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Man, how can not love Ol' Tuggernuts.....

Damn, I love the new Szalamandra. So much better looking. I'm still hoping for an actual shooting pose on it. Something like the Fuerbach Sogarat's pose would be nice.

 TalonZahn wrote:
Man, how can not love Ol' Tuggernuts.....

I know I do, and yes, I'm still a bit miffed that the new one looks almost nothing like it...

And I couldn't save the Caskuda, so...

I don't hate the torso really, but the limbs are way too bubbly for my liking.

At least the Nomads still have the Geckos holding the old-style bubble-armor anime mech design. I guess it somewhat makes sense for the sinister and rich Tunguska to have something look a bit newer and high-tech.

 TalonZahn wrote:
Man, how can not love Ol' Tuggernuts.....

I love this classic mini, but he is just TINY by the current standards.
Geckos are bigger. I bet some of the new super HI are bigger.
This TAG should be one of the biggest in the game.

That new Szally looks really good.
The old mini put me off - there is something about its podgy, short, limbswhich just made it look awful when compared to the other TAG's.

Crazy that different people have different opinions!!!

Looking forward to the Gen Con reveals - do we have any thread regulars actually at the convention?

 Alpharius wrote:
Crazy that different people have different opinions!!!

Pah, there is no opinion--the new one looks like a great stand-in for the Raicho!

All seriousness, Tunguska's redesign has been fantastic so far. Can't wait to get my hands on the Kriza Borac.

Looking forward to the Gen Con reveals - do we have any thread regulars actually at the convention?

Couldn't tell you; but I have a ninja shopper deployed for that sweet, sweet GenCon Grunt...

The seminar is Saturday at noon, CDT I think.. Cervantes is planning on posting images like he does every year.

I got my LE Grunt already a few days ago. He's a cool little dude.

I cried out for a GenCon ninja, actually found an American at Interplanitario instead.....he grabbed me one and shipped it when he got back home to the States.

No clue what the odds were on that.

I am hoping they reveal the Hollow Men at Gencon.

Possibly. Apart from the Blackjack, who knows what Bostria will reveal. Everyone assumes there will be a Blackjack reveal.

The seminar is Saturday 11:00am to 1:00pm, Indiana time. (Which is what these days? Those wacky Hoosiers shift time zones, IIRC. It appears they are currently on Eastern Standard. EST is GMT-4 hrs.)

 Alpharius wrote:
Crazy that different people have different opinions!!!

Looking forward to the Gen Con reveals - do we have any thread regulars actually at the convention?

Funny how that works, eh? ^_^

I personally like more the old szaly, as it actually looks like something where they needed to make space for a pilot instead of just saying that there's one, srsly.

But as I already have it, well...

 Red Harvest wrote:
Possibly. Apart from the Blackjack, who knows what Bostria will reveal. Everyone assumes there will be a Blackjack reveal.

They tend to love showing USARF stuff at GenCon...so it's not necessarily an unreasonable assumption.

We did get one "reveal" of a model in the flesh--the new ITS model, "Cube Jaeger":

The pictures are uncredited from the official forums, but they go to a Facebook account so they might be workblocked.

I'm at the con but didn't get into the seminar, the tickets for that sold out in minutes back in may, but I'll swing by tomorrow to see if they're taking overflow as I've heard that CB allows more into the room then gencon sells tickets for.

Waiting on pics, but the new Grunt Spec Ops for Ariadna will have 2 head choices, and 2 arm sets.

Blackjacks were shown in the stream as well, and they are.... SO SICK!!

The shoulder gun looks like a .50 cal. sniper rifle

The render is... it's HUGE

 TalonZahn wrote:
Waiting on pics, but the new Grunt Spec Ops for Ariadna will have 2 head choices, and 2 arm sets.

Blackjacks were shown in the stream as well, and they are.... SO SICK!!

The shoulder gun looks like a .50 cal. sniper rifle

The render is... it's HUGE

It's in production stage now.

At least the T2 Sniper Rifle variant.

IT'S SO BEAUTIFUL!!!

Fuzzy Szally... pretty sick. Underslung Triple Barrel

Fuzzy Avatar.

Blackjacks October, 1 per box.

Avatar in November.

Druze 4 pack coming also. December.

Schedule...

Carlos also said that everything for 2017 is done. What's listed will be coming and they are not behind.

February 2018 - Ariest Expansion then one about every 3 months

December for Druze.

Thank God, that pose for the Szalamandra is EXACTLY what I wanted! Finally, a TAG in a shooting pose. That thing is an insta-buy. Did they give a release for it?

 Barzam wrote:
Thank God, that pose for the Szalamandra is EXACTLY what I wanted! Finally, a TAG in a shooting pose. That thing is an insta-buy. Did they give a release for it?

December*

CHRISTMAS TAG!

 Barzam wrote:
Thank God, that pose for the Szalamandra is EXACTLY what I wanted! Finally, a TAG in a shooting pose. That thing is an insta-buy. Did they give a release for it?

Szally is coming in december!

Those images are so painful too see. Because they are so blurry. Ugh. Especially Sally. Looks very Morat/CA to me in that image. No, I'm not confusing it with the avatar. It may be an outstanding mini. It looks like it has potential.

Koni (of CB) promised nice hi-res photos after GenCon.
Release schedule, with additions, in text form-- and thus searchable

September
-Locust clandestine action team hacker
-Umbra legates spitfire
-Shikami combi
-Caledonian Volunteers box
-Hassassin Bahram Sectorial box (3 Daylami, a Muyib, an Ayyar, and a Farzan)
-Re-pack of Nagas
-Re-pack of Hellcats

October
Blackjacks, 10th heavy ranger battalion
-Andromeda
-Taskmaster Swast team
-Pneumarch -- CA HVT mini
-Crusader Brethren Multi-rifle+ LFT
-Re-pack of Gao-Rael
-Re-pack of Tiger Soldiers
-300 point Corregidor army box (re-pack)

November
Avatar
-USAriadna Spec Ops Grunt version
-Joe Scarface (from the ITS pack)
-Jeanne D'Arc, in the classic Marianne pose. Very nice touch. Allons enfants de la Patrie!
-Hassassin Muyibs box
-Re-pack of Hac Tao
-Re-pack of Moran Masai hunter

December
-Druze box
-Szalamandra TAG
- ?
- ?
- ?
-repack of ?
-repack of ?
-maybe more?

The Druze box is fairly "new" too. I wonder if CB will be re-doing the other box sets from that era, like the Kaplans and the Odalisques?

Szalamandra resculpt AND an Avatar resculpt this year? So great, both those models really needed it!

Need better pics of the Blackjack, but it looks like a nice cross between an Exo-Squad E-frame and the Aliens Powerloader. Sorry morats, may need to move my USAriadna to the front of the modelling queue now that my Nomads are done (thank god for escalation leagues). The weapon looks a bit too large on it, but that can always be cut down. I'm sure clearer pics will pop up shortly

 Red Harvest wrote:
Those images are so painful too see. Ugh. Especially Sally. Looks very Morat/CA to me. No, I'm not confusing it with the avatar.

The images were taken from Doremicom's livestream of the event--which had some issues for quality.

The Druze box is fairly "new" too. I wonder if CB will be re-doing the other box sets from that era, like the Kaplans and the Odalisques?

Druze was Human Sphere; there was a few years between those.

I guess I'll be the lone voice of dissent about the blackjack. While the concept art looks great, seeing the render/model makes me think it doesn't do it justice. The top gun looks to fidgety with more bolted on parts than a mid 90s completionist's sega console and the under arm weapons look too bulky. Ymmv obviously.

Well, the obvious solution to better pictures is to take them yourself.

Next time I won't bother posting anything.