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It mostly just seems like the same 4-5 people who wanna turn threads into arguments, really.

A few more than 4-5. But I do not think we need to grouse about the shortcomings of the Official forum in this thread.

Is the BoW Campaign to start next week or the week thereafter... or not until the Uprising book is in general release (27 April)?

You'll see some epic grievance-mongering when that starts.

Reckon I'm realy going to take part in this one. Just finishing off a valid Yu Jing force to play in it.

Post photos of your painted minis, or you're a trollin' troll. As soon as I finish my Daofei with HMG, I will have a fully painted 300 point Yu Jing force. See my P&M thread for the photos. Or my gallery for the Red Veil Yu Jing. If you could vote on a few of them too, while you're looking, that'd be great

Man, I hate painting orange.

 Red Harvest wrote:
Post photos of your painted minis, or you're a trollin' troll.

Boom. Of course I'm also a trollin' troll, but that's beside the point.

Awesome. I had no idea you had a showcase thread.

Subbed, of course.

Looked like you got some botophucket-itis in the thread though.

Thanks. And yeah, I should try and sort that out. I have a spare five mins, I'll see if Photobucket would be kind enough to gove me my images back.

 Knight wrote:
Official forums are welcoming, as long you echo whatever few key leading people are voicing and never question or criticize CB. Poor moderation, karma system are additional negative things.

It's remarkable how well has this behavior carried to other social media.

Yap, ammount of fanboysm on official forum is a bit too much for me...doesn't matter what CB does, they can never be wrong. Except few individuals who actually criticize their bad decisions, most people just bow to what ever they do. Now mostly I just lurk there, and avoid any discussions with fan boys, there is so much things places where one can spend their energy on

I've not been on the forums since Beasts of War ran their first campaign, but I remember them bein pretty dull. At least they've livened up, it seems. The worst I got was getting trolled in one thread because I said I quite liked GW miniatures.

 .Mikes. wrote:
The Australian Infinity Facebook page pretty damn awesome. Just saying.

I unfollowed it when the admins started ripping into me when I had the temerity to say I received Outrage a week before 'street date'.

If the admins are were willing to do that, I didn't feel it worth continuing to follow. I peek in occasionally, but I don't find it worth following anymore.

Can anyone summarize what we know about the Tunguska model releases? Are the Hollow Men new?

I saw the illustrations of the six troopers and am tempted to get non-Yu Jing for ghe first time. I feel a bit dirty.

 -Loki- wrote:
Both the official forum and the social media crowd. Local groups are always going to vary a lot - you'll find friendly groups for games with toxic online communities and vice versa. Same with smaller online communities - the Infinity chaps here are fine, despite some fairly vocal disagreements.

But basically if a new player jumps on board and goes online for discussion and winds up at the official board, I wouldn't be shocked if they dropped the game.

I don't see this at all. If you look into each of the faction pages on the official forums, just about every new player question regarding lists and models gets answered with multiple helpful suggestions. There are multiple stickied tacticas etc. The 'toxicity' I see there is from players talking about how many releases their faction gets in a year and that's directed towards Bostria/Corvus Belli not other forumites.

When I think of 'toxic' forums, the old Privateerpress forums comes to mind where it was such a dumpster fire (for new and old players) they deleted the whole board to start over and force everyone to agree to ToS each time they log in. And even now , I wouldn't call it a helpful place to get answers.

 Mastiff wrote:
Can anyone summarize what we know about the Tunguska model releases? Are the Hollow Men new?

I saw the illustrations of the six troopers and am tempted to get non-Yu Jing for ghe first time. I feel a bit dirty.

Hollow Men and Hecklers are both new. The Securitate were slated for a major revamp and at the very least they seem to have lost their Light Shotguns, which should shave a bajillion(HYPERBOLE) points off them and make them reasonably able to be fielded as light infantry heavy links are meant to be. There was talk of them losing their Repeaters but instead getting Pitchers so that the net effect can be similar.
The Kriza Borac seems to be getting a new profile (which IMO makes sense since the original dossier had a Missile Launcher that was, from a source I trust, deemed "too OP" with its Full Auto skill) in the form of a Spitfire after its 'beta testing' period from Beyond Icestorm. I'd expect this since the HMG seems to be a 'must have' profile for that big bruiser and I could see them wanting to hold it back for a blister or dual box like the Taskmasters got with a tiny arm swap present.

We also know there's the "Tactical Puppets" and "Nautical Zonds" left to see, along with "at least one character that isn't Morgana"(which, to me at least, implies that Morgana will be Tunguska's Dire Foe). It's currently being speculated that Spector(the Moon Knight "inspired" character in the StarCo list currently) is going to be making an appearance in Tunguska since he's apparently giving a briefing to Tunguskan command in the Uprising book.

Model release wise? We don't know anything beyond the Tunguska box in June/July and that there will be a Grenzers box "soon-ish" afterwards.

Ronin_eX wrote:Well we knew the other shoe was going to drop, but you've gotta love it anyways. Yu Jing just has most of its characters taken away and now one of our most competitive pieces in our only remaining sectorial gets plucked out.

Narrative and tournaments just don't mix, but hey, at least everyone got screwed this time!

Oh well, my group doesn't pretend ITS has any relevance at our table...

So salty, so negative. I like that there is a continual narrative that has effect on the game. Some people don't and maybe there are enough that this is ill advised. Maybe Infinity is a game with deep rules where a significant part of the experience and draw is in looking up rules and making lists, so shaking things up generates excitement for the game; especially with players who have found the crutches and bring the same standard list all the time. Maybe that is the kind of community involvement CB like and you're not in their target market?

-Loki- wrote:

 BrotherGecko wrote:
Ah, so CB is just letting factions troll each other now. That should be super effective at promoting a non-toxic community.

The ships already sailed on that one. While nothing as bad as the 40k community, Infinity’s is one of the worse community’s in the hobby.

This thread is the most negativity related to Infinity that I've experienced. People get mean and negative toward CB's narrative and every. single. new. sculpt. has. at. least. one. donkey-cave. moaning.

Red Harvest wrote:A few more than 4-5. But I do not think we need to grouse about the shortcomings of the Official forum in this thread.

Is the BoW Campaign to start next week or the week thereafter... or not until the Uprising book is in general release (27 April)?

You'll see some epic grievance-mongering when that starts.

I really wish they would stop with the battle report format, as cool as they are they become more work (that I don't have time for) than fun.

 DarkBlack wrote:

Ronin_eX wrote:Well we knew the other shoe was going to drop, but you've gotta love it anyways. Yu Jing just has most of its characters taken away and now one of our most competitive pieces in our only remaining sectorial gets plucked out.

Narrative and tournaments just don't mix, but hey, at least everyone got screwed this time!

Oh well, my group doesn't pretend ITS has any relevance at our table...

So salty, so negative. I like that there is a continual narrative that has effect on the game. Some people don't and maybe there are enough that this is I'll advised. Maybe Infinity is a game with deep rules where a significant part of the experience and draw I see in looking up rules and making lists, so shaking things up generates excitement for the game; especially with players who have found the crutches and bring the same standard list all the time. Maybe that is the kind of community involvement CB like and you're not in their target market?

-Loki- wrote:

 BrotherGecko wrote:
Ah, so CB is just letting factions troll each other now. That should be super effective at promoting a non-toxic community.

The ships already sailed on that one. While nothing as bad as the 40k community, Infinity’s is one of the worse community’s in the hobby.

This thread is the most negativity related to Infinity that I've experienced. People get mean and negative toward CB Clive narrative ive" and every. single. new. sculpt. has. at. least. one. donkey-cave. moaning.

Red Harvest wrote:A few more than 4-5. But I do not think we need to grouse about the shortcomings of the Official forum in this thread.

Is the BoW Campaign to start next week or the week thereafter... or not until the Uprising book is in general release (27 April)?

You'll see some epic grievance-mongering when that starts.

I really wish they would stop with the battle report format, as cool as they are they become more work (that I don't have time for) than fun.

It’s almost like people have different opinions and no release will be universally appealing? Not liking a model doesn’t make you an donkey-cave.

Thanks for the info on Tunguska. I’ll wait impatiently for the models to be previewed.

Tunguska previews are next month. I'd consider pre-ordering the starter, if you want them anytime soon. I expect they'll sell quickly. Who knows when there would be a re-stock.

This month, previews of the new ( repeating for the page roll):
-Hakims, Special medical assistance group,
-Knight Hospitaller Gabriele de Farsen,
-Caledonian Mormaers AP HMG,
-Zoe and PiWell, special clockmakers team,
-Tanko Zensenbutai

We still need more info on the Hakim profile. The more I think about it the more I am sure that it is a sign the RTF is coming this year. Or wishfully thinking.

 DarkBlack wrote:
This thread is the most negativity related to Infinity that I've experienced.

I refer to this as The Infinity Customer Complaints Thread.

Yeah well here on Dakka? Nobody deletes your discussions or shovels it off into a part of the forum where nobody goes. About the only time that will happen is if someone does something to break the rules.

Anyways, if you want to see pictures of the April(reality: May) releases--remember there's a thread for it down in the Infinity subforum.

I am afraid I have to state that these statements are false, we do not delete discussions that are negative to the game or the company.

 Kanluwen wrote:
Yeah well here on Dakka? Nobody deletes your discussions or shovels it off into a part of the forum where nobody goes. About the only time that will happen is if someone does something to break the rules.

Anyways, if you want to see pictures of the April(reality: May) releases--remember there's a thread for it down in the Infinity subforum.

I mean, that’s definitely not true - there’s a hell of a lot of negativity on the official forum about the Uprising and stuff that hasn’t been moved or deleted. You aren’t even on the official forum anymore, so I don’t think you can make assumptions/accusations like that. There’s threads on there that are a hell of a lot more negative than this one.

 ImAGeek wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
Yeah well here on Dakka? Nobody deletes your discussions or shovels it off into a part of the forum where nobody goes. About the only time that will happen is if someone does something to break the rules.

Anyways, if you want to see pictures of the April(reality: May) releases--remember there's a thread for it down in the Infinity subforum.

I mean, that’s definitely not true - there’s a hell of a lot of negativity on the official forum about the Uprising and stuff that hasn’t been moved or deleted. You aren’t even on the official forum anymore, so I don’t think you can make assumptions/accusations like that. There’s threads on there that are a hell of a lot more negative than this one.

Confirmed.

 PsychoticStorm wrote:
I am afraid I have to state that these statements are false, we do not delete discussions that are negative to the game or the company.

You do, however, move them to the Off-Topic section which basically kills the conversation.


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 ImAGeek wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
Yeah well here on Dakka? Nobody deletes your discussions or shovels it off into a part of the forum where nobody goes. About the only time that will happen is if someone does something to break the rules.

Anyways, if you want to see pictures of the April(reality: May) releases--remember there's a thread for it down in the Infinity subforum.

I mean, that’s definitely not true - there’s a hell of a lot of negativity on the official forum about the Uprising and stuff that hasn’t been moved or deleted. You aren’t even on the official forum anymore, so I don’t think you can make assumptions/accusations like that. There’s threads on there that are a hell of a lot more negative than this one.

And they're swamped with posts from people like PsychoticStorm where they basically amount to posting "Wait to read the fluff, wait to read the fluff" over and over again.

Also nice of you to ignore the part about how threads also get "shoveled off into a part of the forum where nobody goes".

Can we stick to the discussion of news and rumours concerning Infinity please? Many thanks!

My memory sucks, can anyone remind me what the accosted odds were on what the remaining sectorials would be this year?

 .Mikes. wrote:
My memory sucks, can anyone remind me what the accosted odds were on what the remaining sectorials would be this year?

There were no "odds".

We've been told there's 3 Sectorials left to come out. Varuna, Vedic, and Tartary.
There's 2 "N"s left where they could get released, with one of them having to be "two at once" and GenCon being something for people to "think like Operation: Icestorm". Naturally that has led to everyone assuming that means GenCon will see Vedic v Tartary (despite the fact that those two aren't really too...for lack of a better term, confrontational) since Varuna are unlikely to be there since Varuna is a PanO Sectorial and PanO are in Icestorm. That assumption is because ALEPH and Ariadna generic both have two of the oldest starters left at the moment since JSA is about to get replaced.

Personally, I've been working off the assumption that since Tunguska is seeing just a plain starter set instead of an Army Pack(as excited as I am for Tunguska, it makes me think Tunguska--while a new release--doesn't merit one of the "N"s)--Varuna and Vedic will get released with just plain starter sets with the final "N" and be tied to another Uprising style book detailing Varuna's forces(which are supposed to be specialized in counterterrorism and aquatic operations) working alongside of the Vedic forces to root out some kind of insurgency.

It's been making me think that the new 2 player starter set will be Tartary Army Korps Ariadna box versus Druze Bayram-heavy NA2 with a Shock Army styled starter with some weird-ish loadouts. It has some historic rivalry between the two factions(much like PanO vs Nomads or Yu Jing vs Haqqislam) and both of them would be fairly evenly matched--and eventually we need to get a Druze starter since the Druze box(1x Proxy model with Chain Colt, 1x Shock Marksman Rifle, 1x HMG, 1x Hacker with CR+Pitcher) they just released is basically just the 'unit box' that everyone gets to match up with the line troops.

I've been leaning towards speculating that the box will be:
Druze Bayram Security

vs
Ariadna/TAK

Tunguska as shown in adepticon presentation is the second N

 PsychoticStorm wrote:
Tunguska as shown in adepticon presentation is the second N

Then there would have been 0 reason for Bostria to make a mention of there being 3 left to go and one of them being a 2 for 1.

it is in the sceminar the second N changes to Tunguska.

I think it would be a pretty low blow by CB to release another PanO sectorial this year after having ganked one of YJ's and I guess failing to finalize IA for the year (or the better part of this year if it drops Q4). Personally, I believe it would be smart of CB to sit on Varuna for a little while before they push a (small but dedicated) group of players out of the game through alienation.

Besides all effort should be being put into RTF right now. I bought Red Veil specifically for that secotrial and I'm starting to get antsy.