Articles & Videos for ITS 16 part 2

Wizzy · Feb 1, 2025 at 1:48 PM

The goonhammer blog has posted a review of the second part of season 16: Infinity N5: ITS Season 16 Part 2 Review.
https://www.goonhammer.com/infinity-n5-its-season-16-part-2-review/

Introduction
As expected, following the N5 release in December, Corvus Belli have dropped the second/revised part of the Infinity Tournament (ITS) Season 16. For any newcomers, this is their annual cycle of tournament rules (running August to August) which is essentially the main mission pack for Infinity games. It’s not the only mission set available, since there is now a cards-based random alternative, Resilience Ops. But for competitive play, and the great number of pick-up games that are basically run with the same rules, ITS is the standard. As well as the actual missions, each season has a few little extra rules, which might boost certain troop types, or inject a little tweak to some elements of set-up. These have often served, in the past, as trial runs for changes to the core game rules. Because of the edition change, Pt1 of Season 16 was extremely cautious – it didn’t introduce anything new and it actually cut several missions from the set without replacement.

The headlines for this update are:

The pack has been updated to make sense with N5, e.g. changing references in missions to Damage to PS, or Wounds on HVT profiles to VITA.

3 missions cut from ITS16 Pt1 have been restored to the document, with minor changes: B-Pong, Last Launch, Evacuation.

A couple of minor seasonal rules – Long Service, Border Skirmishes – return, and a new minor rule for Journalist models has been introduced.

Some missions have had the free turrets given to each player removed. Other than that, common mission special rules like QAZ Zones, QAZ Creatures, etc have not changed.

Some missions have the new Tactical Support rule, where players randomly generate certain bonuses using the Tactical Objectives deck. This is the most elaborate change or new rule in the document, but only appears in certain missions: Acquisition, B-Pong, Evacuation, Frostbyte, Last Launch, Mindwipe, Supplies.

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In add, GMG has made this podcast :

Tactical Awareness S3 Ep## -The ITS 16.5 Mission Pack Drop Episode!

Welcome back to TACTICAL AWARENESS - a Canadian Podcast about Corvus Belli’s landmark Sci-Fi Wargame; Infinity N5. Come along with our hosts Ash, Owen and Dan for a whole new ITS Edition of Infinity! It's Hot Takes time as we dive into the finally-relased ITS 16.5 Document. Missions have returned, rules have changed and generally the tweaks are in for this lane-shift medium way through the season. Let's go! Listener Mailbag: ⁠https://docs.google.com/document/d/1s...
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