"Kill Team vs Infinity" Topic

Which do you prefer?

How do they compare (pros/cons)?

Kill Team.

You get an entire universe of plastic miniatures to use while Infinity is still stuck with metal. I might do more than dabble if they were plastic.

Kill Team here as well, though mostly due to amount of players.

Another vote for Kill Team. Infinity may be better rules-wise, but I cannot stand it's aesthetic. You can practically hear some exec telling the design crew 'And do all the art like that Japanimation stuff, I hear that's really big with the kids.'

Infinity – I like the aesthetic and the miniatures better. Not all of them, I have a full army of older SoB painted but have never played 40k. But generally like the Infinity aesthetic better.

The rules are, IMO, much better for Infinity as well. I don't play it as much anymore, its more a lifestyle game and I am now more casual.

And I will admit to generally not liking GW rules and definitely not their business practices. (My major beefs – I may like KT now, but dont worry the rules will change soon. Their pricing policies, what they did to WAB, etc.)

While you may not understand or agree with my reasoning, its ok. I don't understand not playing a game because miniatures are metal, not plastic, so we're even. :)

As a note to my GW dislike – I dont want to argue about that. I have anecdotes regarding WAB. While anecdotal, these were personal anecdotes that happened to me.

But withstanding all that, I still like Infinity better, aesthetically and rules wise.

Let me add, to be fair, my guess is Kill Team is probably a less complex game so you should take that into consideration. The Infinity community, at least around me, is very competitive, which is not for me. I don't know the KT community. These are the reasons I am actually moving into BLKOUT.

So there are pros and cons for each.

I'm not sure why not metal figures either.

Especially if comparing with modern GW sprues with a vomit of tiny, often fragile, bits haphazardly scattered across an overly complex sprue.

GW used to be a games company, now they are a puzzle company??

Used to be if a metal bit was broken or missing, you could get or buy a replacement from da trollz.

Now you're left trying to glue back together some rediculus tiny thing piece of junk.

GW used to do good plastics, single piece into some of the multi part regiment/squad stuff.

Now it's mostly just a nightmare and a definite turn off for many would be players.

Plastic used to be a great option for cheaper units. Option being the key word. And great for starter boxes.

Like many things (Kenner being another), they had it all worked out in the 90s. Two plastic armies in a boxed set. The same figures in paint and individual boxes. Metal blister/boxes. Using plastic logically, like horses, shields in metal sets.

Then came regiment boxes, which mostly worked, but started screwing with the system.

LOTR is a great example.

Fellowship had 2 plastic sprues in a starter box, plus in the paint set and also individually. (Actually the goblins just bred and got everywhere, magazines, board games, another starter box…) Then they had metal blisters and metal scenario boxes. The plastic figures also had metal alternatives. Perfect!

Then came the two towers. But no metal alternatives to the plastics. Just more plastic. Still ok, but starting to slide.

Then return of the king. Lots more plastic, less metal.

We won't talk about the hobbit. Fine cast had come out by then. The limited edition figure was still in the starter box when it was eventually canned, after the third film? The second film got a book only, and suspicious plastic elf hero's (both designed for a starter box, I suspect). The third film got.., a pdf download or white dwarf freebie booklet. Fizzle.