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The lack of a campaign* is what will stop my group getting into this. I just know it. Some of them have expressed an interest in playing the odd game here or there however. * I know that 'campaigns' do exist but my peeps are firmly in the Necro/GoMo/Mordheim mindset of levelling up every dude and tooling them up.
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ineptmule posted:The lack of a campaign* is what will stop my group getting into this. I just know it. Some of them have expressed an interest in playing the odd game here or there however. That's because they're right and level-up campaigns are fun as poo poo. Basically the only good thing GW did when designing that batch of games (also Blood Bowl) was go, "what if you could level up every model individually? Also they could die and get crazy gear" and someone said "that's insane no one would want to track all that" then the first guy said "gently caress you we're doing it." And the first guy was right.
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ineptmule posted:I'm not even sure I can claim to play this game anymore. My last game was against Genghis Cohen, like two years ago? I remember that game, your loving doctor revived like a full djanbazan link! Can't even imagine what haqq Akbar or plus doctors are capable of now - haven't played them in N3 yet. I also have the temptation to buy more factions but I can't paint enough. Sold off my 12 or so panO due to backlog of nomads. I reckon I have pretty much every Corregidor model up until the SWC alguaciles, and it's amazing how the numbers build up with only one faction - I count about 19 more models I want to buy and I am by no means fully painted atm
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Genghis Cohen posted:I remember that game, your loving doctor revived like a full djanbazan link! Can't even imagine what haqq Akbar or plus doctors are capable of now - haven't played them in N3 yet.
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I'm about to have a baby, I'm not even painting my assasinorium box cos of witcher 3 and yet I'm sorely tempted by operation ice storm. Think I have an issue. Do you need to get the rule book if you want to play beyond the boardgame?
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by.a.teammate posted:Do you need to get the rule book if you want to play beyond the boardgame? Yes, but if  is the issue all the rules are available for free online, so you can just print out the PDFs. Or use a tablet.Then again, with the kid you won't have the time to paint/play it for a good while anyway  Also, Yu Jing/Ariadna box coming this Autumn 
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Pierzak posted:Yes, but if Maybe I'll just get the rulebook and read up on it til She's old enough to play it with me...
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Pierzak posted:Also, Yu Jing/Ariadna box coming this Autumn Whaaat!? I bowed out of Ariadna a long time ago but Yu Jing is my new hotness and a resculpted starter with a exclusive mini is too good to pass up. drat. by.a.teammate posted:Maybe I'll just get the rulebook and read up on it til She's old enough to play it with me... I don't know if it's just some crazy trend or what, but seems like most people in my miniature gaming circle are dads with young kids. I'm not sure how they manage, but they're a good lot more productive than I am, so they make it work somehow!
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Unf. Good to see your models again PV.
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I won an Aleph weapons pack at an ITS tourney, and since I play NCA, I figured why not? I lost every game, but the guy that did win didn't want it and I won the random drawing. Now I have some Fusilier overwatch for my Bolt linkteam. I also have a boarding shotgun to actually kit out one of those 19 point BS/EMG Bolts. Also, I managed to IMM-2 an entire Magister Knight Link team with a Bolt Hacker, Spotlight, and spec fire E/M Grenades. Felt good.
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I have a dumb question. Where are the ITS missions located on the website?
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With the rules. http://static.infinitythegame.com/archivo/descargas/%5BENG%5DITS2015%2028-05-2015.pdf
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I was coincidentally looking at this today and as an abused gamer coming from 40k the idea of getting like 18 missions for free off the official website is mind blowing. People complaining about Human Sphere N3 reprints don't know how bad it could actually be. Edit: Taking a stab at trying to build a 300 point list. Some of it is trying to build off the models that come in the starter, most of it is not knowing how the synergy of the models in question will work and they sound cool on paper.  Haqqislam────────────────────────────────────────────────── Group 1 9 0 0 GHULAM Lieutenant Rifle + Light Shotgun / Pistol, Knife. (12) GHULAM Doctor Plus (MediKit) Rifle + Light Shotgun / Pistol, Knife. (16) GHULAM Rifle + Light Shotgun / Pistol, Knife. (12) GHULAM Rifle + Light Shotgun, Panzerfaust / Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 15) DJANBAZAN Hacker (Hacking Device) Rifle + Light Shotgun / Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 35) NASMAT Electric Pulse. (3) NAJJARUN Engineer Rifle + Light Shotgun, D-Charges / Pistol, Knife. (17) SHIHAB REMOTE HMG / Electric Pulse. (1 | 25) SHAYTANIYAH REMOTE Smart Missile Launcher / Electric Pulse. (1.5 | 18) JANISSARY Akbar Doctor (MediKit) AP Rifle + Light Shotgun / Pistol, CCW. (41) NASMAT Electric Pulse. (3)Group 2 4 0 0 HAWWA' Sniper Rifle, Antipersonnel Mines / Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 27) NAFFATÛN Rifle + Light Flamethrower, Grenades / Pistol, Knife. (12) AZRA'IL HMG / Pistol, Knife. (2 | 38) RAGIK Boarding Shotgun / Pistol, CCW. (25)6 SWC | 299 Points Open with Army 5 Springfield Fatts fucked around with this message at 23:30 on Jun 4, 2015 |
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I'd rework the combat groups a little bit mate, for example a Ragik tends to be quite an aggressive piece and you've got it in the shorter combat group, where it will run out of orders very quickly (remember that until deployed it isn't provide an order either!). Took that list I posted on a test run tonight with two dudes and it turns out a lot of people in my group aren't quite sure how to approach ARM8+ TAGs which are entrenched, time to teach! 
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So what faction/sectorial is a nice contrast to the style of NCA/vanilla panO? I am looking for something with lots of interesting cornercase/weird rules and other interesting stuff, since PanO is pretty straightforward. I am thinking about starting a side project to the PanO just for shits
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I like Drakios a lot. I love flamethrowers as weapons in games, and being able to bring 3 heavy ones in a single slot is amazing. This guy can cover the whole backfield by himself with his bots, or murder even HI links teams out of cover. Not to mention doing brutally wide intuitive fire. Scylla is not bad either. She can have amazing repeater coverage, but could use a bit more BTS. A little bit over the price I figured, but not a dealbreaker.
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Corbeau posted:Shasvastii. This if you want to have a lot of fun with camo/impersonation/mines and weird corner-casey nonsense with the Cadmus (Morpho-scan is real dumb, as is their weird seed mine thing), Combined Army in general ("My stuff is kind of like yours, only ~*~special snowflake alien version~*~"), or Tohaa for maximum "gently caress it, I weaponized these digimon farts" nonsense.
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Crossposted from the terrain thread. The start of my hypothetical Infinity board. 2.5D base tiles made of cork, craft foam and self-adhesive labels Test piece   Edit - Textures are a colour-swapped version of the Toposolitario mat.
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That looks amazing Zandris. Could you explain the construction process?
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ineptmule posted:That looks amazing Zandris. Could you explain the construction process? It's actually absurdly simple, and it really looks a lot better than the regular 'flat' battlemats Base was 12" cork floor tiles. I bought these at Wickes (UK home improvement/builder's merchant) - GBP8.99 for a pack of 9 The foam was regular craft foam with a adhesive backing. - Hobbycraft sells these at GBP0.80 per A4 sheet A4 label paper was generic brand from Staples - GBP14.99 for 100 sheets I got the texture off someone on Data Sphere - it's a 4x4 foot square meant to be sent for banner printing. I rotated it (the original texture had the roads parallel to the board edges, and I wanted them diagonal) and divided a single 2'x2' section into 6" squares I print 1 square per A4 paper, and cut them out. I sliced the roads out separately from the pavements. Pavements are stuck on the foam, which is then stuck to cork. The roads are stuck directly to the cork. It can get a bit fiddly to align everything, but I discovered that if there's any big gaps, I could just print off a 'patch' from that area which will blend in almost seamlessly. Took about 1 hour for that 1'x1' piece. Now only 3 more to go for a basic board.
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Ok, so check this out. I'm playing the last round in our league and its basically The Armoury mission, 300 pts, one Classified objective. I had some time tonight and wrote a list and even a battle plan order by order for the first turn.  Combined Army - Rund 5 Slow Grow Liga (300/300 | 4/6)Group #1 | 10 Models |  10  0  2  Med-Tech Obsidon Medchanoid Doctor+Engineer | Combi Rifle, Pistol / D-Charges, Knife (23) Ko Dali Combi | Combi Rifle, Nanopulser, Assault Pistol (2) / D-Charges, Knife (37) Speculo Killers Boarding Shotgun | Boarding Shotgun, Smoke Grenades, Pistol / Monofilament CCW, Knife (1 | 34) Shasvastii Noctifers Missile Launcher | Missile Launcher, Assault Pistol / Knife (1.5 | 32) Slave Drones Servant | Electric Pulse (3) Dāturazi Witch-Soldiers Chain Rifle | Chain Rifle, Smoke Grenades, Pistol / Shock CCW (14) Dāturazi Witch-Soldiers Chain Rifle | Chain Rifle, Smoke Grenades, Pistol / Shock CCW (14) Skiávoros Sepsitor Lieutenant | Lieutenant, Sepsitor Plus, Plasma Rifle, Nanopulser, Pistol / CCW (1 | 64) Umbra Legates Hacker | Hacker, Hacking Device Plus, Boarding Shotgun, Flash Pulse, Pistol / DA CCW (0.5 | 43) R-Drone Repeater | Flash Pulse / Electric Pulse (8) Fraacta Drop Unit Boarding Shotgun | Boarding Shotgun, Nanopulser, Pistol / Knife (28) Open in MayaNetDaturazi are deployed opposite the Objective Room (OR), the noctifer ML directly infront of the door. Umbra and Speculo in reserve, but Umbra is going opposite the door as well infront of the Noctifer. My first turn goes like this: Impetuos: Daturazi move and smoke the door. 1) Umbra walks up and thanks to Forward Deployment can now open the door. 2) Umbra walks inside but still within smoke 3) Daturazi move + smoke the opposite door (I might need to fire speculatively to do that on second thought) 4) Umbra moves to opposite corner of the OR, covering the opposite entrance. 5) Umbra uses hacking program Controlled Jump 6) Ko Dali drops out of sight somewhere up ahead not to far from the Speculo so she can use her smoke next turn 7) Fraacta drops somewhere where she can do a lot of damage 8) Fraacta hopefully kills a bunch of dudes 9) Fraacta kills more dudes or I use a Coordinated Ordre to move my Skiavoros, Dr. worm, Speculo and Ko Dali 10) I use Lt ordre (Strategos) to Coordinate move of Skiavoros, Dr worm, Speculo and Ko Dali or put them all (except Speculo) in Suppressive Fire This way my opponent will have to deal with Speculo, Fraacta and Ko Dali, I have an expensive model (Umbra) in the OR along with smoke ARO-ing Daturazis and the Skiavoros and Noctifer ML will cover the doors from outside. This feels like the old Rainbow Six games where I plot out everyone's moves ahead of time and then watch them (hopefully) execute them in an awesome manner like a crack team of spec ops dudes. Apart from not knowing the terrain (except the OR), if I actually get first turn or my opponent, are there any obvious faults to this plan?
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Might finally be playing a game tonight if I can assemble the last few minis I need to field this: Haqqislam ────────────────────────────────────────────────── Group 1 9 1 0 DJANBAZAN HMG / Pistol, Knife. (1.5 | 35) AL-DJABEL Rifle + Light Shotgun, Smoke Grenades / Pistol, Viral CCW, Knife. (35) RAGIK Hacker (Assault Hacking Device) Rifle + Light Shotgun / Pistol, CCW. (0.5 | 32) HUNZAKUT (Forward Observer, Deployable Repeater) Rifle + Light Shotgun, Antipersonnel Mines / Pistol, Knife. (18) GHULAM Doctor Plus (MediKit) Rifle + Light Shotgun / Pistol, Knife. (16) NASMAT Electric Pulse. (3) NAFFATÛN Rifle + Heavy Flamethrower / Pistol, Knife. (13) NAFFATÛN Rifle + Heavy Flamethrower / Pistol, Knife. (13) GHULAM Lieutenant Rifle + Light Shotgun / Pistol, Knife. (12) GHULAM Rifle + Light Shotgun / Pistol, Knife. (12) GHULAM Rifle + Light Shotgun / Pistol, Knife. (12)Group 2 4 2 2 LASIQ Viral Sniper Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (1.5 | 26) SHIHAB REMOTE HMG / Electric Pulse. (25) GHULAM Hacker (Hacking Device) Rifle + Light Shotgun / Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 20) NAJJARUN Engineer Rifle + Light Shotgun, D-Charges / Pistol, Knife. (17) MUTTAWI'AH Chain Rifle, E/Marat, Jammer / Pistol, Knife. (5) MUTTAWI'AH Chain Rifle, E/Marat, Jammer / Pistol, Knife. (5)5 SWC | 299 Points Open with Army 5 It's been a while since I've made it down to play so I have no idea what scenarios people are playing now. I'll keep the 20x20 book in my bag though.
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Not a viking posted:Apart from not knowing the terrain (except the OR), if I actually get first turn or my opponent, are there any obvious faults to this plan?
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One can dream! I just imagine me failing the first three WIP rolls to open the door and be all "gently caress now what"
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Is there a short(er) cheat sheet type reference to the rules I can print out? I'll be playing my first real game tomorrow with a friend, we both just have our starter kits for now. I'll have a tablet with the full PDF, but it'd be nice to have something a bit faster to flip through without paying $80 or printing the entire thing out.
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Batrep time! As mentioned, I finally got a game tonight using this list:Corbeau posted:Might finally be playing a game tonight if I can assemble the last few minis I need to field this: I'd switched to Al-Djabel at the last minute, having originally intended to play a Tuareg, and I regretted the switch immediately when I discovered that I'd be playing against Morats. I lost the Lt. roll off, wound up going second, and Al-Djabel died immediately thanks to being stuck with the worse impersonation state from the start. Fiday against aliens: bad idea. On the other hand, the scenario was Supremacy and I got to go second. This was pretty much what I wanted, especially since my opponent deployed a bunch of stuff aggressively out in the open (a huge mistake without a backup plan). I was able to plop down my Lasiq VSR and Djan HMG to cover his entire Daturazi link team, and only two of them managed to survive the resulting AROs. The Lasiq also got two members of his backup Rodok link and put his Sogarat down (temporarily) in ARO before finishing it off during my final active turn. My Total Reaction bot got disabled in the first round, brought back by my engineer, and then completely annihilated on the second round, but did it's job of soaking orders and attention. My backline was never seriously threatened and his order pool was severely reduced by my AROs. It really wasn't a question of whether or not I'd win, but how I'd win. And... honestly, I kind of bungled things. I would have only gotten 5 or 6 points from the game if it had been a tournament, since I outright forgot one quadrant during the second round and only hacked one console all game. MVP performances from the Lasiq, Djanbazan, Mutts, and Hunzakut. The Lasiq racked up an gargantuan body count, but it couldn't have happened without the Djanbazan forcing dodges instead of smoke grenades. This was my first game fielding Muttawi'ah and I'm not particularly used to dealing with impetuous units; both of them got slaughtered by a Sogarat in supressive fire, but one of them did get close enough to hit him with an EM pulse. I felt kind of bad until I realized that I'd effectively traded 10 points, and no external orders, for 55 points that had spent orders moving up to mid-field. Ghazi are absurdly cost effective. The Hunzakut just did his usual thing of scattering mines all over midfield, murdering enemies with surprise shotgun attacks, and taking objectives. Standard, basic, fantastic stuff. I really like strong defensive lists, and I feel like I'm finally learning to play them effectively, but my scenario play is lacking. I'm not so good at converting a good board position into objective points. Not much practice at it. Corbeau fucked around with this message at 08:39 on Jun 9, 2015 |
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Z the IVth posted:It's actually absurdly simple, and it really looks a lot better than the regular 'flat' battlemats Awesome. Thanks mate, I'm going to have to try this!
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Im playing Ariadna so Im figuring out camo. Is Discover + BS A long order skill? If not, how do I handle aros 1) Opponent declares discover 2) I have to decide wether to dodge 3a) I don't Dodge 3b) Opponent wins discover roll 3c) Opponent rolls unopposed BS roll Lets say I don't have LOF to the opponent, I would then do a Change Facing at -3 right? Or can I declare my AROs after the discover roll?
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Exmond posted:Im playing Ariadna so Im figuring out camo. Discover + BS attack are two short skills. If you Dodge you cancel your camo state since its not Cautious Movement or a Short Movement skill that DOESN'T require a roll. If your opponent declares Discover in their active turn you either A) Sit still and hope he fails. B) React in ARO by shooting or dodging, thereby losing your camo state no matter what he rolled for Discover. (Camo) Markers have 360 degree LoF so no need to apply a negative MOD. I might be wrong on the next point, but I do think that both playes need to declare their orders and AROs before anyone rolls, I might be wrong though.
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Ah for the LOF thing my friend is thinking of doing an Asura + Smoke grenade combo. Asura is in a smoke template and declares discover + BS (or discover+discover, on two seperate models).
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I've been tasked with organizing an Infinity mini event this saturday. The Infinity players at our club are pretty much just starting up and are about to finish a slow grow league ending at 300 pts. I still don't know how many will be at the club that day or even how many will play Infinity, but there is a WM/H mini cortex (whatever that is, some sort of tournament or cup format?) going on at the same time and a lot of the people play both Infinity and WMH but not all. Is there some simple method or one day tournament format I could use?
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Am at work and phone posting but you can always use the ITS 2015 pack and just run it as per one day and hack the rules apart as you need to: http://www.infinitythegame.com/archivo/en_ITS2015.pdf Just strip a few scenarios and play it in the swiss format and bam, done?
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Exmond posted:Im playing Ariadna so Im figuring out camo. AROs are declared before the second skill is announced by the active player and before any rolls are made by anyone. So yes, it's a difficult decision. Discover is a short movement/ARO skill. This allows for the: Special Maneuver: Discover + BS Attack The combination of Discover + BS Attack in a single Order is a special maneuver that allows the trooper to make a Discover attempt and then a BS Attack against the same enemy, but only if the Discover attempt is successful. 1. The Active Player declares Discover against an enemy as the first Short Skill of his Order. 2. His opponent declares AROs normally. If the target declares an ARO that would reveal it, then the Active Player may declare BS Attack as the second Short Skill of his Order, ignoring the now redundant Discover Roll. 3. If the target did not reveal itself, then the Active Player may still declare a BS Attack. However, he must make his Discover Roll, and only if it is successful may he roll his BS Attack. If the Active Player fails that Discover Roll, the declared BS Attack is Cancelled and null. Doctors Inc fucked around with this message at 10:55 on Jun 10, 2015 |
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Today I learned how awesome coordinated orders are. When he poked his head out at his first turn he was staring down a plasma rifle skiavoros, dr worm and a shrouded combi rifle all in cover in Suppressive Fire. He didn't stand a chance. First turn supremacy.
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