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Infinity: the game
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Infinity is a futuristic skirmish game with heavy manga aesthetics, and a nice range of models for the factions. Best played in a scenery heavy urban setting, the game works by you issuing orders to your troops to make them do things, you're limited to how many orders you have by the amount of people in your team. A great start for new players are the starter boxes which have a nice balance of tactical options available to the models included in each:-

Ariadna
Ariadna is made up of the descendents of the first human colonizing ship that disappeared into a worm-hole and was given up for lost. Isolated on a remote and hostile planet, the Ariadnes – Cossacks, Americans, Scots and Frenchmen – have evolved into a hard and technologically less advanced race, which has just made contact with the Human Sphere and is trying to carve out a niche for itself without falling under the control of the other powers.
http://www.mayasphere.net/infinity/catal...1-azul.jpg

PanOceania
PanOceania is the Nº1. Great Power of the Human Sphere. It owns the greatest number of planets, has the richest economy and possesses the most advanced technology. Pragmatic and generous, PanOceania is a melting-pot of cultures, heir to the best democratic and welfare traditions of the West. Proud of itself and somewhat domineering it can claim to have the most technically sophisticated society and army in the Sphere and likes to brag about it.
http://www.mayasphere.net/infinity/catal...5-azul.jpg

Yu Jing
The other great power, the eternal rival always conspiring and intriguing to bring down its adversary is Yu Jing (read Yu Ching), the Asiatic giant. The entire Far East is united beneath the banner of what was once China but which has now formed a single, though varied, oriental culture. Product of great industrial and technological development and a forceful, thriving economy, Yu Jing is determined to achieve the dominant position which it aspires to.
http://www.mayasphere.net/infinity/catal...8-azul.jpg

Haqqislam
Haqqislam, the New Islam, is a smaller power which possesses a single star-system only, Bourak. Separating itself from fundamentalism, Haqqislam bases its culture on an Islam which is humanist, philosophical and in continuous contact with nature. Biosanitary Science and Earthformation are the two major strengths of Haqqislam, which includes the best schools of medecine and planetology in the Human Sphere.
http://www.mayasphere.net/infinity/catal...2-azul.jpg

Nomads
The Nomads consist of three enormous ships whose inhabitants, discontented with a society controlled by huge macroeconomic blocks and by A.I., have separated themselves from it and roam through space, trading from system to system. Tunguska is dedicated to the traffic and storage of information. Corregidor offers skilled labour at a good price, while Bakunin trades in all that is exotic and illegal in whatever area, from fashion to nano-engineering
http://www.mayasphere.net/infinity/catal...7-azul.jpg

Combined Army
And while Humanity devours itself, a new threat, perhaps the most terrible of all, has managed to form a bridgehead in the heart of the Human Sphere. A Combined Army of alien races, united beneath the dominance of an Evolved Intelligence, an ancient but supreme artificial intellect with hegemonic aspirations with respect to any race that crosses its path.
http://www.mayasphere.net/infinity/catal...5-azul.jpg

ALEPH
ALEPH is the unique Artificial Intelligence controlling the data networks and technological systems of the entire Human Sphere. ALEPH is humanity’s great ally, and without it, intergalactic socio-political and economical systems would fall apart almost instantly.
http://www.mayasphere.net/infinity/catal...9-azul.jpg

Mercenaries
Mercenary Companies and “corporate warriors” provide logistic, tactical and lethal support to anyone ready to pay their fees, from a state army to O-12 or the energy industry. In this situation, the professional soldier is a merchandise that is rented or sold, serving inside a country, in the colonies or forward commercial missions, working for mega-corporations, family mafias, transport enterprises, security companies, information trafficking ventures and much more.
http://www.mayasphere.net/infinity/catal...8-azul.jpg
http://www.mayasphere.net/infinity/catal...queta1.jpg
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If anyone is interested i will be doing an ariadna force for Gaz's painting challenge and already have a plan for the scenery
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WARMACHINE: Khador, mercenaries 
BOLT ACTION 51st highlander division (in progress)
KILL TEAM: Adeptus mechanicus


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#2
Nice one - I was having a quick look at the Infinity site the other day to find out a bit about the game and factions. I think my faction shortlist would be Ariadna and PanOceania, erring towards Ariadna if pushed.
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#3
The last few days I've been erring on playing ALEPH as I love the concept of the army (AI ftw!) but actual models-wise, I'm now looking at PanOceania more and more purely because I prefer the looks.

Oh decisions decisions!
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#4
Justin I'm getting a load of 403 errors on your links.
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#5
I've ordered the rulebook so i actually have some rules to show off instead of the printoffs of my computer. if it turns up before tuesday i'll bring it along

Here's another link if the above ones don't work, you can see all the models available for each faction from this one:
http://www.infinitythegame.com/infinity/en/facciones/

Here's another link for helping to expand the starter boxes:
http://www.infinitythegame.com/infinity/...g-started/
WARHAMMER/AGE OF SIGMAR:  khorne warriors of chaos
WARMACHINE: Khador, mercenaries 
BOLT ACTION 51st highlander division (in progress)
KILL TEAM: Adeptus mechanicus


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#6
Loving the models for this, think we have a winner for the next game system i'm trying!
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Infinity Yu jing (Aprox 1000 pts)
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#7
PanOceania it is. The Knights, the TAGs, the general look etc have just sold it for me. Plus looking at the forums and deciphering their play style, PanO seems to be one of the most balanced armies with a bit of everything siding more towards ranged. Originally I did want to do ALEPH from the fluff but I just can't like the models no matter how hard I try lol.

Think I'll start with the Military Order Starter Pack in time for the challenge to begin!
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#8
Still can't decide between PanOceania and Ariadna dammit.
Figures painted in 2016: 4 Blush
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#9
Decided to go with YuJing, purely as was tossing between them and PanOceania and was swayed more by the Akira looking bikes in the Yujing selection. Has anyone played this yet?
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Epic 40k-Space marines/Imperial Guard(2000 pts)
Infinity Yu jing (Aprox 1000 pts)
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#10
Reckon at some point I'll have to get into this game, but I've promised myself that I'll finish my Protectorate first Big Grin.
Quite like the look of PanOceania so maybe, after the Ballard of Redditch Wargamers is over and I've hopefully completed my Menoth, I might get myself a small force.
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