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**Chemical Cutthroat**

Kan is going to die.

I think that's awesome. She did a good job keeping it simple and clean. Thumbsup.

Now where is my boxed set of badass Turkish Engineers huh? The Spitfire is nice but I can't run four of him. >.<

**Kanluwen**

Cosplay?

What cosplay? I saw no cosplay.

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GUYS!

GUYS!

As of 10/26/2012...

BACKORDERED FILLED!
Campaign: Paradiso now in stock at The Warstore!

**Alpharius**

FINALLY!

Hopefully this means Neal is shipping out to me ASAP, along with Go-Go!

I'll have to work up a diorama with Go-Go interviewing a certain Nomad doctor...

**d-usa**

I would get it if it wasn't for the fact that I am just now learning the basic rules...

**Kanluwen**

My order is now being filled, yaaay.

**Ronin_eX**

Can't wait to see the little email that mine is shipping out. Here's hoping for Monday. Should allow it to arrive in time for our bi-monthly gaming night that way.

**-Loki-**

With how long it takes Infinity stuff to get to my FLGS, I should have a good 3 weeks before I get mine.

But that's all for the best, what with AC 3 next week and Christmas shopping.

**Kanluwen**

If you have any questions that haven't been answered yet Loki, I'll answer 'em on Tuesday when I get my book.

**Alpharius**

Same here - Warstore notice received on Saturday, book in
hand by Tuesday.

Well, if hurricane Sandy allows it!

**Pacific**

Had a read of the book this weekend (they were at the Campaign Paradiso event at Wayland Games) and for want of a better expression it is bloody brilliant! I can say that as someone who has become remarkably jaded and has a lot of experience of the different products thrown out by this industry - it takes a lot to impress me, in this modern age of everything being hyped as the best thing since sliced bread, but this book seems to have fulfilled everything I could have hoped from it.

The artwork, the background, the way it is all set out and presented - all of it is absolutely spot on. I was lucky enough to have a good chat with Carlos (the chap who is in all of the BoW videos), and he said a lot of work went into it. They've been building up to this system for a long time (over several years), putting things in, taking them out and gradually refining it until they settled on a system that was most balanced. It originally started out as a card based system apparently, but then that amongst other ideas was finally rejected - what's perhaps most impressive is that they wanted to release it ages ago (as most people in the know have said), but they kept delaying it as they wanted to get it just right, and especially in terms of balance. There are so many neat little ideas you can tell that was the case.

We played a couple of the first missions, and I have to say they were a lot of fun. They are tied in nicely with the progression of background story that has happened since Human Sphere, and the conflict on Paradiso in particular. You can take part in the missions as standard, which have a narrative progression (you spend the xp you gain on either your 'spec ops'; a line trooper unit, chooseable from several in your army list, with things like stat improvements or weapon upgrades) or on actual improvements for your whole force. These can vary simply from extra points in your next game, additional availability of units, free mercenaries to more 'intelligence' style options such as being able to choose table edges, or read your opponents army list (even have an alternative army list!) You can also play the 'narrative' battles, as they happened in the storyline of the book, which give you free extra units to use. I will say I hope that Yu Jing players haven't become overly attached to Ko Dali

(although I'm sure most will have read now about what happens to her..)

As I said another really cool thing about it is the artwork; this book blows the previous 2 out of the water in terms of the imagery it contains, with several different styles of art and a lot of new material. Interestingly I was talking to a chap named Juan (who was over here for the event as well) and he said that most of the art is outsourced - he mentioned artists in the US and Poland who have done work on the book. I know it's a subjective thing to an extent, but I thought it was stunning and one of the most appealing aspects of the book. Corvus Belli could make some serious money in the future selling this stuff as an art book, or even on a range of merchandise - I think it's that good.

**RiTides**

Kanluwen wrote:
BobbaFett wrote:
Imetron and Ikadron Batroid. Combined Army.

IKADRON BATROIDS

Is a good soldier made or born?

For the Ur Civilization, the good soldier isn’t made or born, it is grown.

Product of the most advanced techno-organic engineering, the Ikadron Batroids are carbon-silicon hybrids cultivated in accelerated growth farms over a pseudo-intelligent monitored substrate. The techno-neuronal hardware structure and behavior models of the Ikadron have been designed in the image and likeness of the Ruaria, companion animals of the Ur since times immemorial and favorite pet of any warrior, hunter or adventurer. The Ruaria are ferocious, brave and loyal until death, making them the ideal model and reference for creating an excellent autonomous slave/operative. So, the Ikadron was the perfect tool for any Ur to feel comfortable and safe working with it, either configured for autonomous remote mode or under direct control via quantronic-neuronal link.

Designed in the ages before the creation of the EI itself, the Ikadron were a mass production tool to perform dangerous activities in hostile environments; a wide definition including any kind of tasks, from exploration to construction, prospecting or even combat. With minimum modifications in the cultivation phase, an Ikadron could change from a qualified worker to a professional soldier, expert in front line operations or in logistics. In this way, the Ikadron Batroids were the main force of the expansionist waves of the EI in its first campaigns of conquest, when the Ur presence in combat was more frequent.

A civilization of such an advanced level as the Ur is characterized by the efficiency of its tools, and the Ikadron were renowned for their effectiveness and reliability, implementing the EI’s strategies with precision and implacable energy, without hesitation, without backing off, as inexorable as the EI which they represented [...]

Fragment extracted from the Forgotten Annals of the T’zechi Digesters.

The Ikadron Batroids are part of the backbone of the Combined Army forces. Even if the Morat race is primarily responsible for the execution of the military activities of the alien forces, it is also usual to see the presence of an Ikadron contingent in those larger deployments grouping more than one species. The task of the Ikadron is, supposedly, to act as a mobile reserve, but it is evident that they also act as a control element for those species forming part of the deployment. They also act as a deterrent factor for any possible conflict among those races, something that can be very frequent given the rude and xenophobic mentality of Morats.

“Guide to Identification of the Enemy (GIE): Ikadron Batroids”. Extracted from the OPC-1 International Operative Handbook, Paradiso Campaign. Published by the Psi Unit, O-12 Military Intelligence.

ÍMETRON

This special device has been created to improve the range and capacity of the Tactical Data Net of the EI over the battlefield. Ímetron beacons are deployed from aerial reconnaissance drones through high or low altitude launches, depending on battle conditions. The devices amplify and analyze data and tactical information obtained from the Combined Army, providing a constant actualization of any combat’s development parameters.

I NEED these. You guys posted them as an October release, Warstore has them listed for November. Would you expect these to be on FLGS shelves in early-mid November? We have our Infinity league starting back up and the Imetrons are necessary for me

. We also have a store nearby that stocks every Infinity model, so if they're shipping out, they'll get it...

Otherwise, maybe I'll preorder them from the Warstore.

**CDK**

Thanks for the review Pacific. I'm begin a good boy and waiting patiently for this! I unfortunately need to wait until it gets to my FLGS

**RiTides**

Alpharius wrote:
Same here - Warstore notice received on Saturday, book in
hand by Tuesday.

Well, if hurricane Sandy allows it!

Batten down the hatches, Alph! Most things are close here today because of it...

**Alpharius**

RiTides wrote:

I NEED these. You guys posted them as an October release, Warstore has them listed for November. Would you expect these to be on FLGS shelves in early-mid November? We have our Infinity league starting back up and the Imetrons are necessary for me . We also have a store nearby that stocks every Infinity model, so if they're shipping out, they'll get it...

Otherwise, maybe I'll preorder them from the Warstore.

I didn't know you were fielding the evil Gribblies know as the CA - Nice!

Anyway, somewhere along the line there was a delay at CB getting a month's miniatures out.

And that has pushed everything into the system we have now, where the current month's miniatures aren't previewed until near the end of that actual month, meaning they won't actually be available for purchase until the following month.

So for example, October's releases were just previewed last week, and won't be available for purchase until November! (Well, at least here in the States!)

This will be especially hard to cope with next month, as the Raicho will be previewed (please please please!) and then won't be for sale until December!

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Looks as if the latest round of miniatures are...

Shae-Konnit wrote:
They're due to be released on the 5th!

**Charles Rampant**

That Ikadron is really growing on me. I love the gnarly look of its face.

Thanks for the review on the book. Does it come with standard missions outside of a campaign? I'm not sure if I want to play a campaign constantly, whereas my group is desperate for missions to play in general.

**Alpharius**

Can someone tell me what the AVA is for the Ikadron Batroid in CA (general), Shasvastii and Morat?

I can't find this info, though I know I read it somewhere on Dakka - even saw a blurry picture of the new rulebook entry!

**Boss Salvage**

Alph:

Boss Salvage wrote:

As for the Batroid AVA: Screen Cap!

Looks like AVA 2 for CA / MAF / SEF?

And RT playing CA?! What theme you running, or just a mix of the best stuff? (Theme-less CA is stupidly good, by the way, I just can't do it myself ...)

- Salvage

**Alpharius**

The AVA 2 for all makes a LOT of sense, and they will sell a LOT of Ikadron/Imetron bundles now.

Are Imetron's the same AVA for all CA armies?

Or are they only available for 'generic' CA?

**Boss Salvage**

Imetron wasn't in Human Sphere, was it? Not seeing it on the same Paradisio vid I grabbed the batroid cap from, might be the page over

AFAIK the imetron is AVA 2 for CA only. I actually scratched up two of them but since I didn't think I could use them in SEF I haven't played them much recently. Given that the batroid is two for all I could see metron being the same?

^ Above info from infinitycreator.com

- Salvage

**Kanluwen**

The Imetron was, indeed, in Human Sphere.

They're not listed in the Sectorial AVA, so most likely they're just a "vanilla" unit being put in now before we get the EI Sectorial.

**Boss Salvage**

Kanluwen wrote:
... before we get the EI Sectorial.

... the EI Sectorial?

Giant dudes with remotes and batroids and metrons? Self. Poops. Self.

- Salvage

**Kanluwen**

Hold on. I'm not saying we are getting one, but I do think it's highly likely that the as yet unnamed next book will have the EI and Concordat as Sectorials.

**Noir**

Kanluwen wrote:
Hold on. I'm not saying we are getting one, but I do think it's highly likely that the as yet unnamed next book will have the EI and Concordat as Sectorials.

True, we don't know for sure, but CB did once long ago (when only the first 2 books were out) that all units that a currently in a book will one day get a Sectorial. My saying that I don't remember seeing the icon with the sectorial badge sneek pick form gencon.

**Kanluwen**

Now I am pissed at this so-called...Frankenstorm.

Lawnside, NJ, United States 10/29/2012 3:00 P.M. Emergency conditions beyond UPS' control.

Damn you UPS! Why do you not have weather machines?

**BrookM**

I know all too well how maddening a wait can be! Kan, how about we put you in suspended animation until the parcel arrives? Here, put this plastic bag over your head and we'll do the rest.

**CDK**

Sorry to say, that for the US, Hurricane Sandy is about to or is hitting New York is going to make for a delay of some sort. Actually the eastern side of the US is effected by it.

**Kanluwen**

BrookM wrote:
I know all too well how maddening a wait can be! Kan, how about we put you in suspended animation until the parcel arrives? Here, put this plastic bag over your head and we'll do the rest.

This plan cannot go wrong.

**BrookM**

Kanluwen wrote:
BrookM wrote:
I know all too well how maddening a wait can be! Kan, how about we put you in suspended animation until the parcel arrives? Here, put this plastic bag over your head and we'll do the rest.

This plan cannot go wrong.

Trust me, works like charm, maybe we can make you forget about cat-girl while we're at it yes?

**Kanluwen**

Maybe, but I'm painting today.

**BrookM**

Bah, it better be Infinity mini's..