Weekender: Infinity In 2016 & Organised Play
February 20, 2016 by dignity
We've got another great Weekender for you today. Carlos has been in the studio from Corvus Belli and he has been sharing thoughts on Infinity in 2016...
What To Check Out
As always it's time to trawl the site for some of the best things to check out...
- Force-On-Force - Get stuck into our awesome modern warfare series every Monday.
- Mennes' Miniature Mash-Up - Want to work on tweaking your models? Check out this series.
- Photographing Miniatures - Carlos shares his thoughts on how best to photograph your models.
- Wolsung Battle Report - Catch up on the Scylla Vs Ash & Oak Club clash from this week.
What did we miss?
News Time
Catch up on some of the news we picked out from this week...
- Perry's British Infantry - Get ready for some fighting in the Sudan or a Steampunk world.
- Empress Modern Combat - Mount up in recce vehicles and man some grenade launchers.
- Labyrinth's Sarah - Take a wonderful look at River Horse's continued progress.
...what else have you noticed from this week?
Infinity In 2016
Carlos sits down to talk about the future of Infinity in 2016 with both the ITS tournaments coming up and plenty of releases on the horizon.
Organised Play
Talking about the ITS leads us into thinking about organised play and how that effects the way we gamers play our games.
Do you think that organised play is the way forward for those companies who are just starting out? What kind of support should companies offer?
Kickstarters
It's time to check out who is fund raising...
- Widower's Wood - We take a look at this new adventure game from Privateer Press
- Feldmaster Carry Cases - Will this become the new way to transport miniatures?
Grab a Backstage Free Trial and join us for The Weekender XLBS tomorrow!
Also keep in mind we have some winners to announce to stick around to see if you won and Claim Your Prize Here.
Have a great weekend!
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Happy Weekend!
Morning
Morning! The first word that sprang to mind about your ‘super crystal’ being discovered by aliens, was: ‘EXTERMINATE!’, ”EXTERMINATE!
Happy weekend
ITS is why I have fallen out of love with Infinity , its a system that has evolved to take away the fun of wargaming , I want to have a laugh , and its just not enjoyable.
Nobody is forcing you to play ITS missions or take part in any tournaments, the game can be played the way you want.
ITS is popular as the players want a tournament format that works. If you want fun fluffy missions then use some of the ones from Campaign Parideso or the Dire Foes Missions.
Better yet write one yourself, base it of a setpeice from a film, novel, video game or comic you like. The system has the components there to make the game you want to play.
Really? I love ITS.
But I’m lucky to have a really good, friendly local community of players. I attended the Totally Crit Open V Tournament recently in Tunbridge Wells, and it was a really fun, friendly and welcoming atmosphere.
As with any organised tournament, the fun element depends on the people, I think. More than the game.
I’m with you on this one, in my opinion ITS sucked all the fun from Infinity
@deepgreenx I wish people around here shared your pov but as it is ever since people from my old crew stopped playing I can’t play real friendly game that is not ITS legal; the bottom line is I gave up on Infinity as a game and moved to other games
Gordon E Moore.
That’s the one lol
E’gads – ’tis the weekend upon us once more. What fare is laid before us this morn?
Something cool for AdeptiCon, you say?
I’ve never really played in stores, prefering to play with guys that I know. But we’ve been playing a lot of organized play just amongst ourselves. For Warhammer FB we’ve been running escalation campaigns with 500pts escalation rounds. Simply campaign rules, simple point system for keeping scores, simple unit evolution. We made a Facebook page for tracking it all. My club (rpg, boardgames, larp etc) Rottehullet has had a bloodbowl league for years. Running on the 11th season I think. From season 3 onwards we paid 50£ a year (for the entire club) for a website. ratt.bloodbowlleague.com Real cheap for… Read more »
FFG have made OP a big part of their card and minis games. Not only does it help grow each individual game, it creates an overall FFG brand and people will buy into the OP and play multiple FFG games. Not just prize support, but unique prize support you can only get by attending an event is a big motivator for attending organised events. We get custom prize support made for the Relic Knights events (such as this – https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153331648134022&set=g.406678006060729&type=1&theater). Harking back to FFG, they give out multiple different unique items and most attendees, if not all, will walk away… Read more »
Here’s some examples of FFG prize support kits. The cards are full bleed alt art versions of existing cards and most people will leave with at least one of them –
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You’re bang on about KS, @warzan . It’s my dream that one day we’ll see an end to the pontificating about ‘what KS is supposed to be for’.
I’d like to start by saying that I love the show but today the table looks kinda messy with a giant laptop sitting in the middle of it. How about keeping Bren as a smaller window and keeping things simpler & looking tidier. No offence to the guy but I don’t believe a giant Bren face is essential to the show. The small window & disembodied voice was fine for what it did.
#Presentation Values
We’ll see if we can tidy things up a bit 🙂
We only got it technically working 10mins before recording so we have some stuff we can still do 🙂
Awesome stuff, can’t wait! I really like Infinity, I just wish I could find more people in my area to play. I use Infinity level terrain in most of my games now especially 40k, I find it really adds a whole new depth that can be sometimes lacking when the table is kinda empty.
Interesting show, sorry i tend to skip through the kickstarters, but I believe there was something on a magnetised box or figures to keep them safe. You can actually purchase magnetic paper that need no fixing as in drilling etc to fix the magnet to. Been used for ages with the old metal concertina work boxes really does work and this will work right up to massive armies in any scale. You don’t really need a box bought special at a price that you could quite easily magnetise every single model you have owned up until now.
ChrisG
Pretty sure nobody is going to run an ITS tournament that isn’t based on competition 😉
That said, I think building organised play systems that promote fun (and experimentation with wacky army lists) are really valuable.
I’m not saying that ITS isn’t fun, however. I love ITS. It’s fast, intense and addictive, and in my experience the scene is really warm and inclusive and friendly. Which helps when you’re being shot in the back every 5 minutes.
Good morning guys, another weekender to drink my coffee too
I like the show, but I think that there are a number of things that make magic the gathering successful and I could lay them out, the problem is that a lot of them have to do with the consumer base and it isn’t replicate-able by war-gaming industry because of how they work. To give one solid example people at worst among the magic playing community look at Wizards of the Coast as a well intentioned moron when they do something bad or just incompetent, but not evil. When this is contrasted with Games-Workshop they are seen as evil, but… Read more »
There are barriers to entry that wargaming has and card gaming doesn’t. Magic was specifically designed to be an easily portable and playable game, which is the key to its massive success. Wargaming is neither of things and you have to make a real effort to reach the point where you’re actually playing the game. Card gaming is also much better suited to store gaming than wargaming is, so stores set themselves up to exploit that. All of that said, it isn’t so much that wargaming is being compared to Magic, as it is that other card games are being… Read more »
Witness also Guild Ball, which was a small indie game that hit retail last April, and has sold out in advance a 128 player tournament this May, and which sold out its slots at AdeptiCon necessitating an expansion of its OP presence there, something no other game outside the big companies has come close to doing. GB was also intentionally created to work well in an OP setting and its reaping the rewards of that.
Oh, Guild Ball is a delight. Such good miniatures too.
…although a lot of people got into that through Malifaux, a very successful game with a vibrant scene.
And Warmachine too. It’s a very smartly conceived and marketed game, though part of that is borrowing the tournament elements that helped Malifaux and Warmachine become successful.
Absolutely love the Kickstarter section in each show. Looking forward to more Mantic stuff in upcoming shows. It would be nice to see some laser cut mdf terrain from some of the other companies.
I love gaming that my wife has learned to hate it if you know what I mean. Playing games is such a hard thing for me to do ever since I got married. It’s not marriage that’s a drag on the gaming scene but rather life just moves on and new priorities come first. What you were talking about getting people involved and actively playing your game often is a challenge. For me I find hard to get into a new game not because of the rules, model count, painting or space. The number one thing that tends to hold… Read more »
Morat refugee? The mere thought of such traitorous scum makes me sick to my core. Must…kill…them…all.
Happy Weekend guys and gals 🙂
I really like the discussion about KS 😉
Thanks very much, Warren, Justin, and Ben for the great segment on Force-on-Force. Indeed, I used to play a lot of Full Spectrum Warrior back in the day. I described it to my friends as a “shooting wargame on the console, without a “shoot” button and without a “move” button. 😀 It was all fireteam commands. Like Ben says about measuring the QUALITY OF THE TROOPS vs. the characteristics of the weapons: Compared to Word War 2, weapons design since then has in many cases reached something like an “evolutionary apex.” Tanks are much more similar nowadays than they were… Read more »
HI Guy’s ,
i hear you talking about kikstarter almost everyweek so for the extra money you need to get the second studion and maybe more upgrade for the studio i think you might do a kikstarter youre self ! and why not giving XLBS pass for the help of the new people and if it’s a already Xlbs guy from here …. well i don’t know what you can give as pledge but i am sure you can think of something 😉
Happy Weekend
Morning
The ITS games over here are fairly casual. Sure, people build their armies to win, but you won’t get smacked around the ears with a rulebook for forgetting how a certain rule works. Especially a game like Infinity is so varied it’s nearly impossible to know every mechanic for every profile. Each new game is a learning experience.