Infinity, Armored Brigade Raicho, This guy looks like something off Power Rangers!

In a good way!! Cant wait to field and paint this up... Wasent actually to bad to put togther, needed alot of glue on legs...

Infinity and more Infinity!......

And I have been actively been gaming, even going to my LGS!!!

I have pretty much been exclusively playing Infinity.  Im not going to do a GW hate post, but the system has rekindled my love for the hobby and not just painting. In fact the guy that paints the Infinity models (Giraldez) is so good its an inspiration! But wierdly more in the way that I shouldnt be so finicky with my paintwork and just get on with it! (because i will never reach that kind of standard!)

So the game... its a steep learning curve - Im not going to lie, maybe because I have 40k so ingrained in my mind its taken its sweet time for the rules to sink in. The system uses D20s (of course I got fancy big ones - I have a dice problem!)

The game is fast and frantic - even when its not your turn as you react to the active players turn. Your constantly looking for Line of Sight - although now Im an Infinity player its 'Line of Fire' :). The core rules are simple - very simple, its when you start adding in grenades, laying mines hacking and skills etc, the game starts to get in depth and its easy to forget stuff, at least for me anyway! Im really looking forward doing a campaign as I think the game and fluff (Which is awesome) will really make it all come alive. 

My one crit so far, is the models are a bloomin pain to put together, they look great, but man... wow, credit to GW for making our lives easy in this department! The newer models are improving to be fair and I have had some easier models to put together.

My Combined Army is really coming together now and Im going to blast some paint jobs this week...

Oh and I have pulled/torn a muscle in my calf so I cant get out on my bike, so Im a grumpy chops at the mo... I havent had chance to test out my new 'sweet' wheels yet either. I guess it leaves more time for hobbying.

So what of the Raven Guard I here you cry (well the odd person who has read this far!) well, i think they look badass if I do say so myself, and yes they are all black (its a crit I keep getting!) but I really love the finished look and I will be diving straight back on the once i have cleared my infinity back log. Not sure I will play much 40k though as havent memorised 6th ed yet and Im not sure my mind can cope with two memorised systems, but I am supposed to be doing a ToS later this year so I will have to get up to speed at some point!! Thanks for reading and Im keeping this papa updated from now on!

Marts.

Some more Raven Guard... and some Infinity...

Good weekend of nerdery, got to love this bad weather!!

Pretty damn pleased with these fellas, tho I think I took the pic to close up...

Also built these fellas last night. Was supposed to do the whole starter, but I have to admit they were an F ing bull cacker of a turd to put together. The detail and proportions are awesome though, which make my rines' look a bit clumsy when put next to them...

Test game of Infinity tomorrow night cant wait!

A New and Shiny Thing...

....for me anyway, and its called Infinity!

Yes a new day, a new system, but their is method behind my madness, and the truth is I am enjoying painting my Raven Guard, and Im really pleased with the overall look I get in a squad - which incidently I still need to take some pics of!! The thing is this, I dont want to rush gluing everything together getting it painted quickly, finding out my list sucks ass hard, so then I have to buy more shit. I want to take my sweet god damn time and enjoy slowly adding painted units to the cause instead. This leaves me with one problem. I have F all to play with!!! So what better way to enjoy both sides of the hobby, a nice in-depth skirmish game with low model count. Personally I wanted to move away from GW, not because I hate them, and I think everything about them needs to be thrown in the burning of pits of hell. No, actually the opposite. I LOVE 40K its the only system that keeps bringing me back and who can say the image of a whacking Space Marine pummeling an Ork or some other xenos creature doesent stir aweome thoughts in a mind that should know better, esp at my age!

Anywho, I have been watching quite a bit of anime recently (watching Attack on Titan at the mo - fully recommend it) thanks to getting US Netflix and I happend across Infinity. I watched the video made on Beast of War (link at bottom along with Facebook Group) and I pretty much decided thats what I wanted.

Now some of the older minis look a little to dynamic, but the newer minis they are churning out out are bloody amazing, and they are true 28mm, which means the humans are teeny. I choose the Morat Aggression force, because they looked badass!

This has been a wordy update for me... I'll cut to the chase:

Pics:

We have set up a small group of players my local gaming club so hopefully have a good setup kicking off!

Eye candy:

http://www.infinitythegame.com/infinity/en/2013/miniatures/morat-aggression-force-sectorial-starter-pack/

Beats of War (watch this and tell me the system doesent look awesome! Active and re-active, sweet!):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5trRR7hAIwU


Have some painted updates coming in the next day or two!!