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Wolfgang Amadeus Wolff. I'm hoping that name's a joke monkeying GW's naming trend.
I think the "tabard" thingy is nomad armor, some of their units have something similar
There's three different bits going on for his torso.
There's the sleeveless vest/coat on top.
A bit that looks like it's the Nomad Alguacile 'body armor' that's the middle bit.
Nomad bodysuit as the base layer.
Siygess wrote: While I dont care for the dual wielding knife guy on the Ariadna side, everything else is looking pretty good in those tiny, tiny pictures.
Edit: Though I'm guessing he's in a Dire Foes box to be released alongside Crimson Stone.
Would be a good guess, since it shows him with Jazz(a Nomad) and an unarmed HVT.
Gamgee on Tau Players wrote:we all kill cats and sell our own families to the devil and eat live puppies.
Kanluwen wrote: This is, emphatically, why I will continue suggesting nuking Guard and starting over again. It's a legacy army that needs to be rebooted with a new focal point.
Confirmation of why no-one should listen to Kanluwen when it comes to the IG - he doesn't want the IG, he want's Kan's New Model Army...
tneva82 wrote: You aren't even trying ty pretend for honest arqument. Open bad faith trolling.
- No reason to keep this here, unless people want to use it for something...
Kanluwen wrote: There's three different bits going on for his torso.
There's the sleeveless vest/coat on top.
A bit that looks like it's the Nomad Alguacile 'body armor' that's the middle bit.
Nomad bodysuit as the base layer.
The paldron and backpack are also Nomad based. I painted both fairly recently, but I can't pin them down. I want to say the backpack is from a Heckler though.
warboss wrote: I'm like the sculpt but I think they hired the 5th edition Space Wolves writer to name that fig. It might still be an improvement over the English language contortionist naming scheme that gives us words like interventor though.
I mean... interventor is spanish, not english . It means auditor, financial controller or comptroller. It's kind of the same as if you see "marine" in a spanish text, marine being an english word that means "infante de marina" in spanish.
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B0B MaRlEy wrote: Wolfgang Amadeus Wolff. I'm hoping that name's a joke monkeying GW's naming trend.
I think the "tabard" thingy is nomad armor, some of their units have something similar
I think it's more probable that it was someone's PC on an RPG campaign.
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warboss wrote: I'm like the sculpt but I think they hired the 5th edition Space Wolves writer to name that fig. It might still be an improvement over the English language contortionist naming scheme that gives us words like interventor though.
I mean... interventor is spanish, not english . It means auditor, financial controller or comptroller. It's kind of the same as if you see "marine" in a spanish text, marine being an english word that means "infante de marina" in spanish.
I didn't know that and thanks. I'll have to take that one off my list as I figured it was a bastardization of "intervention". Next you'll be telling me all those primaris unit names make sense in some other language too...
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warboss wrote: I'm like the sculpt but I think they hired the 5th edition Space Wolves writer to name that fig. It might still be an improvement over the English language contortionist naming scheme that gives us words like interventor though.
I mean... interventor is spanish, not english . It means auditor, financial controller or comptroller. It's kind of the same as if you see "marine" in a spanish text, marine being an english word that means "infante de marina" in spanish.
I didn't know that and thanks. I'll have to take that one off my list as I figured it was a bastardization of "intervention". Next you'll be telling me all those primaris unit names make sense in some other language too...
Well... some, actually, although in that case it might just be a case of a broken clock being right twice a day.
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Interventor is Latin, as is moderator ( interventrix and moderatrix would be the female form) But since Spanish is essentially modern Latin, no hay problema. A fair number of people at CB speak Gallego (Galician) and use that as a source of names too. Irmandinhos for example.
Red Harvest wrote: Interventor is Latin, as is moderator ( interventrix and moderatrix would be the female form) But since Spanish is essentially modern Latin, no hay problema. A fair number of people at CB speak Gallego (Galician) and use that as a source of names too. Irmandinhos for example.
Sure. Same as french or italian are modern latin, or any of the other romance languages. Same as english is essentially west germanic I guess.
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Red Harvest wrote: Interventor is Latin, as is moderator ( interventrix and moderatrix would be the female form) But since Spanish is essentially modern Latin, no hay problema. A fair number of people at CB speak Gallego (Galician) and use that as a source of names too. Irmandinhos for example.
The fact that those words exist and they likely know it and yet we have no cheesecake nomad models to utilize such obviously low hanging fruit suggestive names makes me think Carlos has been asleep at the wheel.
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Prices are rising for everything. Thanks, ironically enough, to China, supplier of cheap goods to the world.
I'm surprised, not that this leak has happened, but that this leak has happened now. GenCon is not until mid-September. I would have expected this in elate July to mid-August.
Albertorius wrote: Also, "-trix" is not really a suffix in spanish, so... not really. "Interventrix" and "moderatrix" (sic) would be "interventora" and "moderadora".
True, but I did specify they were Latin. Would moderatrice and interventrice be acceptable in Euro-Spanish ( which is not to be confused with the American Spanishes.) There already exists actor, actrice and emperador, emperatrice, etc. I suppose I could ask La Real Academia de Espana. Not that people on this side of the Atlantic pay attention to it.
CB does all right with names as long as they are Western European. It's when they select names from Slavic languages and Asian languages, and elsewhere that we see interesting results.
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Red Harvest wrote: True, but I did specify they were Latin. Would moderatrice and interventrice be acceptable in Euro-Spanish ( which is not to be confused with the American Spanishes.) There already exists actor, actrice and emperador, emperatrice, etc. I suppose I could ask La Real Academia de España. Not that people on this side of the Atlantic pay attention to it.
No, they would not. Those words do not exist. Emperatriz and actriz do, though. And as I said, the suffix "-trix" do not exist in spanish, although "triz" does (at a limited capacity, though, when compared with the more common "-a"). I am a translator by trade and a nitpicker by heart, so those things tend to stick.
Also, although the common name is indeed RAE, or Real Academia Española (Royal Spanish Academy), the full name is actual Royal Academy of the Spanish Language, and it's been working alongside the other twenty existing academies in America since their inception in the 1870s. Plus, since 1999 and the publishing of the latest Ortography, all the RAE's works have been done in conjunction and with the revision of all the aforementioned panhispanic academies (The Pan-Hispanic Dictionary of Questions, the Student's Dictionary, the New Grammar of the Spanish Language, the Dictionary of American Idioms, the Orthography of the Spanish Language, The Good Use of the Spanish Language and the Dictionary of the Spanish Language).
So they kinda do, actually
All that said... yes, CB has no problem with names inside their area of expertise ^^, and outside all bets are off. Not the worst offender by a long shot, though, and I say this as the translator of L5R for the last 15 years xD.
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Good to know. And looking at what I wrote, I used French suffixes for some reason, so yeah, not acceptable Spanish at all.
Current amusing name is the Vostok, which among other things is a watch brand that made watches for the Soviet Military. Yuri Gagarin wore one of their watches into space. In a way it does fit with the Kosmoflot.
Red Harvest wrote: Good to know. And looking at what I wrote, I used French suffixes for some reason, so yeah, not acceptable Spanish at all.
Current amusing name is the Vostok, which among other things is a watch brand that made watches for the Soviet Military. Yuri Gagarin wore one of their watches into space. In a way it does fit with the Kosmoflot.
Modératrice is actually a proper French word, although the other would be Intervenante I guess.
It's not like "Intervention" isn't derived from latin anyway.
Getting the discussion back to the upcoming Operation: Blood Stone,
what do you think will make up the Ariadnan half? Kosmoflot's basic infantry seems to be the Rokots, so likely 3 of those. I'm expecting a Para-Commando as we've seen their redesign to be less Frenchy and more space-attired, a Zenit-7 model to have a Camo sniper in there and either a Volkolak (Space wulvers!) or a Kosmosoldat to have a heavy infantry model. Volkolaks have 4 profiles, so they might be better fitting for a 4-guys box.
Cronch wrote: 3 rokots, para, kosmosoldat, wolkolak and zenit seem sensible, i don't remember if any of them can be an LT off the top of my head though?
I think you have 1 too many in your list, starters are usually 6-members strong, in 2 player boxes at least. Rokots and Kosmosoldats can be Lt so one more thing that make me think it'd be a Kosmosoldat in the starter rather than a volkolak
Edit: actually, stand alone starters were 6 guys, but the 2 player sets had an extra on each side, so your lineup is probably right
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Yeah, who knows what the box exclusive will be. Thing is, now that CB releases the 7 minis in combination with the 3 found in the Beyond sets once they've done with the Battle Box, will there even be a 6 mini box available.
Quick update. In the Crimson Stone box, for those who couldn't tell from the photo ( like I could not)
Crimson Stone Week starts 5 July. Next Monday the hype begins. I expect very nice minis, some intriguing terrain, and other bits of coolness. It'll probably be the same terrain style we've seen in recent boxes, but given the space theme of the sectorials, 'twould be nice to see something different and more space station-like.
I hope Caledonians get an update to their model range eventually, and the random mish-mash of their units within Kosmoflot doesn't mean they're getting replaced.
The Russian half of Kosmoflot is interesting enough on it's own, they don't need the highlanders and they clash thematically anyway.
Stick to metal, if they go resin or plastic I'll drop them like I dropped Warmachine. Infinity metals are still cheaper for me than the average GW kit, even with the new price hike. Metal has more value than resin or plastic as a material and as long as they remain competitive price wise I see no reason to change anything. Bonus points to metal for keeping artist's obsession with scale creep and dioramas in check. Infinity doesn't need the Titan level madness that has infected GW and PP.
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Old World Prediction: The Empire will have stupid Clockwork Paragon Warsuits and Mecha Horses
The visuals are meh, which are sad concerning how cool TAGs should be. My real problem is this seems to be a mining bot death match game. It's a game nobody asked for and seems a very contrived circumstance to get non-military TAGs into wrestling matches.
. It means auditor, financial controller or comptroller. It's kind of the same as if you see "marine" in a spanish text, marine being an english word that means "infante 
