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Sooo... although I'm not a fan of bumping threads, is there any news about upcoming releases or events for infinity?

All we really have is the Mayacast release list.

They're still a pretty small company, I imagine the studio was basically closed for the holidays.

Correct.

Lanlaorn wrote:
They're still a pretty small company, I imagine the studio was basically closed for the holidays.

"They're still a pretty small company" is an excuse that no longer holds any water.

They have chosen to remain a small company. They could have expanded multiple times or done multiple things to streamline or make their small size more effective, given their oft-touted revenue streams but they continually have made the choice to remain a small company because of the impact it would have under Spanish laws if they expanded.

bla bla bla bla.

They chose to be so therefore they are so, they will not take the risks you want from the safety for not yourself taking any risk or dehumanise the working conditions because you want something they do not want to do and do not want to outsource production because they care about quality.

CB is the company they want to be not the company you want them to be.

 PsychoticStorm wrote:
bla bla bla bla.

Quite a mature response for someone who is effectively a representative for Corvus Belli.

They chose to be so therefore they are so, they will not take the risks you want from the safety for not yourself taking any risk or dehumanise the working conditions because you want something they do not want to do and do not want to outsource production because they care about quality.

And this is where it becomes clear that you have legitimately no clue what the main grievances people have with CB are.

Nowhere did anyone mention outsourcing, dehumanising working conditions, etc.

Hiring and training more staff for the production side of things and/or streamlining the QC process(which is, according to them, one of the "most time sensitive parts") for production does not mean outsourcing or dehumanising working conditions are necessary.
Having the digital sculptors add in secondary arm sets and heads to boxed sets/blisters wouldn't mean outsourcing or dehumanising working conditions.

CB is the company they want to be not the company you want them to be.

Yes, heavens forbid someone want them to stop jerking their customers around with crap like "We only will EVER release 4 models in a boxed set and will not EVER do alternate arm sets" because(quoting here) "the demand just isn't there as we'd have to raise our prices higher".

Heavens forbid someone want them to actually FOCUS on one faction at a time and bringing them fully into realization before moving on to the next thing that pops into their noggin.


I'm totally the bad guy here. Yup.

::winds watch::

 PsychoticStorm wrote:
bla bla bla bla.

With all due respect but I've gotta' agree with Kan on this one, especially since I literally just saw you post this on infinity the forums in my thread, that was filled with hostile people:

"First of all please try to keep to the very basic and minimal requirements of posting behaviour of the forum, do not insult each other, going above that is preferable but not necessary."
- PsychoticStorm

I suppose, sadly, that this thread was 'due' another of these 'flare ups'?

Having said that - let's all move on, please, yes?

It is admittedly shorter to write "bla bla bla" and mean that kan, as usual, makes his fantastical out of the world nonsense demands, expecting CB to act like GW just because that is what he wants and release everything he wants instantly without taking into consideration anything, company size, the financial risks involved, studio size, the health of the game, release schedule the rate of absorption from community and retailers the size of the community and other small and major factors like the production queue.

Just because someone wants for something to happen, regardless of how impractical, impossible or damaging this is, it does not mean it will happen.

Simply put, for years now Kanluwen has been given honest replies on why his demands will not be met and why the cannot be met.

Yes, the same constant demands for the same things can be summarised as "bla bla bla" and can be quite tiresome over the years.

Yadda yadda yadda is the new blah blah blah. Please adjust your vocabulary accordingly.

 Alpharius wrote:
I suppose, sadly, that this thread was 'due' another of these 'flare ups'?

Having said that - let's all move on, please, yes?

I'd offer to send you a bucket of cold water to apply to the *flare-up* but it's below freezing hereabouts, so it would be a block of ice. I suppose throwing it might still have a useful effect.

@Zewrath: The home page for Corvus Belli has little news articles several times a week. most of them are not really 'newsworthy' but you could make a habit of checking there ever so often.

Last preview was a guijia pilot sniper shot. I expect a preview of the painted mini next week, or one of the other releases.
Order Sergeants-- Pan-Oceania
Miranda Ashcroft-- Mercenaries
Guijia Pilot-- Yu Jing
Haqqislam Starter-- Haqqislam-- already seen via Red Veil.
Raicho Pilot-- Combined Army

The Raicho pilot may have more than just the pilot mini, IIRC. It's a 'gentle on the wallet' month for me, since I already have the Haqq Starter. (and the Yu Jing as well-- which is a next month release-- which is proving a lot of fun to paint. ) I have no interest in any of the other minis.

Honestly, the best way to experience Infinity discussions is just to set Kanluwen to ignore. When someone just makes gakposts rather than meaningful contributions that weird feeling of missing half a conversation goes away. Then you can selectively view the posts and make a drinking game out of it.

 -Loki- wrote:
Honestly, the best way to experience Infinity discussions is just to set Kanluwen to ignore. When someone just makes gakposts rather than meaningful contributions that weird feeling of missing half a conversation goes away. Then you can selectively view the posts and make a drinking game out of it.

Maybe you can start running the N&R threads over on the forums and wade through pages of crap posts.

Apparently you all missed the mod warning. Grow up, stop bickering, post politely or you'll get a personal warning given. Stop it now.

Let's get back to purdy models

Speaking of, I think I've finally started enticing one of my local guys back to the game and now I'm trying to catch up, are there any scots releases slated for the immediate future?

They are slated for resculpting, not sure when this will start happening though.

I love how CB releases stuff. Having most factions get something new each month is pretty cool. If I got everything I wanted all in a go it'd just feel like an eternity before something I was interested came along. Plus I might go even further down the rabbit hole that is faction accumulation.

If I got everything I wanted all in a go it'd just feel like an eternity before something I was interested came along.

I find lack of certain releases to be rather bothersome. Next month is going to be more interesting, hopefully the Tech Bees will be somewhat useful.

Has anyone heard how the Tech-Bees will work in game? Last I heard they were going to be WarCor-like. I just don't see Pan-O getting a unit with irregular orders though. If they are useful, and available in ASA, I'll want to find a decent proxy.

Scots Guards, Wulvers and Highlander Rifles are all new.

Are the Caledonian Volunteers up for a resculpt? Hmm, thinking about it, we could see the Cameronians re-done to match the new Antipode- Dogface-Dog-Soldier look. The Greys and the Mormaer are older sculpts. They could use a re-sculpt. It's been a while since anything for Caledonia released.

Caledonia is slated for resculpts this year. We don't know what will be resculpted, just that they're not going to be finishing USARF(they STILL don't even have a flipping dossier for the Blackjacks) in favor of moving on to the next shiny thing.

 Kanluwen wrote:
Caledonia is slated for resculpts this year. We don't know what will be resculpted, just that they're not going to be finishing USARF(they STILL don't even have a flipping dossier for the Blackjacks) in favor of moving on to the next shiny thing.

This thing really irks me. I'd like to start USA but I'd really need another individual ranger blister along with few other things, not to mention the missing profiles for Acotencimento, Bagh Mari HMG and Acontecimento regular with fast pandas. Come to think of it, it'd be really good to finally have Hexa with combi rfile and Swiss Guard with Multi rifle.

Red Harvest wrote:Has anyone heard how the Tech-Bees will work in game? Last I heard they were going to be WarCor-like. I just don't see Pan-O getting a unit with irregular orders though. If they are useful, and available in ASA, I'll want to find a decent proxy.

I see someone was only joking with them being add ons to Machinist. I imagine they'll be available to all PanO sectorials, although partially wonder how they'll get away with their "uniforms" in the MO. Really wish they'd publish the rules for them, rather than being added later on.

Realistically, they should have just given the damn Bolts and a few other PanO units Engineer profiles.

I've expected them to add it in N3. Simply sit down, get some feedback, do a little brainstorm and the final result would be that PanO would have all her bases covered and it would feel great to play for majority of us in ITS seasons to come and amazing intro in N3.

Instead, a year later, we will get a new layer of rules for TAG/ X category, higher AVA on Machinist (N3 change) and a profile for a mini imported from bootleg line. Nice that they added more D-charges, but the game and signature limitation of a faction wouldn't collapse, if another two profiles would have an engineer skill in the army.

"They're still a pretty small company" is an excuse that no longer holds any water.

They have chosen to remain a small company. They could have expanded multiple times or done multiple things to streamline or make their small size more effective, given their oft-touted revenue streams but they continually have made the choice to remain a small company because of the impact it would have under Spanish laws if they expanded.

I don´t know how you do business but:

> They are pretty small according to financial/tax standards.
> Expansion is only a good idea if you can make use of the new ressources. A new factory is nice and all, but not much worth if it is only sometimes producing at full level, also it only makes sense when sculptors and rule-designers are so fast they can keep up with production.
> They have moved office to a quite bigger estate and in the process streamlined quite some stuff, while at the same time keeping up the steady flow of miniatures.
> Revenue is nice, but there are people that have to be payed and every new person is not only wage, but tax, workplace etc.
> Sometimes it makes sense to stay smaller for a certain time, because bigger would mean that you pay more taxes, etc. without increasing your revenue. That nearly killed GW back then and I salute CB for not going down that road.

CB's been doing amazingly well just to not get crippled by the massive recession in that area.

Yes Knight, it was a joke. The mention of 28 December -- el Día de los Santos Inocentes-- should have been the clue. (It's the Spanish equivalent to April Fools day in the Anglo-Saxon sphere. One shouts ¡Inocente! in lieu of April Fool! at those who fall for the pranks etc.)

I think the decision to remain small was a pragmatic one. And it's old news.

Tech-bee, OTOH, is bad news. We'll learn more next month when the mini releases. We should see something this week of this months releases.

This weeks sniper shoot from Infinitys Facebook group.

Looks somehow nomadish. Tunguska?

 Duncan_Idaho wrote:
Looks somehow nomadish. Tunguska?

It's an ALEPH Combi Rifle.

We know Miranda Ashcroft is coming out this month and nothing ALEPH is, so reasonable conclusion is it's Ashcroft. Especially because her render had her carrying an ALEPH Combi Rifle.

 Kanluwen wrote:
Realistically, they should have just given the damn Bolts and a few other PanO units Engineer profiles.

Maybe Bees will be able to join Bolt links. Maybe Bees will be the PanO version of Hafza, being able to join nearly any PanO link.