"Starting Infinity... A Little Help Please" Topic

So, in the county I live in, there aren't that many gamers. There's basically my RPG group, and that's pretty much it. They've enjoyed wargaming when I've gotten them to give it a go, but, it's hard to get them to put together their own dang armies, especially since they refuse to paint 15mm. I'd been thinking about doing some more 28s lately anyway, and, based on the basic rules PDF, the fluff and look, and the small model count, I could get a decent circle going for Infinity and we'd all enjoy it. Thing is, I'm not exactly sure where to start.

Operation Icestorm certainly doesn't look like a bad deal. You get enough terrain for a small game, two forces at 150 point strength, and a hard copy of the rules for $110 USD or so. Among the rest of my group, I'd bet good money that at least one player wants to do Nomads, and I know I'd like to run a PanO sectorial, either a Military Order list or an Acontecimento Shock Army (Love the fluff for PanO, love the models, love shooty armies). So with that in mind, is splitting the Cost on a copy of Operation Icestorm a good way to go, or would we be better off each picking up a starter box for our army of choice and maybe a hard copy of the rules?

the Ice storm box set is a great place to start, at a decent price. You can always add more to it.

Like the 40K starter sets Operation Icestorm is a better deal money-wise for what you get, compared to getting each squad set and rulebook separately. You also get a lot of card board buildings, and Infinity is a game that needs a more cluttered field than 40K.

If you and your gaming buddies already decided on PO and Nomads it's the way to go.

Yep, split the Operation Ice Storm box with somebody. Keep in mind, though, that the "hard copy" of the rules included in the box is merely a pamphlet covering the absolute basics. But the rules are free to download off of the Infinity web site so that isn't a biggie.

Infinity is a nice game so long as you and your group can stay away from the Tournament aspects of the game. It gives in too easily to min-maxing.

You can also download all the templates and tokens free from the website.

You're fine splitting the Icestorm box with a friend. The Icestorm box comes with two minis you cannot buy from anywhere else (Father-Knight for PanO and Reverend Healer for Nomads).

Do remember that Icestorm is the intro set, not a complete rules-set. But since you can download the complete rulebook and all the tokens/markers you will need for free from the Corvus Belli website, I don't consider that to be a downside.

However, the free download file is just rules, virtually no fluff. Gotta shell out some coin to get the fluffbook.

And please swing by either infinitytheforums.com or data-sphere.net if you have questions, there are almost always people online willing to answer you. I post as "Section 9" on those forums.

The two things that most confuse new players to the game are:
1) how much terrain you need (LOTS, ~9 8"x8", ~4 4"x4", and a pile of small scatter like barricades, cars, and planter boxes), and
2) while you can't build an "I win" army list, it's really possible to build an "I lose" army list.

After some resistance on my part, I am splitting an Icestorm box with a friend, but am also buying Combine Army because I prefer their look.

I made an accidental discovery in Target last week that has made surface clutter for streets much easier. The standard line of Pixar's Cars toys are right around 1:55, and they specialize in sporty and fast looking. Now I just need to cover those eyes…

Cool, GypsyComet, I will look into that!

Up til now, I have never played, and only have two minis, and an quickstart rulebook (pamplet) free with purchase.

Miniatures Market had the N3 box for $35 USD on their daily sale (didn't last long), and I snapped it up. It arrived yesterday, but I haven't really had time to look over it.

I'll have to see where this all takes me.

My Miniatures Market cheap as chips rulebook set arrived today! I look forward to reading through it before bed tonight.

Thanks for all the input, you guys. Dang, I like the idea of getting a 180 page fluff book. The full N3 will definitely be my second Infinity purchase, if the game goes over well.

I had heard of this "lots of terrain". Considering my collection's geared towards 15mm, it looks like the states of the Human Sphere may be battling over 'the pop can planet' for a while.

Just as long as you get something to completely block lines of fire. In Infinity, just being in cover isn't worth all that much and moreover the model only gets cover when you are in contact with a terrain.

When it comes to the "lots of terrain" thing, you will need 2x of those terrain kits in the box to do a "basic" table level of terrain.

Which is why you can buy the terrain bits separately from the Icestorm box. Also, the cardboard boxes inside the colorful outer wrappers are a perfect fit for the inside of the terrain in the Icestorm box.

And the last little piece of coolness is that each boxed set you buy comes with 4 marker tokens on the short-side flaps (I recommend getting a 1" hole punch).

"Which is why you can buy the terrain bits separately from the Icestorm box."

That would be the Moto.Tronica set. It tends to go quick whenever it hits retail shelves, so either place an order with your FLGS or hunt around online. I think Warstore has some.