Who the hell is she?!

Hi!

Thought I'd just do a bit of an intro before I post about my first games and stuff. Until a few weeks ago I had never played table top games at all, I had never assembled or painted models, and until now I've never posted anything like this online.

My Lasiq sniper surveying the battle field

It has been a whirlwind romance between myself and this amazing game, I have learnt so much and had so much fun I can't wait to play and learn even more! I don't mind losing, I like people playing properly so that I learn as quickly as possible and enjoy finding out more stuff and rules every time I play :) 

So anyway, please bear with my nooby ways while I ramble on about mistakes I make and what I learn along the way. I don't even know what people write in these things really so it probably won't be 'normal' but it will be an honest novice perspective on Infinity. There will definitely be less mad ramblings and more games in future posts! 

Will be posting shortly about my first dabble into painting (including Jazzy Jeff's purple shiny trouser Haqqccident) and my first semi-proper game at a local club which I had on Monday :)

Faction selection

Lots of people keep asking how I chose my faction when I started, and which models I ordered, so let's get that out of the way now too...

For my first ever games I borrowed some Pan O models from my opponent’s old army and he played his current faction, Ariadna. Straight away I loved the game. The complexity/sheer number of rules and the many levels to the game made me love it, despite having read that this is what puts many people off of starting to play it (PICK A DIFFERENT GAME THEN!). Having never played any form of table top game ever before probably made it even more exciting to learn. After my first game I was hooked and knew I needed to choose my faction and order my own army asap.

From my first games I noticed just how many orders my opponent could generate with those cheap units and was jel! Once we had played a couple of games and he had introduced camo I loved finding out more about sneaky tactics.

Check out the awesome Gribbley gaming scenery that I got to learn on. Lucky me!
Check out his blog here: 

There were so many factions to choose from so I read the basic ‘fluff’ online to get a feel for them and set about narrowing it down a bit. What I wanted if possible was a faction which had the option of ‘cheap’ units, access to sneakiness and tactical skills but not fully sacrificing technology and having access to heavier units if I fancied it.

So I ruled out Pan O because I never really go for the standard option and also they didn’t have enough sneakiness for me. After playing my opponent’s Ariadna I didn’t want to choose them and be limited by lack of technology in my first army. I wasn’t drawn to the alien factions so that ruled out Combined and Tohaa.

Aleph didn’t feel very ‘me’ – very technological, high points units even for basic line troops and not much options for stripping this back. So this was it – the choice between nomads, Yu jing and Haqqislam. I instantly felt it was a choice between Yu jing and Haqqislam.

So then I just asked around, found out more about both of these and finally looked through the entire temporary catalogue on the infinity website and fell in love with the Haqq models and what their specialist units could do. TO camouflage!

Miniatures

In terms of ordering models, I meant to just order a starter box and ended up ordering a lot more. Oops! I felt like this was the closest I have ever been to fitting into a sexist stereotype. As I looked through all of the beautiful models I couldn't help adding more and more to my order... They say shoe shopping is addictive? Nah. Miniature shopping!

Retail therapy

My first army :)

HB starter box

Daylami (Rifle) 

Daylami (Panzerfaust)

Lasiq (Viral sniper)

Fiday

Ragik

Muyibs

QK starter box

2 x Hafza (Rifle)

Hafza (Spitfire)

Al'Hawwa

Odalisque (Spitfire)

Djanbazan (Sniper)

Support pack

Doctor

Engineer

2 x Nasmat remotes

Naffatûn box

2 x naffatûn (Heavy flamer)

2 x naffatûn (Light flamer & grenades)

Singles

Tuareg sniper

Tuareg hacker

Azra'il

Yasbir

Saladin

Thankings

Should really say thanks to Newman & Co for introducing me to the game and being so patient while helping me to learn, and everyone on the facebook pages for being so friendly and helpful :)

Join the WGC Infinity facebook page here.

Join the UK infinity facebook page here.

Read Newman's blog here: 

Read Pete's blog here: 

Read Greg's blog here: 

So yeah, that's me. 

Bye for now!