Recovering Loses: The Infinity Support Packs
August 7, 2012 by beerogre
Infinity is well-known as a deadly game, where troops can easily be taken down at long distances. This is due to the long range of the game’s weapons and the Automatic Reaction Order (ARO) system which ensures that each time an active figure moves or acts it is exposed to reactive fire from those enemy figures which have Line of Fire.
However, in Infinity a miniature in an Unconscious state is not totally lost, as a player still has a chance to recover it. To do so, the best option is to use a Doctor, if you want to heal a wounded trooper, or an Engineer, if you want to repair a Remote or a T.A.G. These specialist soldiers can recover your fallen troops from the Unconscious state just by succeeding at a WIP Roll. However, to be able to do so they need to be in base contact with them. This means they must reach their target to recover it. And, as stated above, to cross an Infinity battlefield is a dangerous task. Your recovery specialists will be exposed to the same threats that took down their patient, which is not necessarily a great idea.
However, Infinity is a science-fiction game, and high technology is always present on the battlefield. The military industry has not only developed weapons of destruction but also protective technologies. So, to prevent your valuable Doctors and Engineers facing the dangers of an open combat zone the Ghost: Servant Remotes have been developed.
These fast and tiny robots have been created to be the remote healing and repairing hands of your recovery specialists. The Servant Remotes are activated by the Order of their Controller, whether a Doctor or an Engineer, replicating those skills declared by him. In this way, the Doctor or Engineer can safely hide out of the enemy’s Lines of Fire, controlling his Remote to reach the target and heal or repair it. Servant Remotes are relatively inexpensive and permit help to arrive wherever it is needed, in the fastest way possible. All technological Infinity armies can count on these useful little remote- controlled robots which have become essential in any Army List possessing a Doctor or an Engineer.
Being conscious of that, Corvus Belli is now releasing a new kind of product called Support Boxes. These four figure boxes comprise the main Doctor and Engineer models for a faction and a pair of their corresponding Servant Remotes. The first Support Box released is the Yu Jing one, but soon the PanOceania Support Box will join it. Each technological army will have its Support Box. This new product has been specially conceived for new players coming to Infinity, providing them with all they need in one single package. Good news for their wounded or disabled troops, because no man should be left behind now!
Written by Gutier Lusquiños.
Edited by David Satterthwaite.
Personally I’m not happy with boxed sets. I’d rather they were a blister of a doc or engineer with one robot. I never use doctors both at once anyway. For me thought’s mainly a money concern. I can’t afford that many minis at once.
I agree. In case of my Haqqis for example, I’d much rather use a Bedouin as a doctor. If I want to pair him with a Servant, I’ll need to buy a box with three additional minis. Plus the Servant bots are similar enough that a single mini would suffice at times when you don’t field both a doctor and an engineer with a Servant.
I like the idea but hope that the minis are available separately at some point. Waiting on the Nomad box. 🙂
The minis have been available seprarately, but are now being combined into a new box. If you want them individually I would suggest checking out stores before they all sell out.
I just wish that JSA could have a doctor and engineer at the same time. We only have AVA of one, and he only gets one helper bot.
You forgot to post a picture of the most badass Doc of the entire line, the Ariadnan 112. Seriously, he’s like a fireman and an EMT rolled into one, swinging a fireaxe. He da man!
He da Man, BUT in the non-technological army
YEAY, more support boxes….great idea CB
You make another customer Happy.
🙂
Brother G
I do like box sets in general but I do agree with celestialdragonking in terms of budget. Although admittedly the blisters I do get are mostly impulse buys. 🙂 These box sets will help me pace myself and save up and even force me to paint my minis.
Well you do get almost 5 euro discount (4,75) in the support box so while it is more expensive than buying a single model, you buy them overall cheaper.
It also helps CB with Inventory and the local game store with self space.
Fair points all.
I really like the Support packs and I’m hoping the Aleph once comes with 2x Netrods!
I love the idea, how ever I am greedy and had to buy two sets of bots for my Nomads as both my clockmaker and my daktaris have two each. You can have them reamain in relative safety bots following my REM heavy army as the others follow the troopers
Pretty good idea. Hopefully you will still be able to purchase the singles though still.
i have not purchesed my Nomad support cause i hated the old cat girl … this definatly looks like a purchase in the future
I like the support pack approach. I think the problem is depending on the army they aren’t that useful like PanO.
I’m curious about what they’ll do for Haqqislam, since we don’t have just a single doctor model like most of the other factions. A re-sculpted Ghulam doc, perhaps?
I like the idea, but in the end I grabbed most of the nomad support pack and the yu jing engineer…thanks chokonnit! 😉
For Ariadna, will be adittional miniatures for 112? And for merovingian sectorial any tropos will gain engineering hability? Facing missions with only one engineer which in fact does not look like french…(112 could be french but dozer…)
I liked the old daktari model but the new sculpt seems a bit more um, battle ready…
Would love to see the Aleph support pack, hope it has netrods
I like these boxes a lot but as an Ariadna player it makes me jealous that we don’t get servant bots. I actually just removed my Kazak Doc from my list for just a generic line Kazak with forward observer simply because discovering camo markers comes up more often than my kazak actually surviving the trip to an unconscious friendly fig.
Proxy and try out the 122 Emergency service. The V: Courage might give just enough of an edge. Apart form that, I’m afraid Ariadna really doesn’t take much care for its masses of frontline soldiery … but you do get to field most of them of any force.
Never seen an engineer or doctor actually recover anyone, and they often get gunned down trying, but it just feels good to have that potential in your force.
What should they do with the support pack os ALEPH and the Conbined Army?? netrods and imetrons maybe??