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Yeah, starter box only. But a spitfire Montesa? Interesting, and, do want. I'm liking that Acontecimento Starter. Yet, 2 spitfires in the box? That Bashi looks much better posed than Step Aerobics Bashi. Ayyar concept is nice. Govad HMG too. The rest look pretty cool too. An excellent set of reveals.

TAG pilots are definitely a new thing. Somehow useful in ITS2017? Or CB needs more Cheesecake to drum up sales?

Are any of these October releases?

 Red Harvest wrote:
Yeah, starter box only. But a spitfire Montesa? Interesting, and, do want. I'm liking that Acontecimento Starter. Yet, 2 spitfires in the box?

This is something I brought up on the official forums. The contents of the ASA box, unless things change, are just like the Shasvastii box was: too high on Special Weapons Cost and too low on points.

Little disappointed with the Wu Ming, the HRL is floating above her shoulder. I would like the pose if it was a lighter weapon, like a chain rifle. This looks a bit odd.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 .Mikes. wrote:
I need that Montessa in my life. Does anyone know if it will be available on its own?

Never, unless you buy from Shaekonnit. He's part of the ASA starter set.


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Also, those Marauders will be mine. I might even buy three boxes.

They are pretty cool looking.

Although I don't really care for the style of launcher, the other 3 are really nice.

Thank God Marauders... Not for me but for certain other vocal members...

Loving everything I see for the three factions I play. Ayer especially!

 Mastiff wrote:
Little disappointed with the Wu Ming, the HRL is floating above her shoulder. I would like the pose if it was a lighter weapon, like a chain rifle. This looks a bit odd.

Yeah idk what's going on there. I got excited cuz I thought it was a Hac Tao at first glance.

Wu Ming aren't supposed to be doing flashy things. They're supposed to be sad political prisoners.

Hac Tao should be sliding into home, totally invisible, totally invincible, blasting rockets up your bum

loving the pilots!!!
that cheesecake gets me right in the sweet-tooth

thanks for sharing all of those lovely new pics...

cheers
jah

Hhhnnnnngggg. Govad, Al Fasid and Bashi Bazouk are great.

I watched it at work and their shameless marketing research had several different items from the gencon one:

1) 15mm infinity wars game
2) Archeon Blockade space game
3) combining the base game and the above 2 to make a super campaign system that has multiple scales.
4) Card game

Things that were the same:
1) fantasy game
2) dog bowl
3) dungeon crawl
4) red veil expansion box
5) 0-12 box
6) Remote racing
7) Astria (SP?)
8) Operation something something
9) Acheron Falls Book

Also watched the Angel Giraldez conference and the book is soly going to be about painting infinity factions. The book is about twice the size due to him including more pictures and going over concepts of shading\highlighting 3d objects. It's also including various training exercises for improving airbrush skills.

I'd love a 15mm large scale game in the Infinity universe. Would be nice for when the conflict ramps up around Acheron Falls, when the CA launches it's huge attack.

It would be a good way to do humanity vs Combined while still keeping the regular game as power play skirmishes between factions.

 Bladerunner2019 wrote:

 Mastiff wrote:
Little disappointed with the Wu Ming, the HRL is floating above her shoulder. I would like the pose if it was a lighter weapon, like a chain rifle. This looks a bit odd.

Yeah idk what's going on there. I got excited cuz I thought it was a Hac Tao at first glance.

Wu Ming aren't supposed to be doing flashy things. They're supposed to be sad political prisoners.

Hac Tao should be sliding into home, totally invisible, totally invincible, blasting rockets up your bum

You're thinking of Kuang Shi, there. Kuang Shi are the brainwashed political prisoners.

Wu Ming on the other hand are the psycho assault troop criminals.

 Mastiff wrote:
Little disappointed with the Wu Ming, the HRL is floating above her shoulder. I would like the pose if it was a lighter weapon, like a chain rifle. This looks a bit odd.

If you look at it more closely you will notice that the HRL is actually resting on top of the armor above the shoulder.

 Mastiff wrote:
Little disappointed with the Wu Ming, the HRL is floating above her shoulder. I would like the pose if it was a lighter weapon, like a chain rifle. This looks a bit odd.

They're wearing powered armour. If it can't help them lift a heavy gun one handed, it's not very good.

15mm Infinity FTW!

Tags the size of Heavy Gear... Yes please...
In plastic? Infinity flames of war..... Yes please!

Even if it was done (they're basically throwing a lot of ideas out to see what people like) they'd very lilkely stick to metal. They've said in the past they've got no interest in using plastic.

It's more the cost of plastic then anything from the Carlos quote I remember, it's too expensive to even experiment with--but that was 2 years ago. Also in one of the BoW videos Warren was talking about the infinity dungeon crawler being plastic figures *if* it was something that CB has been working on and would be released.

If it ever happens it may not be plastic but it's clear from that comment that they've looked at it.

 Monkeysloth wrote:
I watched it at work and their shameless marketing research had several different items from the gencon one:

1) 15mm infinity wars game
2) Archeon Blockade space game
3) combining the base game and the above 2 to make a super campaign system that has multiple scales.

Any indication whether these were infinity mechanics or a set of alternate mechanics to, say for example, allow larger battles than skirmish?

I am struggling with why they want to release 2 scales for same system/mechanics...

At 15mm there's a lot more 'forgiveness' room, plus there are a number of companies that can now produce plastic or resin figures as a service. If they produce plastic minis the quality of CMON but at 15mm scale I don't you'd get many people arguing, especially since the TAGs, tanks and aircraft could all be produced easily in metal.

I, and others, haven't touched a CMON kickstarter since the Sedition Wars abortion years ago. I have a hard time taking you seriously right now suggesting that.

CB using CMON for their plastic production would be like Studio McVey doing the same. It's a death sentence for the game and for the reputation of the company.

 Absolutionis wrote:
I, and others, haven't touched a CMON kickstarter since the Sedition Wars abortion years ago. I have a hard time taking you seriously right now suggesting that.

CB using CMON for their plastic production would be like Studio McVey doing the same. It's a death sentence for the game and for the reputation of the company.

Suggesting what? I pointed out that there are several companies that can produce plastic and resin models on-demand, I didn't name any. I only used CMON as an example of the quality achievable in cheap-plastic models nowadays. Did you actually read what I wrote, or did you just see "CMON" and decided to rage?

 -Loki- wrote:

 Mastiff wrote:
Little disappointed with the Wu Ming, the HRL is floating above her shoulder. I would like the pose if it was a lighter weapon, like a chain rifle. This looks a bit odd.

They're wearing powered armour. If it can't help them lift a heavy gun one handed, it's not very good.

I understand that's the logic behind the pose, but it breaks the suspension of disbelief.

It's like bad CGI. Did you ever see Lord of the Rings? They had Legolas surf smoothly down a hefalump's gnarly snoot, surf down stairs on a sheild while scoring perfect bullseyes between the eyes of running orcs, or doing impossible one-armed acrobatics to get from in front of a charging horse to its back. All of it was handwaved away as "...elves are super-light, super-agile, and super-strong". But the explanation doesn't change what our minds subconsciously understand about physics. It's not possible, no matter how perfect elves are meant to be.

I might find the power armour strength more believable if it was a massive male figure... but since CB likes to give females skin-tight power armour that leaves them at a quarter of the mass of a male figure, it fails the suspension of disbelief test for me.

I'm currently painting the Wu Ming boxed set, and their lack of dynamic poses is actually a selling point for me. They have incredible armour (4), even higher than a terracotta warrior's. I liked the somewhat stiff poses that emphasizes a bulky, massive power suit that was built for stopping tank rounds. She'll be half their size, leaping around like a hamster on speed, scoring perfect bullseyes with a heavy rocket launcher, one handed, without even needing to stabalise with the shoulder rest. She just needs to be surfing down a oliphant trunk to complete the picture.

None of this is deal-breaker for me; I'll still pick it up. It's just an odd mis-step for CV.

The female Wu Ming armour doesn't look significantly less bulky than the male. Plus, the gun is actually resting on her shoulder.

Sheck2 wrote:

 Monkeysloth wrote:
I watched it at work and their shameless marketing research had several different items from the gencon one:

1) 15mm infinity wars game
2) Archeon Blockade space game
3) combining the base game and the above 2 to make a super campaign system that has multiple scales.

Any indication whether these were infinity mechanics or a set of alternate mechanics to, say for example, allow larger battles than skirmish?

I am struggling with why they want to release 2 scales for same system/mechanics...

He did say "different rules. Wouldn't that be interesting" in English in-between some Spanish.

 ImAGeek wrote:
The female Wu Ming armour doesn't look significantly less bulky than the male. Plus, the gun is actually resting on her shoulder.

Hard to tell without a comparison shot, but it does look much more lithe than the males. I'm also basing my opinion on the differences between their other HI.

I can see now that the ammo box is resting on the shoulder, which I thought was the head. That still metal-on-metal still doesn't convince me that it's a stable firing platform.

 Mastiff wrote:

 ImAGeek wrote:
The female Wu Ming armour doesn't look significantly less bulky than the male. Plus, the gun is actually resting on her shoulder.

Hard to tell without a comparison shot, but it does look much more lithe than the males. I'm also basing my opinion on the differences between their other HI.

I can see now that the ammo box is resting on the shoulder, which I thought was the head. That still metal-on-metal still doesn't convince me that it's a stable firing platform.

Slightly sleeker, but not significantly so imo.

Guess I'll wait and see.

 5deadly wrote:
15mm Infinity FTW!

Tags the size of Heavy Gear... Yes please...
In plastic? Infinity flames of war..... Yes please!

I would buy the gak out of that, particularly at their usual sculpt quality level.

How much does a HRL weigh? What's it constructed from? What's the lifting capability of a woman or a man wearing Wu Ming armour?

I have no idea, either; I'm going to assume that it's doable in the Infinity universe.

Maybe the Wu Ming is in the act of bringing the weapon on target? It is an unusual pose. I'll say the new Yu Jing minis are turning out pretty well over-all.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 Red Harvest wrote:
Yeah, starter box only. But a spitfire Montesa? Interesting, and, do want. I'm liking that Acontecimento Starter. Yet, 2 spitfires in the box?

This is something I brought up on the official forums. The contents of the ASA box, unless things change, are just like the Shasvastii box was: too high on Special Weapons Cost and too low on points.

Shock Army of Acontecimento
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6
REGULAR Combi Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 10)
REGULAR Combi Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 10)
REGULAR Spitfire / Pistol, Knife. (1 | 16)
REGULAR (Sapper) MULTI Sniper Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (1.5 | 22)
AKAL COMMANDO Hacker (Assault Hacking Device) Combi Rifle / Pistol, E/M CCW. (0.5 | 28)
KNIGHT OF MONTESA Spitfire, Chain-colt / Breaker Pistol, Shock CCW. (2 | 50)

5 SWC | 136 Points

Open in Infinity Army

Yeah, Acontecimento has always had some SWC problems. A Starter box with 5 SWC and 136 points... Hmmm. Not legally playable at all, as it is.

A 15mm game does sound very intriguing. I would want to know more about it though.

Just saw this render