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 PsychoticStorm wrote:

 ImAGeek wrote:
Bostria said on Facebook in comments on the Kriza Borac silhouette pic 'Consider "Black Hand" inside Tunguska as "The Observancy" is inside Bakunin.'

So they will be like Observance and Bakunin? probably for the best.

@ -Loki-

What I mean is the sculpt could have been made before the Icestorm standardisation.

Of course they have assets and they share it in the studio and they manually adjust them for each model, it would be stupid to not have.

So What's the excuse for the non standard stuff done after the Ice storm standardization or should that have been picked up in the following standardization or was it done in advance to link up with the pre-post-pre standardization that followed.

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We've definitely discussed it enough in this thread - please feel free to start a thread here:

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/forums/show/59.page

if anyone wishes to continue the 'scale discussion'.

Thanks!

Folding the Black Hand into Tunguska makes sense to me. I do recall Bostria mentioning something about not creating too much bloat to the factions.

I wonder if they will trim the number of sectorials for other factions too.

GenCon starts in 1 month, and I think CB's seminar will be 19 August. Should be interesting. Plus, we'll get to see/hear about the Aristeia! demos. Demoes? w/e.

New models in the 'Beyond' packs are incredible. I had my reservations before the release due to including two factions in one rather than two separate expansion packs but great sculpts and good choice of models have put those to rest. Great to see such a positive response to them from the community too.

Pre-orders are up on gamenerdz for $38 each.

 Red Harvest wrote:
Folding the Black Hand into Tunguska makes sense to me. I do recall Bostria mentioning something about not creating too much bloat to the factions.

I wonder if they will trim the number of sectorials for other factions too.

Messing with current sectorials would be playing with fire, I think. And too many people are clamouring for more like the Kazaks, Varuna and Svarlerheimaermamaermaheima for them to ignore it. I think we'll just have to put up with the bloat.

 Red Harvest wrote:
GenCon starts in 1 month, and I think CB's seminar will be 19 August. Should be interesting. Plus, we'll get to see/hear about the Aristeia! demos. Demoes? w/e.

On July 28th, in Spain, CB will have its own event: The Interplanetario

The big seminar full of concept artwork will happen there, before Gencon this year.
So expect this thread to be swarmed with low res images of upcoming stuff in two weeks.

 .Mikes. wrote:

 Red Harvest wrote:
Folding the Black Hand into Tunguska makes sense to me. I do recall Bostria mentioning something about not creating too much bloat to the factions.

I wonder if they will trim the number of sectorials for other factions too.

Messing with current sectorials would be playing with fire, I think. And too many people are clamouring for more like the Kazaks, Varuna and Svarlerheimaermamaermaheima for them to ignore it. I think we'll just have to put up with the bloat.

Thing is, some factions have enough units that justify a fourth sectorial, and some just don't. Black Hand is a cool idea, but it seems CB can't make enough unique units to fill it. They were talking about rolling them into Tunguska years ago the way they rolled the Observance into Bakunin. But then you've got, say Gabqar Khanate, where the stuff they have really doesn't fit elsewhere in the fluff or on the table, and there's a lot of scope to make new units that are rather unique for that sectorial.

I think we'll just end up with uneven amounts of sectorials. Some, like Nomads, might sit at three, some might sit at four or, like Pan Oceania, five. Either that or they will think of different fourth sectorials.

 -Loki- wrote:

 .Mikes. wrote:

 Red Harvest wrote:
Folding the Black Hand into Tunguska makes sense to me. I do recall Bostria mentioning something about not creating too much bloat to the factions.

I wonder if they will trim the number of sectorials for other factions too.

Messing with current sectorials would be playing with fire, I think. And too many people are clamouring for more like the Kazaks, Varuna and Svarlerheimaermamaermaheima for them to ignore it. I think we'll just have to put up with the bloat.

Thing is, some factions have enough units that justify a fourth sectorial, and some just don't. Black Hand is a cool idea, but it seems CB can't make enough unique units to fill it. They were talking about rolling them into Tunguska years ago the way they rolled the Observance into Bakunin. But then you've got, say Gabqar Khanate, where the stuff they have really doesn't fit elsewhere in the fluff or on the table, and there's a lot of scope to make new units that are rather unique for that sectorial.

I think we'll just end up with uneven amounts of sectorials. Some, like Nomads, might sit at three, some might sit at four or, like Pan Oceania, five. Either that or they will think of different fourth sectorials.

Nothing wrong with Nomads only having 3 sectorials. Ariadna will really only be getting 1 new sectorial as well.

Do we have a profile yet for the Kriza Boracs, Tunguska Crisis Special Unit?

 -Loki- wrote:

I think we'll just end up with uneven amounts of sectorials. Some, like Nomads, might sit at three, some might sit at four or, like Pan Oceania, five. Either that or they will think of different fourth sectorials.

I'm OK with that. I'm against the approaches in gaming that says one faction needs a mirror because the other factions have X already.

Also, it would be interesting to see if if the Svarlaheimamhneminnaheima sectorial ends up being cross some kind fof cross PanO/YuJing force. I don't see it happening, but it would be fun.

 Monkeysloth wrote:
Pre-orders are up on gamenerdz for $38 each.

That's hot.

 TalonZahn wrote:

 Monkeysloth wrote:
Pre-orders are up on gamenerdz for $38 each.

That's hot.

Sold out for now...

 Bladerunner2019 wrote:

 TalonZahn wrote:

 Monkeysloth wrote:
Pre-orders are up on gamenerdz for $38 each.

That's hot.

Sold out for now...

Looks like I ruined for everyone when I placed my order.

 .Mikes. wrote:

 -Loki- wrote:

I think we'll just end up with uneven amounts of sectorials. Some, like Nomads, might sit at three, some might sit at four or, like Pan Oceania, five. Either that or they will think of different fourth sectorials.

I'm OK with that. I'm against the approaches in gaming that says one faction needs a mirror because the other factions have X already.

Also, it would be interesting to see if if the Svarlaheimamhneminnaheima sectorial ends up being cross some kind fof cross PanO/YuJing force. I don't see it happening, but it would be fun.

Yeah that won't happen. White Banner is the Yu Jing opposing force on Svalarheima and is already in progress. IIRC they're in the next book.

Unboxing Gencon Bundle

Well, the Fiday isn't the Muyib-ish render we saw, which is good news.
Tarik with a t-shirt cannon is still a boring waste of time.

I love that they took multi angle shots but still had the minis being fumbled at on camera for no particular reason.

Carlos wrote:Kriza Boraks

This is triggering me more than it should.

Yup. That Grunt will be mine.

Need GenCon Ninja Shopper now!

 Kanluwen wrote:
Yup. That Grunt will be mine.

 TalonZahn wrote:
Need GenCon Ninja Shopper now!

What they said.

 Knight wrote:

Carlos wrote:Kriza Boraks

This is triggering me more than it should.

I'm a native Turkish speaker, and I assure you many of the Haqqi models also have infuriating pluralization. I guess it's similar to how Italians hate it when English speakers day "paninis"

We English speakers sometimes double pluralize words, even pronouns. Youse is a plural of the 2nd person plural for example. Why should borrowed words be immune?

That Spec Op is nice. I would ditch that tactical rock, and mount his front foot on a clear latex rod -- perhaps obscured by a bit of foliage-- so it looks like he is leaping forward.

I already have a Chibi, from SDE. At some point I'll paint it. So, no want/need/interest in this. It is a nice mini for an exclusive. It has no use in game, so nobody ought to feel left out if they don't get it. Although I suppose that it could be used in-game for the Lulz.

 Knight wrote:

Carlos wrote:Kriza Boraks

This is triggering me more than it should.

Could be worse. Mini could be a stereotype, like, say, some of the Hill-Billies in USAriadna.

Phone typing be hard. Ack!

That grunt, along with my other spec ops model, will finally replace Chasseurs in my army, except for Moblot resculpts, I will finally be able to play a decent FRRM army.

Concept designs

The screencaps are from the WGC Infinity FB group, taken from the BoW video BobbaFett posted.
Yu Jing



USARF
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The Haqqislam designs are so similar to the current stuff I couldn't justify bringing them over, and the Hellcat dossier is the one from the line revamp just with some new guns.

ABH and CSU ones also aren't that exciting.

 Kanluwen wrote:
The screencaps are from the WGC Infinity FB group, taken from the BoW video BobbaFett posted.

Nomads



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I'll reiterate that the helmets were better on the previous 3 intruders.
Not sure why they felt the need to change them...

It's the same helmet as the previous 3, just with the X-Visor modeled.

It wasn't modeled on the previous Sniper.

Impressive how a palette change and a head swap make the USARF spec op look so different. Damn, I think I might have to get that GenCon version after all..

Interesting. Daofei's coat seems to be more of a cape. But why does he have a Spitfire and an HMG? Isn't that kind of redundant to have both?