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Hello,

I am seeking the best website/book to get a run-down of the individual unit descriptions, specifically I am interested in the Yu Jing faction.

I know I can get the rules from the official website, but I was hoping for something describing the flavour/background of each unit. With the unfamiliar names I'm finding it hard to get a handle on which does what, plus I think it always adds something to know the story as well as the mechanics.

Would it be the core N3 rulebook, the human sphere N2, or what?

Thanks for any replies!

It wouldn't be in the rulebook, but rather it would be in the "Core" portion of the two volume rulebook set.

You can also get a pretty good flavor/background for the unit just from reading the product descriptions.

What units in particular are you looking for more information on?

All of them, really. I guess the infantry more than the remotes/TAGs, but apart from Imperial Agents (reasonably clear) and Tiger Soldiers (i.e. drop troops) the rest aren't super clear to me.

I might order the main rulebook set then.

When you say product descriptions... I have been linked to http://infinitythegame.com/catalogue/ before but that's pics only.

mockingbirduk wrote:
All of them, really. I guess the infantry more than the remotes/TAGs, but apart from Imperial Agents (reasonably clear) and Tiger Soldiers (i.e. drop troops) the rest aren't super clear to me.

I might order the main rulebook set then.

When you say product descriptions... I have been linked to http://infinitythegame.com/catalogue/ before but that's pics only.

It used to have the product descriptions, but they don't anymore.
Here should give you at least a basic description of things.

I should add that if the Domaru and Guija interest you, we were told that they are slated to be redone this year/next.

The catalogue when they get a proper one back up will have unit descriptions again according to Bostria at the GenCon seminar.

 ImAGeek wrote:
The catalogue when they get a proper one back up will have unit descriptions again according to Bostria at the GenCon seminar.

Why it's taken them over a year to get the proper catalogue back up, I won't ever know.

Thanks for that link - if the full catalogue is in the works, I will continue painting and being patient in the meantime then. I guess it's partly because they aren't an English language company, so what I'm experiencing is the 'translation' rather than the original.

On that note, do most UK/USA/Wherever you all are people play in metric or imperial? I know the rules are available in both, and are originally metric.

Imperial in the UK and USA, Spain use metric. And yeah I dunno why the catalogue has taken them so long either.

I think it's most of Europe that uses metric (the French rules are also metric - but they've never used the "imperial" - or "standard" as some folks have it - system).

Down here in Australia and New Zealand, we also have the rules in imperial, even though we've been metric for decades.

Pretty much, if you play using the English language rules, you will be playing in imperial measurements, because that's what the english rules use.