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If they are as good as Wildcats, I'm in.

Linkable , engineer options with a few decent weapons... That kind of stuff would be great.

I'm hoping they'll be better. Nothing wrong with Wildcats, however the exact profile would not excite me. They aren't popular because they're fragile.

A medium infantry without mimetism is a frail unit, I'm not expecting 4-4 movement on them. Such thing falls under Haqqislam privilege. However ARM 3 or ARM 2 with mimetism would be nice, though I'm afraid ARM 3 would inflate the cost as CB for some reason undervalues camouflage based abilities.

Regarding other releases this month, for all people joke about Haqqislam getting the short straw and getting the Druze spitfire this month, I hope they do. it's the one model I need to finish my Qapu Khalki.


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 Knight wrote:
A medium infantry without mimetism is a frail unit, I'm not expecting 4-4 movement on them. Such thing falls under Haqqislam privilege.

Haqqislam have no 4-4 medium infantry, and only 1 4-4 heavy infantry. That hardly makes it a Haqqislam thing.

all MI are 10-5 and all army have HI with 10-10

but as their name suggest some kind of fast stuff, we can hope for mechanised deployment

 -Loki- wrote:
Regarding other releases this month, for all people joke about Haqqislam getting the short straw and getting the Druze spitfire this month, I hope they do. it's the one model I need to finish my Qapu Khalki.


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 Knight wrote:
A medium infantry without mimetism is a frail unit, I'm not expecting 4-4 movement on them. Such thing falls under Haqqislam privilege.

Haqqislam have no 4-4 medium infantry, and only 1 4-4 heavy infantry. That hardly makes it a Haqqislam thing.

Pardon for being unclear. Certain Haqqislam LI would normally be qualified as MI.

Fair enough

Giraldez posted a Gecko preview,

That's not a preview... but a tease in the worst sense of the word!

He has mastered the art of teasing to a deeply impressive degree.

That cruelty Giraldez ...


\m/ \m/

Wow Giraldez, you really are setting new records for trolling wargamer's....

The new bolts look pretty ace, the only thing I don't like is the "lions main" pigtails on the girl, but nothing a hobby knife and GS can't fix.

 Rolt wrote:
Wow Giraldez, you really are setting new records for trolling wargamer's....

The new bolts look pretty ace, the only thing I don't like is the "lions mane" pigtails on the girl, but nothing a hobby knife and GS can't fix.

Generally those kinds of things are fully sculpted as part of the body. There are a few models which have separate heads, but if the Wildcats are anything to go by then the Bolts will have the heads attached.

You're going to need a lot more than a hobby knife and greenstuff, speaking from experience of working with Infinity models.

A knife and GS can work wonders.
It's a little involved, but it can be done. It just needs determination. I have removed Gogo Marlene's hairdo (which covers most of her backside) and replaced it with buns, you just have to make the extra effort.

What type of buns do you mean?

Did you go full cheesecake?

 Knight wrote:
I'm hoping they'll be better. Nothing wrong with Wildcats, however the exact profile would not excite me. They aren't popular because they're fragile.

A medium infantry without mimetism is a frail unit, I'm not expecting 4-4 movement on them. Such thing falls under Haqqislam privilege. However ARM 3 or ARM 2 with mimetism would be nice, though I'm afraid ARM 3 would inflate the cost as CB for some reason undervalues camouflage based abilities.

Disagree strongly. MI with ARM2 and no camo are average and workable, not below-average and fragile. ARM2 plus camo would be nice, but should be an exception to the rule, not an average loadout for MI. Given that the rest of the NCA has tons of camo (they have a camo TAG in a sectorial for godssakes), adding it to the MI as well would really screw armies with low visor availability. Either the unit would have to be priced up appropriately or it might blow the power-curve that CB maintians so carefully.

Also disagree that Wildcats are unexciting. The great thing about Wildcats is their utility, not their combat ability. You clear the path with other more potent units, then move a whole team of specialists plus a little backup (including grenades) in for a very low order cost. That in itself makes linkteams with Engineers etc. in them worthwhile. If they have decent BTS and a hacker, even better.

For the price of MI you tend to get two LI. Light infantry is faster and I'm going to claim that for how much you give up to have an ARM 2 on MI unit, the lighter cousins are overall a better deal.

That is not to say that a plain MI cannot have its role to play. Given a decent BTS value they can make a great defensive hackers, SWC investment or if you're lucky a secondary link team (via Haris). There are reasons to include them. However you do not want to exchange fire with the adversary link team, those will typically be far too much your MI with ARM 2 can handle or you will trade unfavourably. As support element they're passable.

This is without taking any special equipment or abilities into account. All-around-vision visor, X-visor, NWI, mimetism or something alike will give a MI unit more flexibility and interest, rather than restraining it into what is in essence a glorified support crew with a rigid role. As someone that enjoys Bagh Mari I'd rather have a MI that can take care of itself rather the requirement to include a "mom".

It might be just my bitterness, since ITS the first four picks of my army have remained the same no matter the scenario (ITS or Dire Foes). Konstantinos, Guarda de Assalto, Singh, Rao. I can field enough of other support elements from existing profiles and personally would love if Bolts are able to add more diversity to my lists.

CB did increase units with MSV 1 since Paradiso (Riot Grrls, Briscard), they have said in one of their interview they will. Interestingly there are also more models with limited camouflage. I hope this trend continues.

 Pacific wrote:
What type of buns do you mean?
Did you go full cheesecake?

http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-39364-30192_Aleph%20-%20Thamyris%20%252F%20Gogo.html

Bostria working on something...just posted to their Instagram feed.

NIIIIICE!

He's working in an ass, of course.

 Erasoketa wrote:
He's working in an ass, of course.

That would be Jose working on the asses, not Bostria.

The gear looks Nomad though. Could be our first glimpse of one of the new Tunguska units or a "revised" Spektr look.

I'll take either one, please!

And all that talk of sectorials...do we have any more updates on the next book/new sectorials?

I'm still dying for that Svalarheima Sectorial!

No real information I am afraid, its a wait and see game for now.

Anyone able to link the previous Instagrammed photo for the work blocked?

Anyone know/can tell/can find out what kind of drawing program/set up allows him to do what he's doing in there?

Not a graphics guy at all, but doesn't that look quite a bit like paint shop pro?

Looks exactly like Photoshop. Never used PSP, but I guess it's possible they've designed their UI to mimic PS.

Edit: To be more specific, it's a Wacom Cintiq monitor/tablet with a pressure sensitive stylus using Photoshop.

What he is doing atm is finishing writing "None of your business" cause the brush is the appropriate size the colour selected is red and the layer is on top of all others.

Beyond that, he probably is going to do the layered colouring.

It was the general look of the UI I was going by. Come to think of it, I've seen more than one photo processing program that looks pretty much like that.
If it's a common feature though, the low res pic pretty much means Alphy's question will have to go unanswered.