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Mother of God

Assault "pistols". 5 shot assault pistol made my Nomads a little jealous. Plus she is way too cute for Ariadna. Nomads spy undercover I tell ya.

She's too much to handle for those Nomad pussies, she's a Viking!

 BlueDagger wrote:
Mother of God

Assault "pistols". 5 shot assault pistol made my Nomads a little jealous. Plus she is way too cute for Ariadna. Nomads spy undercover I tell ya.

There is new fluff for her. The resemblance between the Covert Action design and the Spec-Ops design is not a coincidence. Just saying...

Man, I love this book.

I am soooo jealous... please, please come quickly English language version and delivery!

I took a look at the old one. Wow. That is not even close to their standards anymore!

At least the SAS version doesn't sport high heels...

 His Master's Voice wrote:
At least the SAS version doesn't sport high heels...

Clearly, high heels are for covert operations!

Special sneaking boots, duh!

Haven't got the book yet.
I'm just here to cleebrate the 100 pages of this thread.

They said it couldn't be done!

We deserve something special for 100 pages...

Someone go find the actual Raicho miniature, double quick!

Some kind of special event, and/or competition?

Or, a 'where's Wally' style competition!

Can anyone see Kan's favourite mini of all time in this picture?

I can only make out the Haqqislam models nearby.

I don't see Kanluwen's beloved Daktari catgirl anywhere.

Is Go-Go in there?!?

 Pacific wrote:
Some kind of special event, and/or competition?

Or, a 'where's Wally' style competition!

Can anyone see Kan's favourite mini of all time in this picture?

I assume you mean the Daktari catgirl?

In front of the factory near the front edge of the table, on the right.

All I can see is that sniper tower. Man, I'd love to infiltrate a camo sniper there if you know what I mean.

My head hurts seeing her ruin that table.

– Ko Dali:
Eh, all that has to happen with her to make everything bunnies and rainbows again is for Yu Jing to get a new female Tiger Soldier character.

– Raicho:
Heh, so the Raiiiiichooooooooooooooooooooo Libre did actually turn out looking like that that sketch drawn inside someone's Human Sphere book way back at the start of the year:
I'd always figured that was a joke; what a difference proportions make! It also looks like it would make a great alternative TAG for Nomads that would avoid the failings of the Szalamandra (ageing sculpt), Lizard (static pose) and Scarface (dat leg).

– Paradiso:

...a spec op can has up to 3 weapons other than the starting ones...

So it's not a swap? Hold on, let me switch to my sniper rifle:

– Plastic:
The Malifaux plastics are an improvement over the metals. Sure they're a little wooden (as expected as the sculptors get up to speed with digital sculptiing) but it's a small price to pay for avoid the blobby ill-proportioned figures they'd been descending into, Agree that the limitations of injection-moulding would only mean a loss of quality for Infinity. Disagree that that has anything to do with GW's wooden cartoony figures; their metals/resins have the same failings, it's just a stylistic choice. Sure, there are metals/resins that don't but there are plastics that don't either. *shrug*


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 Kanluwen wrote:
My head hurts seeing her ruin that table.

Psychomological warfare is best warfare.

 Construct wrote:

– Plastic:
The Malifaux plastics are an improvement over the metals. Sure they're a little wooden (as expected as the sculptors get up to speed with digital sculptiing) but it's a small price to pay for avoid the blobby ill-proportioned figures they'd been descending into, Agree that the limitations of injection-moulding would only mean a loss of quality for Infinity. Disagree that that has anything to do with GW's wooden cartoony figures; their metals/resins have the same failings, it's just a stylistic choice. Sure, there are metals/resins that don't but there are plastics that don't either. *shrug*

It is my opinion of course, but beyond the wooden poses, they also have lost their fine detail edges, not having hold a model in hand of course just by the pics and videos of unboxings I have seen.

The only thing I can see being done in plastic or even resin would be the TAGs. They typically have less detail. It would also be nice to have an Avatar or Caskuda that doesnt' weight as much as the rest of the armies put together!

Hey guys, have you noticed? CB added two more rules to the NewRules PDF. THey are Casevac (Casuality Evacuation, a skill allowing you to drag around unconscious models) and Hostile Enviroments.

I saw the Hostile Environment but not the Evac. Very cool.

Yasbir has indicated that the English books have started to ship out from the printers today. Hopefully that means there is a possibility that they get shipped out to their various destinations by the end of the week.

 Alpharius wrote:
They said it couldn't be done!

We deserve something special for 100 pages...

Someone go find the actual Raicho miniature, double quick!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/62677522@N07/5811290263/

 TBD wrote:

 Alpharius wrote:
They said it couldn't be done!

We deserve something special for 100 pages...

Someone go find the actual Raicho miniature, double quick!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/62677522@N07/5811290263/

Dude that is awesome!! So close to the concept art too!

 BlueDagger wrote:

 TBD wrote:

 Alpharius wrote:
They said it couldn't be done!

We deserve something special for 100 pages...

Someone go find the actual Raicho miniature, double quick!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/62677522@N07/5811290263/

Dude that is awesome!! So close to the concept art too!

I know right!

Alpharius will be so happy!

I feel as if I should punish you.

Severely.

Whoa. The Baggage rule just got way more awesome, thanks to casevac:

"Troops possessing the Baggage Special Skill can carry any miniature no matter their PH Attribute. Moreover, they can perform any Order or Short Skill without automatically dropping the carried figure."

CA players are already stoked to have batroids, which could add another couple cheap orders to their pool: now they'll also have good evac backup as well when they take those. Very flavorful. I love the way that campaign rules are going to make players make more-realistic choices with their forces, taking better care of their soldiers rather than just having everyone be an acceptable loss all the time.

Campaignaradiso is gonna RULE. Now if only I can get more than two people to actually play missions in my local...

And don't forget that the hostile environment rules punish overuse of high bursts since the check occurs on every roll. So HMGs and spitfire start to become a liability in hostile zones as they have that many more chances to trigger the environment. Depending on the environment you will have to think hard about what gets equipped with a high burst gun. In environments that effect BTS a lot of troops with inexplicably high BTS ratings just had it justified (Bao, Kamau and Wildcats will be amazing choices in some environments). It is an interesting mechanic that is just general enough to be used in a bunch of potential situations.

I can already see applying it to all kinds of things from table-wide events to localized things like physical checks in some ruined buildings on the verge of collapsing, or slippery, high-wind sniper perches.

The rules are also really easy to mod and change with house rules. You can do simple things like making PH the rolled defense against a damage effect. You could have effects other than immobilized or damage (guts checks, forced movement, e/m damage, etc.). So many awesome ways to use environments in scenarios.

And the CASEVAC rules are a welcome update from the old rules that allowed models to carry each other. Should make recovery/rescue scenarios a lot more interesting. This is exactly the kind of stuff I was hoping for from the campaign book.

Looks like I will be getting me an ariadna tractor mul sooner than later for some package transporting then.

You and me both, D.

The baggage drone thing. Maybe not the Traktor Mul.