Ridiculous amounts of questions about Infinity Options

[jwai]

I've known of the game in passing for a few years now, and have received word of some small pockets of people playing it around the LGS locations I visit.

I printed out tenabrae's unofficial rulebook PDF today, and tried having a read. Is the game as ridiculously hard as the incredibly verbose rulebook makes it out to be?

What differentiates the various factions, and the various troop choices within a faction? I'm finding it somewhat difficult to tell the differences, given that a lot of design and stylistic cues with the miniatures cross over between factions, making colour almost the only real difference from a distance.

I've also heard that Infinity needs ridiculous amounts of terrain. Will the game break if there's not enough?

This post has been edited by jwai: Mar 13 2012, 10:25 PM

[Reunion-Round]

- What differentiates each faction from each other in terms of strengths and weaknesses?

Ariadna's weakness is also its strength. Lack of Tech. All their weapons are cheaper, they cant be sepsitored but they also dont have hackers. Primary stat: PH

Yu Jing are very specialist oriented. Primary stat: CC

Pan O are shooting specialists, their gear is expensive but what they have is the best. Primary stat: BS

Nomads are all about tricks. No specific primary stat.

Combined are similar to nomads, not much experience with them though.

Haqq are all about the hackers and doctors. Their heavy infantry is relativly cheap. Primary stat: WIP


Ariadna and Haqq can play the numbers game very convincingly.

- What differentiates each unit within a faction from each other when weapons are quite similar across the board?

Abilites and equipment. Also cost and the availability of each trooper. Even a slight change in gear and armor is enough to make something have a different battle field role.

- What are the advantages and disadvantages of each unit type eg. light/medium/heavy infantry?

Not a lot until you get into Heavy Infantry and Remotes/TAGS.

Heavy Infantry and Rem/TAG can be hacked and are generally slower. Warbands are often made up of impetuous troops etc.... the main function of the unit types is for theme I think. But playing a majority of Ariadna, I havn't had much to do with hackable heavy infantry or TAG's etc.

- I noticed in tenabrae's PDF that you can make a mercenary list of sorts where you can pick figures from various factions. Does that actually work in practice?

Not by Tournament rules. Mercs are only available to Sectorial lists, and ten only the specific ones mentioned.

[Lone_Pathfinder]

Heavy Infantry and Rem/TAG can be hacked and are generally slower.

REMs and TAGs are very fast.