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

[chromedog]

*Just a note about mercs and their allowance in tourneys.

SOME sectorials DO allow mercs in those lists. THESE ARE allowed in tourneys.
Merc lists and general lists containing mercs are usually not allowed.