How did you guys come to find the game Infinity? How did Infinity find its way to your area and how was it received, survived, cock-blocked?

For me it was some time in 2007. I was year old tabletop player with a year into 40k and utterly bored with it. I had just discovered Confrontation 3.5 and the "coherency bomb" was just dropped. The Confrontation forums were rife with dissent and the sky was falling. In the mist of all the calamity, some lone poster from Sweden jumped on and said something along the lines of, 'Whatever. I found another game and its 'Infinitely' better than this."

Because we weren't allowed to post direct links of other games there, I PMed him and he sent me a link to the old forums. I looked at all the models and thought the Alguaciles and Zonds were cool. Also the Kwaraji so I bought the Haqq and Nomad starters with quickstart rules. I played a couple of games with two coworkers (man did we do everything wrong).

I tried to get folks into it, but nothing. It was too unknown. A year went by and my figs sat partially painted and I played Warmachine. Then NQRSMF and Grendle showed up at the LGS from a long absence from Confrontation with some Infinity figs and we just started picking the scene up from there. We started making a lot of terrain and really pushing the game.

The other LGS in the area has some strong personalities that have prevented Infinity from taking off, whereas our LGS has TONS of playing space so there is always room to play and there are never any battles of will as to what games are to be played.

Well, I forgot when but I was browsing an online shop and saw Infinity miniatures. I did not interested back then, since I was looking something fantasy-ish.

About one year ago (or maybe more), some friends of mine said that they want to try it. I also tried it around that time, and found that I like the rules (and newer models). Then I introduced the game to my local gaming group, we used proxies of coins and other game's models, with softdrink cans, boxes, and other 'trashes' as terrains. We also use local gaming forums to talk about it.

After several personal and business problems in the country, hopefully Infinity will find its way to my country easily; there are many people here like the game and love the models.

I saw the ninja on TTGN years ago (whenever it won some award), and checked out the site (and old forums). I grabbed the rules and tried to play a few games with myself using proxies. Then CB came out with the English rules and I started asking every game store I walked into if they sold Infinity. My local store started carrying it, I met Magno, and it took off from there.

I can blame Lord Zed and JimDice for getting me into it sometime around early 2008.

I was getting bored with 40K (and annoyed with my famously poor dice rolling - "D6" would imply that there are more than 1s and 2s on them ) and started looking for something different. I was just about to dive into Urban War when Zed returned from CanCon with the PanO starter and a catalog.

I was hooked

As an old school gamer i started out with classic battletech in the late 80s when i was still in highschool. i went throgh a bit of a dry perion in the mid 90s, then i started to do 3.5 D&D and babylon 5 wars (2nd edition) heavily in the arly 2000s we played at our LGS(tabletop games) it was a great sote and supported avariety of games. as such i often saw 40K players. eventually they got me hooked and i build and/or sold off 7 40K armies.


while i had fun with 40K i looked to expand my game pool to add variety. warmachine hit and it really didn't interest me at all. as i didn't like the steampunk minis or the "secret combo" style of play. a couple years back one of our regulars ran me a demo game of infinity and i was hooked. i loved the game mechanics and how involved both players were in each turn.

So now my list of games include
.40K
.flames of war
.infinity
.classic battletech
.B5 wars(and it's conversions to trek and starwars)
.battlefleet gothic


Like all miniiature games, community support is the key. right now 40K still is the 400 pound gorrilla. it is so huge that it dominates most local scenes. as people want to have opponants to play against it becomes the prefered game. which makes people somehwat indifferent to the game.

classic battletech while still very strong is very dependant on pockets of hardcore gamers. warmachine probably runs the closest second to 40K in my area with groups of dedicated players still enjoying less supported games like B5 wars, BFG and flames.

When it comes to infinity it is rather frustrating at times as the store doesn't really stock the minis, doing them direct order only. so getting people to make impulse purchases is rather difficult. i have managed to get many people interested in the game, even getting them to buy books, minis and helping them with army lists.
I even gave my small ariadna force to another player so he would play.

We have confirmed- 8 players with actual armies. unfortunately most of them are sporadic attendies on game night or they do not bring thier infinity stuff with them as they are working on other projects.

Meaning it is me, Grrr and one other guy on a regular basis. with several other regular players indifferent or not interested in the game.

All we can do as players is promote the game and hope it picks p more of a player base. afterall every game had to start somewhere.

I've been aware of Infinity for a long time, I had a couple of the minis, but I was playing other games (Confrontation 2, then Confrontation 3, then Warmachine and Hordes). My first look at the rules put me off, and I was struggling to get a game a week of Confrontation as it was (I still have a 4000pt Driz army mostly unpainted).

When I moved to house I discovered a new gaming group (mostly Warhammer 40K / Fantasy and some Historicals), Not I have a long dislike of GW games (well Mordheim and Battle Fleet Gothic were actually very good, but 40K sucks) so I set about converting them to a better game... Warmachine / Hordes... Now a year later no one plays Warhammer, everyone is Warmachine / Hordes, but I want to expand their horizons again.

That was when I saw the Beasts of War review and I remembered those Infinity minis I had sitting unpainted in a box.

So now I have both the books, a starter for Yu Jing (painted) and a starter for PanO (on my painting table), and I've been building some foamcore buildings... soon I'll take my demo force to the club and see if I cannot get a few people interested, perhaps even get a couple of the Historical players to cross over.

We also have the Elgin Model Fayre in November (?), I'm thinking I'll present Infinity there and see if we cannot pull a few more people in too.

saw the first ed rulebook quite a while ago and loved the art/minis immediately, but
didn't really have any 'free' time to speak of to dedicate to a ttg. i'd retired my
sisters of battle years before, and my chaos space marine army back in the mid-90s
after watching them collect dust for years longer.

then i demo'd the game at gencon indy '08 and that was all it took. immediately went
down to the warstore in the exhibit hall and picked up a yu jing starter, a guijia,
a ninja sniper, and some tigers along with the rulebook. sat in the room and read
the rulebook, then went back down and picked up some invincibles and remotes.

managed to get the other 3 friends i went to gencon with to grab some minis but they
have yet to shake the hordesmachine virus they'd picked up the previous year.

then the forum previous this one introduced me to magno and the detroit area crew.

I started a long time ago with 40k and Warzone. After TargetGames folded it was just 40k for years and years. When Warmachine came out I tried that for a while, but even by the time the first expansion or two came out I was tired of the CCG aspect of it (combos, synergy, etc.) and the bad attitude of its gamers and the company itself. So 40k it was, again.

Years later I found Confrontation v3, and fell in love. That lasted until its epic collapse when v4 and the pre-painted plastics came out. By the I had already found Infinity though.

I bought 2 starters, and introduced it to the game shop I used to go to. The owner started carrying it, but I work q lot and have a random schedule so promoting a game night never really worked. Eventually it died off. I found another group of gamers in Portland that played, and we ran some games and a league until they got bored and found "holes" in the game and went back to Warmachine...

So pretty much since '07 its been a friend and myself, playing a couple games a week. The game scene in Portland is dominated by GW and PP, both of which I refuse to play anymore. I tried Anime Tactics, never really did much. Going to try Malifaux soon. Really looking for a fantasy game with the same level of miniatures and rules as Infinity, but so far nothing is standing out...

Well ive been playing GW games for nearly 20 years, started when their games had a bit of meat to them. Then got a little fed up with the dumbing down of the rules until the game went from being a strategic wargame to something a little bit...well...dull to be frank. I mean chaos and Space marines would get a new codex every other one while other races went without for years. So i got itchy feet.

I quite liked necromunda so i thought i would look for an alternative system but similar and found Urban War. So I popped off to maelstrom games to get me some minis and it was there i discovered the Infinity minis rooted about a bit and foun this site bought the rulebook and two boxed sets (pan O for me Combined for my son) and it took off from there.

Now i play Ariadna and my son is considering Aleph.

To be honest I was disheartened by GWs handling of 40k in every aspect and was about ready to give up wargaming, at that moment I wished GW or somebody else did a "sci fi LOTR" as I said it then, what I meant by that was a true to scale (non heroic), true science fiction (that means not 40k), skirmish game, with good sculpts, by luck I stumbled upon the ORC troop picture somewhere on the net that is before the first teaser site was been created, loved the model, the detail and design, I found out CB was the company that this model belonged too and that it was from a range they were planning to release, I send them an E-mail and the reply I got was better than I could have ever wished for.

soon afterwards the first teaser site was up and I was as happy as I could ever be .

Thinking about it it has been quite some time almost or slightly more than 5 years, how time passes by?

Really looking for a fantasy game with the same level of miniatures and rules as Infinity, but so far nothing is standing out...
Why not just convert infinity, we tried it out and it works fine, of course it helps that we have a background in 3.5 DnD.

for a fantasy setting you just the listed stats in the book but reduce the burst value of just about every weapon to 1 giving more of the games focus on CC

As an example-
hand crossbow-pistol
.shortbow-rifle
.longbow-sniper rifle
.crossbow-spitfire
.heavy crossbow-HMG
etc..
.sword-CCW
.Hammer/mace-shock CCW
.axe/pole arm etc-AP CCW
etc..

I use remote stats for wizards given how squishy they are. and it works out with things like a LGL being a fireball and and Hmg being magic missile with a burst of 2 for wizards.

The go get yourself some reaper fantasy miniatures and go to town 12th century style with your infinity buddies.

Magno wrote:

For me it was some time in 2007. I was year old tabletop player with a year into 40k and utterly bored with it. I had just discovered Confrontation 3.5 and the "coherency bomb" was just dropped. The Confrontation forums were rife with dissent and the sky was falling. In the mist of all the calamity, some lone poster from Sweden jumped on and said something along the lines of, 'Whatever. I found another game and its 'Infinitely' better than this."

Because we weren't allowed to post direct links of other games there, I PMed him and he sent me a link to the old forums. I looked at all the models and thought the Alguaciles and Zonds were cool.
My story is exactly the same as yours up to the point where you started buying Haqqislam and actually got a few games in. I wonder how many "defectors" that one post on the R forum was responsible for.

I bought a few lots of Nomad stuff immediately, but have only recently been able to play a few games. I'm not sure that the local gaming climate will allow me to play any more, but it's been fun while it lasted.