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The 6th is clearly a Fiday stood amongst the Yu Jing crew in the previous image.

 Tristan228 wrote:
Might be interesting for some of you

So far right is definitely a Ghulam, the silouhette is pulled from a Ghulam character sheet.
Second from the left might be a Ghulam...would have to be given usual box set numbers, but the head size/shape makes me thing Hassassin.
Lots of flappy cloth with the other three. Far left would most likely be the Kawarijj, middle a Taureg and second from the right an Ayyar or Djan?

Excited either way. Do hope this a 'narrative' thing going on here and it actually has the usual six models though.
Someone on the official forum speculated that the "three dead" are the 3rd Ghulam, the box exclusive and the Ltd. Ed. mini. Which would run counter to the Ltd. Ed. mini as a ninja unless they have two Ltd. Ed. options....

Far left is definitely the Khawarij:

Nice! I'm still fighting through GIS of Haqqislam concept art.
Second from left nearly looks like the previous Barid concept but not quite. Thinking it would have to be a Ghulam as none of the Hassassin options that fit that shape really make sense in this set.

second from the left looks like a mirror swap of this Janissary

So it does! Pretty small though. The newest Jannisaries are huge.

It's not quite right IMO (angle dropped down between the shoulder pad and the neck, top of the head.
That's also just how their concept artist tends to draw guys with their weight rolled back over the hip. Yasbir and Barid concept art look very similar.


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Teaser seems to have a pouch on his hip a well, and, as said would be a bit wee for a current Janissary.

Far right is definitely a Ghulam. It's the art that was put out when the Ghulam SWC box came out.

I think you're right about the 'Jannisary'. It's subtly different and yeah too small. Damn, back to the drawing board then.

 ImAGeek wrote:
The Djanbazan need a resculpt, and it wouldn't surprise me if we got a resculpted Hassassin Bahram starter at some point, especially if they do redo the Djanbazan. Khawarij are LI anyway.

Which is why I used the term "MI equivalent". Not a whole lot of MI choices in Haqq. The MI in the Bahram box is the Lasiq. Djanbazan resculpts will be a box of 4 and 1 in a redone QK box ( IMHO)

My final guess: 3 Ghulam, 1 Janissary, 1 Khawarij and 1 Tuareg. (because it has a regular order, unlike the Hunzakut.) One of those silhouettes is the box only mini. Could be an ayyar-- doubtful-- or a zhayedin, or even a new profile ( the rumored numair?) We know CB is going to release an AP rifle Janissary, and not in a blister. It is in this box, or in the re-configured QK box.

Wouldn't be shocked to see an Ayyar as the box only Haqqislam sculpt. PanO got the new MO HI as their box only sculpt. Nomads got the new Bakunin MI.

They could do the sculpt Bostria mentioned firing both Viral Pistols, then the mass produced sculpt could have an actual weapon option in its hands.

 Barzam wrote:
Far right is definitely a Ghulam. It's the art that was put out when the Ghulam SWC box came out.

Bingo.


FUN FACT: When trying to look for the image, I did a Google Image Search for "Haqqislam Ghulam Art".
https://www.google.com/search?q=haqqislam+ghulam+art&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjHvJqhhsfNAhWESCYKHffwAH4Q_AUICCgB&biw=1600&bih=775#imgrc=NMTy-WXE_NReLM%3A
I found this image. When I clicked on the image, it led me to my own post from two years ago.

Someone dug up another Ghulam dossier that matches the 2nd from the left, so it's definitely a Ghulam!

I'm guessing the missing silhouette is a third Ghulam due to not having dossier art to use. We know the Khawarij already. That leaves the middle and second from the right. I'm better on the Zhayedan being in the Al Medinat sectorial. Second from the right could be a Djanbazan if the middle is a Tuareg. Could also be an Ayyar, since they're 'light' powered armour. There's not much else it could be. 3 Ghulam, Ayyar/Djanbazan, Tuareg and Khawarij would be a pretty badass box.

It would be an awesome box.
I do very much want a regular Ap rifle Jann in the new style, but it would be a bit boring in this sort of release.

Their mention of "clever" retaliation would mention some infiltration/impersonation or other tricky trick the Haqq like.

Which would make sense if it included a Tuareg. Both a Tuareg for TO camo and an Ayyar for Holo 2 would be overkill for a faction that's not actually tricky.

 ImAGeek wrote:

I think the Teracotta Soldier (2nd from left) is pretty plausible

I think you nailed it there, Tristan. It would likely be a Boarding Shotgun profile though, since the Terracotta Soldiers have long been confirmed to be the "Cheerleaders" for the Invincible Army starter whenever we get it.

Nice catch.
So Terracotta, Hsien, Tiger and 3 grunts (forgot their names) seems likely.

I did say Terracotta soldier when I posted the picture

Given i just started painting an old Hsien, that's probably what it is in the middle there.

Same thing happened when I started painting the old ISS starter and the old Crane and the old Su-Jian

That is the traditional method to summon new sculpts.

Looking forward to more info. Operation Sandstorm seem to be the current favourite name. Personally I'm rooting for Killgun Skullstorm: The Bloodfury Chronicles, just to get them some crossover traffic from other game systems.

 plastictrees wrote:
That is the traditional method to summon new sculpts.

Looking forward to more info. Operation Sandstorm seem to be the current favourite name. Personally I'm rooting for Killgun Skullstorm: The Bloodfury Chronicles, just to get them some crossover traffic from other game systems.

Going full theme then:

Operation Firestorm - Tohaa vs. Ariadna
Operation Datastorm - Nomads vs. Aleph
Operation Saltstorm - Exrah vs. Shasvastii

I think you are missing at least one sort of *storm*

News? is this going to be Icestorm II: Storm Harder or will it be a different format? That is to say, will it be a few learning scenarios and some quick starter rules, like Icestorm, or something meatier? Another introductory box doesn't really intrigue me much. The text hints that Haqq has raided some Yu Jing Company that is getting up to some nastiness, and that Yu Jing is responding.

While it may be unlikely, I'm going to hope they are new starter boxes for a third Yu Jing and Haqq sectorial.

 The Infinite wrote:

Operation Saltstorm - Exrah vs. Shasvastii

Love it.

Cascading Caskudas, FTW!

Found the missing Haqqislam model.


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 Alpharius wrote:

 The Infinite wrote:

Operation Saltstorm - Exrah vs. Shasvastii

Love it.

Cascading Caskudas, FTW!

The difference is that Shasvastii didn't get squatted, just delayed.

Well. I guess that explains that. I'm even more excited now.

Interesting. Another seudo-TAG for Haqq. Not only that, but it's for the Al Fased (Fasid now, I guess). Here I thought CB had pretty much scrapped that unit. Looks like they had a complete revamp in mind like tgey did for the Azra'il. Looks like I'll have to figure out something to do with my old one and my conversions.