Haven’t had a lot of time these past two weeks to dedicate to hobby, but I’ve chipped away at some Infinity projects.

Specifically, I painted a few more miniatures and built out my current collection of cardboard Infinity terrain.

The terrain is surprisingly good, but I still need one more set to produce a proper table. The above is three total sets–two of the regular and one of the expansion sets. Overall, I actually like it enough that I may very well use it for other settings and not just as a stop gap while I take my time painting my first Infinity board.

The Bokhtar there is a paratrooper worth quite a few points. General idea is he’ll drop in and blast away a few pieces halfway through the game.

He represents a step forward in my list building. I’ve continued to try and iterate a concept and I believe this piece will seal it together. In essence: I send one large task force forward as a team to be an obvious beat stick. This comprises one third of my list. Most of the remainder is units that cloak or otherwise mess with the enemy. Come the mid-to-end of the game, I have two paratroopers who will drop in and ideally swing or seal up an objective.

My reasoning here is simple: I have no idea what I’m doing, so my plan should keep my opponent guessing. That, hopefully, helps me inch closer on the knowledge gap between us.

Or at least leads to funny moments where he’ll think I’m a far better strategist than I actually am.

My Ghazi Muttawi’ah, aside from having the most unique name in my lists thus far, happen to be interesting pieces. They’re cheap and carry jammers. Drop them somewhere and let them disrupt your opponent’s game plan. This fits nicely with the various cloaked models I’m using to create an area of the map where my opponent struggles to get anything done.

I’m still enjoying my Infinity project, but October has thrown a lot of non-hobby things my way and the inherently slow nature of painting Infinity miniatures is starting to wear on me. I still need to do two remotes, Mcmurrough (dog mercenary), and… an entire terrain board.

Hopefully, I can dedicate a full day to terrain this weekend. I just need to resist getting any games in. We’ll see how I do. As fun as playing games can be, I have this built in desire to keep the hobby needle moving. I hate pauses, and this month has felt like one big pause.

Granted, sometimes I wonder when I’ll slow down and just enjoy gaming. Miniature wargaming is such a strange hobby. At this point, it’s three hobbies for me: painting, gaming, and printing. I may need to setup a month where I don’t paint anything on purpose. Perhaps there’s merit in exploring that empty space to see what I do with it.

Or, you know, I’ll print an entire complex Haqqislam board and spend a month painting that instead. Now taking bets…