The NEW INFINITY News & Rumors Thread - December's New Releases on Pg. 203!

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**Kanluwen**

ImAGeek wrote:
I did think maybe it was another grip, but it seemed really undetailed, and I'm not sure how practical it would be for a sword.

We're talking about a company here that when people complained about the "ballerina poses" that many AD troops had responded by making sure damn near every single AD troop has a knife out.

While still in an AD pose.

Who in the hell performs a combat jump while waving a bladed object?

**Bolognesus**

...You don't? Damn Kan, live a little

**-Loki-**

If you look carefully, it's also positioned so it's attached to part of the grip that extends up the back of the sword. Pretty sure it's a second grip.

Practicality and good design take a back seat in infinity designs - like the new Ariadna guns with the magazines too far forward.

**SlaveToDorkness**

It's part of her head scarf behind the sword at that angle.

**Alpharius**

ImAGeek wrote:
I did think maybe it was another grip, but it seemed really undetailed, and I'm not sure how practical it would be for a sword.

No..please...NO!

Not that AGAIN!

(Too late!)

**AduroT**

Kanluwen wrote:
AduroT wrote:
Just started my second faction already myself, though not a jump into USAriadna. Actually picked up Morats due to the lack of much alien players locally. So many PanO and Nomads...

The funny part is that in many places, that exact problem was an issue even before Icestorm!

Morats are a great pick Aduro, you'll enjoy smashing face with the Space Monkeys.

They're a horrible influence on me though. I'm already addicted to Smoking after only two games with the Morat starter plus Anyat from Dire Foes.

**-Loki-**

SlaveToDorkness wrote:
It's part of her head scarf behind the sword at that angle.

I... don't think we're looking at the same part? The extra grip isn't anywhere near her headscarf.

**JOHIRA**

Bolognesus wrote:
...You don't? Damn Kan, live a little

I find stabbing the air helps lower my wind resistance so I can land on my tippy toes better.

**Knight**

Getting ready to sell my Tohaa. Tested and passed.

Welcome among the ranks of purists.

**Red Harvest**

Alpharius wrote:
ImAGeek wrote:
I did think maybe it was another grip, but it seemed really undetailed, and I'm not sure how practical it would be for a sword.

No..please...NO!

Not that AGAIN!

(Too late!)

You are allowed to use your moderator powers for good, y'know.

The Airborne Ranger ( ♪♪ I wanna be an Airborne Ranger. I wanna live the life of danger...♪♪ ) looks pretty good in that render. And a reminder that we ought to get a preview of something in less than 2 weeks. What will be first?
- Nisse HMG
- Domaru Butai
- Hunzakut LGL
- CA Drones
- Kosuil Assault Pioneers

I do hope the Nisse HMG will be as good as the Sniper. ( and sans rage-fist or TREQ)

**ImAGeek**

I love the new Nisse sniper so I've got high hopes for the HMG one. I'm pretty excited for everything actually, the Hunzakut, Drones and Kosuil renders all looked awesome, can't wait to see the Domaru models, and the Nisse should be awesome too.

**-Loki-**

Cannot wait to see the painted Hunzakut.

**Red Harvest**

We've waited a long time for it. We can endure another... hmmm, September release, so available in October... sometime Around mid-October.. 2 months until it is in the stores.

**Knight**

Wonder, if we're going to see a TAG in October.

**Kanluwen**

I just want the Grunt Special Weapons box

**ImAGeek**

Knight wrote:
Wonder, if we're going to see a TAG in October.

Probably the Seraph, as we've seen the render. I can't imagine it's far away.

**Kanluwen**

By Carlos Llauger Lorenzo AKA Bostria

In this month of August one of the new Corvus Belli releases is the USAriadna Grunts unit box with all the special weapon options, the ones that cost SWC, the ones that make the difference.

Well... this comes in handy to stress a couple of basic concepts.

The first one is that the Grunts are the backbone of the USAriadna army, the Fireteam that will always be there, that last resort that will never let you down.

Picture it: you are on the third Turn, all your main troops have fallen, the infiltrators, the AD troops, the bikes... and suddenly you realize that the basic USAriadna troops have ARM 3, decent weapons and that they can compose a Fireteam. Those soldiers aren't there just to provide extra orders and scorch anyone coming to your Zone of Deployment, they can save the day, take you out of trouble, survive a lot of punishment and do the damn job!

But there is another important thing that you have to think about, to realise, to glimse from this Infinity new release: the USAriadna Ranger Force, the USARF, is going to receive new releases constantly to reinforce their ranks.
With the idea in mind of putting USAriadna on par with the rest of the young factions like Tohaa, during the next months CB's release schedule will bring USARF new releases frequently, and this is pretty tasty.

Imagine: You bought the great USAriadna Army Pack and you are sitting comfortably on your couch, your phone rings with a message from a player that shows that there is another miniature available, of superb quality, that is longing to share shelf with the rest of her little freedom fighter friends. On a frequent basis! Who can resist to that?

Expand your army. Lead your troops. Defend freedom in Dawn, Paradiso, MountZion-The Wall and wherever there is someone who thinks about winning ITS without getting rundown by the USARF!!!!

Best regards.

**Knight**

Horrible reduction in chances to see something new for PanO then. :(

I'm sure people are going to get the newsletter for RPG, for those that aren't subscribed, why not fill their survey. It's mostly for possible KS add-ons and goals. Yes, I'd be really interested in PanO T - shirt.

Modiphius wrote:We're going to launch the Kickstarter for the Infinity Roleplaying Game around the first week of September and we want you to be ready, plus we need your help!

http://www.modiphius.com/surveys.html

**Dentry**

Thanks for pointing that out. Went ahead and signed up for their newsletter while at it.

**ImAGeek**

I found myself ticking a lot of boxes on that survey...

**PsychoticStorm**

ImAGeek wrote:
I found myself ticking a lot of boxes on that survey...

Really a lot of boxes, this will be expensive.

**Mort**

PsychoticStorm wrote:
ImAGeek wrote:
I found myself ticking a lot of boxes on that survey...

Really a lot of boxes, this will be expensive.

Yes.

For their blank box where they ask for suggestions, I inserted the 'Take all my money Pledge Level'.

**godswildcard**

When do those USAriadna grunts get released??

**Kanluwen**

Augber--but if they go on the same timeframe as the USAriadna Army Box it might be Augtober.

**ski2060**

Regarding that little post on the RPG character's word.
It's most likely an injection lug like someone mentioned.

These are WIP renders of the models. One of the shots posted of the SMG paratrooper has a lug just like it coming off his right arm at the elbow, but it is removed in the actual renders released to show the model off.

I'm betting when we see model renders in the Kickstarter, we won't see those lugs on any models.

As far as Grunts SWC? Release is supposed to be end August, so we can expext them maybe mid-late September if we're lucky.

My wallet needs a break anyway.

**Kanluwen**

All the photos are from Infinity's album on Facebook.
Acmon still looks ridiculous, the Alguacile Hacker is still wildly unnecessary as a single blister, and apparently one of the Grunts is rocking aviators.

**ImAGeek**

I really like Acmon.

**Baiyuan**

Kanluwen wrote:

Acmon still looks ridiculous, the Alguacile Hacker is still wildly unnecessary as a single blister, and apparently one of the Grunts is rocking aviators.

Ridiculously stylish you mean, right?

I like him, I only think the bags are too much.
Isn't the single hacker blister justified by some sectorials/mercenaries that can take an alguacil hacker, but not a whole box of line infantry?

**Kanluwen**

Baiyuan wrote:
Kanluwen wrote:

Acmon still looks ridiculous, the Alguacile Hacker is still wildly unnecessary as a single blister, and apparently one of the Grunts is rocking aviators.

Ridiculously stylish you mean, right? I like him, I only think the bags are too much.

By ridiculous, I mean that left arm. There's something really off about it--and it's not the pauldron(which is the Chandra/Agema pauldron).

Isn't the single hacker blister justified by some sectorials/mercenaries that can take an alguacil hacker, but not a whole box of line infantry?

Honestly, it's not. They removed the two Alguacile Hacker blisters when the CJC starter came out and I had it stated pretty definitively to me that "if you want an Alguacile Hacker for FRRM(which is where it can be taken as just the Hacker profile--no joke), buy the CJC starter or split-box it". They also made it clear that they had no intention of placing a Hacker in the Special Weapons box because "you get one in the CJC starter".

Come Icestorm, the Alguacile Hacker model is as badly outscaled as the Wildcats are by her freakishly huge brethren--it was only a matter of time in my opinion before they realized how ridiculously out of whack these things look in promo shots as the Alguacile Hacker from the CJC starter hasn't shown up in any of the photos. It was only recently that a pair of models from that now defunct scale showed up and that was the Intruders in the shot with the HMG Intruder.

AND not only that, but they never actually had the Intruders in focus or even within a reasonable distance of the HMG Intruder!

Spoiler:

**Mort**

Absolutely love the Grunts and cant wait to get my hands on them.