Ven's Daofei Test and Infinity Update

Ven's Virgin Infinity - Yu Jing Daofei model

Over the last 2-3 days I’ve been reading up on the Infinity rules. I’ll cover my first impressions in another post. I’ve also got a game lined up tonight to try out the rules, really excited about that..the sheer volume and variety of skills and abilities in the game really gets my inner geek going.


Weirdly, Parabolic Fire is my current stand out. Lobbing grenades over walls from your launcher as you’ve heard chatter or footsteps on the other side…firing blind into building windows to clear a room, your grenade shattering the glass...this just seems realistic and cool.
Although Camouflage and Hidden Deployment are cool too!

Anyway, I’ve picked up my first miniatures (just 3…I was being a frugal geek) from the Yu Jing faction. I loved the Invincible and Immortal warrior types…the models are great. But unfortunately, the model shop I picked up my D20 from didn’t have many in stock, so I picked up some other bits..

Little detail on the 'urban' base..

- A DaoFei, a vertean troop type with camouflage and infiltration skills…oh and a massive Heavy Machine Gun…check him out, I’ve just finished painting the figure and basing it..really quite pleased.
- A Hac Tao, an elite and well armoured, super camouflage unit..carrying a Missile Launcher!
- A Ninja, pretty much does what it says on the tin, fast, stealthy and effective in CC.

I picked these guys up based on looks and basic abilities, I have no idea how good they really are, but I threw them together with a few other bits to create a legal test list:

Quite pleased with the colours on the LHS of leg...

Yu Jing 250 point list:
Daofei – HMG 61 points/2 SWC
HacTao Missile Launcher 74/2
Ninja – Combi Rifle, Pistol, AP CCW 36/0
Keisotsu – Combi Rifle x 4 = (9/0*4) = 36/0
Invincible Liutenant – MultiRifle 42/0
= 249/4

The points costs are relatively simple, but the second figure is the Special Weapons Cost or SWC.. for every 50 points spent on the army, you can spend up to 1 point on Special Weapons.. So as you can see above, the Missile Launcher has a SWC of 2 for the HacTao…so this takes up a big chunk of the points available in a small force.

Up against this force I have made up a list for Bringer of Death to use made up of other cool toys..
Aquila Guard Lieutenant 59/0
TAG – Cutter 117/2
Machinist – Combi-Rifle, D-Charges 15/0
4 x Fusilier – CombiRifle 40/0
Fusilier Multi Sniper Rifle 24/1.5
= 255/3.5

This probably all makes no sense for a 40k lad, but it is something I think we should all get looking into, its cool as hell. And for those that are aware of Infinity…what do these lists look like? Bear in mind we are trying to use a variety of rules and model types in order to familiarise ourselves!

I am trying to make sure we both have plenty of activations/Orders to use as I believe this to be a key concept over taking lots of very expensive models and only having a couple of Orders to spend.. I intend to run my Daofei flying around and gunning the shit out of models..avoiding the Aquila Guard, which I am told is dangerous.. plus obviously the massive TAG!