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I like this well enough, but it looks extremely similar to the Mormaer HMG we got a month or so ago. Extremely similar pose, similar weapon, same armor, same face mask, very similar pouches.

I feel like CB really needs to hire someone to look at their renders and say "No. We JUST did this pose last month. Seriously guys, we just did this pose using the SAME basic 3d model. Come on guys, there are more than 5 poses. At least try."

 jake wrote:
I like this well enough, but it looks extremely similar to the Mormaer HMG we got a month or so ago. Extremely similar pose, similar weapon, same armor, same face mask, very similar pouches.

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat, a vanilla faction has components from their Sectorials? No way!

I feel like CB really needs to hire someone to look at their renders and say "No. We JUST did this pose last month. Seriously guys, we just did this pose using the SAME basic 3d model. Come on guys, there are more than 5 poses. At least try."

This pose is better than the "hurp derp let's have the gun leaned on the ground".

Was that feed belt greenlighted without them realizing that they never finished CAD sculpting it?

I was liking the look until it was pointed out. Now it is definitely enough for me to "no go" that model.

@Kanluwen: The blackjack with his barrel almost in the dirt and him using the weapon as a completely unnecessary arm rest for his servo assisted Mecha suit offends me. Apparently US military standards got really....reallllllly lax some time in the future when tactical beards became more common than military bearing.

It's not my style but a very cool model. I'll admit the brighter green did lead me to think Haqq and the Al Fasid in particular, but the details are definitely Ariadna.

Hope that ammo belt isn't too hard to remove completely because that is one really ugly looking thing they put on there.
I really wonder how that thing got past QC.

Other than that it looks really good!

It probably got past QC because doing a tiny ammo belt for an infantry model is asking for trouble.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 jake wrote:
I like this well enough, but it looks extremely similar to the Mormaer HMG we got a month or so ago. Extremely similar pose, similar weapon, same armor, same face mask, very similar pouches.

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat, a vanilla faction has components from their Sectorials? No way!

Yes, we all understand that assets get reused. It's way more than just that. It's the same basic 3D model as the Mormaer, with a few very minor changes (different helmet, different bags and pouches, no shield or tabard), in a VERY similar pose (with just the gun arm flipped) just 2 months later. CB need to put more effort into differentiating their models, especially models released so close together. This has become a bigger and bigger problem over the last few years.

 jake wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:

 jake wrote:
I like this well enough, but it looks extremely similar to the Mormaer HMG we got a month or so ago. Extremely similar pose, similar weapon, same armor, same face mask, very similar pouches.

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat, a vanilla faction has components from their Sectorials? No way!

Yes, we all understand that assets get reused. It's way more than just that. It's the same basic 3D model as the Mormaer, with a few very minor changes (different helmet, different bags and pouches, no shield or tabard), in a VERY similar pose (with just the gun arm flipped) just 2 months later. CB need to put more effort into differentiating their models, especially models released so close together. This has become a bigger and bigger problem over the last few years.

Considering I would never use both in the same list & do not intend to buy both, doesn’t bother me much if they cut a few corners here.
https://human-sphere.com/images/e/ec/VetKazak4.jpg
Just use the old one if you can’t handle the similarities

 Kanluwen wrote:
It probably got past QC because doing a tiny ammo belt for an infantry model is asking for trouble.

I suppose then the Janissary HMG was a fluke.

Are those 20mm rounds that gun shoots? And then go down in caliber --smaller rounds in back -- because, uhm, ah, reduce recoil. Yeah, that's it.

It's a good enough mini. There are only so many ways to have the mini posed in the act of moving and shooting ( the core of the game, btw, move and shoot. Feth the hacking!). There is no tactical debris. That is a good thing.

 BrotherGecko wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
It probably got past QC because doing a tiny ammo belt for an infantry model is asking for trouble.

I suppose then the Janissary HMG was a fluke.

Janissary was known for having the belt break, so it makes sense they'd start doing a thicker belt.

I mean I get there’s only so many realistic action poses but... the body is the exact same pose as the Mormaer that came out 2 months ago, with the head and gun facing the other way.



That said I like it a lot except for the weird ammo belt, I’ll probably pick it up.

I realize now that both of their feed belts are wonky. The mormaer has the same flat strip that the rounds are attached to.

@Kanluwen: While I've never heard of the known issue of the Janissary's feed belt breaking I could understand using a sturdier design. If of course that was what they had eventually intended before they decided half finished was good enough and sent in the design for mold tooling. Otherwise somebody okayed a strip of metal with bullets half molded on to it.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 .Mikes. wrote:
I really like it. Some people have been saying it's too Haqqislamy, but I'm putting that down partially to the brighter green paint job.

That's the standard green we've seen on Line Kazaks and the art for Kazak stuff basically since day one.

Nah, it was more desaturated.

Was the old fluff that Kazaks were made using frog DNA?

Wouldn't that be the French?
Anyway I'm fine with that vet. Kazak mini, although that ammo belt is disappointing

I was hoping to use the Vet Kazak as a Djanbazan, but I am not feeling it. I think the Mormaer would look better. Does anyone know how much stuff is sculpted on the Mormaer?

Hakim stats are up. https://www.infinitythegame.com/blog/news/item/507-hakim-special-medical-assistance-team



Overall, an intriguing unit.

I would assume the Nasmat has Ghost:Synchronized?

Can they drop in different areas I wonder?

It is Ghost servant


They must go in the same area

G: Servant troopers possessing the Airborne Deployment (AD) Special Skill will be deployed with the same Order their Doctor/Engineer uses to deploy. In such situation, they must be deployed at the same time and on the same table edge segment, or the same Circular Template.

 Red Harvest wrote:
Hakim stats are up. https://www.infinitythegame.com/blog/news/item/507-hakim-special-medical-assistance-team



Overall, an intriguing unit.

I thought there was an engineer profile?

Is Medjector different from Medikit?

 jake wrote:
Is Medjector different from Medikit?

It's a medkit that doesn't incur a penalty to PH when you shoot the patient.

 Cannibal wrote:

 jake wrote:
Is Medjector different from Medikit?

It's a medkit that doesn't incur a penalty to PH when you shoot the patient.

Wow. Where did that come from? Is it something from the next book, or was it released independently somewhere?

 jake wrote:

 Cannibal wrote:

 jake wrote:
Is Medjector different from Medikit?

It's a medkit that doesn't incur a penalty to PH when you shoot the patient.

Wow. Where did that come from? Is it something from the next book, or was it released independently somewhere?

It’s from here:
https://www.infinitythegame.com/blog/news/item/507-hakim-special-medical-assistance-team

 Bladerunner2019 wrote:

I thought there was an engineer profile?

It would be really surprising for a medical team to have an engineer profile.

Just as a sidenote the Arabic at the bottom is written backwards so it looks like Mikeh. That's also why it isn't connected like normal Arabic

Whoever is CBs graphic designer, they have zero desire to google basic concepts of Arabic. And it seems new because they used to get it mostly right.

3dog wrote:
Just as a sidenote the Arabic at the bottom is written backwards so it looks like Mikeh. That's also why it isn't connected like normal Arabic

Nuthin' to do with me.

 Bladerunner2019 wrote:


I thought there was an engineer profile?

There’s an engineering Nasmat (or at least parts to make one of the Nasmats an engineer one), just to update the Nasmat to the new look as well, but the Hakims are the ‘Special Medical Assistance Team’, as Kan said.