How to play

Welcome!

Operation Hungry Walrus is pleased to have you onboard.

This unofficial Infinity global campaing pivots around an internal crisis of the Human Sphere that may cripple its supply chain and become a dangerous precedent, tearing apart fragile alliances. You can read more about the narrative in the story page.

The setting is the city of New Hypatia: a coastal city built on the two sides of an important strait, crossed every day by millions of tonns of products directed to spaceports and, thus, to the Universe. 

The city has 9 theaters of war, each with a standard mission from current ITS and a thematic mission developed by Infinity fans like you.

The whole campaign will be divided in 2 phases, each lasting 3 weeks.

Last but not least, make sure to check out the commemorative minis of the event.

How to report

Once you have played your game, wheter live or on TTS, just follow this link to reach the page where you can submit your battle results

For each game you have to submit only 1 form, no more. 

If, due to miscommunication with your opponent,  you incidentally report the same game twice, just let us know on our Discord channel and we'll solve it.

Remember that Thematic mission bonuses are automatically calculated so you don't have to add them in your Objective Points count.

Scoring points

Playing provides both Victory Points (VP) and Influence Points (IP) to your faction, counted on the theater of war where you played.

Winning a game gives your faction VPs scaled on the size of the game (100 points=1 VP, 150=1,5 VP and so on).
Draws don't provide VPs BUT everyone, whatever the outcome of the game, provides IPs to his faction equal to the scored Objective Points so...don't forget to actually play the mission!

Playing thematic missions provide +1 IP to both players.

Playing a different mission, which means neither the standard mission nor the thematic mission for that theater of battle, results in not scoring IPs.

Games between the same faction don't proivide VPs but grant IPs scored by the loosing player, including thematic mission bonus.

Results are shown in the campaign status page.

What next?

With time, the campaing will evolve!

Depending on the results of phase 1, the locations, missions and bonuses of phase 2 will vary.

As per phase 1, mods will be affecting only thematic missions so you will still be able to contribute to the fate of New Hypatia by playing your regular & ITS compliant games.

At the end of each phase, Campaign Points (CP) will be calculated following this criteria:

Phase 2 thematic missions will also feature an additional special rule advantaging the faction that scored more IP on that theater in phase 1. 

Designated Objectives of each faction are not explicit but can be guessed by reading hints and bits in the fluff.

Make sure to follow the news so you won't miss important details and fundamental informations!

Can I play with more than one faction?

Of course you can!

Well, we'd rather see everyone role play and organize strategies playing with a single faction, but in the end we just want you to have fun and we really don't have the means to enforce single-faction-playing.

However, to induce you to play the same faction as the same commander, we have prepared a couple ideas to narratively link your games: check it out here.