Not much to this one, as the title states I recently received some reinforcements for Infinity. My buddy Jeff recently headed out to GenCon, had a blast of course, and in addition to getting himself the Pan-O Military Orders box he snagged me a free copy of the starter rules...much better than the printout I've been using!
One of the back pages of the starter rules had a sheet of counters. Unlike the color printer ones last time, these were printed on the nice, glossy-slick paper that the whole rulebook is printed on. Like last time however, with barely any effort, I cut them out and glued them down to spare slottabases effectively doubling my overall counter count and giving me some badly needed thermo-optic camo markers.
Finally comes the real meat and potatoes to the reinforcements segment; more models for my Combined Army. Nothing too outside of the box, not knowing the game well enough I could've pondered troop choices 'til the cows came home. I just went with what the main site suggested to add to flesh out the starter box to a full three hundred points. I figured just adding three models got me to 'regular' sized games? Sign me up. It also helped that two of the three suggested figs were already on my 'must have because they look too cool' list.
Up first would be the jetpack-equipped and heavily armed/armored Rasyat. The ultra sneaky crouched Noctifer was next; lots of stealth and decent firepower, not to mention a great sculpt put him on my must-have list. Rounding out the trio is the shape-shifting Speculo Killer, maybe not my third choice, but she (it?) works out points-wise and has some kind of neat (weird?) egg laying capability.
As with my last Infinity post, I snuck in Ray's Ariadna at the end. This time is no different as I am sneaking in one of Andy's troopers too. Jeff was on a snagging frenzy at GenCon and picked up this alternate sculpt variant of one of Pan-O's basic line troops, the Fusiliers. If you haven't seen Andy's Fusiliers so far you need to check them out here.That's about all I have for now, until next time!
You've done well there mate, the counters are great!
ReplyDeleteThey're super easy-cheesey, but should work out well. I just need to get some games under my belt now!
DeleteMan, i really wish there was more of a following here, this would be something i could totally get into.
ReplyDelete"If you build it, they will come."
DeleteReinforcements is always good. Especially neat ones with cool tricks like Impersonation!
ReplyDeleteI just pre-ordered the Paradiso campaign book the other day and I'm feeling my fingers starting to itch.
Jared, Infinity is inexpensive enough that you can buy two starter boxes and start demoing it to other people. Just saying... :)
That's not the issue. I live in an area with a very small population, the game store barely keeps up, and people who are too afraid to leave their element. It's hard to get into a gaming group that's not playing dnd 3.5, warhammer 40k barely has a presence here, and warmachine tried and died. It's all dnd, yugioh, and magic.
Delete@Martin; that Paradiso book just looks so cool. Totally jumping the gun, but I'd like to pick it up. I meant to email you back the other day, I did add you to XBox Live but I was having major server issues with ME3.
Delete@Jared; I hear you. You know, a really great gateway element might be boardgaming? Once the beauty of something new takes hold then go into a minis-lite game such as Infinity? Sounds like there's just not a lot of miniature gaming in general though.
You could always get some figs 'just because' and paint them up!
...Like I will probably do.
Delete@Jared - Ah, I see. That's sad to hear. The minis definitely warrant getting 'just because' though! Hehe!
ReplyDelete@Mik - I'll do a quick review/first impressions when I get the book later this month(?). I'm sure it'd be great fun even for a fledgling mayanaut like yourself. Don't worry about ME3, I'll see you when I see you. :)
@Spacejacker - Please do! I'd love to see your brush strokes on a few Infininty minis!