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Great find Greywulf, thanks for posting those!

I suggest dressing Kan up as a sexy cat lady.

This could be the Dakka equivalent of 'Ice Bucket challenge' - we all donate money to charity to make it happen, let's do this!

400 pages though, wow! Thanks to Alpharius starting this one, 3 and a half years ago.. and remembering the posters on that first page who are no longer with us, such as Earthbeard..

I'm in. We using Paypal or what?

So, copies of O:I ordered directly from CB are arriving now. Mine just showed up

Edit: There's some nice (new) artwork in the book. I hope we get to see a larger version of the Ariadna picture on p28 (with the new Antipodes controller)

Sweet. I hope to hear from Element Games this week.

 Siygess wrote:
So, copies of O:I ordered directly from CB are arriving now. Mine just showed up

/Rushes off to check order status,

Nope, mine still on 'preordered'. I knew I should have pulled the trigger on day one, just spent too much time deciding on whether to go for the game or the Gencon pack.

 Barzam wrote:
Huh, so that leg that was teased earlier today is actually from the Mobile Brigada. I'd hope that it's for a loadout variant, considering we've already seen the OI one.

We need a new HMG & boarding Shotgun is going to be popular in N3.

I'd like to see Orc trooper & Mobile Brigada get more than 4 loadouts when N3's army lists come out.

I'm expecting Mobile Brigada and ORC Troopers to each get a box, to be honest.

 Kanluwen wrote:
I'm expecting Mobile Brigada and ORC Troopers to each get a box, to be honest.

I'd be VERY happy if that is the case!

I love 'em both, but I'm a bigger fan of the ORCs to be honest.

I'm REALLY hoping that they're in the Svalarheima, sectorial.

 Kanluwen wrote:
I'm expecting Mobile Brigada and ORC Troopers to each get a box, to be honest.

That would be pretty cool.

 Alpharius wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
I'm expecting Mobile Brigada and ORC Troopers to each get a box, to be honest.

I'd be VERY happy if that is the case!

I love 'em both, but I'm a bigger fan of the ORCs to be honest.

I'm REALLY hoping that they're in the Svalarheima, sectorial.

Might I ask why?

Because I'm the World's #1 Jotum fan, loves the Nisses and really like the look and feel of the ORCs.

So if they can be in the Svalarheima sectorial, great!

I mean, I think we're pretty sure Nisses will be in it, but I'm not so sure about ORCs.

I think they might be in that "V" sectorial for PanO - the name of which I can never remember!

Varuna, maybe?

ORCs in Varuna would make no sense whatsoever. Varuna is a water planet with issues of insurgency from the native population which lives underwater.

ORCs however make perfect sense for Svalarheima, given that the company which created the ORC armor is actually based on the planet.

Sweet - ORCs are a lock!

I asked a similar question on the official forum a short while ago, and there wasn't a clear answer (mainly due to ORCS not being painted with the black helmets of Sval.).

 Alpharius wrote:
Because I'm the World's #1 Jotum fan, loves the Nisses and really like the look and feel of the ORCs.

I'm waiting for new units to be announced, otherwise I cannot see the mechanical appeal of the sectorial.

Nisses in a link team?

Too expensive and lacking decent specialists. What are your fast units, who's your dedicated hacker, where's your crowd control, your FO etc.

Just seen an alternative name for Grenzers, Graničari and Krajišnici. Rather cool.

If we're going to throw around conjecture about Svalarheima ...

From the Jotum page: ... Known as Xiǎn Shān (铣 山, Metal Mountain) by the Yu Jing troops, their confrontations with the Blue Wolves on the frozen plains of Svalarheima are legendary.

Do we have any clue what said wolves will be?
Yu Jing could use another modern sculpted TAG in the fold.

Better not be robo-wolves like GW is so in love with :-/

I think that font colour just gave me eye cancer.

Could just be a squad/unit designation rather than a troop/TAG type.

Bladerunner2019 wrote:If we're going to throw around conjecture about Svalarheima ...

From the Jotum page: ... Known as Xiǎn Shān (铣 山, Metal Mountain) by the Yu Jing troops, their confrontations with the Blue Wolves on the frozen plains of Svalarheima are legendary.

Do we have any clue what said wolves will be?
Yu Jing could use another modern sculpted TAG in the fold.

Better not be robo-wolves like GW is so in love with :-/

plastictrees wrote:I think that font colour just gave me eye cancer.

Could just be a squad/unit designation rather than a troop/TAG type.

The "Blue Wolves" are supposed to be some kind of TAG squadron. Light TAGs with railguns that 'hunt in packs'.

All units will end up in a sectorial, so ORC troopers will be in either Varuna (self-contained, sealed powered armor, with added oxygen tanks, fine for underwater ops. Makes perfect sense.) or Svalarheim. I'm hoping Svalarheim, since I now have an ORC, and a Nisse (and a Jotums). I hope that Svalarheim also gets Fusiliers -- so all my Pan-O fit into ASA or Svalarheim. But it may get its own LI.

Yu-Jing is getting the Blue Wolf TAG, mañana, mañana...

Sectorial news will start leaking, I think, after N3 drops and we get the updated profiles for all the current units. So, nothing concrete until December, or even early next year, at the soonest.

 Knight wrote:
Too expensive and lacking decent specialists. What are your fast units, who's your dedicated hacker, where's your crowd control, your FO etc.

Just seen an alternative name for Grenzers, Graničari and Krajišnici. Rather cool.

In all probability, they will pull in some ALEPH unit(s), like all the other Pan-O sectorials. You can almost predict the Sectorial at this point though...

Fusiliers
*New LI*?
Trauma Doc
Machinist
Spec Ops (Indigo and Bipandra?)

Nisses
*another new MI, possibly like the Bolts*, maybe with AD?
*Character*

ORC Troopers
Knights of (Neep?, Derp?) or a *light HI*

*Skirmisher* The Dasyus?

Dronbots
Mulbots
Bulleteer and Peacemaker
Palbots

Jotums

And a *Character* in LI or HI. Possibly HI and linkable with the ORCs.

And back to news....
The foot is MB then. Cool. It must be the HMG or the BS, unless they are getting new profiles and a box. Or it is the current MB. Alguaciles SWC box should be October. And the other 4?

Dasyus are black ops units for ALEPH; the likelihood of seeing them anywhere besides the Vedic Sectorial is close to nil.

Also, Nisses are the Svalarheima equivalent to Bolts.

Really if you want to make a prediction on the Svalarheima Sectorial?

-New LI
-Trauma Doc
-Machinist
-Nisses
-Jotum
-Character
-Knights Hospitaller(the Knights Hospitaller have their main monastery on Svalarheima)
-ORCs
-Dronbots
-Mulbots
-Palbots
-Bulleteer and Peacemaker
-Some kind of new AD unit
-SpecOps

SpecOps gain the option of starting with the new LI profile.

Varuna will likely be:
-Fusilier(if you look in 2E, they actually depict Fusiliers as "Varuna Fusiliers")
-Trauma Doc
-Machinist
-Character
-Croc Man
-SpecOps
-Kamau
-Dronbots
-Mulbots
-Palbots
-Bulleteer and Peacemaker
-Character
-Cutter
-Possibly a "Helot Warband".

 plastictrees wrote:
I think that font colour just gave me eye cancer.

Perhaps that was my intention

 Red Harvest wrote:

 Knight wrote:
Too expensive and lacking decent specialists. What are your fast units, who's your dedicated hacker, where's your crowd control, your FO etc.

Just seen an alternative name for Grenzers, Graničari and Krajišnici. Rather cool.

In all probability, they will pull in some ALEPH unit(s), like all the other Pan-O sectorials. You can almost predict the Sectorial at this point though...

*Skirmisher* The Dasyus?

Skirmishers are needed in general army as well. Something to match Kotail, hopefully it's not going to be another copy of existing AD or borrowed Aleph unit.

 Bladerunner2019 wrote:
If we're going to throw around conjecture about Svalarheima ...

From the Jotum page: ... Known as Xiǎn Shān (铣 山, Metal Mountain) by the Yu Jing troops, their confrontations with the Blue Wolves on the frozen plains of Svalarheima are legendary.

Do we have any clue what said wolves will be?
Yu Jing could use another modern sculpted TAG in the fold.

Better not be robo-wolves like GW is so in love with :-/

I heard rumours of this unit back when I was at the Interplanetary in Vigo.

I can't say more than if the rumoured skills of that unit are true, it's going to be a game-changer and something never seen before.

That said, it was still in development, or so I heard, and nothing was set in stone.

Remember how Geckos were supposed to run in squadrons? That didn't last into the actual game either.

New PanO models being worked on. Looks like a new style or level of jump pack.


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 Alkasyn wrote:

Remember how Geckos were supposed to run in squadrons? That didn't last into the actual game either.

They never said Geckos were going to run in squadrons, just that they were going to be able to field larger numbers than normal of TAGs.

It was not until after Paradiso released that CB discussed them having tested Geckos as Link Teams and found they just couldn't get it working properly.

Those look kind of chunky, especially for something that's supposed to be AD. But what else could the wings be. Maybe HI with AD.

Curious to see what they are for sure, thanks or sharing.

Link to where they're slated to be PanO? I can't resolve that shape into a PanO model at all. Also, it seems strange that PanO would get a new jump pack design given than Akalis are now being redone to fit the Crusader aesthetic.

I think it's more of a guess based on a shape of the base, even though it's hard to tell as they're covered with blue paint. Most curious or perhaps a ploy from Giraldez.

 Riquende wrote:
Link to where they're slated to be PanO? I can't resolve that shape into a PanO model at all. Also, it seems strange that PanO would get a new jump pack design given than Akalis are now being redone to fit the Crusader aesthetic.

You have to look at the bases.

Each faction(and to a lesser extent, some Sectorials) have their own specific base.
Those are PanOceania bases as they are a relatively 'clean', urban look.

There IS a chance that they might be ALEPH Ekdromoi and just mounted on the wrong base.

Also, I'm not saying it is "a new jump pack design" but rather a variant design intended to distinguish different levels of AD on the fly.