"Infinity - Style over Substance?" Topic

For something different, I thought that I would try a system that I have seen in the past that looks visually, very interesting – "Infinity". These are some thoughts on these products:-

Lots more images at Nottingham Wargames Club Website/Blog:
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I got a few of the figs for my all female Stargrave crew. Excellent miniatures. Expensive, but excellent. Paint up nice. As far as the bases, I superglued washers on the bottom. I do that on all of my minis. Gives em some bottom weight and they stick to the magnet strips that I put on the bottom of the box's I carry minis in.

I agree, they are very expensive figs, but very nice looking.

I have not bought any yet, and don't know if I will.

For Sci-Fi gaming, I will attempt to find nice looking, lower cost proxies, where possible.

I don't know anything about their rules, but they do seem to have a decent following, I suspect mainly due to their great looking figures.

Those buildings and terrain mats do look very nice.

Any chance of stream-lining the rules for game play, in order to make them faster, or more gamer friendly?

Any other figs you can recommend for this type of gaming?

I have thought the Infinity rules are very straightforward and rather nice even though very model-specific. And have to agree, the minis made for the rules are excellent, if sometimes a little elaborate.

Still, horses for courses.

Thanks for the tips!

Thresher – Yes, I've been tinkering with stream-lining the rules to come up with a much simpler version. As for other ranges, The Games Workshop Necromunda line are really good and as Brain Damaged states above, the Stargrave boxes are also a good alternative.

I've played a few games of Infinity and I like how it works and the level of detail but I'm more interested in bigger games. The stock scenarios are good for learning and I like the figures a lot, but ya pricey.

There's apparently another new, similar offering, called Lunar, for battles with astronauts on the moon.

5 figs per side, rules, terrain mat, etc..

Looks to be released in a month or so, but the figs are $6.00 USD a pop now, with the "discounted" pre-order price, and are 32mm in scale, resin minis.

Too rich for me, sadly, but some astronauts in this scale would be nice to see.

I think I'll just have to stick to 15mm GZG figs for Moongrunt.