Nottingham Wargames Club: infinity

20 July 2021

Infinity - Style Over Substance?

For something different, I thought that I would try a system that I have seen in the past that looks visually, very interesting - "Infinity". These are some thoughts on these products:-

First off, you can purchase a 'starter set', which is an all-in-one battle system. It includes figures, tokens, dice, starter booklet, buildings and battle mats etc. Impressive! (It cost £84 inc. P&P). Actually, good value.

The other great thing is that the rules are hosted for FREE online. A big bonus, in my opinion.

That said, I have some thoughts:

1. Figures - Corvus Belli - excellent, extremely highly detailed, beautiful metal models, but the design fault is that they are 'top heavy'. The bases they come with are plastic, so they tend to fall over easily and don't take to transportation in a box very well. Hence, the need to make a container box for them (see below). Also, they are EXPENSIVE.

2. Rules - free online. Great. However, these are very detailed SLOW skirmish rules. Not my thing. I haven't got the time to spend hours on working out the finer points of these rules, nor would any of my potential opponents, I suspect.

3. Scenery - This is the best part of Infinity, I think. The scenery is made from 3mm printed cardboard and is easy to assemble and very atmospheric. Near future/cyberpunky.... Highly recommended.

4. Dice, templates, booklets - Not my thing. The templates, for instance, could be just downloaded and printed off online and believe me, I don't need any more dice.

Overall, some great ideas here and this is a highly sophisticated concept. That said, it won't be something that I will be getting into, although the buildings/terrain should come in useful for other sci-fi projects!