Infinity General: Blue is Best Edition

kusinagi has a spec op version now

So I'm building a small Aleph force for some 150 point learning games with some other new players, does this sound alright? I'll be playing against either Qapu oriented Haqqislam, or Onyx Contact oriented CA.

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ALKÊ Lieutenant Spitfire, Nanopulser / Pistol, CCW. (1.5 | 25)
ATALANTA MULTI Sniper Rifle + TinBot E (Spotter) / Pistol, Knife. (1.5 | 39)
MYRMIDON Combi Rifle, Nanopulser, Smoke Grenades / Pistol, AP CCW. (0 | 25)
MYRMIDON Combi Rifle, Nanopulser, Smoke Grenades / Pistol, AP CCW. (0 | 25)
MYRMIDON Chain Rifle, Nanopulser, Smoke Grenades / Pistol, AP CCW. (0 | 16)
MYRMIDON Chain Rifle, Nanopulser, Smoke Grenades / Pistol, AP CCW. (0 | 16)
NETROD . (0 | 4)

3 SWC | 150 Points

Other things I have to work with, is Ajax, Penthesila, Support Pack, Sync Deva unit, Dasyus, Naga, Asura, Posthumans, Teucer and an Ekdromos

Just have them be their normal Haqqislam colors. Asawira hate being lumped in with silly assassins, and are just there because they need to watch the watchmen.

I think Thorak are better for new players, ODD is pretty brutal at low point levels. Just proxy for them.

I was considering that, but I worried it might conflict with the rest of the army. That little fluff relationship between the two did rather amuse me though.

Now that could actually look pretty awesome. I'm currently playing with ideas atm, so all suggestions help.

>it might conflict with the rest of the army

The asawira would want it that way.

Well, I switched over to ASS for the AVA6 on Thorks, but can't think of what else to fill my last 24 points with, got Atalanta, Nesaie, 2 Thoras with Combis, 2 FO's and 2 Netrods. The group has no problems with proxies, since we're all new, but I'd like to keep everything in the same unit at least with the same model, which mean I can run up to 4 of anything, really. And yes, my waifu is Nesaie.

Scots Gaurd should have one, but Caledonia can't have nice things, they only get obvious LTs.

And now I'm picturing a tsundere Asawira. Goddamnit Veeky Forums.

Don't use netrods for a teaching game.

Use your remaining 32 points to upgrade a Thorak to Ajax and give another one a LRL.

Ajax is great for teaching games because he is so straightforward and a cool model.

Wallace should be your Lt 100% of the time.

"Sir, we are being attacked by an unknown force clad in white and red."

"WE'RE HAQQISLAM YOU DIRTY KAFFIR! DO YOU SEE THIS GREEN? HAQQISLAAAAAAMMMM!"

Would be a good excuse to get used to impetuous troops, good idea bro. Already used my SWC on Nesaie and Atalanta though. Wound up with this;

7 / 1
ALKÊ Lieutenant Spitfire, Nanopulser / Pistol, CCW. (1.5 | 25)
AJAX 2 Combi Rifles, Nanopulser / AP Heavy Pistol, EXP CCW. (0 | 39)
ATALANTA MULTI Sniper Rifle + TinBot E (Spotter) / Pistol, Knife. (1.5 | 39)
THORAKITES Combi Rifle, Nanopulser / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 14)
THORAKITES Combi Rifle, Nanopulser / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 14)
THORAKITES Marksman Rifle, Nanopulser / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 15)
NETROD Electric Pulse. (0 | 4)

3 SWC | 150 Points

God, Asawira must be pissed off all the time.

"Now a yelling man in green has starting running towards us. It's possible that this could be some new Ariadnan strike force."

"AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!1!!"

That looks good.

The shirts suck. I called it.

The one with all the factions on it is the most ok though.

How many staff does CB have?

Damnit, now I need to figure out how to make it obvious that my Asawira are perpetually pissed.

Veeky Forums's got you covered user.

Dare I create the Angry Asawira? Is that a thing that should happen?

Do it you fuck. It would contrast terribly with AC assassins, and that's wonderful.

>Is that a thing that should happen?
No, but do it anyway.

Those look awesome.

DO IT

Those look awesome. Hopefully they have an easy way to get them in the states.

Damn when user said there were shirts with all the factions on them, I thought he meant one faction per shirt, not all factions on one shirt. Fug.

They're is nothing more satisfying than double tapping a fiday in the back of the head after discovering the fucker with an Intruder

Just felt like sharing

Now where have I seen that helmet before...

Anyone have a podcasts they'd recommend? I've listened to personal flash paper and mayacast and was wondering if there were more out there.

Now, you see, that is obviously a skull where the ORC is obviously a Goblin or fantastic creature with pointy ears.

>When you go out of your way to make a surprise attack with an Oniwaban against William Wallace near a couple of Galwegians because you figured that he was the Lt with inspiring Leadership.
>You kill each other in glorious reckless combat, bypassing NWI because of your Monofilament sword.
>Then you remember you're facing Vanilla Ariadna and that Wallace wasn't the Lt at all.

I feel like I was duped, but it was my own fault. Why take Wallace in Vanilla?

Do you think Blackjacks would have a separate model for the "Battle ravaged" state?

It's possible. I'd LOVE to see the box being two models, one trashed and one not. In Edge of Tomorrow style plating.

You mean...

When your TO mispronounces "Aleph," (as Ay-leff) do you bother trying to correct them? I didn't. Sort of regret it.

>regular blackjack is bulky af, tag-like, twice as badass as AzraIl
>ravaged without a helmet showing qt tomboy inside

pls do

Is that not correct?
Or should it be more like El-eff?

Ah-leff or Ay-leff both seem fine to me.

It's a long A like "Alphabet" not "Ayylfabet" because it's the letter.

>MIrage V
>"le muet"
>loup-garou
Fucking ouiaboos.

I heard someone else say this was wrong so this time I googled it and sure enough I was saying it wrong.

I was chatting with Bostria at NOVA, he was wearing the all factions one, and I complimented his shirt. He asked me what my shirt size was. XL of course, the standard male Adonis shirt size He said he didn't have it, unfortunately. I wasn't sure if he meant he had a few extra shirts in his room, or if he would have just given me the shirt off his back. Either possibility would have been amazing. The shirts look good and Bostria is good people, are my main points.

When in doubt pronounce everything in a heavy Espanish accent. Everything Tohaa (when you figure out the dipthongs) Greek, Combined suddenly clicks at that point. At that point, all you have to do is memorize how to say Qapu Khalqi and resign yourself to never knowing the truly glory of mastering the Chinese tritones.

>Try for a long time to properly pronounce Chinese friends name
> "It's cool. I go by Perry for a reason. I get that you can't even heard the difference between what you're saying and the right way"

I've resigned myself to pronouncing everything wrong because my attempts at saying them the correct way will inevitably be just as bad.

Weebs get pretty upset when I ask them what weapons their obiwans are carrying.

Weeb here, nippon is actually pretty easy to pronounce. Once you learn the 5 vowels just pair them with a consonant and your good for most of it. Only weird common ones is their R/L can be hard on people and Tsu.

youtube.com/watch?v=VPJIwff3w0I

I've named my Oniwaban OB-1 for that reason.

Anyone know any sources of good quality third party sets of tokens? I've found a few but they all seem really expensive for what they are.

I know you can just print 'em, but I like accessories that add to the gaming experience in small, tangible ways like that.

A couple of my friends use different color plastic beads for everything.

I actually did my Hassassins in the red and white scheme as well; it's worth noting that the Assassin's Creed scheme corresponds with historical accounts (many admittedly dubious or written ex-post-facto) that would refer to the Nizari Fedayeem wearing predominantly white outfits that then received red-dyed elements after assassinations to symbolize that they had been 'blooded' and their purity could never be un-sullied again.

Although this is mostly an extrapolation by later historical fiction writers like Bartol, it stands to reason that the highest ranking members would have predominantly red outfits with very little white, so I did my Asawira in red with white accents.

That's actually really interesting. I'll have to do some of my own research on that, but thanks for letting me know!

Why does release pattern make no sense in infinity? I come from warmahordes where everything is autistically complete. Each faction has a set of accessories, paints, starters, books and whatnot. Corvus just randomly gives out minis, resculpts, the odd terrain piece and no accessories. The rules are free but pretty daunting because lists dont build themselves. I love it but at the same time am very confused.

I drybrushed a white skull onto my Asawira. He looks grumpy. Like the badguy from that show that the Archer crew did on Adult Swim forever ago.

what the fuck even is a hsien

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Dat's not a 'umie skull, dat a propa' ORK face ya gits!
Dat is so cause dem blue boys got most dakka!

Don't ask me. I made a database of like 99% of the releases and I still don't know.

One of my friends constantly calls his Obi-Wan as well.
Which is weird, Oniwaban isn't even that complicated of a word. It's just as easy as Acontecimento or Skovorodino.
We're Polish by the way.

>Why does release pattern make no sense in infinity?
They saw GW frustrating SoB and Bretonnia fans and they wanted in on it, but with every faction. Tohaa and vedic ALEPH in particular, although you can find a whiny USAriadnan here and there (the marauder box seems to have shut them up).

>vedic ALEPH

I've never heard of such a faction.

That's what some people call the non-Greek part of it.

Is one of the future sectorials, vedic an aleph killers (also named assasins of aleph, is a translation of the spanish name, not a official name in english yet)

this, and I'm here.
Also
>Only weird common ones is their R/L can be hard on people
because it's an undifferentiated sound. If they've got the type of accent where it seems like they're screwing up r/l when speaking english, it's because they can't hear the difference.
So any nip who gives you too much of a hard time is a little full of shit.

Tsu is a little hard, but it's easier than 'Gogh'.

There is a reason why Chinese people adopt american anglo names, and Koreans and Japanese people don't. You can learn to pronounce the Korean and Japanese.

I was being facetious.

It's Onibanan. I painted mine's monosword yellow for this reason.

also Akocimięto

Is it worth getting the acontecimiento starter box or should a wait for the next one?

Many non-ASS Aleph units have Indian-themed names, hence Vedic.

Fuck off carlos you bolivian

>Onibanan
>Akocimięto

Jak to mówią dzieciaki: skisłem.
My mamy też zwyczaj tłumaczenia lub spolszczania niektórych nazw: Father-Knight to Ksiądz, Hospitaller to Szpitalnik, Janissary - Janczar, Grenzer - Grancar itd. Czasem muszę sobie przypomnieć, że nie każdy kojarzy nazwę "Bożogrobowcy".

Most people will say wait for the new one, but if you get both, it will be a decent army, albeit with varied quality sculpts.
Still, that's 7 Regulars (and the new box gives you SWC options) for a Core link and extras, two Montesas ready for a Duo, one Bagh-Mari to use as a Sniper proxy and two different Akalis, both with popular loadout options.
Just put more shit on the old minis' bases to bring them to height.

"hsien" just means "forever" or "eternal", though CB was pretty obviously going for "immortal", which would be translated as 永生 (永 is on their unit symbol thing). If you pronounce it like most people pronounce it, it comes off a bit like "Shien", which would be "First", which, to my mind, sounds pretty good too.

That being said, it's a bit silly to expect people to pronounce things correctly, especially since there's plenty of mishmashed dialect stuff to go around. Hac Tao is the most obvious (should be Hei or Hey Tao) but even Sun Tze/Tzu is weird.

I'd never fault someone for mispronouncing a YJ unit.

He's not wrong though.

Fucking tone languages.

Not to mention over a hundred years in the future, languages will change quite drastically in terms of sound.

Fizylier, Szpitalnik, Bożogrobcy, Janczar, Baszybuzuk, Szaser, Żuaw, Łunochod, Gekon are common stuff. Not even a change, just translation.

Other fun name variants I've heard locally include Bulterier (Bulleteer), Bełty (Bolts), Pedomisie/Pedobears (koalas), MMM (Moran Masajski Morcerca/Moran Massai Murderer), Speckulka, Seczuan/Suczka (Su Jian), Gaylang due to pic related, Ksiądz/priest is Father Sforza, Punglings, Geishabots, Liski/Laski are a source of some confusion (Odalisques and Lasiqs respectively). Dziabazany. Mega Ryba, Glizdobot, Tohaamony, Judeoboty/Żydoboty.

I blame half of these on Maru. The rest, well, we are not mature adults.

It's not all bad. Even silly Bolivians using translation software can get some interesting results. Su Jian translates as "Speeding Sword", for instance, which is appropriate.

Speaking of which, when Subaru, the Japanese auto maker decided on a name when marketing to the Chinese, they chose "Su Ba Lu", or 斯巴鲁, which translates as "the speed which overcomes the road". That's pretty good marketing there.

their is a difference between languages having different differeciations of phonemes and being a tone language.

There are a lot of different sounds that can be used in languages, and a lot are not shared across languages. What makes it weirder is that the sounds a person can hear are not universal, but develop during infancy. If you don't hear the difference between say r and l, or t and d, or 'z' and tsu/tze, or whatever, during that time, you might not develop the ability to hear them as separate sounds.

>Judeoboty/Żydoboty
Well, they are from ALEPH after all.

Should I glue the sword arm to the Hac Tao before or after priming?

so what does ORC stand for anyway?

Omnia Research Corp

Whaddup dudes,

Just thre together this list with a bunch of units I wanted to see work together. Thoughts?

Force de Réponse Rapide Merovingienne
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GROUP 1 9
BRIGADIER BRUANT Molotok, D-Charges / Pistol, Knife. (1 | 28)
MÉTRO Paramedic (Medikit) Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 10)
MÉTRO Lieutenant Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 8)
MÉTRO Rifle, Light Grenade Launcher / Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 12)
MÉTRO Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 8)
ANACONDA Spitfire + Light Flamethrower, Panzerfaust / CCW. (2 | 62)
OPERATOR Spitfire / Pistol, Knife. (- | 0)
PARA-COMMANDO (Forward Observer) Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 21)
PARA-COMMANDO Boarding Shotgun / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 22)
112 Light Shotgun / Pistol, CCW. (0 | 12)

GROUP 25 / 1
MOBLOT (Infiltration) Rifle, Light Shotgun E/Mauler / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 26)
CHASSEUR (Forward Observer) Rifle, Light Flamethrower, Antipersonnel Mines / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 20)
CHASSEUR (Minelayer) Rifle, Light Flamethrower, Antipersonnel Mines / Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 20)
CHASSEUR (Minelayer) Rifle, Light Flamethrower, Antipersonnel Mines / Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 20)
CHASSEUR AP Sniper Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (1 | 26)
WARCOR (Aerocam) Flash Pulse / Stun Pistol, Knife. (0 | 3)

5.5 SWC | 298 Points

So the blade is just resting on his shoulder plates?
If you are confident you can produce a paintjob that won't bring shame to your family name when subjected to a high resolution digital camera, leave it off and paint the fuck out of all the plates you would not otherwise be able to reach properly.

If you are a tabletop painter, glue that shit on and get glooping.

I'm this level if it helps.

If you think having the arm in place will hide or interfere with things that need a high level of paint, then leave the arm off.
What I might do is just barely tack the arm on with the minimum amount of glue to keep it in place. Primer the mini like this, then pop the arm off and clean up the glue. You'll have a clean pair of surfaces for the final glue, meaning no nasty glue squidge spots (if you are careful).

Go to strip someone my tohaas cause I wasn't happy with my first attempt at them. Forget to take them off the bases. Realise what I did an hour later and take them out some of the bases are all weird now appearance wise. Oh well I've got a excuse to get some these now warsen.al/collections/bases/products/runohaa-bases

>stripping tohaas
Lewd.

>Go to strip some of my tohaa

>Brush-painting
>Infinity minis
>in 2016

C'mon, if you can't use an airbrush at LEAST as well as Angel, you have no business owning Infinity minis at all. If you're not going to devote the time and practice to be at least that good, you shouldn't bother painting your minis at all.

This is the bare-minimum tabletop standard. You should be able to do at least this well.

>almost poland/10
That being said, while mid-field will be a clusterfuck, you really only have 3 long-range weapons, and one of them is BS11. Briscards are a bit pricey, but MSV1 with marksman rifle is a pretty nice deal.

I mean, I'd play you, so I guess that counts for something?