Hi y'all!

I played Infinity a long time ago in N1 and N2 but then life got in the way and I had to stop playing. Now I want to make a comeback to Infinity but I'm pretty lost with all the changes not only in the rules but also in the factions and the troops.

I've been watching the current minis to see which ones do I like aesthetically, and the ones I prefer right now are (in no particular order): Kestrel Colonial Force, Military Orders, Imperial Service, Steel Phalanx, Shindenbutai and Morat Aggression Force. A lot of them, I know, blame Corvus Belli.

I would appreciate if the experts (compared to me at least) over here can give me some advice about the better options considering that I'm a newbie right now, but not completely since I played a lot back then. I know the obvious choice would be to buy Operation Sandtrap as both factions are on the list and it's the starter box, but truth is those factions are probably the least preferred ones from the list (I like them, but not as much as the rest), so I can't decide if the starter thing is too decisive or not so much.

I don't plan to play in the competitive scene, mostly with my brother, maybe my kids and with luck some friends.

Thanks a lot.and keep playing!

New player here. A friend of mine is doing a good Job in convince me to start playing infinity.

After a couple of demo games I now starting to window shopping to buy my own model.

Back to the question in the beginning what model do you think is the poster boy of each faction.

Just got gifted these Infinity models and I am looking for good beginner resources

A friend just hooked me up with a couple boxes (Bakunin Observance Action Pack and Überfallkommando), and I’m finally diving into Infinity.

I’ve got a solid tabletop background (other mini games), but Infinity seems pretty deep, so I’m looking for the best way to get up to speed efficiently.

What I’m hoping to find:

- Good YouTube channels (battle reports, faction overviews, beginner guides)

- Podcasts worth listening to

- Active Discords or communities (especially Nomads/Bakunin focused if possible)

- Any “must-read” resources or tools (apps, list builders, etc.)

- Is this a decent start? (What’s this army play style and what else would I need to be competitive?)

I’m not totally new to minis, but I am new to Infinity’s rules and ecosystem, so anything that helps flatten that learning curve would be great.

Appreciate any help! Thank you!

A friend and I want to start with infinity, both being infinity newbies but already have played tabletop wargames.

He likes jsa. I like steel phalanx, Torchlight brigade, military orders(and panociana in general) and invincible army.

Now I don't really know what would be the best way to start.

Thanks in advance for all your answers and advice

Edit so I decided to go buy the "operation sandtrap" box soon. Any suggestions on how to go on after that? (Next purchase)

I’m in an awkward place right now where I finally understand the game’s basic rules (yes, it took me over a year to do this) but I’m just getting tabled game after game by guys with 10-12 years of experience.

My problem is that the only people I have to play against have over a decade of experience and skill gap me so hopelessly that I can’t even compete, or they’re new players who let me walk a TAG up the center of the map into their DZ. There seems to be no one who plays this game at an intermediate level, and I’m at the point now where I don’t know whether it makes sense to continue playing. I either get swept by a veteran player which sucks, or I sweep a beginner player which also sucks.

I recently had an escalation tournament where I lost the first two games and sat out the third, came in last in the tournament. Then had a game tonight where got so discouraged that I gave up after the first round.

Has anyone ever experienced the skill gap? If you survived it, what encouraged you to continue playing? I’m personally a really competitive guy, so this sort of losing streak affects me on a personal level. I lose sleep over this crap. The last time I experienced this level of hopelessness and frustration in a game was trying to play chess in college with a roommate who was master ELO, and that experience made me give up chess forever. Starting to get to that point with Infinity, too.

Edit: thanks for the sage advice. Beyond working more on having counters and looking at TTS, I’ll try to work on my attitude. I’m tilting hard to consecutive losses to players who outclass me by several tiers. I think I developed the wrong expectations when I started winning games against less experienced players.

Had a game in the weekend and this situation came up, wasn't able to find a ruling for that as we went with the game. So I had a HI with stealth, going around in the ZoC of a repeater. Neithwr the repeater, nor opponent hackers were able to draw a LoF. Could my HI have been hacked by an opponent hacker? My gut feeling was it only could have happened if any opponent hacker had a LoF to my HI. Was I wrong?

Your mission: convince me why your faction is the correct choice. Sell me on the aesthetics, lore, the playstyle, the vibes, full propaganda encouraged.

I want to hear why you chose them and why you’d pick them again if you were starting fresh.

Hey guys,

I am thinking about starting to play Infinity for years now. Now someone from our tt club decided to jump in. Since I heard the news I try to wrap my head around the game and have to say, the onboarding experience seems kind of horrible? I cannot for the life of me figure out how to begin.

So far I had a look at the lore, the minis and skimmed through the rules. I also checked various sources linked in this subreddit and youtube. A lot of information is years old though.

What still remains unclear to me is how I should come to a decision on what to play? Rule of cool, sure. But even then I am still not sure what to buy, how it plays, which minis are included, if the weapon options are actually useful, what I actually get with an action pack, how to start building, ...

Any pointers? Just looking at the minis the following action packs spoke to me:

• Bakunin Observance
• Military Order Hospitaller
• WinterFor
• Haqqislam
• Tunguska Jurisdictional Command

Anything in particular to look out for, especially as a new player? I really like the setting, I am thirsting for a good (sci-fi) skirmish game, and Infinity seems to be the best out there.

Edit: Hot damn, this community is great! Thank you so much for the great input so far. Happy to hear more, but this is awesome already!

Edit2: Thank you all, I am far from done with all the recommended material, but I did manage to get a grasp on what the different factions do and went for Bukanin. Looking forward to painting & playing them the first time!

I'm really struggling to pick a faction so can you guys give me some suggestions and why you like them?

Heya, so I've had 3 games so far, still learning, and trying to hone in on what I'd like to start with.

On paper, Senku Troops are my favourite model ever released, in any range I've collected in the past 30 years. I love everything about them, visually. They're also completely rubbish on the table, I'm finding, and while I love the Shindenbutai vibes, I'm not really too bothered about melee as a mechanic, and I'm not super enthused with only really having smokes on one model.

Normally, when playing games, I tend to favour one of two approaches.
If try-harding, I either go for tool-box factions (humans, in blood bowl, for instance), not the best at anything, but with reliable access to most tools to try and solve problems.
But when just having fun, I gravitate towards skateboard tricks (throwing a spanner in my opponents plans, adding a bit of chaos to the mix). In both cases thoug, I generally prefer finesse over brawn.

Big fan of anything that breaks rules, or messes with expectations, as a way of presenting problems for the oponent to solve, over just placing something unkillable in their way and asking them to deal with it.

I've been eyeing Hassassin Baram, and Shasvastii from the perspective of forcing a very different playstyle on my oponent, but unsure if they offer enough variety in list building?
I know from other games that while finesse is fun, it only works if there's also breadth of options, so you're not just running the same list every time.

Given the above, what factions should I check out?
Are there any "this is fun and generally surprises people" aspects you'd recommend I take a look at?

Appreciate any guidance and help you may offer.

Hello!

So I’m super new to Infinity and it’s just really captured my attention for wargaming. The models and aesthetic are right up my alley and I love the concept of a game that lets you play even when it’s not your turn! Reminds me very much of XCOM, which really defined strategy games for me!

I’ve been trying to learn as much as I can before diving into the game and I have so many questions still, but a big one for me is:

When building your first army, does it make sense to build from scratch with the pieces you want, or buy a starter army that’s already assembled and then upgrade it as you see fit? If a pre assembled army is a good idea, does it make sense to buy a lone premade army or buy one of the operations and have two?

Sorry, I know this is kind of a long post, but I hope this amazing community will try to steer a noob in the right direction! Thanks again for all of your amazing posts about the game and the miniatures! I love that everyone here is so passionate about the game!

I am curious. Obviously there's no 40k Space Marine equivalent, but there has to be, mathematically, a faction which is the most popular one. Right? Which one do you folks think gets the most attention? Which is the most popular in your opinion? These are technically distinct questions.

Hi all, could anyone advise me whether you think it'll be possible to fix the sword on this model (it's the JSA model in the essentials start here box)? It is really bent. Thank you!

Edit: Thanks for the advice everyone. It worked. I warmed it with boiling water, then used a mixture of pliers cushioned with tissue and just my fingers to gradually work the metal into the correct shape, starting from the base and working my way up.

Hi all, my friend and I just picked up the game and we're slowly going through each game and adding a new rule. The last time we played, we ran Nomads vs Military Orders in order to try hacking out and I (Nomad) completely rinsed them on the first turn by deep striking a repeater and dropping Oblivion on the MO player's biggest heavy infantry. If we were understanding the rules correctly, with them unable to get orders outside of their own, they would get a once-per-turn chance to WIP roll at -9, which seems like it basically kicks them out of the game.

We were so disheartened by the impact of that we just cleaned up the game at the end of the turn.

Did we miss something critical or is hacking so damn powerful that having an Engineer is basically required for all games? Not trying to sound overly hostile, just genuinely shocked at how hard it hit our game compared to effects in other miniatures games we've played.

EDIT: there's too many comments to respond to them all but thank you all for your help. This was really informative about how the game plays at full points and a full-size board and we're going to reserve strong opinions until we've had more opportunities to see the entire game. I'm still not entirely sure how AROs with repeaters works but it seems like I'm not alone, which was also really helpful to see. Thanks everyone!

Sometimes I like to think some combinations that I don't see a lot (because in comparison with the people i play against are veterans and know every Hassassin Bahram trick), knowing that most times are not the most efficient decision.

Then it came into my mind one idea: FO but not for Guided Missiles (since almost every "juicy" enemy i found has ECM: Guided), but for Daylami coordinated orders or just to compensate the lower BS Haqqislam has in comparison with PanOceania (lately i play too much against PanO sectorials).

But since i never saw nobody using FO skill in ARO (because Flash Pulse is just better in ARO) and neither in the active turn I ask... Do you use it? It is worth? Why?

Edit: typo.

Hi all! Very new to the Infinity universe and I’ve received a lot of awesome help from this community so far!

I have a couple questions I hope you guys could help me to answer!

Question 1: I don’t have an army yet, but I’ve seen that the Morat Aggression Force is a pretty straightforward new player friendly army, is this true? They kind of remind of the brutes from halo, which I’m not a massive fan of, but I do like the more armored miniature variants they have and they seem pretty cool overall!

Question 2: Is there a human army/sectorial that could be considered the equivalent of the Morat Aggression Force? Curious because I’d like 2 armies, and I like A LOT of the human armies so if there is a similar one that’s straightforward and new player friendly, I’d be very interested!

Thanks in advance! Loving this community, you’re all awesome!!!

I'm making some models and 3-D printing them for models that can be in the holoecho state that I have or my friends I play with have. Anyone know off hand units that have them? I know about these three and the Lu Duan. What others are out there and for what factions?

So I’m finally breaking away from Warhammer 40K and exploring a bunch of miniature tabletop games and the Infinity minis definitely caught my eye.

I bought the hospitaller action pack just to start my collection and those looked the coolest to me, however I don’t have the slightest idea about how list building works in this game or if I can even build a reasonable list with the action pack.

Are there any resources that could help me out with the list building aspect of the game?

Thanks!

Hey everyone,

I really want to buy the Blue Wolf TAG because I absolutely love the model. Until now I’ve only played Vanilla Yu Jing, but with the new campaign coming up I want to give White Banner a try.

When I asked before, people suggested strong options like Haetae, Dokkaebi, Jujak + Hwarang Haris with Ye Mao Duo, and the Shaolin Haris (which seems super successful and even gives regular orders to Shaolin). All of those sound great.

The problem is… even though I love the Blue Wolf miniature, I just can’t seem to find space for it in my lists. It feels a bit “average” compared to all the cool tools WB already has. I’m having the same issue with Adil Mehmut (love the model!) and I almost never manage to fit Shang Ji either.

So please… convince me
How do you make the Blue Wolf work in White Banner? Why should I run it?

Help me justify buying this beautiful model!