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I'm lazy and phone posting but just image search the 800. That model straight up steals it's headlight/beak/windshield design. It even has the dumb little ADV acessory light kit. I mean all of this as praise, of course, since it looks awesome.
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The models look fine, but they just don't seem to spark for some reason. I think I don't like them in a good way because if I liked the look of every faction then someone else wouldn't like any faction. The Navajo Outpost pack looks great, even if it is just some altered textures on the same two terrain pieces. I like the army box concept. Locally the Icestorm boxes have been selling well enough that the LGS has sold all the ones that they've stocked (although the rule books don't move at all, likely due to the really high price point). If they can manage to get this box to be $99 US or less, I think it will go over well. If it works out to a decent 150 to 200 point force, then I think all the better. The smaller army boxes don't really provide a coherent starting point, and the NUMBER ONE question that gets asked by people considering the game is "what should I get". Answers involving multiple parts, or involve an unconvincing 'I guess you can get a faction starter but it isn't everything you want to start...' don't go so well. I really hope you can just point at it and say: Do you like the picture on the front and the models shown on the side? Just buy that and you can play real games.
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So have they said whether the pre-order is just from their site or if it'll be available at FLGS' on Monday?
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Jul 5, 2015 11:10
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Managed to bag fourth in my tourney, which is an pleasant change from my usual 'bottom ten' or so. MVP was definitely my Ninja, who CC'd a Skiavaros to put my opponent into Loss of Lieutenant, and then next turn taking out the Suryat HMG to put him in LoL again! Though that was just a crazy luck game where nothing was working out for the other guy. Even my celestial guard spec op managed to beat his Umbra Legate in CC, which was just the kinda absurd rolls that were happening.
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Jul 5, 2015 13:11
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Ninjas, man. Same tournament, mine fought Achilles from full to dead and it was beautiful.
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Jul 5, 2015 13:14
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A Skiavoros has G:Mnemonica so you don't suffer from LoL when he dies, his "soul" just "jumps" to another model with a cube.
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Jul 5, 2015 15:34
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Playing my buddies Tohaa today, any suggestions for vanilla panO or Neoterra lists? Not that I am trying to metagame super hard against him or anything, but he has kicked my rear end like 5 times now with his bullshit smoke misinterpretation and Id like to put him in retreat once to show him how it feels  I assume the main answer will be "take lots of auxilia" but I only own 2. No other flame weapons sadly.
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Jul 5, 2015 16:04
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Proxy more Auxilia mate. You need like 4.
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So I've been really interested in Infinity for quite some time, and after showing it to my fiancé she is interested in the miniatures as well. I've read through the faction descriptions and Pierzak's little quick-rundown on each as well, but I'm still unsure where to start. She is in love with the Nomads, but I'm not quite sold on PanOceania, which means I'm not super-eager to pick up the two-player starter box. Are the "Starter Boxes" an okay place to start, with the understanding that they don't come with everything we'd really need to get a taste for our factions? I've read in the thread that they aren't the best thing to represent each faction, but would they at least be a place to start rolling some dice and understanding the game? I know this probably gets brought up every second page or so, sorry for that.
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Jul 5, 2015 20:05
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Jcam posted:Are the "Starter Boxes" an okay place to start, with the understanding that they don't come with everything we'd really need to get a taste for our factions?
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Do you think just the Starter Boxes would be an okay purchase for us to learn the rules and play a few games, so that we can intelligently plan the next few blister purchases? If not, I'll probably start hunting for suggestions on what to get with a box to make things feasible.
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Jcam posted:Do you think just the Starter Boxes would be an okay purchase for us to learn the rules and play a few games, so that we can intelligently plan the next few blister purchases? If not, I'll probably start hunting for suggestions on what to get with a box to make things feasible. Just the starter boxes would get you a decent grasp of the mechanics. Just the starter boxes won't get you a decent grasp of the game as a whole. Armed with that knowledge, you can play it, decide if you like the mechanics and be assured that the big question marks you've got over your head about the game as a whole are due to false impressions. Edit: to clarify, the game with just the boxes will be SUPER swingy, and very prone to having a single model kill everything like rambo. It it will likely be even more super swingy due to not having experience laying out terrain for a good Infinity table. However, when I've demoed the game to people with low model counts, they generally seem to have a lot of fun. 3 line infantry and a single heavy infantry per side works out really well in practice to introduce the game. Cyclomatic fucked around with this message at 20:44 on Jul 5, 2015 |
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Jul 5, 2015 20:33
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Jcam posted:Do you think just the Starter Boxes would be an okay purchase for us to learn the rules and play a few games, so that we can intelligently plan the next few blister purchases? If not, I'll probably start hunting for suggestions on what to get with a box to make things feasible. That's exactly what Operation Icestorm is for, its scenarios are a series of tutorials. If you have a an LGS and can buy the blisters on site I'd go with the big box. Pierzak fucked around with this message at 20:52 on Jul 5, 2015 |
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Jul 5, 2015 20:42
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Not a viking posted:A Skiavoros has G:Mnemonica so you don't suffer from LoL when he dies, his "soul" just "jumps" to another model with a cube. Shoot, yep that's something we missed! Well, now I feel bad, that one would have played out entirely differently had that not happened. Hortism fucked around with this message at 21:47 on Jul 5, 2015 |
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Jul 5, 2015 21:34
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 mini me, I choose you!!
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Jcam the website data-sphere.net has an in depth "getting started with" breakdown of each starter box as well a few ideas of how to expand them. As a bonus they're all updated for N3, which is something to keep an eye out for when looking at info about the game.
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I think I am going to get that new crocman and chop his barrel down to a combi. 2 crocs seems fun.
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Um I might have done a dumb thing. I bought the Hassassin Bahram box and the Naffatûn box, have I bought two things which don't work together? Have I mixed sectorials? (What exactly is a sectorial? )
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by.a.teammate posted:Um I might have done a dumb thing. Yes and yes. You done hosed up son!  But it's not as bad as it looks at first "holy poo poo what are you doing without proper synergy for ITS tournament" glance. For that you'll have to grab some replacement stuff (like some Ghulams and 2 camo infiltrator specialists), but it'll serve you in firefights or in YAMS missions, and by then you'll know what works for you and more precisely what your next needs are. I added a Al'Hawwa hacker blister to your purchase and made this 200pt list:  Haqqislam────────────────────────────────────────────────── Group 1   9  1  0 NAFFATŰN Lieutenant Rifle + Light Flamethrower, Grenades / Pistol, Knife. (12) NAFFATŰN Rifle + Light Flamethrower, Grenades / Pistol, Knife. (12) NAFFATŰN Rifle + Heavy Flamethrower / Pistol, Knife. (13) NAFFATŰN Rifle + Heavy Flamethrower / Pistol, Knife. (13) RAGIK Rifle + Light Shotgun / Pistol, CCW. (26) LASIQ Viral Sniper Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (1.5 | 26) FIDAY Rifle + Light Shotgun, Antipersonnel Mines, Smoke Grenades / Pistol, AP CCW, Knife. (32) HAWWA' (Forward Observer) Boarding Shotgun, D-Charges / Pistol, Knife. (21) MUYIB Doctor Plus (MediKit) Rifle + Light Shotgun, D.E.P. / Pistol, Knife. (26) DAYLAMI (CH: Limited Camouflage, Inferior Infiltration) Light Shotgun, Panzerfaust / Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 8)Group 2 0 1 0 DAYLAMI (CH: Limited Camouflage, Inferior Infiltration) Rifle + Light Shotgun / Pistol, Knife. (10)2 SWC | 199 Points Open with Army 5 My reasoning:
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deploy him either almost at the enemy DZ (so you don't have to roll) and harass, deploy in total cover and place 2 mines behind a wall so the enemy has to deal with clearing them before the advance, etc. Basically be as much of an rear end in a top hat as possible, you will die sooner or later but waste as much enemy force/materiel/orders as you can. (and if you go CC remember that the knife is Stealthy 
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PaintVagrant posted:I think I am going to get that new crocman and chop his barrel down to a combi. 2 crocs seems fun.
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poo poo, I may have hosed up a Tacbot arm by thinking I was cutting off a gate. Or I mixed up arms from another model. 
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by.a.teammate posted:Um I might have done a dumb thing. Naffatun box + Bahram box are an excellent combination for playing vanilla Haqqislam. I would still consider picking up the vanilla starter at some point, if vanilla Haqq is your intent, but you've got a perfectly fine beginning.
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Flipswitch posted:Yeah I use my hacker/boarding shotgun combo quite a bit these days, or just boarding shotgun/forward observer which the MSR guy will end up getting proxied as. I think I've run the MSR Croc maybe three times in 4 years. There is a hacker BS combo?!
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Sorry should specified. I take double Croc in like 90% of my Pano lists these days. They are so drat good in N3.
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Pierzak posted:many helpful words... Thanks to all your replies, glad its not as bad as i first thought, i've been sat in a hospital reading the rules with my head slowly melting and i couldn't even find all the troops mentioned in the box so I was worried i'd wasted some monies. I see now this game is really flexible, can't wait to get them all built and find some poor soul to play with me in london.
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Jul 6, 2015 08:10
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€90 for US Ariadna. 
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Jul 6, 2015 10:16
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The price of freedom.
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Wow... Thats getting pretty expensive for the USAradna box.. However this release is some of the slickest marketing Ive seen from Corvus Belli http://www.infinitythegame.com/usariadna.html
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ijyt posted:€90 for US Ariadna. Its also a lot bigger than the starter sets, isn't it?
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It looks like it is nine miniatures, plus some terrain and a condensed rulebook. That is more than a starter. All this Greek news also could make it cheaper. 89.95€ is about $99.23 at the moment. Edit: also it includes one bike and two big ol' werewolves, which would be more expensive than even heavy infantry models.
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Hopefully The Warstore will carry it for us US people, I got both Icestorm and Angel's book with the pre-order minis through them with no hassle.
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dexefiend posted:It looks like it is nine miniatures, plus some terrain and a condensed rulebook. That is more than a starter. Not a viking posted:Its also a lot bigger than the starter sets, isn't it? I'll wait for a version that comes wihout the terrain then, and buy it from a FLGS.
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ijyt posted:I'll wait for a version that comes wihout the terrain then, and buy it from a FLGS. There's a more in-depth unboxing on Beasts of War that I'm looking through, and it looks like they're basically bundling a few different boxes of minis with the terrain and book and whatever: There's the starter box with: 3 Grunts, a Marauder (new for N3, statline TBA but it has a combi rifle/heavy flamethrower), a Ranger and a Minuteman. The other box has the Werewolf/Antipode team, which will be sold separately. The scout biker is exclusive to the Army set (like the exclusive models in the Icestorm set), same with the pre-order unmounted mini.
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Oh poo poo, I thought it was just the unmounted that was exclusive. In that case I might need to reconsider. e: The playmat is also a poster, but it's folded. 
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OK, so 4 cheap infiltrating camo specialists, 5+ bikes, Dog Warriors, and Haris with MSV1 HRL? Remind me again, where are the disadvantages? - weak HI? See Dog-Warriors. - no TO Camo / hacking? Hardly anything gets special-hackable in Ariadna, besides you just put the points into more orders. - no TAGs? Big deal, last time I saw a TAG was over a year ago in a Brutal Force tournament. And for painting purposes I have bootleg minis like the Caskuda
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The Sectorial rules are in the book that comes with the box, and will be hitting the army builder soonish. 
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gently caress me. Primed six of my ALEPH and the finish is grainy, must have been too windy. Also how the hell do you guys deal with mould lines? Must have spent at least 30 minutes to an hour per model checking for mould lines, and I still see them after priming. Really, gently caress metal.
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ijyt posted:gently caress me. Primed six of my ALEPH and the finish is grainy, must have been too windy. Also how the hell do you guys deal with mould lines? Must have spent at least 30 minutes to an hour per model checking for mould lines, and I still see them after priming. Really, gently caress metal. I just scrape them gently and run the whole strip over with an emery board. And yeah, camo mold lines are a thing until you get your WIP up.
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Pierzak posted:I just scrape them gently and run the whole strip over with an emery board. And yeah, camo mold lines are a thing until you get your WIP up. The worst thing is I can't even strip them because I'll have to glue them back together again. I'll just make sure no-one gets to see them closer than table-top distance.
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