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So on 1st Feb Privateer Press announced a new faction for Warmachine, the Convergence of Crysis.
Allegedly they are basically humans who have become robots and all the jacks are clockwork soldiers.
I have heard that the new faction rules will be:
- The Jacks have no MAT or RAT and instead they use the MAT and RAT of the caster
- Some of he casters have the ability to make any jack an arc node, others make all Jacks have shield guard, etc
- The Jacks (or vectors) van use a focus point and then the nearest Jack can then use that focus
- There is also a Warjack that can repair other jacks
So what are people's thoughts?
I particularly like the warcaster having an even bigger effect on what Jacks do meaning that swapping a caster out actually changes the stats of the Jacks. The exact same Jack could be a ranged monster or a melee beatstick depending on who the caster is.
They will be released in 2013. Hope they look good.
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Yeah, this is old news.
Anyway, I think the faction will be quite strong and have good synergy. Even more than Menoth or Skorne does.
Their Jacks however appear slightly on the fragile side, but being hard hitting. Models that have bonuses against non-living targets will be very good against them, and Cryx will still be able to gain Soul tokens.
They appear to have a fairly large trade-off with the casters giving their Mat and Rat to their jacks. You either have average with both, or high of one and low of the other.
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Cato Sicarius, after force feeding Captain Ventris a copy of the Codex Astartes for having the audacity to play Deathwatch, chokes to death on his own D-baggery after finding Calgar assembling his new Eldar army.
Silver_skates wrote: Guess it takes a bit longer for news to filter across the pond?
Anyone have pics of the new models?
Iron Mother Directrix
Unknown Caster (not Father Lucant as first suspected)
A Heavy Vector (Warjack)
Light Vector
Small based shield wall infantry (not the Recipricators as first suspected, as they are apparently going to be medium based infantry)
Clockwork Angels
Personally, I love the style of the models, the 1930s sci fi/art deco look is pretty awesome. Plus the new game mechanics for the faction look really nice as well, they'll definitely be the clockwork faction. Very stoked for this.
They also announced a whole raft of things at their Templecon keynote speech - a new Level 7 game (Omega Protocol), a new Strategic card game based on warmachine/hordes and that there will be a Rhulic battle engine on the way soon. Altogether, looks like a bumper year for Privateer.
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It's also interesting to note that they already have faction tokens - take a look at the third picture above, on the left side of that heavy warjack. Looks like a Cyriss-specific symbol on that focus token. I'm guessing this will be a pretty full release later this summer.
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Supposedly, they will have a Battlebox, tokens, heavy and light jack plastic kit, a couple units of infantry, and a battle engine upon release.
Self-proclaimed evil Cat-person. Dues Ex Felines
Cato Sicarius, after force feeding Captain Ventris a copy of the Codex Astartes for having the audacity to play Deathwatch, chokes to death on his own D-baggery after finding Calgar assembling his new Eldar army.
Waiting for my shill money from Spiral Arm Studios
Looks like its part of a clockwork angel.
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Self-proclaimed evil Cat-person. Dues Ex Felines
Cato Sicarius, after force feeding Captain Ventris a copy of the Codex Astartes for having the audacity to play Deathwatch, chokes to death on his own D-baggery after finding Calgar assembling his new Eldar army.
I might end up buying the model just to have it. Not planning on collecting them at all but a clockwork angel is hard to pass up.
Maybe, it could be a Clockwork Angel Solo or a Warcaster. Of course I don't think we have seen anything but the concept art for the Angels.
Self-proclaimed evil Cat-person. Dues Ex Felines
Cato Sicarius, after force feeding Captain Ventris a copy of the Codex Astartes for having the audacity to play Deathwatch, chokes to death on his own D-baggery after finding Calgar assembling his new Eldar army.
Waiting for my shill money from Spiral Arm Studios
With a dash of Ghost in the Shell thrown in for good measure.
Self-proclaimed evil Cat-person. Dues Ex Felines
Cato Sicarius, after force feeding Captain Ventris a copy of the Codex Astartes for having the audacity to play Deathwatch, chokes to death on his own D-baggery after finding Calgar assembling his new Eldar army.
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