More Campaign Details

Some new information about the upcoming Infinity book has been circulating on the web. In particular, a great interview with one of Corvus Belli's lead designers, Carlos, on Beasts of War.

This new information has given me a chance to do a lot more planning for our upcoming campaign. If anyone has questions, I will be down at the Armory this Friday at 6 PM to do Infinity demos and recruit for the campaign.

The campaign is designed for a maximum of 8 players, and is designed to take about 3 to 6 months for a group of 8 players to complete if they get together and play one game each week. As a result I am going to try to limit the field to 8 people. Please don't let this discourage you, however, if you want to join the campaign. We have about 5 regular Infinity players in our group right now, and I would love to invite 3 more new players to join the campaign. Also, if there is overwhelming interest in the campaign then I am not above rewriting the rules to accommodate a larger group.

Armies for the campaign start at 300 points and can be any number of combat groups. There are also special skills that can be gained by your army over time that will allow them to increase their size or gain extra models. Armies can also change from one mission to another, so you don't need a set army list. The only model that stays the same from one mission to the next is your Spec-Ops avatar, the model that represents you personally on the table.

I will be running this campaign in "hard core mode". This means that when a model dies it is dead forever. Some models will have a chance to survive even if they are taken out of action during a mission, and models with Cubes will have a chance to be resurrected, but for all models there is a very real possibility of death. Unique models and special characters who die, including your Spec-Ops character, cannot be used again until the campaign is over.

I highly recommend checking out the new information at Beasts of War and on Infinity's website. I would also like to ask everyone to start brining their favorite 300 point army lists down to the Armory and Matrix to start getting in some practice games before the campaign. I hope to see you all at the Armory on Friday!