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Axe Van Zant is the only true canon!

Indeed. Battleaxe FTW. Oddly it, a medieval weapon n a sci fi game, doesn't bother the way the archer does.

That is a large number of sectorials, but It will be the overall number of new units that maybe the problem. If every sectorial has to be ints own special snowflake and have (multiple) unique LI, MI and HI units, that may well be a nasty barrier to new players-- too much to digest.

The "man with no name" desperado I like-- but then, I would. Not sure about the "easy rider" desperado. So, the female maverick will be exclusive to the army pack, (and the dismounted one exclusive to the pre-ordered army pack)* and there will be the male maverick (box of 2?) for regular release? Hmmm.

The pre-order LE mini for HSN3? Guesses? I suspect Sybilla.

*Forum needs an eye-roll Orc emoticon..

 Red Harvest wrote:
The pre-order LE mini for HSN3? Guesses? I suspect Sybilla.

Sounds great! I really wouldn't mind another Posthuman Proxy proxy.

 Alpharius wrote:
16 new sectorials....Svalarheima has got to be in there!

ROLL ON AF!!!

Twice. IIRC, Pan Oceania and Yu Jing get their opposing Svalarheima sectorials.

Well yes, but I was only referring to the PanO side - and the mighty Jotum!

 Alpharius wrote:
Well yes, but I was only referring to the PanO side - and the mighty Jotum!

Love my Jotum as well but I am getting excited at the prospect of more, newer Yu Jing. They need updates the most IMHO

 Red Corsair wrote:

 Alpharius wrote:
Well yes, but I was only referring to the PanO side - and the mighty Jotum!

Love my Jotum as well but I am getting excited at the prospect of more, newer Yu Jing. They need updates the most IMHO

Good God yes! Shang Ji, Hsien, Zhanshi, Kuang Shi, Ninjas, Guija, Guilang, Daofei, Domaru, Kempeitai, and Celestial Guard (I wish) all need to be brought into the modern aesthetic and size. That and there's profiles we could still use new models for, like the Hac Tao.

HS better give Yu Jing some lovin' they are behind the times. In many ways.
I'd really like to see CB make an effort to redo ALL the basic remotes in one foul swoop. They're all very dated and boring by today's standards.

Do we have any status update on the Infinity Wiki?
http://infinitythegame.wikispot.org/visitnewwiki?action=show&redirect=Home
It's been in the works since N3 came out. It would be really nice if they had been using this entire year of retooling to get it ready for the release of HS. The wiki was a huge tool for me to learn the game on the fly in 2nd edition. Even though the new book is better organized, I would appreciate having the wiki as another tool for quick reference.
I wish BoW had addressed this in their last video. It wasn't a very comprehensive Q&A session :-/

 cincydooley wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
A local shop that has 20% off.

MSRP is listed at $115....

I'm not great at math...but I'm not sure that $80....

Still a great deal...but jussayin

Lol, I guess I heard it wrong at 100$

 Red Corsair wrote:

 Alpharius wrote:
Well yes, but I was only referring to the PanO side - and the mighty Jotum!

Love my Jotum as well but I am getting excited at the prospect of more, newer Yu Jing. They need updates the most IMHO

They were in the same spot as PanOceania. Locally they performed about the same, neither have I've ever seen an argument that would convince me they'd be in some dire need of updates. I haven't seen results on international level to see any major deviance from what I'd expect. Most of the complaints, with which I could sympathise, came down to mechanics and feel of the faction. With changes to dynamics such as MA, CC with some updated profiles they've addressed it. They probably are never going to satisfy Ninja complaints, which I approve and frankly find no reason to indulge them, Oniwaban is quite the profile if you need a "superior" Ninja. I have suspicion that Invincible sectorial will be somewhat lacking of MA skills, which will be humorous when facing Military Orders and wonder what the public reaction is going to be in that case.

In terms of models, I can't sympathise. Although I do find most of new Yu Jing line to be great and I've been told by few others that they're not going to buy until their profiles are getting updates. I can see their point, however I find most of the older range to be rather up to my taste. The scale difference is what put off others not the any possible changes in the aesthetics.

All I care is that we might get that Varuna Sectorial and an official Mercenary faction (or two). It's the mercs I want most of all.

 cincydooley wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
A local shop that has 20% off.

MSRP is listed at $115....

I'm not great at math...but I'm not sure that $80....

Still a great deal...but jussayin

Depends, some local retailers in the UK worked out the retail price CB had set on their site, converted € to £ and came up with £63 - the financial crisis in Greece has had an effect of lowering the euro against the pound = win. Those retailers knocked 20% off and got it to £53 (inc shipping) or $81. The retail price in the UK is £69.99, so they've kept a price promise!

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NoggintheNog wrote:
New video talking about N3 human sphere.

It will also include Paradiso unit rules and so on, but not campaign stuff (which he said would be redone at another time as the missions and ideas are dated compared to N3). 2 Books same as N3 rules.
Everything from Tohaa, even newer stuff that is not in any book currently, will be in this. Will be a pdf of the rules as usual as well.

Also goes on to talk about the AF book, 16 new sectorials and even a new race.

Carlos will be doing a seminar at gencon discussing whats coming post human sphere.

Since there are currently 8 playable factions, 16 new sectorials doesn't actually sound as daunting when you break it down. Most every existing faction would be entitled to 2 sectorials, and Tohaa should get one. We have a pretty good idea about who most of the sectorials will compose based on fluff and other info that has previously been revealed/hinted at. While I'm sure we won't know for sure until closer AF's release date, I think we can safely speculate at:

PanO - Varuna, Svarheim

Yu Jing - Invincible, Svarheim

Ariadna - USAriadna, Kazaks

Haqqislam - 2 Sectorials

Nomads - Tunguska, Black Labs

Combined Army - Sygmaa, EI

Aleph - Vedic? + 1 Sectorial

Tohaa - Tohaa Trident

Mercs - (New Faction, No Sectorial)


Maybe some of you guys can help fill in a few blanks.

Well USAriadna is in HSN3 so I dunno if they'll get another new one as their second in AF. The two Haqqislam ones are the Caliphate and Khanate. I know Black Hand was thrown around as the 4th Nomad one.

I was all set to preorder the USAriadna box today but I don't know if I will actually. If I don't the only thing I won't be able to get later is the Maverick and the terrain and that right?

 Baalirock wrote:
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NoggintheNog wrote:
New video talking about N3 human sphere.

It will also include Paradiso unit rules and so on, but not campaign stuff (which he said would be redone at another time as the missions and ideas are dated compared to N3). 2 Books same as N3 rules.
Everything from Tohaa, even newer stuff that is not in any book currently, will be in this. Will be a pdf of the rules as usual as well.

Also goes on to talk about the AF book, 16 new sectorials and even a new race.

Carlos will be doing a seminar at gencon discussing whats coming post human sphere.

Since there are currently 8 playable factions, 16 new sectorials doesn't actually sound as daunting when you break it down. Most every existing faction would be entitled to 2 sectorials, and Tohaa should get one. We have a pretty good idea about who most of the sectorials will compose based on fluff and other info that has previously been revealed/hinted at. While I'm sure we won't know for sure until closer AF's release date, I think we can safely speculate at:

PanO - Varuna, Svarheim

Yu Jing - Invincible, Svarheim

Ariadna - USAriadna, Kazaks

Haqqislam - 2 Sectorials

Nomads - Tunguska, Black Labs

Combined Army - Sygmaa, EI

Aleph - Vedic? + 1 Sectorial

Tohaa - Tohaa Trident

Mercs - (New Faction, No Sectorial)


Maybe some of you guys can help fill in a few blanks.

Haqqislam - Al Medinat Caliphate (super soldiers), Gabqar Khanate (high mobility, things like mech deployed Halqa and Kum riders)

Combined Army - we don't know Sygmaa is a sectorial, though it would make sense. Only EI is confirmed. Sygmaa could be rolled into EI or a different sectorial altogether.

Nomads - it's Black Hand, not Black Labs. Last we heard, CB were having problems filling out the sectorial and were considering rolling them into Tunguska like they rolled the Observance into Bakunin.

Aleph - we don't know. Last we heard the OSS (Vedic) was on the backburner as they were having trouble with it and they would continue to add to the ASS.

Mercs - Other way. No generic faction, only sectorials. White Stars is one (Druze, Valerya, Scarface so far confirmed), possibly Behyan Resources (who own the Kaplan teams) as another

Beyhan Resources is, as far as I'm aware, a definite not a possible.

The "possible" is Van Orton Foreign Military Contracts, a Nomad based group with supposed ties to the Black Hand.

Mostly I said possibly because the Kaplan are the only unit we've seen, while they've been teasing the gak out of White Stars.

The Anaconda TAG also has the White Star logo on its box.

 ImAGeek wrote:
Well USAriadna is in HSN3 so I dunno if they'll get another new one as their second in AF. The two Haqqislam ones are the Caliphate and Khanate. I know Black Hand was thrown around as the 4th Nomad one.

I was all set to preorder the USAriadna box today but I don't know if I will actually. If I don't the only thing I won't be able to get later is the Maverick and the terrain and that right?

Well, if you don't pre-order the only thing you won't get will be the dismounted Maverick. The USARF box will stay in production for a little while, so you can pick it up after the pre-order when it is released for retail Mid-august. It will still have everything listed in it, including the "box exclusive" female Maverick. Just no dismount version of her.

ski2060 wrote:

 ImAGeek wrote:
Well USAriadna is in HSN3 so I dunno if they'll get another new one as their second in AF. The two Haqqislam ones are the Caliphate and Khanate. I know Black Hand was thrown around as the 4th Nomad one.

I was all set to preorder the USAriadna box today but I don't know if I will actually. If I don't the only thing I won't be able to get later is the Maverick and the terrain and that right?

Well, if you don't pre-order the only thing you won't get will be the dismounted Maverick. The USARF box will stay in production for a little while, so you can pick it up after the pre-order when it is released for retail Mid-august. It will still have everything listed in it, including the "box exclusive" female Maverick. Just no dismount version of her.

There's not even a guarantee you will be unable to get the "dismounted Maverick" because of the kinda messy way that CB does preorders(it's how The Warstore had dozens of the various preorder miniatures to sell on eBay/Black Friday/whenever over the years).

Yeah I think I'll pass for now at least. I was looking at the models on Studio Giraldez's Facebook and seeing all the previous few months releases made me realise there's other models I want a lot more.

GEN CON is less than 3 weeks away - I keep thinking that there's got to be something else coming for INFINITY, right?

Maybe not - the USAriadna box and the Van Sant limited edition might be 'it', but...

...anyone heard hints of anything else, maybe on the "Official" Forum?

 Alpharius wrote:
GEN CON is less than 3 weeks away - I keep thinking that there's got to be something else coming for INFINITY, right?

Maybe not - the USAriadna box and the Van Sant limited edition might be 'it', but...

...anyone heard hints of anything else, maybe on the "Official" Forum?

Bostria said he's gonna show loads of new concept art at GenCon but models wise I think this is it.

USAriadna is on Army V now, but only the units in the box.

 Alpharius wrote:
GEN CON is less than 3 weeks away - I keep thinking that there's got to be something else coming for INFINITY, right?

Maybe not - the USAriadna box and the Van Sant limited edition might be 'it', but...

...anyone heard hints of anything else, maybe on the "Official" Forum?

It's always a prerelease of a box and an exclusive model, so...yeah that's probably it.

 -Loki- wrote:



Haqqislam - Al Medinat Caliphate (super soldiers), Gabqar Khanate (high mobility, things like mech deployed Halqa and Kum riders)

Combined Army - we don't know Sygmaa is a sectorial, though it would make sense. Only EI is confirmed. Sygmaa could be rolled into EI or a different sectorial altogether.

Nomads - it's Black Hand, not Black Labs. Last we heard, CB were having problems filling out the sectorial and were considering rolling them into Tunguska like they rolled the Observance into Bakunin.

Aleph - we don't know. Last we heard the OSS (Vedic) was on the backburner as they were having trouble with it and they would continue to add to the ASS.

Mercs - Other way. No generic faction, only sectorials. White Stars is one (Druze, Valerya, Scarface so far confirmed), possibly Behyan Resources (who own the Kaplan teams) as another

Nice catch. I also forgot that one of the AF factions for Combined Army will most likely be Shasvasti. We could see either EI or Sigma filling in with the Human Sphere release.

huh? I distinctly remember Shas being a sectorial already. Granted, you might be forgiven for never noticing in ITS/specialist-centered competitive environments

Shasvastii is a sectorial, but they are in need of a redesign. They may be redesigned and show up in HSN3.

Mayacast is up now. About to plow through for July releases and see if anything besides USARF is in there.

 Bolognesus wrote:
huh? I distinctly remember Shas being a sectorial already. Granted, you might be forgiven for never noticing in ITS/specialist-centered competitive environments

There were rumours that they weren't going to be in HSN3 and instead in Acheron Falls.

 Bolognesus wrote:
huh? I distinctly remember Shas being a sectorial already. Granted, you might be forgiven for never noticing in ITS/specialist-centered competitive environments

ski2060 wrote:
Shasvastii is a sectorial, but they are in need of a redesign. They may be redesigned and show up in HSN3.

Mayacast is up now. About to plow through for July releases and see if anything besides USARF is in there.

Yes, remember they have said some established sectorials may be going offline to retool them. USAriadna will be official in the N3:HS rules so I would imagine one of the existing Ariadna sectorials may not be in it?



ANYWAY...
Watching part one of the 300 pt. USAriadna vs Nomads BoW video here. http://www.beastsofwar.com/infinity/usariadna-vs-nomads-300pts-pt1/

Killian totally forgot that his Grenzer sniper could see the AP HMG Minuteman link team!

Carlos is using traktor muls but their shots got hacked by 2 Nomad Interventors.
I thought you could not hack shots from traktor muls?
The rules as they exist now are spread over 3 PDFs. I know I'm confused. This is exactly why they need to clear this all up with a fancy new HS book!

Maybe.... just maybe we'll see the triumphant return of the Exrah to the Combined Army? The Exrah company that was working with them did get replaced, so they do still exist in the fluff. I'd love to see them get a fancy N3 redesign and full Sectorial.

Traktor Muls just use the rules for Guided now. Guided shots can be hacked with U-Turn now :(

I believe those Minutemen were out of LOS due to the smoke that Carlos launched with his Maverick up to the top of that building.