Just picked up on this through fb.

An interesting variant to presumably allow a co-op experience using Infinity models in an Infinity Universe.

Well the video says the minis will be compatible with Infinity and for Aristeia! the only Infinity minis compatible with it are minis which have a Aristeia! mini and profile and I doubt they will make rules for the Deviant hereos for Aristeia!

And about the RPG, well I don’t know anything about that game but if you can have Combined Army as enemies you should be able to use the enemy models and for the heroes if their classes + gear exists you also should be able to use them.

Yes metal is strange for a boardgame, even more so after they used plastic in Aristeia! but personally as a Infinity player I don’t mind metal.

That’s my next Kickstarter sorted 🙂 I share @onlyonepinman‘s mild concern over kickstarter management given the repercussions for Hawk after their Dropfleet KS. But I think Corvus will sort it out.

I think it’s worth mentioning the plot behind this as well. The first human ship in Combined Army’s territory. Sounds like a TV series. Will they release missions to move the story forward? I love Infinity fluff.

Regarding the choice of metal miniatures I found that a bit odd as well. But Aristeia’s plastics came in for some criticism from the fanbase for not being as high quality as their metal stuff. I think Corvus are a special case in this regard.

@seldon9 Infinity’s audience is used to all metal and associated level of detail … so of course anything less than that will get comments from their fanbase.

CMON and GW are probably the only companies currently producing plastics that can be considered as close to metal as can be done using current tech. Mythic are good, but a definite step below those. And then there’s Mantic (walking dead). Steamforged are a bit of an oddity as I do think their Dark Souls range is a bit better than their Guildball minis.
At least that is my opinion based on the boardgames minis I’ve seen so far. I haven’t seen the Aresteia minis though.

I suspect that it is also pretty difficult to switch to plastic for a company like Corvus Belli.

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Pride is a dangerous emotion in business though.
I hope their decision to do metal is based on their (current) experience doing plastic and available options.

I suspect that if the terrain for this dungeon crawler is good and 3D-ish then it might be useful as terrain to be used in their Infinity skirmish games. The confined space of a building/spaceship do offer a different set of challenges compared to the ‘normal’ open areas skirmish games traditionally use.

There are sound business reasons that they stick with metal, it’s an essential part of their business operating model- see this interview to understand why.

Pickup from about 3:50 in for discussion of business model.