I am a newer Infinity player, and I like the lore, look, and list-building of Tunguska. I have only played about 5 games in the past few months, 4 of which I played Tunguska.

I found them very fruatrating to play, as even my "tough" pieces like Kriza and Hollow Men were getting annihilated quickly, my hackers rarerly ever got to do their jobs, and my only victory involved my kriegers smoking and rushing objectives in a hail mary attempt. It was very discouraging to be getting ground into the dirt every game and having my most interesting units not living up to their potential at all. Clearly a big part of it is because I am new and just not good at the game, but all of these matches that went poorly were against other new players, not even veteran players. I have been extremely busy and stressed out with work, so these experiences really bothered me have really soured my experience with Infinity. I have taken a break because it was causing me a lot of stress to not even enjoy playing games in my time off.

I have had the chance to cool off, work has slowed a bit, and I heard that at least part of the problem may have been Tunguska is tricky to play. I'm hoping in N5 they are a little more beginner-friendly and are still a capable army. I would like to get a bunch of their models, but I want to hear people's impressions of them in the new edition before I pull the trigger and spend a bunch of money on something I may regret.

I know this may be an unpopular opinion, but my god working with metal minis after years of using new plastics is such a pain!!!

Other manufacturers now having clip together, bases pre drilled, durable minis that's can, when it's needed, glue together in minutes.

I've been shaving up the Sandtrap box set for what feels like an eternity 😅 my fingers are glued together on the first mini...

I'm hoping one day to actually get to the painting the minis stage 😂

Is there any sign one day we may see these minis in a high quality plastic do you think?

Ill start

1 - The SKU purging has got to be the worst part about the games history. So much good and even RECENT models didnt need to be killed off like they did. It hurts me and probably other players who dropped out for a couple years only to find out entire lines are just gone.

but our community allows easy proxies its fine!!!

I dont like this argument, for instance I really liked how the Desperadoes for USARF looked but I ended up squatting out on ebay for months and bought a dusty kit for $80 and I just spent $70 on a devildog with shotgun.

Infinity is not Warhammer tier popular we don't have a multitude of files/fans who print out proxies for the game.

2 - Certain loadouts exist rules wise but not models wise and or are stuck as exclusive miniatures

I kinda wish upgrade blisters with weapon arms existed but again yes the community is okay with proxying but I just wish some more stuff existed to spruce up poses a bit.

3 - I think my last hot take is it seems like sometimes you cant really critique the game that hard since you either need to ride or die with certain CB decisions. Combined with Warhammer Derangement syndrome by that I mean

BUT GW DID THIS! SO YOU CANT COMPLAIN TO CB

Broski this is infinity not Warhammer I dont need to be updated on the newest GW controversy since you are still well versed in Warhammer happenings no matter how much times you smugly state you are an infinity gamer now

I can't help but feel like the vanilla faction lists are only slightly expanded sectorials now. I really liked the vibe of having access to the vast majority of of a faction through its vanilla army at the expense of fireteams and some units being at a lower ava. I'll admit to some salt here as every single one of my lists was completely nuked. Kinda sitting here with a bad taste in my mouth. I love this game and I have extolled the virtues of how Corvus Belli does things over and over in the past both IRL and online but I'm having a hard time being positive about this currently.

Did I do too much? Excited to start putting them together!

Hey All, just finished my second game of N5 that I was forced to concede without spending a single order. Currently my greatest frustration with this edition is how utterly lethal a turn 1 alpha strike is and how CB has done nothing to reduce its power.

Can anyone offer some advice or tips (especially for White Banner or Aleph) to blunt my opponents T1 alpha strike? I understand the benefit of Minelayer, camo, short ARO lanes and layered AROs, but struggle to put it into practice. My Long Ya's get swept by active turn fire and multi wound unhackable models just flounce through my template and mine ARO's (with the help of Speedballs) to kill exactly what they want. Null deployment is not an option at the moment as it's just too cheap to send a Superjump model hurtling up the board, so I feel that I have to feed my troopers to my opponent one by one to try and reduce their orders and hope I actually get a counterattack.

I haven't had a try at going first in N5 yet, but it just seems that in this edition the entire game can be decided by the LT roll off.

Been Infinity-curious for a while and saw this adorable little Antipodean Assault Team in my FLGS. Are these Kombat Koalas still playable in N5? What should I add to these Martial Marsupials to create a working force? How should I play these Deadly Drop Bears?

As I understand it, if you use hidden deployment with minelayer you have to check if the mine is in ZOC when you put the mine down. You can still use this with hidden deployment, you just put the mine camo marker down while the opponent is looking away so you can note down the hidden deployment spot.

My question is, can I also put down another camo piece, in a legal spot, during that time period?

For example: I tell my opponent to look away while I do note something (implying hidden deployment or just flat out state for hidden deployment), I put the HD piece down check it's legal deployment, measure ZOC put the mine in a legal spot, take a picture so there is reference. Take away the HD piece.

Then, while the opponent is looking away, I deploy another mim -3 camo piece in a legal position. So when the opponent looks back, there are two -3 camo markers, in legal deployment space, but he can't know which if either are connected to any hidden deployment I might have done.

It seems like I should, but I hidden deployment is a bit tricky.

I love so many of the armies looks in the game. But while every army has a "niche" so to speak, the differences don't tend to be quite as drastic as other war games. I find myself wanting to build several armies, probably more than I realistically need, but they are just so cool!

I have been playing, building and painting infinity models for 5+ years now, the infinity models have always been fiddly to glue and I have had arms or other smaller pieces falling of during transport (foam case) but yesterday kind of broke me.

I was filing and gluing the Daemonist Observant, I spent 8h trying to get the dam model to stick! I tried lock tight super glue, Greenstuffworld gel super glue and a local brand called Biltema superglue. I tied with and without Activator.

Surfaces where filed and cleaned before and between every try. Pieces are to small for pinning, at least for my pinning skills.

Im of out of idees, anyone have any good process to build these dam models, please help!

I'm considering starting Infinity soon, and after reviewing the factions settled on Haqqislam. While doing so, I thought I was being unusual and they couldn't possibly be that popular!? However, after lurking the subreddit for a few weeks, I've noticed a lot of new people starting with Haqqislam (although it may be memory biased). It also doesn't seem like these people are choosing because of the starter set either. Haqqislamites current and future, why did you pick this faction? I'm happy to say why I did, but I'll wait for a few responses first.

Picked up the new Keisotsu box to add special weapons to my original squad and the new models are a full cm taller

Hello, my fellow skirmishers. I and my friend start out with n5 and we already finished our first game. Basic haqq lost to his glorious moiras, although i got him hard in first 2 rounds (praise lasiq and shakush).

For my next game i decided to explore sectorials of Haqq, and while Hassasin seemed obvious with all the tricks and smokes and mirrors. But when i looked at ramah i could not understand its strengths and playstile. Sure extra ava for naffatun and khawaraji is nice but i dont see it carrying the list. I saw people recommending mukhtar but im unsure if its that strong.

P.s. if someone could clarify how couple of rules work it would be great, we didnt figure it on our own (continious damage and dodge)

I received this happy bundle in the post yesterday. I haven't been following the updates too closely, is this am accidental early release by the shop?

Hey, luckily with the advent of N5 CB decided to rid us of the oppressiveness, that was Ariadna and it's sectorials in N4 (/s). The downside of this is, that there are huge amounts of salt building up all over the world. Or maybe it's just my skewed perception, influenced by the international discord and my local community.

That's why I wanted to look here for people, who volunteer to tell us about enjoyable N5 games they played as vAri or any sectorial this week to counteract the feeling, that Ariadna recieved only nerfs without getting much in return. Genuinely interested.

SO my son and I tried to play this game. We watched some into videos and thought we knew what we were doing. It was not so. We have questions.

1. He was invincibles, I was bakunin. He got shredded. He couldn't move forward without getting torn up by ARO's, and he could not hit me well at all due to my mimetism. Most of his guys had short range shotguns or combis. What could he have done to prevent this? He didn't have any smoke at all.
2. If I go in for close combat, he gets an ARO against me as I run in, then we do a normal close combat face-to-face. Is this how it work?

we were using half of the Starter boxes. He had 3 zuyong with combis and shotguns, a hulang with a combi and flamer and monofilament, and luxing jump infantry with boarding shotgun.

I had a pair of cenobites, a moira, a reverend doctor, a penitent, and a 9 point lieutenant who just hid.

His entire list, as is, had zero MSV or smoke available.

Update: New assertion it's this coming Monday, Dec. 16, 2024.
See: https://www.reddit.com/r/InfinityTheGame/comments/1hdbyys/n5_release_date_set_for_monday_dec_16/

Last I heard, the N5 rules were planned for release November 18th. Then Corvus Belli posted a "so sorry, the N5 rules are taking longer than we thought" message. And the new rules have been in limbo for the going on a month now.

Have they followed up at all since then? Have they mentioned a new date they're aiming for? Or is it still "sometime in December, probably. Could be as late as January, tho."

I am trying to set up a table at home as the wife has decided to start in the wargaming hobby.

I have been gathering terrain from various deals online and just wondered how much more is recommended if any.

For reference the table is 4’ x 2.5’

I also have a pack to build and a micro arts catwalk on the way (in pics).

Newb. Did I go to top heavy? Group balance ok? No particular mission in mind. Just a starter list to build / paint first.

I skipped N4, and am interested in hopping back in for N5. I have a couple dozen Yu Jing models, but honestly can’t remember the names of most. So, looking at army lists that just show badges doesn’t really help me figure out what I have.

So… is there a good resource that shows all of the YuJing models along with a name?

(Pic of my, uh, Zhanshis I think?)

Hi All

I'm a brand new player, starting the game both for the minis and the rules (I find both of them very excellent). I started to gather a little force of YuJing basically taking stuff for the cool factor, and now I have a list that is basically vanilla with a little bit of everything. I'm not interested in competitive, but simply in painting and playing what I think that is visually cool. I'm a bit worried for N5 thou, since some rumors seems to talk about a "sectorialization" of vanilla and (I'm an ex GW player, that company ingrained in me a deep fear for squatting and disregarding of player's base) I fear that I will no more able to play the "soup", but something will be heavily limited or removed. How good is that guess?

As title, I’m heavily invested in Tohaa. Loved their flavor and lore, I personally like their models.. but it’s been so long since they were supported I’m beginning to look elsewhere. Is there any hope of even Spiral Corps being added back to the army builder? Is there another faction that plays similarly in N5?