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I wish there were details, but sadly that was a joke.

I would not be surprised to see something similar with the next book though. After all things are supposed to Get Real® since the Acheron Blockade is going to be breached.

Rules for "getting real" in Infinity: On turn 8, all models remaining on the table are destroyed by orbital bombardment. "Did you complete your objective yet?"

While I am a Morat fan and like most of the new look, I dislike the new simplified look of the bare red faces that IMHO look bland with their humanized mouth and hair compared to the old faces.

I think the new faces are not simplified and would argue that the old faces with no lower jaw are a simplified version of the mouths from the art of the Morat found in the first rule book. Perhaps we should wait till we have the models in hand to determine how human like the lips are because they look a bit flat, just not as squiggly lined.

I can tell you that the Morat Vanguard sculpts that exist now from the original box were pathetic compared to the later Morat sculpts that came out.

Jack-o-Lantern Jaw Morats can rest easily, their brethren with lower jaws have come to relieve them.

Hasn't much to do with early or late sculpts resp. old and new concepts:








All previous models and concepts share the flat forehead, the non-human mouth, the orcish nose and the non-human hair.With this box, Morat changed from Space Apes to Space Santas.

 Kroothawk wrote:
Hasn't much to do with early or late sculpts resp. old and new concepts:

I agree with this.

All previous models and concepts share the flat forehead, the non-human mouth, the orcish nose and the non-human hair.With this box, Morat changed from Space Apes to Space Santas.

I disagree with this a bit, but either why I think this discussion should be moved to the proper sub-forum instead of the news and rumor thread if we wish to continue.

I think we can all agree that now it's time to get pumped for next month's releases.

According to Infinity O-12 we're looking at this release schedule for January:

Ariadna box
Yu Jing blister
Haqqislam box
Combined Army blister
ALEPH blister

 Kanluwen wrote:
I think we can all agree that now it's time to get pumped for next month's releases.

According to Infinity O-12 we're looking at this release schedule for January:

Ariadna box
Combined Army blister
ALEPH blister

These three interest me the most; any hints yet as to what sectorials these releases belong to?

Those Morat are frakkin' amazing! They're big, chunky, and look like they mean some serious business. And the femal Morat is awesome as well - I'm loving the Preta crest on her helmet! Thank goodness I'm going to be painting them on commission or else I would've gone out and bought them for myself.

~Tim?

 kilcin wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
I think we can all agree that now it's time to get pumped for next month's releases.

According to Infinity O-12 we're looking at this release schedule for January:

Ariadna box
Combined Army blister
ALEPH blister

These three interest me the most; any hints yet as to what sectorials these releases belong to?

With ALEPH it's pretty much guaranteed to be something Steel Phalanx.

Combined Army it might be a Malignos with Combi Rifle as apparently the current Combined Army "starter box" is being discontinued, which is the only place to get the Malignos with Combi Rifle.

Ariadna has been on a bit of a Caledonian kick this past year, so it most likely is the Scots-Guard(1st Battalion) boxed set. Supposedly we're going to see models, eventually, representing both 1st(Linkable) and 2nd(Camo) Battalions. The current Missile Launcher guy has specifically been mentioned as being 2nd Battalion, with a more sneaky look to him while still looking very Caledonian.
Alternative is a Metro repack box.

I have a question about the Uxia release, is it a resculpt of her her not-limited-camo profile (the one without 2xAP) or is it for a new profile?

It's the "standard" profile, not Covert Action.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 kilcin wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
I think we can all agree that now it's time to get pumped for next month's releases.

According to Infinity O-12 we're looking at this release schedule for January:

Ariadna box
Combined Army blister
ALEPH blister

These three interest me the most; any hints yet as to what sectorials these releases belong to?

With ALEPH it's pretty much guaranteed to be something Steel Phalanx.

Combined Army it might be a Malignos with Combi Rifle as apparently the current Combined Army "starter box" is being discontinued, which is the only place to get the Malignos with Combi Rifle.

Ariadna has been on a bit of a Caledonian kick this past year, so it most likely is the Scots-Guard(1st Battalion) boxed set. Supposedly we're going to see models, eventually, representing both 1st(Linkable) and 2nd(Camo) Battalions. The current Missile Launcher guy has specifically been mentioned as being 2nd Battalion, with a more sneaky look to him while still looking very Caledonian.
Alternative is a Metro repack box.

Maybe I should just hand my gaming budget for 2014 to CB now as they seem to have their hearts set on it with all that they are releasing... Wonder if I can keep myself to Infinity and terrain only this year.

Oh no, I've waited too long between infinity purchases. Will never catch up to all this awesome.

Must have uxia. What a great model and not quite as cheesy as the earlier one. Shes a welcome addition to the ariadna spec ops style sculpts.

The Morats really impressed me. I like the new faces and the armor, the heavy weapon dude is just nuts. Is he the biggest Morat model now? Glad they put a helmet on the female though, that monkey lady face might have ruined the effect on the sculpt

Oh, and happy new year dakka

Haqqislam box is interesting. What's left that needs a box? All I can think of is Sekban or the long rumoured new Ghazi Muttiwahs.

I much preferred the old Morat look, but I'm loving how much more detailed the new ones are, so I'm torn. Even though they lack the detail, I still think the old Morats are fantastic models and may end up mixing and matching.

Thinking they'll probably become deadzone Orx/Marauders since I've been far more successful drumming up deadzone interest than Infinity and although I like the Deadzone figs, they can't hold a candle to the Corvus Belli minis.

Loki - not sure if it will be the Sekban yet as I'm sure I remember reading previously that they were some way off? Although, that may have been some time ago now, and I'd love to be proven wrong!

Thinking I had seen the female Morat before, then I remembered the art book that is sat in front of me

I dont like to what happened to the Morat!

Tiny heads, details for the sake of it, all other released morats look like another race in comparison with these new ones... I think these totally missed the target and have little to no character to them... not even mentioning the boring poses of the rifle guys.

Nope to me these broke the morat range look and do no fit.

The female is very cool though.

All the rest of the releases are top stuff as usual.

I like the new evolution, I do not think they have tiny helms, but think they have more suit buildup around the neck, that been said, I really do not like Oznat, great model, but I would like her suit up like everybody else.

Well Navarro, you are entitled to your opinion, even when it's quite clearly wrong ;D

I do think it's difficult to re-imagine this kind of thing though. The original concept would have had its fans - I liked the original Morat guys, but they were some of the early sculpts and I think starting to show their age (you can see most in terms of the proportions). The other Morat releases over the past few years have been closer to these conceptually, and many are masked so should still fit as part of the same team.

I quite like the Oznat, she looks like some kind of alien warrior priestess (although not sure what the background is for them, and if that fits!)

 Pacific wrote:

I quite like the Oznat, she looks like some kind of alien warrior priestess (although not sure what the background is for them, and if that fits!)

Oznat have the full title of "Oznat, Morat Hunting Regiment". They are essentially 'Huntmasters' for Hungries and can Link with them.

Well the new Morats have certainly been eating their bananas.

I personally am not a fan of the new ones. Looks like I should stock up on the old versions. In a skirmish game like this, it is not such a big deal to have different versions of units. Some people can get the new ones, while others can get the old ones. Also given the diversity of the army, it is not a major problem to have units that are not identical.

 -Loki- wrote:
Haqqislam box is interesting. What's left that needs a box? All I can think of is Sekban or the long rumoured new Ghazi Muttiwahs.

Ghazi Muttiwahs are March according to Bostria.

I just saw the price for the Morat starter box..... 44,95 (euro).

That is 8,- up from the usual price for starter boxes (36,95), and even though I will still buy this one it is quite disappointing to see CB pull a bit of a GW on us.

And yes the Sogarat is a slightly bigger model, but that doesn't equal eight euros Imo.

The Sogarat is Ajax sized, who is 19.95 Euro.
The new Vanguard look to be pretty big too.

The Vanguard didn't look bigger in the picture with all of this month's releases side by side.

It still doesn't add up Imo. This is a starter box. We don't pay individual blister prices for the content of a starter box. Not a good sign.

 TBD wrote:

it is quite disappointing to see CB pull a bit of a GW on us.

If CB had pulled a GW on you they would raise the price of all starters to be costed at the price of this starter and not price an individual starter slightly more because it has a higher production cost.

Plus GW would put less models in the box and jack the price at the same time.

The new Morats are significantly larger than standard models. Look at how they barely fit on the 25mm bases.

 PsychoticStorm wrote:

 TBD wrote:

it is quite disappointing to see CB pull a bit of a GW on us.

If CB had pulled a GW on you they would raise the price of all starters to be costed at the price of this starter and not price an individual starter slightly more because it has a higher production cost.

That is not how GW operates anymore. Instead of one yearly raise for (nearly) everything they now raise prices every new release, which is exactly what happened here.