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other hand, the Longbeard are double tough (with a toughness
of 4 and 12 damage boxes) and a courage that's very nice and
high. Of course, they are saddled with the pretty typical Dwarf
speed of 2.5". There are no monsters or large creatures in the
reinforcements deck, but the two decks put together do give you
a perfectly usable Dwarf army. It's one that plays to the stereotypical
dwarf strengths of toughness and strength in close combat.
Ok, on to the oher new race for Battleground: Fantasy Warfare,
the elves. Like the dwarves, and other starter decks, you get 30
command cards to aid your units during the game. Similar to
the dwarven runes the Elves get command cards with Aspects
that give additional, and better bonuses. The variety in the basic
elf deck was impressive. They get one cavalry unit (Stag
Cavalry) and a total of six units with a movement of 5" or better.
This includes a Treant, wolves, bears, and wolfkin that are
a mix of elf and wolf. With just three missile units there are
fewer than I expected for an elf army, but the deck is themed
more as wood elves and the variety of troop types makes up for
the lack of missile-equipped units. Generally, the elf troops
have a higher defense than toughness, making them a bit harder
to hit, but when you do they'll get hurt a bit more. Most elf
units have less than 10 damage boxes with the Brownies having
just 6 so they look like more of a finesse army than a blunt object
to just throw right at the enemy. There are a couple of
hard-core units like the Bear Pack (12 damage) and Treant (14
damage) that will really be able to stand toe-to-toe with your
enemies, but you get just one of each. In the reinformcents
deck you get more of the basic troops, including three more
Treants to really wade into the enemy with. The new troops for
the elves are Ravenwood Bowmasters that have a staggering
17.5" range and Centaurs that are fast-movers with good combat
skills but only 7 damage points so they'll need backup to
stay around until the end of a fight. The elf decks exploits more
of their fantasy background but look like a harder army to run
than the dwarves.
I like how the game has expanded into five full armies and hope
to see more on the horizon soon. Being a fantasy game there
are many more possibilities for armies and I wouldn't be
surpised to see as many as a dozen if they keep up a regular
release schedule. Terrain, magic and maybe special characters
are still things that I'd like to see in the game, but as it stands it's
a great alternative to buying and painting hundreds of miniatures
and it still delivers the feel of a mass combat fantasy
game.
Reviews by Mark Theurer
Title:
Infinity
Designer: Gutier Rodriguez
Type: Miniatures / Sci-fi
Manufacturer: Corvus Belli
MSRP: 30.00€
closing in on being 20 years ago (boy, do I feel old!) I'll be
sticking to a preview of what I expect the English version to be
like and my overall impressions of the book itself. I'm sure that
if I was dropped into Paris I could become conversational in
French again in fairly short order, but that's just not in the cards
for this review.
The Infinity rulebook is a 224-page hardcover book that is
printed in full color on glossy paper. The cover is very busy
with representatives from each faction pictured. My first few
minutes with the book in my hands was spent just flipping
through it and it's not an understatement to say that it's probably
the most beautiful rulebook that I've ever had in my hands. I
kid you not! It's simply gorgeous. There are pictures of painted
miniatures (not a single unpainted one) littered throughout the
book along with lots of color artwork and rule examples. The
text looks nicely laid out and while I cannot comment on the
readability (I do hope that the English translator is worth his
salt) it looks easy on the eyes and easy to digest even though
there's a lot of text here.
A very detailed Table of Contents takes up three doublecolumned
pages and the first chapter gives you an introduction
into the game and universe of Infinity. It's only six pages long
but looks like it gives you a small bit of information about the
armies in the game along with a look at some planetary maps.
Chapters 2 through 8 detail the various armies (PanOceania, Yu
Jing, Ariadna, Haqqislam, Nomads, Combined Army and Mercenaries)
with each getting a dozen or more pages devoted to
their background fluff. The exception are the Mercenaries who
get about five pages. There are no army lists in this section of
the book. It's pure fluff and lovers of this kind of stuff will
hopefully be pleased.
I found one small typo in the ToC. There are two chapters labeled
010 and no 009 to be found. A small numbering mistake
but the actual pages of the real chapter 009 are numbered properly.
The rules, chapter 010, take you from page 126 through 181
and I can't speak on their clarity yet but they are full of nice
examples. Then comes a weapons list and then the army lists
for each army. The last part of the book consists of templates.
You'll need to either scan these in or download them from the
Infinity website, from which they are all available. I'd rather
they be on cardstock anyway so I'll be printing out more of my
own to go with the counters I already have.
From the European price of 30,00 Euro I expect that the English
version of the book will come in at $40.00 which seems
like a good price for such a beautiful book. I'm definitely impressed
with the rulebook and can't wait to see the English version.
Written by Mark Theurer
We recently received a copy of the
French edition of the Infinity rulebook
from Corvus Belli. Since my
usage of French dates back to my
days in High School, which is rapidly
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