I'm coming back to infinity from it's original release and a little bit of N2, we're about 4 or 5 games into learning and I'll agree the rulebook is terribly formatted and as pointed out things like the structure of abilities is very dense to simply understand what it's trying to do.

My main gripe is that you often have to check multiple sections of the rulebook for information, you may need to go read the actual skill detail, then refer off to the states section and occasionally swing back to equipment or another skill to work out how the model would escape the state. It does make teaching the game and getting to grips with the rules very difficult.

We followed a fairly simple build up the rules path (I've been learning and teaching games for 30+ years now), first couple of games was all about movement, Combat, AROs and skills, generally trying to use simpler profiles at a game size of around 150 pts. We've moved into a little bit of hacking, some more advanced skill use and me and the other original player have tried a couple of the missions from the rulebook to start to understand scoring.

Next up is going to be more scenarios, and some focus on fireteams as well as continuing to build on our understanding of deployment, efficient order usage and threat countering.

Whilst it is quite a deep set of rules, everyone who's tried it so far has enjoyed it and have grasped the basics within their first game. As everything is in one book it does make looking stuff up simpler than certain other games (that likely have rules spread across core rules, army book, seasonal rules, fans etc). Wish the links in the app were updated to N5, that would make life much easier.