#infinity wargame

[owlbear33]

did anyone else think that at least some elements of Infinity (the wargame), were like heavily influenced by Halo, not saying that it's the only influence (honestly this is mostly superficial) but..

like sure the human sphere is a whole lot more broken up than the UNSC, but it's still got a good mix of regular soldiers and people in power armour, at least some of which is at least reminiscent of spartan armour

vs the combined army, a big multi-species empire bent on humanities domination or destruction, the Morats are even kinda apelike, and the Shasvastii are funky and digitigrade, need I say Jiralhanae(Brutes) and Sangheili (Elites)

like I'm not saying it's the only influence, not by a long shot

but I find it hard to believe that I was the only teenager in idk 2007 ish thinking these two things are similar

[owlbear33]

thinkin'bout factions in wargames, specifically, I'm thinking about the sort of biopunky magic as science, uses fleshy abominations as troops sorta faction that I've seen pop up now 3 times, I think, and I'm wondering if it's actually a thing

My first encounter with this faction is The Alchemists Of Dirz from the old, now sadly very defunct wargame, Confrontation, from Rackham Miniatures, the faction I would have played If I'd had the money for wargames in my early teens, they were a weird bunch of scientists hiding in the desert, producing clone soldiers and biological abominations to try and conquer the world

More recently, I've seen Conquest: The Last Argument of Kings, from Para Bellum Games, a very pretty if a bit edgy wargame, The Spires first struck me as being heavily inspired by the alchemist, as far as I can tell, they're a bunch of weird extradimensional wizards producing clone soldiers and biological abominations to try and conquer the world, and sure they're not exactly the same in look or theme, but there are similarities

Have you seen Corvus Belli, the creators of the well-known Infinity, has a new fantasy skirmish wargame, I took their faction quiz, taking all the magic as science options, and the factions they've given me is the Scions of Yaldabaoth, a group of rebel-ish elf mages, who serve the architect of flesh, and though I think there's a little less clone soldiers, they still go in for bioaugmentation and biological abominations

so, is this a thing? are there other examples that you can think of? particularly in fantasy wargames, but also elsewhere in fantasy

[owlbear33]

sci-fi wargame factions political compass, one axis goes from "multiple factions within a single interstellar society" to "there are multiple interstellar societies", the other axis goes from "they are trying to destroy each other" to "they have disagreements that often result in armed conflict"