Most of the minis break down into a few unit types:
- Infantry, further subdivided into Light Infantry (little to no armor, your basic line infantry), Medium Infantry (normally some armor, cooler weapons), and Heavy Infantry (the biggest dudes walking around save for the robots, lots of armor, good weapons).
- Remotes- robots, usually split between four-legged support bots/weapons platforms, and tiny helper bots. Some factions also have cool humanoid robots too
- Skirmishers- normally lightly armored if they have any at all, with exotic weapons. They are usually sneaky and have cool rules to use camoflage or hide in plain sight.
- Warbands- exotic weapon-toting troops who are usually not sneaky, and like to rush forward ahead of the rest of the force to wreak havoc in the enemy's lines.
Only other troop type I did not include are the TAGs.
- TAGs- stands for Tactical Armored Gear, are the mechs. They can have pilots (which can jump out) or can be controlled remotely by a pilot off the battlefield. They are the biggest guys around, and have the best armor and most powerful and unique weapons. Think anime mechs and mini gundams. Or in Haqqislam's case, they have a scorpion mech that I need to get my hands on at some point
Infinity has a ton of different troop types, weapons (rifles, futuristic rifles, HMG heavy machine guns, SMG sub machine guns, sniper rifles, or other weird stuff), weapon effects and equipment (stun, flaming, EMP, grenades, mines, smoke), types of equipment (vision goggles that let you see through smoke, or be camoflaged so noone can see you) and other cool stuff.
Infinity also has hacking, which reminds me a lot of magic in other games. Hacking is effective against most heavy infantry (because they have programing to control their high-tech armor), remotes (because they are robots), and TAGs (because they are also big scary robots and this is one of their few weaknesses).
I like the different factions too, the setting is set in the "near" future, maybe a few hundred years in the future, where the myriad of human factions are still competing with each other for space resources. Very shortened summary of each:
- Pan Oceania (PanO)- the hyperpower, future Australia/New Zealand/Indonesia/SE Asia/India/South America- a unified multicultural and technological powerhouse. They have the best guns, and know how to use them. Also they invented Aleph, the big AI that helps run the human nations across the Human Sphere (human sphere includes all the planets, planetary bodies, and spaces in between where humanity lives).
- Yu Jing- the China of the future. The second biggest hyperpower, and they want to surpass PanO at any cost. They have a ton of really good heavy infantry. Also they control Korea, and used to control Japan until they rebelled.
- Ariadna- time-displaced lost colonists and descendants of an ancient joint expedition USA, Britain, France, and Russia. They have old tech and no hackers, think what would happen if a contingent of soldiers from our current day and age wound up 100 years in the future, but they also have the best camoflage game. Also literal dog soldiers.
- Haqqislam- my faction of choice so far, the descendants of the Middle East of the Islamic World, a very rationalistic and positive take on the Muslim world that isn't found in most wargames. They have a lot of all-rounder stuff, lots of tricks, Assassins, skirmishers, and camoflage. Also tons of Dune references .
- Nomads- the rebels, the cyberpunks, the space and cyber criminals, who live in space on three colossal travelling space ships seperate from the rest of humanity. They don't like Aleph, who they see as an evil AI who has enslaved the rest of humanity. They also do all the illegal banking, labor, and bio-tech things that the big bad AI won't let the rest of humanity do, and would sell their stuff to you... for a price. They have the best hacking and lots of cool powers and gizmos, and good robots.
- Aleph- the AI that assists running the governments and society of the human sphere in the far far future, and according to Nomad propoganda has already enslaved humanity. They have lots of robots, cool hacking, and ancient greek heros of the Illiad returned to life in human (see: basically robot) form.
- Combined Army- the evil aliens that just showed up on the edge of human space, and they want to eat our technology and absorb our AI. They have tough aliens, sneaky aliens, and evil aliens. Also the most powerful TAG in the game.
There are a few other factions, but those are the big ones. Lots of mercenary factions too, like the Druze Bayram Security, basically the space mafia, and the Japanese Sectorial Army, recently rebelled from Yu Jing, and are everything you ever wanted from Ghost in the Shell and Akira anime movies put into a faction on the tabletop.
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. I like that this alien is wearing what is essentially a biker gang jacket 
