Infinity

[kawaiku]

*click the picture for the website*
This seems to be a relatively new tabletop game. It is a science fiction game that uses 28mm miniatures. According to the company's website, they are also all metal. Lastly, if anyone is familiar with anime and its "style," this game has a very similar look (and obvious influence). I have not had a chance to try the game myself but it appears to be growing in popularity.

Some background to the setting:

One hundred and seventy-five years into the future Humanity has managed to survive despite itself, but for how much longer?

The human race has reached the stars. Travelling through worm-holes, enormous commercial ships, run by the international community, known as Circulars, jump from one star system to another. Circulars are controlled by O-12, an international organism that is the second generation United Nations but with much greater capacity for decision-making and for taking action. A single, massively powerful Artificial Intelligence that is present in the entire Human Sphere, and indispensable for the great powers, assists the O-12 in maintaining a fragile balance between them.

The old nations have grouped themselves into great international federations and have allotted between themselves the star systems that have been shown to be adequate for human life. These new powers, much more powerful than the old ones, continue to be moved by the age-old driving forces of human history: the quest for living space, resources and power. They all want the same and that makes peaceful co-existence difficult. Confrontation and conflict are the constant norm, whether they be open or concealed, of high or low-intensity, of long or short duration… the profession of soldier in this epoque is far from dull…

There are 7 factions:

Pan Oceania

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.

YuJing

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.

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.

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.

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

C. 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.

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.

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.

Last but not least, two battle reports. Not much is said about the rules but it shows of the models in action (with some added graphics )
Hot Potato Battle Report - Nomads vs YuJing

Clouds over Al-Hadiye Battle Report - PanOceania vs Haqqislam

Enjoy!

 

[Scott Tortorice]

Wow, that looks really cool. Now that PC gaming is on the skids - heck, all of computerized gaming - I am feeling the miniatures call again. Still not ready to commit though, as the idea of returning to a completely solitary existence of painting minis in my basement still does not appeal like it once did. But I suspect it won't be much longer.

Vid:

[video=youtube;HToWuFqdgEQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=HToWuFqdgEQ[/video]

 

[Scott Tortorice]

BoW unboxes the new Dragoes mini:

You’ve seen it in the background… now take a look at what’s in the box. We have an exclusive look at the brand new Dragoes from Infinity.

http://www.beastsofwar.com/infinity/new-dragoes-infinity-unboxed/

 

[kawaiku]

Thanks for the video. I saw a few models at the same store where I saw the Tomorrow's War book and they are a decent size and looked pretty good (though the paintwork looked 'meh,' the better quality models of course were the GW ones).

 

[Scott Tortorice]

Good AAR here:

http://micromegasatwar.blogspot.com/2012/01/first-game-of-infinity.html

 

[shakespear]

Its probably the best/most complex skirmish game out. The rulebook suffers from translation issues so You kinda need someone to show you how to play

 

[billgates]

I saw a few models at the same store where I saw the Tomorrow's War book and they are a decent size and looked pretty good