Pierzak posted:

Nomads: slow everything except remotes and TAGs, excellent light TAGs and REMs, tricky (hacking, Koalas), terror troops like random Morlocks and furries. You'll want to decide between the sectorial; Corregidor are TAG- and troop-oriented - more general but excellent basic troops, very good AD, visors; Bakunin are the weird tricks - excellent hacking, ODD, combat nuns, furries and Morlocks. Also hacking.

ALEPH: Elite faction. You'll very likely be outnumbered at lower points. Gets some very strong units to counter that; most of the vanilla troops have NWI, you get cheap warbands with ODD, this kind of stuff. Which also makes you vulnerable to E/M, but hey. The vanilla list has infiltrators and camo, the sectorial has none - its gimmick is to be a straight assault force and a powergamer's wet dream; you get many link-teams (up to 4 members though) that have to include one or more of the shitload of special characters. Few tricks in sectorial, but it's still very strong until you learn how to counter it.

Noob-friendliness: In Infinity? Seriously though, don't worry; I started with Shasvastii which are pretty much the hardest entry point and had a blast. The thing is that Infinity is very skill-focused (as opposed to list-focused) and any mistakes you make may cost you dearly. Just pick what appeals to you more fluff/modelwise and learn to run it.