much but what I do notice is the differing bulk. It's the bulk that makes them look different scales.

This is only really noticeable tho when they're displayed next to each other IMO. On the tabletop where they're rarely right next to each other you soon completely forget about the bulk difference.

I must check that out....didnt notice so far.

I find the Wildcats and the Alguacile are pretty tiny but the Intruder and the Hellcat stack up ok.

 ckig wrote:
I find the Wildcats and the Alguacile are pretty tiny but the Intruder and the Hellcat stack up ok.

I find the opposite to be true.

The Wildcats(a Medium Infantry unit), the Intruder(MI), and Hellcat(MI) look tiny compared to the Icestorm Alguaciles. The female Alguacile from the CJC starter box is "just about right", aside from being slightly waif-like.

Yeah they are much slimmer overall which is weird since they're MI compared to LI . It's very noticeable when you look at them up close. I guess what I meant was from the tabletop view the Hellcat and the Intruder are standing quite tall compared to the wildcats so their overall 'silhouette' looks a bit bigger and so it fits in a bit better with the newer stuff.

Eh. It's not a question of height for me personally but rather bulk.

The Corregidor MI are wearing voidsuits in addition to armor plating...and yet they're tiny compared to the Alguaciles in their combat jumpsuits.