Possible new player, Donut Assassin

[lsl]

Just taking time to expand a little on what others have said, as I am realatively new to the game again, but am enthusiastic about it.  This is because I have found that almost everything in the game actually has an effective counter.
-HI and TAGs look optimal from the outside, but they are also vulnerable to hackers, ADHL from a link team, TO sniper ambush that catches them while crossing between cover, special ammo like AP EXP or K1, and attacking their order pool.
-Airborne deployment is dangerous, but can be hacked and dealt with using good lanes of fire and supporting set-up of troops
-Airborne infiltration can be mitigated with minelayers and mining the board edges
-TO camo/mimetism/ODD modifiers are dealt with via multispectral visors
-It doesn't matter how big your dice pool is to shoot a figure is if your LOS is blocked by zero-v smoke
-large link teams are vulnerable to flamethowers
-everyone is vulnerable to being shot in the face enough times, so being set-up in a low cover table half can get you killed

I the end many things that look overly-powerful have an achilles heels, if the right equipment and skills are used against them.

[scadugenga]

What he just said ^

Awesome summation.

[donutassassin]

Well I brought up infinity at the dojo a week ago, and for sure one person had interest and he said he maybe had 2 others who wanted to play, also a friend of mine keeps a full haqq army in their basement. So when I have a army and a few games in, I might make terrian for the dojo to keep there and do demo games there for people if interest pops up. Like on Thursdays I may set up a table with terrian and two armies with a sign saying ask for a demo, and if I don't have a oppenents to play, I will play malifaux or warmachine in the mean time.

[lsl]

keep us posted
i should be able to get up there some thursday
maybe get drobuff up as well as we play thurdays off and on

[Angron]

I've got some strips of mdf. I can probably throw together some collapsable buildings. Nothing fancy but they'll block Los.

[brianw]

The container store has some good plastic boxes you can paint up for only a few bucks each. Hell of a lot cheaper than actual terrain.

www.containerstore.com/shop?productId=10028594&N=&Ntt=clear+plastic+box

[donutassassin]

I did not get to start infinity yet, but waiting on the 2 player starter box and a complete read of the 3rd edition rules, so I don't get them confused with 2nd edition rules. I also picked up xwing in the mean time..... Damn it's addicting.

[scadugenga]

If you're anything at all resembling a star wars fan, you'll love XWing.

The fact that the designers got to tour lucasfilm/ILM and use the original models to measure and create the miniatures so they are exactly to scale with one another is just awesome.

Game's fun to play too.

[donutassassin]

Game is fun, and simple and balanced rule set. Started 3 weeks ago, and I placed in the top 8 at the regionals this weekend at the dice dojo. Really liking it. But i still like painting and moving around little toy soldiers.

[scadugenga]

Eh, the only imbalance is the Tie swarms that seem to be prevelant.

That being said, it's a game I play for the fun of it, and not competitively. I think I'd enjoy it less trying to play cut-throat.

[donutassassin]

Pretty hard to make the game cut throat. But the game seems to be getting away from tie swarms being a dominate force. Phantoms, high ps skills, and new upgrades, is making the game a little more Rock Paper Scissors with the ability that a lucky or skillful rock could still beat paper. Still trying to look for a ninja shopper at gencon for the infinity stuff. Shipping sucks