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.MIkes., look in the Wiki under pilot and remote pilot, and manned and evacuation device, if the links provided do not work. Neither remote pilots, like the crabbot, nor regular pilots generate an order, unless the TAG has an evacuation device. http://infinitythewiki.com/en/Pilot and http://infinitythewiki.com/en/Remote_Pilot Only the anaconda has both the Manned and Evacuation Device skills. The pilot is no specialist though.

I've heard no concrete rumors about phasing out vanilla. I have heard that CB plans to have each unit in a sectorial. CB is unlikely to phase out vanilla. It would impact sales, and in a bad way.

*drone zooms by overhead*

INCOMING PHOTOS!!!!
It's the GenCon stuff, but straight from CB and the slides. It's image intensive, so hiding in spoilers.
PanO


Ariadna


ALEPH


Nomads:


September Releases:

+3 items unseen. Kazak Spetsnaz repack, Joan of Arc with Spitfire in Mobility Armor 2.0, and Rebots.

October Releases:

plus
Celestial Guards(they didn't post the renders, dunno why)
the K9 Strelok and Asura from the "advance pack".
Aristeia skin "Gata"

Beautiful stuff. The Rasyat looks very cool. great design, ties in very well with the new Raicho. Pose is great.

 Micky wrote:
Its speculation/rumour/unofficial that seems to mostly be an attitude/suspicion among the player base that was kinda sparked by how enormous vanilla armies have become.

personally I don;t think its going away any time soon (given we're at the point where some profiles are specifically labelled as being sectorial-only), but I guess it could potentially be an ITS option.

CB very much seems to like to test this stuff in ITS first. I'd expect it to be an option like limited insertion first, so we all have a good year of losing our minds.

Personally, I'd not mind going sectoral only, but if they do, I'd hope you could take 2 lists from different sectorals under the same faction.

Nice to have all the HD pictures in one place...Great effort Kan.

Kan, add those to your thread in the CB sub-forum, the thread with other image dumps. If you don't mind. It is a useful reference. And we should use the sub-forum a bit.

We should see the rest of those previews next Saturday. Koni has mentioned that the Studio Update videos, like that which CB released right after the GenCon seminar, will be an ongoing thing.

Goddamn! Those are some sexy renders. The Hollow Men look amazing, and that Rasyat? I need it. I just recently painted the old one, too. But that new design looks too awesome to pass up. I even like the new Aleph stuff, and I don't normally like their designs.

Speaking of Aleph, anyone notice that yellow seems to be creeping into their color scheme with these latest reveals? I find that odd, but I like the look it creates on that remote. Almost makes it look like some kind of racing machine with those colors.

 Barzam wrote:
Goddamn! Those are some sexy renders. The Hollow Men look amazing, and that Rasyat? I need it. I just recently painted the old one, too. But that new design looks too awesome to pass up. I even like the new Aleph stuff, and I don't normally like their designs.

Speaking of Aleph, anyone notice that yellow seems to be creeping into their color scheme with these latest reveals? I find that odd, but I like the look it creates on that remote. Almost makes it look like some kind of racing machine with those colors.

I love the white, purple and yellow scheme on the new Aleph dossiers.

Varuna (I really hope they'll release some basic infantry) and Aleph look like something I'll be on the lookout. I hope we'll get marksman rifle on PanO unit.

When is aleph due for the new release?

 Knight wrote:
Varuna (I really hope they'll release some basic infantry) and Aleph look like something I'll be on the lookout. I hope we'll get marksman rifle on PanO unit.

Varuna has always had Fusiliers tagged as their 'basic infantry'. It's not like NCA which had Auxilia in that role, yet somehow Fusiliers get the real limelight.

When is aleph due for the new release?

Coldfront is September/October for a release. The renders/dossiers I posted are from the "Beyond Coldfront" pack that is coming later this year(probably November/December).
The Asura Hacker with Multi-Rifle is October(releasing in November).

I was thinking about Kamau. Provided their AVA is going to be at 5. The single combi rifle in the starter sets up for a rather needles work of acquiring another one.

I guess I'll have to get in touch with Shae.

 Knight wrote:
I was thinking about Kamau. Provided their AVA is going to be at 5. The single combi rifle in the starter sets up for a rather needles work of acquiring another one.

I guess I'll have to get in touch with Shae.

I've heard AVA: Total on Kamau.

We'll see in November though. I'm more concerned about the Kamau HMG that is only in the Beyond Icestorm starter set.

 Red Harvest wrote:
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CB is unlikely to phase out vanilla. It would impact sales, and in a bad way.

The reason I brought this up is...

1. Its easy to imagine at this point that balancing sectorials with vanilla lists is very difficult. Additionally, introducing new units into sectorials that don't heavily overlap existing faction units has always been difficult. We're already seeing some "sectorial only" stuff , but its very easy to imagine that eliminating vanilla as an option altogether (or limiting it as a playtype, like Limited Insertion) might ease a lot of possible design problems.

2. Carlos has mentioned at least twice that something will be happening soon that is even more controversial than the Yujing/JSA split. Its hard to imagine something that would blow up the player base even more than eliminating vanilla as an option. Can you imagine? At the same time, it seems like exactly the kind of thing CB might do.

This is just speculation, but the idea popped into my head the other day after I remembered discussion about "every army is a sectrial army" and how the newer starters are all focused on a single sectorial. Its easy to see how the pieces could all fit into place.

I know that I'd miss being able to play vanilla CA (since having a ton of mixed units is really the CA theme), but for most of the other armies "sectorial only" does seem more thematic, doesn't it?

With all that SWC for the Varuna starter, I wonder if they are actually gonna test out alternate arms. That would lead people to buy more starters and require less skus to stock.

 BrotherGecko wrote:
With all that SWC for the Varuna starter, I wonder if they are actually gonna test out alternate arms. That would lead people to buy more starters and require less skus to stock.

Doubtful.


I want to believe in extra arms, but I won't until I have them in my hands.

As someone from outside Infinity looking in, what exactly is meant to be diplomatic about that Rasyat?

 Dysartes wrote:
As someone from outside Infinity looking in, what exactly is meant to be diplomatic about that Rasyat?

From what I remember, the morats have a sense of diplomacy that involves big guns. It's not like it hasn't worked before

 B0B MaRlEy wrote:

 Dysartes wrote:
As someone from outside Infinity looking in, what exactly is meant to be diplomatic about that Rasyat?

From what I remember, the morats have a sense of diplomacy that involves big guns. It's not like it hasn't worked before

This, basically. It would be more accurate if they were called "Diplomats".

Indeed, thought for Morats, killing just enouph to press the point to the enemy that surrendering is a really good idea and ensuring there is still enemy left to surrender is high level diplomacy...

They already took the first step to phasing out vanilla YuJing...

 Dysartes wrote:
As someone from outside Infinity looking in, what exactly is meant to be diplomatic about that Rasyat?

Here's the relevant fluff:

Contact with the Combined Civilization forced some changes in the Morat Supremacy. Suddenly, it was required to have a diplomatic service, something absolutely unnecessary for the Morat before, with all foreign contact handled by the Aggression Forces. The old soldiers complained bitterly, believing diplomats were for weak and inferior races. With the creation of a diplomatic division, it was perceived the Supremacy was softening, becoming a bunch of crying cubs like the races which it had conquered, its prestige tarnished. To avoid this, the Rasyatnat Diplomatic Division was created as a new regiment of the Morat Aggression Force. This regiment, despite its youth, would be considered an elite force. Only the most dangerous, tough, vicious and xenophobic Surats could be diplomats and join the Rasyatnat. Their job was deemed to be an incursion into the heart of enemy territories to know and test their weakness through sudden attacks. Since the creation of the Diplomatic Division, the training of its members insists on aggressiveness and generation of extreme violence during any action. The Division swiftly acquired so much prestige that soon all regiments, even the most venerable ones, were competing in Sotarak to have representatives join the Supremacy’s aggressive diplomatic service. The Rasyatnat is the purest Morat philosophy applied directly: “The biggest gun always wins in any negotiation”, with diplomacy supplied in high impact bursts.

New rebots!

Loving the new bots!
Been waiting for these to get resculpted ever since they mentioned they weren't happy with them a year or two ago.
I find the current ones to be really ugly..

While there is a distinct CA flavour to them, they're different enough for me to be happy. I'm struggling to think what they remind me of, slightly insect-like, but I'm not sure which, and my brain keeps switching between recognising a face on the front of the abdomen, and a face on the front of the chin-gun.

They remind me of the Dire Ants from Monsterpocalypse.

I like them except for the tiny HMG weapon, why are they so small....

 shasolenzabi wrote:
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Sexy!

3" tall?

I'm not really digging them. I think i preferred the sleeker old design. These just seem to chunky for Aleph, and the under slung guns seem to bulky to easily work in that position.

What size base are they on? With no infantry in the pictures, it is a little tricky to judge scale.

They're still S3, so 40mm.