Infinity the Game: The DEFINITIVE Guide to Getting Started
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- Опубліковано 8 лип 2024
- Infinity the Game, by Corvus Belli is undoubtedly my favourite miniatures wargame ever. Today I'll be attempting to offer a true, definitive guide, to everything you need to know to get started.
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Infinity Website: infinitytheuniverse.com/
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N4 Rules: downloads.corvusbelli.com/inf...
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Infinity Army App: infinitytheuniverse.com/army/
Infinity Wiki: infinitythewiki.com/Introduction
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Great little video, I have definitely like how Infinity is smaller and cheaper to get into (the free rules and army builder are huge). The minis are gorgeous full of details, I love painting and they pushed me out of my comfort zone and pushed my skills in a way GW minis never could. I do find that CodeOne is a good place to start, I started with N4 and it was...rough, a lot of unit specific rules i didnt know ended with a lot of 'gotcha' on me and that was frustrating, watching and playing a few CodeOne games helped me understand the basics and it was much easier to get into N4 after.
An excellent video for those getting started with the game 👍🏻.
I've made the summary, hope it helps:
0:33 Why Infinity?
0:55 Price
1:32 Looks
2:10 Competitiveness
3:03 Reaction mechanics (ARO)
3:38 Where to start
3:59 Code One
4:44 N4
5:30 Tabletop Simulator (TTS)
6:43 What to buy
7:05 Battle Box
8:00 Beyond Box
8:43 A quick note...
9:17 Collection Pack
10:09 Action Pack
10:57 Resources
11:28 The app (Infinity Army)
12:20 UA-cam
13:26 Podcasts
14:28 Official aids
14:58 Downloads
15:45 Wrap up
I sure have spent over 500€ and have now two armies, love this game so much. 500 would net you a barely playable tournametn Army at GW.
Thanks for another impetus to get seriously into Infinity! Your past videos inspired me to order the Crimson Stone set and pay shipping from the UK, as well as checking Miniature Market for on-sale minis and boxes. They always seem to have something on sale that I like the looks of (whether it fits in the starter factions or not). One of these days I'll get them painted up and see if I can drum up a group at my LGS. It'll be tough breaking the GW logjam, but it won't happen if someone doesn't try.
Ifnothing else, it gives me more stuff to look at/listen to.
I'll be sure to send this to friends who show an interest in picking up the game, thanks!
This was terrifically helpful! I just preordered the Blackwind starter set to get stuck into Infinity. I’ve seen the CB release schedule and have no idea what any of it meant, until now! Much appreciated info
Thank you, Matt! Always a pleasure to help a new player in to the game.
Meanwhile, Battletech:
"All you need is 8 minis!"
Is actually all you need. 4 v 4 mechs is a typical game size.
Great overview!
You can also add Robert Shepherd & VaulSc to the list along with Human Sphere, Infinity Universe.
Robert Shepherd just won a tournament with his Tohaa 👍
The faction symbol on the official die from the Operation boxes is on the 1, not the 20.
Looks good.
Going to have to pull you up on something. Infinity was originally designed as a casual game, and those roots are still evident in N4
My biggest problem with Infinity is identifying the models as the great aesthetic does make them all look more similar than e.g. GW model ranges. Even in the startersets I have, there is not handy way to learn which model is which. Is there a recognition guide out there?
Corvus Belli publish a lot of such guides on their website and someone on Reddit has done some extensive Unit Recognition Sheets. A little Google Fu will get you what you need :)
where do you buys these? i can't find it on ebay or amazon
With infinity there seems to be a sort of gap in how to paint the miniatures. I was hoping Angel’s two books would cover that, but they skips over bits of how models can be painted. An example is the Red Cross on helmet or Red dots on PanOceania minis. I could not find out how they were done, nor suggestions on how to do them. I missed when SEB_K_MINIS had a commission to paint PanO, to find out more. You notice when you get Operation … box. Minis in them and information about them. Not a lot about assembling and painting. Even a link on their site with this information would be useful.
The faction paint sets all include the step by step guides for each faction, written by angel. The little symbols are decals, which Corvus Belli sell.
I do agree that both of these things could be signposted better - but I also appreciate that CB don't try to push their customers into a specific painting ecosystem.
@@TesseractMinis The painting sets are nice, they give you the basic colours to paint a faction mini (and the included mini for fun). But the instructions in them are lacking, there are definitely a few big gaps in how Angel gets from one part to another at times, Ive been painting for a while so I can make the jump or do my own research to tweak what Angel did to my own liking but I could see it being discouraging for a new Hobbiest
100% agree! I actually have a video where I cover the exact subject!
It is hard to purchase Infinity products. I am in the USA - Oregon. Online stores based in the UK seem to have Corvus Belli and third-party Infinity products in stock. Shipping can add a lot to the total cost when purchasing a product overseas because that is where it can be found and is readily available. What do you recommend as the best purchasing method and stores with products in stock?
I shall have a chat with a couple of my US players, from my Discord server and ask them to drop in with some answers for you! Stand by please!
Miniature Market is a decent shoutout for Infinity they carry quite a bit with good pricing on what they do carry. There are a couple more places I can't remember right now.
Just curious and asking the room, I just was at a local shop and I picked up Operation: Cold Front and the Beyond box, these ARE CodeOne yes/no? Thanks in advance.
These predate Code One, officially - they're about 4 starter sets old. However the simplified rules they use to teach are very similar to Code One.
I'd recommend grabbing a code one rulebook either as a free pdf on the CB website, or in physical.
@@TesseractMinis thank you! I wondered since I couldn't find CodeOne on the box anywhere. I'll definitely be picking up the rulebook for sure! I appreciate the clarification.
Yeah I think you've bought in....two sets? Before code one was an official thing. Reasonably sure that Operation Crimson Stone was the first one released under the code one banner.
@@TesseractMinis yeah, I have definitely bought in for sure. Your videos had a lot to do with making the decision, thank you for the in depth discussion about the game and your painting tutorials, they really got me excited to get into Infinity!
Maybe I was playing it wrong but the reaction mechanic seemed fiddle to me. Trying to figure out when someone was seen at a point of their movement or not just bogged the game down.
You get silhouette tokens in the boxed sets, which make it much much faster to figure out. Alternatively there's a bunch of premium physical tokens and 3d printable ones.
I can't say I've ever noticed it bog the game down, but you definitely do have to check sight lines often. However you're typically doing this passively, and constantly, because it's a tactical game built around gunplay. It should be a cooperative experience. My opponent's spot as many of my AROs for me, as I do for myself, some games. And vice versa.
Okay, so to be honest, price is still a barrier for me when it comes to Infinity. Sure, you may 'only need 15 minis', but when those minis average £10 a model, that's a big ask for a buy-in, especially when even a company as overpriced as GW can sell you a Kill Team starter set for that kind of price (and as you've said, it's more like 30)!
Hell, I can get a Firefight starter set with vehicles and some scenery or two Godtear starter sets and 4 additional packs of Champions for that kind of money....
Shame, because I really do like the look of those minis...
If you like the look of the minis, I think it's important to be aware of what you're buying. Whilst you can indeed get a kill team, say, for £30 - it's not really the same thing. When you handle an infinity sculpt you quickly realise it's not comparable to a GW squad sculpt - it's much closer to a character, in terms of quality.
Your starting action pack will set you back £60-70 depending where you buy it, so your average is well below £10/model until you start adding the large pieces, that logically pull up that average ...because they're large.
You also get no repeat poses, with infinity boxes. Hell... You barely get any repeat profiles, save for 3 basic line infantry and they're still all unique sculpts.
It's just a very different environment and I totally understand where you're coming from, because until I understood it, the whole reason I steered clear of infinity is because it looked super expensive.
@@TesseractMinis Granted, the starter packs do work out considerably cheaper (as starter boxes should do), but I notice the real price hikes tend to come into play after that. Adding to the initial 7-8 minis per faction can work out very pricey from that point onward. The CodeOne Collection packs are probably the most effective way to get a fully featured Code One army on the board at 25-30 minis, and with a handy rules booklet, but that's the best part of £200 after discounts (about £220-230 RRP).
For that money I could get a Deadzone and Firefight starter set and add in either a Veer-Myn or GCPS strike force which gives you two games (a skirmish game and a 'full size' game), three skirmish armies with lots of variation, three 1000 point (ish) armies and some scenery.
That's over 100 minis and at least one vehicle, but another vehicle or a booster box (with 8 - 15 minis) will set you back another £25 if you want to take it up to the RRP for the C1 collection box
Right now, the Godtear starters are ridiculously cheap at around £30 each after discount and the Champion boxes are around £20. £200 will give you two of each faction type, 8 champions, around 30-35 minis, all the rules and cards and two double sided boards
I was kinda hoping that CBs dabbling with SioCast would make things a little cheaper and accessible. The starter boxes are a great price, the boosters are a little high (about £25 for 3-4 minis is 'palatable', but it's no Stargrave crew box, which would be the same price), but the action packs are pushing it for only 7-10 bodies on the board.
Price and metal minis are definitely the two blocks for me - maybe not for other people, but with the cost of living going the way it is, I've a choice of my hobby being affordable or 'on hold' and I don't think I'm alone there....
the one and only reason i didnt start playing and collecting infinity is that all the models are not in plastic like gw models. its much easier to work with it, i dont want to pin every single one.
I've never pinned a single one of my infinity miniatures, and they've completed a 400+ mile round trip without breaking! They're exceptionally well keyed for nice, snug joints. 👌
Is this the Abraham Lincoln hats thing? Where you can like, put wings on anything and you automatically started a game?
I love infinity, its just impossible to find a playgroup.
As a game, more so than any other, I think it leans really heavily in to online play over tabletop simulator. All the in person infinity I've played has been as a result of me teaching people, and bringing miniatures and scenery for both of us to use.
@@TesseractMinis same. I bought the n2 and n3 battle boxes and fully painted the armies. I put all 4 armies in a carry case and would do the little booklet games with people to try to get them into the game. Letting them pick whichever army they liked the look of more. I kind of gave up on the hobby in favor of MTG because playing online just doesn't have the same feeling and playing 40k just made me wish I was playing infinity.
Sucks that no one in Northern America seems to play anything but 40k
It _seems_ that way in the UK too, on the surface. But it doesn't take long of being involved in the specific communities of games till you start to find players within travelling distance.
I like it, just dont like the part where I have to paint it...
That's why folks like myself exist, who paint people's minis for a living! There's tons of great commission painters out there at all different levels of cost and ability.
oh mate, imo infinity minis are way more fun to paint than GW's plastic
Hey, mate! Could you please stop releasing Infinity videos on YT? Everytime I watch them, my browser opens automatically a second tab and looks for Infinity minis... ;-) What I would like to know: how do you equip the scenery with buildings for your Infinity duels? Do you use just the operation packs building? Do you 3d print any? Or do you use some other cardboard buildings (if so, which?)...?
Personally I tend to mostly use Corvus Belli terrain at the moment, gathered mainly from Battle Boxes.
That said there's some absolutely INSANE MDF scenery makers, at different price points, who make stuff specifically for Infinity. There's also some great printable stuff.
You have TTCombat, Corvus Games Terrain, Brutal Cities, Microart Studios and many many more. Well worth having a Google around
I really like the look of Brutal Cities. I used to live in West Yorkshire, so it feels very familiar.
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:)D
As someone who hates Japan animation I dislike the look of this game.
To this day I still wonder, how come no one tried to create an Infinity mod on the base of the Firaxis'es X-com.