{"id":4215,"date":"2016-05-01T20:49:07","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T00:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/?p=4215"},"modified":"2016-05-01T20:59:24","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T00:59:24","slug":"to-infinity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/2016\/05\/to-infinity\/","title":{"rendered":"To Infinity!"},"content":{"rendered":"

A\u00a0year and a half after painting up a\u00a0half squad, I finally got in my first game of\u00a0Infinity<\/a>.\u00a0Our PAGE<\/a> Infinity Get Started\u00a0Day seemed\u00a0successful, with a bunch of newcomers\u00a0showing up alongside the Sunday regulars at Redcap’s<\/a> for over\u00a016\u00a0people playing or watching. A few more photos are in the gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Infinity-Logo\"<\/p>\n

\"To<\/a>

To Infinity… and beyond! (that will never get old)<\/p><\/div>\n

I’ve been sick and had told Caitlin I’d be home early so I only got in one game, but it was a solid learning experience.\u00a0Colin’s Ariadna Highlanders partnered up with my PanOceania Military Orders to fight Steve’s… Haqqislam? Nomads? I have no idea. They were painted in\u00a0typical Nomads colors but my impression is\u00a0he’s only ever talked about playing Haqqislam. It… feels\u00a0a little weird to me to be so new to a miniatures game as to not even be able to definitively\u00a0recognize an opposing\u00a0faction’s models. Also, I actually saw very little of his army because they all hid behind buildings and then popped out just enough to shoot from cover.<\/p>\n

\"Why<\/a>

Why are we fighting over this shanty town again?!?!<\/p><\/div>\n

One small note is I\u00a0should\u00a0paint the front arc on the base of my models. Steve seems to have\u00a0done that on his. Most of the models are pretty clear about which way they’re facing so it’s\u00a0not a huge thing, but\u00a0it’s a nice touch. Facing is important for critical\u00a0game mechanics like taking opportunistic shots at\u00a0troops moving around, so it’s nice to make the front arc\u00a0completely unambiguous.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

The enemy!<\/p><\/div>\n

The game I think is pretty\u00a0good. I’m not sure what to make of the rulebook. Previous editions I didn’t think were written very well, though some of that could be the translation. So far\u00a0this\u00a0edition is\u00a0hard to gauge.\u00a0It seems like many things are\u00a0left unsaid or a bit ambiguous. But that could just be me not having a grasp of both the core mechanics and presentation\u00a0style. The book\u00a0does seem to have\u00a0somewhat formal and systematic language around models being in particular states and so on, which is\u00a0promising. Clearly though the game encompasses a million little fiddly abilities and a good number of stats, many of which\u00a0seem like they may not come up all that often. There’s a lot going on, and a lot of interactions.<\/p>\n

Overall though, the core mechanics are obviously\u00a0fun and very tactical.\u00a0They play out quite different from many miniatures games, and especially 40k. Infinity is\u00a0hyper-focused on line of sight\u00a0and sniping. I knew to expect that, but it was interesting to fool\u00a0around and start to actually get a feel for how it plays out. For example, a bunch of regular troopers caught in the open really should not\u00a0engage in a firefight with a sniper at long range in cover. That’s… actually pretty realistic? Similarly,\u00a0charging with your sword against a guy pointing a shotgun your way is probably not going to work out well. That’s… even more\u00a0realistic?<\/p>\n

\"Holding<\/a>

Holding down the right flank.<\/p><\/div>\n

In the end Steve rolled us off the table in a straightforward annihilation mission. Knights on the right flank got wiped out\u00a0moving\u00a0forward aggressively toward close combat.\u00a0Order sergeants made a serious\u00a0thrust up the center but all got put\u00a0away by a sniper camped out in the backfield. On the left the Highlanders got\u00a0a bunch of kills with their machine guns as enemy troops parachuted in all around them, but were eventually themselves tagged. The final moments came down to a lone sergeant in\u00a0high tech camouflage sniping from the rooftops, but\u00a0an enemy doctor was able to creep around\u00a0a building out of sight\u00a0and save\u00a0the downed troops, who then overwhelmed the sniper and eliminated Colin and I from the game.<\/p>\n

So, in the end,\u00a0I’m pretty excited about playing more Infinity. Definitely a substantial\u00a0learning curve just to pick up\u00a0all the\u00a0core rules, let alone all the common abilities and weapons. But it’s a fun game and the skirmish style right\u00a0up my alley.<\/p>\n

\"Pop,<\/a>

Pop, pop!<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A\u00a0year and a half after painting up a\u00a0half squad, I finally got in my first game of\u00a0Infinity.\u00a0Our PAGE Infinity Get Started\u00a0Day seemed\u00a0successful, with a bunch of newcomers\u00a0showing up alongside the Sunday regulars at Redcap’s for over\u00a016\u00a0people playing or watching. A few more photos are in the gallery. I’ve been sick and had told Caitlin I’d … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[409],"tags":[281,274,29,45],"class_list":["post-4215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-battle-reports","tag-infinity","tag-miniatures","tag-page","tag-redcaps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4215"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4230,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4215\/revisions\/4230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}