Passing Time and Rolling Dice

It's finally here! The fifth edition of Infinity (known as Infinity N5) is finally here, and I was lucky enough to be able to get a game in before 2025 for it! Leading up to this game, I inevitably listened to a variety of videos and podcasts about it, such as the Tactical Awareness podcast's 3-episode launch for N5, the Loss of Lieutenant podcast's Faction Tier List, and a few other's than I am failing to recall properly. But finally, earlier in the day on 26 December, 2024, I needed to decide on a faction to play, let alone a list! I had toiled with the idea of running a Haqqislam list, as I have a plethora of Haqq models that I should try to use for something someday, or I go into the edition using the Ariadna I started my dive into Infinity with. Ariadna won that hands down, cause I did not need to fully build the acrylic warsenal bases  am using on the Haqq models. As noted, this is my first game of Infinity in N5, along with my opponent (Ghost00) having this as hi...

We're back with another Infinity N4 battle report; this game was played on November 30th, 2024. This time, we saw me take control of my Tartary Army Corps to take on a newer player (Connor) playing his Japanese Sectorial Army. We played the Direct Action mission Uplink Center at 200 points. This is Connor's first game of Infinity in easily 6 months, so this was more of the learning/reminder game of how Infinity is played at the basic level. Hindsight being what it is, I should have approached this more like a demo series using one of the Operation books instead; as will be pointed out later on. That thought was more-so on my part, as I find the older Operation booklets to be a better framework for teaching the game instead of just running a small point game to teach, since they give the tier escalation approach to introducing new rules. Neither of us have a full painted force either, as Connor is preparing to repaint his collection, and I am just lazy and have not painted much ...