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Looks sooooo much better than the old Bashi.

Bashi Bazouk does look really damn good. He is definitely on the to-buy list. However, maybe it's just me, but he seems really chunky. Like, Morat chunky. It's odd to see on what should be a regular human.

Pics of the Bashi Bazouk from the AG FB page

Well, hot damn.

 Barzam wrote:
Bashi Bazouk does look really damn good. He is definitely on the to-buy list. However, maybe it's just me, but he seems really chunky. Like, Morat chunky. It's odd to see on what should be a regular human.

Sort of see what you mean. I think it's similar to the Naffatun where the gear makes sense (in this case presumably a well insulated flight suit of some kind) but makes them bulkier than you'd expect for their troop type.

Awesome mini thought.

Haqqislam gear is already chunky, which is a deliberate recent design decision (the art book mentions it) to give them a sort of utilitarian tech look. Add to that this guy essentially HALO jumps from orbit. He needs oxygen and more protective gear.

Yes right, got something of a Dune feel about it, hi-tech Bedouin jumping from the upper atmosphere into the desert.

The current range are definitely bulkier than they used to be, look at how the Celestial Guard (and other Imperial Service minis actually) compare to the previous ones.

Yes, as previously discussed it was a conscious decision because the realistic scale they did, created problems especially with the weapons surviving the experience.

Personally I really liked the true to scale models, but the weapons are tiny and you can bend De fersens (or Saladins) blade straight only so many times.

The post Icestorm design direction is easier to assemble, paint and better suited to survive the trials of the battlefield.

 PsychoticStorm wrote:
The post Icestorm design direction is easier to assemble, paint and better suited to survive the trials of the battlefield.

But not impervious. I do like they've added more tin to the swords, there's always a fear present when I'm transporting knight of Santiago, Konstantinos or Montesa. Joan and Icestorm Father Knight have enough rigid swords that I don't worry about them.

Bagh Mari

Very, very nice. Sniper, Boarding Shotgun, Hacker, Combi+LSG. So, the HMG will be in a blister or in the re-done starter box. A B-M box was on my wishlist. I'll definitely get this.

And they have proper antennas.

That Bashi Bazouk looks like he is doing step aerobics.

 Red Harvest wrote:
And they have proper antennas.

Time to make a 'kanluwen was wrong' banner.

 PsychoticStorm wrote:
Bagh Mari

Spoiler:

It's annoying me that there's no HMG. My prospective B-M loadouts are increasingly centred around a Rao/No2/HMG Haris team. There might be space for the sniper elsewhere, but I've got no use for the hacker and probably won't get much use out of the combi either.

I suppose that means at least I can put the No 2 arms on the helmeted head male and not have to use the woeful 'shoot me in the face please' guy.

I am hoping the new HMG sees the light of day soon.

I like the knife patched on the leg and the hacker has great mask. Has there been any precedes for hackers having different visors for hacking devices? Bagh Mari still feel way too similar to Bolts.

I'll be getting the box eventually.

Really disappointed with the contents of the Bagh Mari box.

They included a Number 2 profile, but no HMG.
They included a lone basic Bagh Mari and a Hacker, but no HMG.

The fact is its the profile the specialist has (and the lieutenant and the fireteam haris), that is quite an important profile.

 PsychoticStorm wrote:
The fact is its the profile the specialist has (and the lieutenant and the fireteam haris), that is quite an important profile.

You know what else is an important profile and is a LT option as well?

The HMG.

Yet that one's missing, now isn't it?

CB done goofed, as usual, with boxed sets. They need to get over their nonsensical refusal to add in more than one set of arms for each model in the box and they need to get over their obsession with 4 model boxed sets.

No not really and why are you so obsessed with extra arms?

 PsychoticStorm wrote:
No not really and why are you so obsessed with extra arms?

Why are you not?! For the prices you pay for these models, you should be getting at LEAST one extra set of arms.

The price is fine and the extra set of rams will only increase complains and solve zero problems.

I think extra arms would be a great idea to add variety to models and satisfy the wysiwyg crowd by allowing them to explicitly make every load out.

How would more options/arms increase complaints?

It would also solve the problems we are specifically talking about. If I want the HMG instead of the Hacker, I can just use the extra set of arms to change them around.

 TalonZahn wrote:
How would more options/arms increase complaints?

It would also solve the problems we are specifically talking about. If I want the HMG instead of the Hacker, I can just use the extra set of arms to change them around.

It just occurred to me how easy and practical would that be. Particularly, if you'd buy two boxes.

TalonZahn wrote:How would more options/arms increase complaints?

It would also solve the problems we are specifically talking about. If I want the HMG instead of the Hacker, I can just use the extra set of arms to change them around.

Knight wrote:

 TalonZahn wrote:
How would more options/arms increase complaints?

It would also solve the problems we are specifically talking about. If I want the HMG instead of the Hacker, I can just use the extra set of arms to change them around.

It just occurred to me how easy and practical would that be. Particularly, if you'd buy two boxes.

In exactly this way.

Lol, what?

My coffee must not have kicked in.

Your argument makes ZERO sense.

 PsychoticStorm wrote:

TalonZahn wrote:How would more options/arms increase complaints?

It would also solve the problems we are specifically talking about. If I want the HMG instead of the Hacker, I can just use the extra set of arms to change them around.

Knight wrote:

 TalonZahn wrote:
How would more options/arms increase complaints?

It would also solve the problems we are specifically talking about. If I want the HMG instead of the Hacker, I can just use the extra set of arms to change them around.

It just occurred to me how easy and practical would that be. Particularly, if you'd buy two boxes.

In exactly this way.

Oh no, people would buy multiple boxes!

SHOCK! HORROR! TALES OF THE UNKNOWN!

People already do essentially this, it's just they use Shaekonnit instead of splurging for an extra box.

If CB releases extra bits in boxes, beyond increasing the price of the box (slightly) it will also bring in complains that people need to buy several of the same box in order to have what they want ending up with extra unwanted models.

It is not an assumption but the reality.

Or..... if the boxes had even ONE set of extra arms, and costed... $2 dollars extra....

Then I could buy 1 box and swap the arms instead of having to buy the box, wait 6 months for the HMG blister, and then buy that.

Leaving the one mini I'll never use from the box, on the parts pile.

If the box doesn't have the mini option I want, why would I buy 2 boxes?

I am afraid you view it from a tunnel vision perspective, it does not work that way and I doubt it would be a simple 2$ increase.