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CB prices the models according to the manufacturing costs, not points, unit effectiveness or other non physical reason.

They tend to count materials most of the time, or at least "classification" of the model.

Individual standard infantry models are $12.50
Bulky infantry and larger individuals are $13.50-ish
SpecOps with their weapon sprue are $15.19
4-model boxed sets of similar models are $37.50-ish
Double-packs of medium-sized models are $41.78
TAGs are $58.63

Aside from some oddballs, they really don't break from this paradigm. The very elite and specialized Odalisque with Spitfire costs the same as a old-model heavy-armored Janissary which costs the same as a single-model Ghulam. Even Saladin with all his special characterness is the same price as the aforementioned.

I just lsitened to the newest podcast by O-12. I don't know if anyone has posted it here yet, but 1 hour in they add some things that they forgot to mention in the News and Rumours section:

Morat Starter Pack incoming Nov or Dec with a resculpt of the Oznat

Multi Part Shasvastii Caliban box also incoming.

The Morat Starter Pack got mentioned during Infinity Week on Beasts of War.

But it's definitely good to have more confirmation. I am guessing that the Caliban box will come out in September or October.

Yea, they mentioned the Caliban coming out before the Morat starter.

So that is how the boxes are going to look.

If you cannot see the image I'll rehost it here on Dakka.

So these are the 'August' releases then, right?

All the other stuff Angel was playing peek-a-boo with are for September's releases?

Indeed.

I'm sure I read that Angel was going on vacation, so maybe that stuff was just being done prior to that (or else this is the reason for the delay?)

Love the effort they are making with the box art, those look fantastic! Being massively shallow, that's almost enough to convince me to get the O-Yoroi TAG and then the pilot and make some kind of diorama..

another box pic:



nomnomomom

...so they finally create a box design that doesn't look like a 70's lsd trip and it's for a boutique line. Great.
/oh well, it's just a box.

Dunno if we've seen this yet, but courtesy of Infinity O-12, the USAriadna's sectorial logo:

You missed the most important post, Alk.



Hai there Seraph!

Hah, lol, I guess I did

 Alkasyn wrote:
Dunno if we've seen this yet, but courtesy of Infinity O-12, the USAriadna's sectorial logo:

There a translation of the motto? There are no macrons to tell what case the adjective aurea is in so it can be translated a couple of different ways.

I wanna say "The dawn of a golden age"

nvm found it: "Dawn is a golden time/hour:

 Kanluwen wrote:
You missed the most important post, Alk.

Spoiler:

Hai there Seraph!

Just looked at the rules for that thing... bloody hell! (and order sectorials can have 2 of them!)

Also like that it has a little aux-bot travelling around with it, and it's a 'Religious troop'

Aagh, and I haven't even painted all the current PanO TAGs yet.

So it'll actually be called USAriadne? I thought that was just a fan term. That's kind of a goofy name.

So does the US factor into any of the other factions, or is Ariadne it in the Infinity 'verse?

I really don't want to start up a Knights Sectorial...

No, I don't...

 Barzam wrote:
So it'll actually be called USAriadne? I thought that was just a fan term. That's kind of a goofy name.

So does the US factor into any of the other factions, or is Ariadne it in the Infinity 'verse?

I don't think so. As far as I'm aware the nations represented in Ariadna fell from power since the original expeditions were lost and aren't really relevant any more.

 Barzam wrote:
So it'll actually be called USAriadne? I thought that was just a fan term. That's kind of a goofy name.

So does the US factor into any of the other factions, or is Ariadne it in the Infinity 'verse?

The Americans that were on the Aridna ships held onto their national identity and pride. The ones on Earth exhibited a fall from power and were integrated into PanO once it rose to power to match Yu Jing. Many of the Americans in PanO identify themselves as members of PanO even though their 'ancestry' is American.

In Infinity, USA has completely collapsed in on itself economically after majorly overextending it's influence during the 21st century (all of this was written a few years before the ACTUAL economic collapse BTW). Ariadne was a colony ship sent through the first wormhole discovered as a final attempt at relevancy by the former superpowers: a joint venture between US, Russia and the UK. Wormhole closed behind the ship (spoiler alert: the Tohaa did it) and the colonists had to go it alone on a very dangerous planet with no support for 100 years till the wormhole opened back up. Lots of US, lots of russians, lots of British/Scottish, not a lot of technological advances.

Panoceania looks like it should be US based at a glance, but actually started with Australia teaming up with a lot of Indonesian and South American countries since NATO was completely useless by that point. A lot of the smaller European countries saw what was happening and joined in as well. No US in Panoceania (edit: they may have joined later as a very minor player, but they don't have any influence at all anymore)

Yu Jing is basically all of Asia united under China. No US at all.

Haqqislam is an offshoot of Islam that wanted to go back to the old Persian Empire style of things where the Middle East was the center of the civilised world, a place of knowlege and enlightenment, so they went off and started their own world. Technically some US since NASA needed a new home after complete economic collapse and Haqqislam needed rocket scientists to get them off planet. Haqqislam welcomes anybody that is useful and will convert

Nomads are all the dissidents and anarchists that hate the supercomputer-run version of the UN, so they work the starships that transport the goods from planet to planet. No US specifically, but one of the main Nomad nation/ships was started by a former Mexican nationalist general who started a prison revolution or something like that.

Aleph is basically the computer-run United Nations, except a lot more effective. All of the Aleph people aren't actually people at all, they're recreations of historical figures or subroutines of the computer that are given a personality and a cloned/created/artificial body. Lots of interesting "what makes something alive? what gives them a soul? are they truly sentient?" type stories could revolve around them, and are implied, but there's not enough fiction in the setting yet to really delve into it in depth. Very Ghost in the Shell. very The Matrix. Very not US.

Combined and Tohaa are both aliens. Lots of neat info, but most definitely not US.

I had kind of figured that Pan-O probably absorbed a good chunk of the US and likely a number of the other Ariadne colonizing countries. I wonder if we'll see any more non-Scottish UK units in Ariadne with the new update? And where are the Germans? This game needs some Germans.

Unleash your rage. Ariadna (Merovingians) get a TAG. Courtesy of Infinity O-12 ofc.

One for the gentlemen there

So Ariadna, or more specifically the MRRF, will get access to them? Is that what it means on the side there? Or am I misremembering their badge...

 Barzam wrote:
I had kind of figured that Pan-O probably absorbed a good chunk of the US and likely a number of the other Ariadne colonizing countries. I wonder if we'll see any more non-Scottish UK units in Ariadne with the new update? And where are the Germans? This game needs some Germans.

There are Germans in the Military orders, Teutonic Knights. They use German as primary language. There are also Polish orders but I forgot the name...

@topic: the Seraph is looking awesome. I love it...

 motyak wrote:
So Ariadna, or more specifically the MRRF, will get access to them? Is that what it means on the side there? Or am I misremembering their badge...

You remember correctly.

 medusa wrote:

 Barzam wrote:
I had kind of figured that Pan-O probably absorbed a good chunk of the US and likely a number of the other Ariadne colonizing countries. I wonder if we'll see any more non-Scottish UK units in Ariadne with the new update? And where are the Germans? This game needs some Germans.

There are Germans in the Military orders, Teutonic Knights. They use German as primary language. There are also Polish orders but I forgot the name...

@topic: the Seraph is looking awesome. I love it...

Order of Dobrzyń - Zakon Braci Dobrzyńskich. A tributary order to the Teutons.

A Merc with no Qapu Khalki availability? Oh well, have to take it as a Merc.

Hmmm... that TAG is everything I want in a TAG. And the pilot is exactly as much cheesecake as I would have liked to see in the bootleg line.