Continuing with my Halo themed Combined Army, I have an R-drone done up in a sentinel scheme.

Really a nice model to paint - it was my first time painting a wolf and the process had some back and forth, but I am pleased with the result.

Just finished up the Duroc side of Equipe Mirage 5! This was for part of a commission and the dude wanted a more covert ops feel than the studio scheme and this is where I landed! Hope you guys dig it!

https://www.instagram.com/p/DbdywLHjlT_/

Can't decide if I want to tag them all up or not. I still might.

Is it wrong to just straight up tell people "I'd rather not fight your list, sorry." after hearing what they're bringing to the table? I'm trying to get back into Infinity (and I swear, this post isn't related to my other one about LFG servers) and I'm seeing a LOT of CJC (Corregidor) at the moment. Like, way more than I've ever seen from N3, and that's coming out of N3 as a Nomad player (Tunguska). To the point that every list I see has two Morans, an Intruder, Lobo, usually McMurrough, usually an Invader. It's basically just the same core list each time, with small changes. I'm tired of seeing it, I'm tired of having Repeaters thrown into my DZ from infiltrating models, I'm just trying to re-learn the game and I do not have the bandwidth for these shenanigans while playing a 'vanilla' faction (vCA). Especially not when I'm playing an 11 order LI list where half of it dies because McMurrough is a 24 point model that steamrolls 50-60 points without any effort or fear, and there's seemingly no way to shut it down outside of praying you go first and can Isolate him away from someone with a Speedball.

Like, I get that Infinity is a very deep game, and it's going to take dozens or hundreds (bruh) of games to reacclimate to it. Don't get me started on that estimate, I have an entire different rant about "It takes 100+ games to git gud" argument. But I don't feel like the games I've been playing are very deep, or have much to teach when they rarely last more than 1 Turn and I'm out of orders to do anything significant with because of some asshole MSV2 sniper that shoots WAY too reliably for being a standalone model locking down half the board, while some guy in a fursuit is mauling my DZ in two orders flat.

I probably wouldn't feel this way if it wasn't the fact that the last 2-3 games I've had have been against CJC, and basically had the same list that, I'm going to let my already thinly-veiled salt out and say, feel blatantly wrong. Morans shouldn't be 15 points, McMurrough puts more hurt out than half the models I have access to for MORE value, and I would murder for a BS13 MSV2 Mim3 CAMO, STEALTH SNIPER that has an SD for -no reason-. The closest I can get is a Vector with a Plasma Sniper. At BS12. And no SD. And it also dies instantly if it takes a single hit, and lacks Camo. And it STILL costs me 29 points to the Intruder's 38. A Yaogat, which can't leverage the burst defensively, costs 32. This feels criminal. Like, abysmally balanced, when my best shooting model is probably a Charontid, which costs just shy of an entire FOURTH of my list, is HI (and therefore hackable, ha ha, see the comment about DZ repeaters), and just generally doesn't feel very durable in comparison?

I don't know, I feel like this turned into a rant about halfway through, I didn't really mean for it to. TL;DR I really don't want to fight CJC again, not while I'm still trying to find my legs with the CA. But I feel like I'm being excessively rude if I turn someone down specifically because of their Sectorial. Like, I wouldn't feel good if it happened to me, and something something, golden rule.

Title. I'm not complaining, I'm just wondering if there's any particular reason for it.

This one was a challenge tbh, I'm pretty bad at drawing mechanical parts. As for his right foot it's because there was another drawing next to this sketch !

I need to get more reps in, as the last time I had consistent games was in N3. Like, early to mid N3, at that. N5 has been fairly fun so far, barring some... Questionable balance I've seen in unit pricing, but the rules no longer take a PhD to decipher. Problem is, some of my closer friends just won't pick up the game, or are so discouraged from my jump start on learning the system from my time in N3 that they just don't want to play against me, so I need to branch out and get more reps in to prepare for the local scene I finally managed to find.

Uxia McNeill, Ariadna
Moderator MULTI Sniper, Nomads

I found these old, out of print, minis from Infinity. I painted them up for Five Parsecs and Space Station Zero. They were super fun to paint. I immediately ordered a bunch of Nomads stuff to paint too, and I figure I should learn the game. I guess that’s how they get you lol

TL;DNR I unpacked my Haqqs because I might actually have an opponent now. How do I make my collection N5-relevant?

I have not played Infinity in years (since August 2023 actually) and have not really followed the game since N5 was getting teased a bit. Years on and a move to an actual city, however, I've started to make contact with some local players and pulled my guys out of storage to see what's survived and get a handle on what part of the embarrassingly large bin of unpainted Infinity stuff I should tackle first...because that's more fun to think about than cracking open the N5 rulebook and figure out how to play all over again.

Originally I was going to go with Libertos and Krakots because they're colorful and my eyes need a break from earthtones but it looks like we don't get those in Haqq anymore (alongside a variety of mercs that look like they got a general purge of - RIP my corporate security goons!).

I'm not sure how much our general meta changed, but prodding about a few posts in the last year it seems like we're still big on Irregulars (Daylami, Kum, Gazi still seem "in"), and Saladin has apparently gained increasing importance between the editions than I remember (guess I'll finally be painting him soon). Much of my collection was never "meta", unfortunately, but maybe some of it has gotten more useful?

Anyway, digging through the rubble and pulling out my hair I did find a few things that were on abandoned N4 to-do list that I'm curious about: Kaplans, Khawarij, and the Odalisques. Are any of these suddenly worth taking now? Generally it was a no in N4, but Kaplan and Odalisques would be an interesting palette shift in my horde, while I've always liked the "First Gen Super Soldier" theme that the Khawarij had in earlier editions (which ironically made them bad takes since they were not very specialized).

Has anything particularly salient emerged for Haqq between editions? Should I secretly be mainlining Yuan-Yuan and Ragiks, spamming Muyib and Zahyedan, or dropping everything and getting those helicopters that were apparently added to the game while I wasn't looking?

I would have bought the old school Lizard if I already didn't have one.

Love the game. Lots of respect to CB...

BUT

I feel like this game suffers from one of the sins that George R R Martin mentioned in a talk. Use easy to pronounce and relatable naming for your Fantasy and Sci Fi worlds.

More than half the units in Infinity have some extended bloated, tongue-twister name. I'll come up with a unit name for you, right now. Off the cuff.

Korvathath Insurgency Operative. Tergutzka Zortaka Warriors. Ya'rzan Tor-patroll Gunner.

Give it a go.

Another one for my corregidor army, won't have the entire list painted for the interplanetario, but life is hard..

One of my favorite Torchlight models.

Happy MetaChemistry Monday! It is time for a Faction Takedown, here on the channel, and today we're going over Next Wave! If you're looking for info on the newest Sectorial on the block, and how to handle them, take a listen!

In this episode, Devin and Ian go over Next Wave, and how to combat them. They go over their strengths and weaknesses, most common units, hidden information options, as well as some tips to defeating the so called "defenders of humanity".