My First Tournament: Initial Thoughts

Well Saturday saw my first proper Infinity tournament, at The Outpost in Sheffield. Overall it was a great day and a very well run tournament that has stoked my interest in attending more of them in the future.

So let's get into it then. Behold, my ramblings on playing competitive Infinity!

Some Music... And A Message

It's all gone a bit quiet on Toth recently, I need to fix that. So expect some new stuff to read coming soon. In the meantime, check out this little tune below - it's on the trailer for the new Tom Cruise movie Edge of Tomorrow, which looks awesome incidentally.

Aside from that I'm looking for people interested in writing articles for Project: Toth. I'm after experienced/seasoned Infinity players with an interest in writing. Shoot me an email to retrovertigo.mike@gmail.com if you're interested.

A Beginners Thoughts On Infinity #3: Guided Missiles

You know that feeling don't you? When you're playing that wargame you love so much, and someone unleashes a unit on you, that seems so utterly awful and impossible to counter, that the whole game system feels like it's falling down around your ears?

"You'll never get me when I'm in cover, pigs! -3 to hit, +3 to my ARM... mwah ha ha! Wait, what are those things coming out that remote..?"

Well that just about summed up my first experience with guided missiles.

Infinity: B-Sides of the Sphere

Completely inspired (read copied) from Mikes wonderful post about his music to accompany Infinity I thought I'd share some music that runs through my head as I think about this amazing universe!

1: Jan Hammer - Crockett's Theme (Link)
2: Bear McCreary - All Along The Watchtower (Link)
3: Bear McCreary - Defiance Main Theme (Link)
4: Vangelis - Conquest of Paradise (Link)
5: Hans Zimmer - Liberty (Link)
6: Klaus Badelt - Without Love (Link)
7: Blue Stahli - The Pure and the Tainted (Link)
8: Eric Serra - Noon (Link)

James.

Warmill Waste-ation Review

I thought I'd whip up a quick review of a new piece of terrain I'd bought, the Warmill Waste-ation Utility piece. I'll cut to the chase, and state up front it's a lovely little piece of terrain that is perfect for Infinity or any other sci-fi based tabletop game.

So why should you divert your hard earned creds away from more models (James...) or the ubiquitous Micro Arts Studio models? Well it's not terribly hard to justify the expenditure to be honest.

A Beginners Thoughts On Infinity #1: Terrain

From our humble beginnings using lumps of 15mm Italian village buildings as simple LoF-blocking objects, to a more typical looking infiNity table; terrain has been my main preoccupation in order to enjoy a genuinely good game of infiNity. You can't escape the constant reminders that terrain is everything in this game, with the comfy world of Gothic ruins and gaping fire-lanes you're used to in another sci-fi wargame considered anathema in this game of reactive shooting and tactical model placement.

What you quickly learn is that what looks like a formidable set of buildings and scatter terrain, can turn out to be barely enough to clutter the middle third of a table without the judicious use of trees and hedges borrowed from a warzone 250yrs earlier.

 

What you also learn very quickly is that a pretty table to look at, doesn't always make a good table to play on.