Infinity Spring Cleaning

So we completed mission 1 today with only a few glaring rules goofs (that I know about) and some utter clumsiness on my part that caused some minor disasters. Overall, though, I really enjoyed this and it lived up to my hopes. For anyone who has played Imperial Assault, it feels like a much more dynamic version of that on steroids—many more meaningful choices and many more varied units (despite there being fewer miniatures than IA there is greater difference as a result of the different identity cards).

A few minor rules goofs: While you shouldn’t read what happens at every milestone, definitely do take a look at the little boxes in the missions to see what triggers them. I think we caught everything but a couple of events may have been an activation late or something along those lines.

One major rules goof: the Nox Leaders can’t leave the shuttle. We forgot that and so they jumped of at their earliest convenience leaving Agnes unguarded. This made it significantly easier for us to save her. I can live with that.

Two minor disasters (aka reasons not to game with me unless we’re using my games):

• I knocked my drink over right into all of the tokens causing many of them to be a total right off and requiring some frenzied cleanup. I now have a new set of acrylic tokens (that will do double duty for Aristeia! also) on the way from Warsenal.
• I managed to knock over the entire tray holding all the minis not on the table. Much frenzied crawling around on the floor and a minor heart attack later and all the little folks were located, and with the exception of two arms in need of reattaching, all were in fine shape. Whew!

Now to reread through the rules and check out the reattach/FAQ before we play again in two weeks’ time. I’d read the rules before we got together today but I always find with games that it takes me one play through to have something to anchor all the details to. I invariably forget at least one rule the first time but I’ve learned that if I’ll never remember them all until after I’ve played at least once. With complex/heavy games there’s a good chance I’ll still get something wrong (I’m looking at you every Vital Lacerda game I’ve taught or played!)