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Is that second from the left Bakunin lady missing a forearm/hand? Anyways lots of awesome here.

What is a Tech Bee? Also I need those Order Sergeants.

Love everything I see.

The Marauders a absolutely awesome.

Can't wait to get them.

 AduroT wrote:
What is a Tech Bee?

An excuse for another pin-up model, it seems.

Basically? She's meant to be a maintenance worker on PanOceanian TAGs...as if the thong didn't let you know that she works in a wildly hazardous work condition!

Also I need those Order Sergeants.

Not necessarily November/December releases. Just so you know.

I honestly didn't notice the thong on the Tech Bee or realize that was all skin. Still think it's kind of a cool model and I'd paint her more covered than that.

 AduroT wrote:
I honestly didn't notice the thong on the Tech Bee or realize that was all skin. Still think it's kind of a cool model and I'd paint her more covered than that.

Already exists as a Bootleg, this looks to be a stand alone HVT or maybe a usable unit.

Waiting for WIP13 but 0.5 SWC...

Both the Marauder profiles with Sniper and HRL have MSV:1 and both those models have binoculars.. So they spot with the binoculars and aim afterwards in the general direction? I'm sorry I just have so many questions.

Maybe the Tech-Bees are from Varuna, the "water world". A thong may be less out of place there...

Don't like the mini. I hope it won't be a machinist replacement or anything like that. I would rather get a proper updated support box with a resculpted Trauma Doc and Machinist. Concept art for the former has been around a while now, IIRC.

So this Month

DF6- something about the truth
MagnetosMarauders

And the TAG pilots are almost all released, or will be soon. What is left?

 Red Harvest wrote:
Maybe the Tech-Bees are from Varuna, the "water world". A thong may be less out of place there...

You may have something there.

Originally, it was called a "Tech-Coolie", and the name was changed probably for being a bit offensive. "Coolie" is a derogatory term for an Indian servant. Meanwhile, in the real world, "Varuna" is the Hindu god of water.

This basically means the PanO Varuna sectorial will have Bikini-troopers with combat heels.

 Red Harvest wrote:
And the TAG pilots are almost all released, or will be soon. What is left?

Ariadna, but then again they don't have a TAG. Their closest thing is the Anaconda which comes with a pilot.

Aleph also doesn't have a pilot, but that's because their only TAG is Remote Presence. PanO got their TAG-tech, maybe Aleph will get a male Deva-looking character in a Borat-mankini with hexagons on it or something.

Nomads are getting a Gecko pilot:


Really reminds me of like a bounty hunter from the original Star Wars films.

Looks like a Skylander to me.

I assume the first sergeant shown is the G:sync combi and the box will have an auxbot in it (or even two, as the HRL has one too).

I also hope the Tech-Bee has some rules, about time PanO had a second engineer profile... the lack of weaponry on the profile leads me to believe otherwise though.

 Riquende wrote:
I assume the first sergeant shown is the G:sync combi and the box will have an auxbot in it (or even two, as the HRL has one too).

I also hope the Tech-Bee has some rules, about time PanO had a second engineer profile... the lack of weaponry on the profile leads me to believe otherwise though.

But isnt that 'profile' just the concept art for her for the dire foes pack? I wouldnt rule anything out just yet.

There is nothing here I don't adore, from the chibi cowbots to the bum on that Tech Bee.

Any idea what weapon the Haqq lady from Dire Foes is packing?

 tyrannosaurus wrote:
There is nothing here I don't adore, from the chibi cowbots to the bum on that Tech Bee.

Any idea what weapon the Haqq lady from Dire Foes is packing?

Shock Marksman Rifle

 greywulf wrote:

 Riquende wrote:
I assume the first sergeant shown is the G:sync combi and the box will have an auxbot in it (or even two, as the HRL has one too).

I also hope the Tech-Bee has some rules, about time PanO had a second engineer profile... the lack of weaponry on the profile leads me to believe otherwise though.

But isnt that 'profile' just the concept art for her for the dire foes pack? I wouldnt rule anything out just yet.

Dossiers tend to have the units weapons on them as well. If no weapons are listed, it's a non-combatant. Chances are the tech bee will be a civvie.

 -Loki- wrote:

 greywulf wrote:

 Riquende wrote:
I assume the first sergeant shown is the G:sync combi and the box will have an auxbot in it (or even two, as the HRL has one too).

I also hope the Tech-Bee has some rules, about time PanO had a second engineer profile... the lack of weaponry on the profile leads me to believe otherwise though.

But isnt that 'profile' just the concept art for her for the dire foes pack? I wouldnt rule anything out just yet.

Dossiers tend to have the units weapons on them as well. If no weapons are listed, it's a non-combatant. Chances are the tech bee will be a civvie.

The Tech-Bee has a pistol and knife listed similar to Pilot models.

Ex:


They're not civvies.

 Zewrath wrote:
Both the Marauder profiles with Sniper and HRL have MSV:1 and both those models have binoculars.. So they spot with the binoculars and aim afterwards in the general direction? I'm sorry I just have so many questions.

Yep, not only are they boringly posed, again! Ariadna MSV has very little sense from practical point of view. Yea, I spotted someone with binoculars on the other side of the map, now, let me just put down those binoculars, and get my rifle, and try to find where enemy was etc. Or maybe you hold and aim sniper in one hand, while holding and looking through binoculars with other...you know, men can multitask too

I think we are missing the important part of the binos, you can model a character that dual wielding binoculars now...that bumps him up to MSV2 right?

Actually, myself and a few others debunked the binoculars thing awhile ago.

We thought the binoculars had a unique lensing but it turns out they're the same as non-MSV profiles. So effectively Ariadna MSV...is magic.

Maybe they just have good eyesight? Eyes like an eagle...they are americans after all, and american symbol is eagle -> eagle sight, right?

So many ways to go with this... Nope. Ah heck, why not...

Maybe they are looking at the Tech-Bees? Perverts that they are.

I think the binoculars are a response to the criticism about the 'gun and sword' minis that abound in the Infinity range. Gun and binoculars seems a bit less silly. Even if Infinity skirmishes are fought at ranges that don't require binoculars at all.

Maybe they're short sighted because all the pocket billiards they play after spying on the Tech Bees?

So a Raicho pilot for the Morats, is the Raicho current? or is there a plan to do another re-sculpt of it? I mean how fresh is the current Raicho mech?

The Raicho is woefully obsolete and in dire need of a resculpt. The posing is super stiff and awkward, there's something weird going on with the rear skirt armor that makes it look like the hip armor is clipping through it, and the biggest problem of all is that it's out of scale. Even the smallest Infinity figure couldn't fit in it. The operator sub arms are closer to 1/72 scale than proper 28mm.

 Kanluwen wrote:
Actually, myself and a few others debunked the binoculars thing awhile ago.

We thought the binoculars had a unique lensing but it turns out they're the same as non-MSV profiles. So effectively Ariadna MSV...is magic.

How did you debunk that? Do the other Marauders carry binoculars too? I don't see them or what do you mean.
Honestly, I'm just very curious about this. xD

 Barzam wrote:
The Raicho is woefully obsolete and in dire need of a resculpt. The posing is super stiff and awkward, there's something weird going on with the rear skirt armor that makes it look like the hip armor is clipping through it, and the biggest problem of all is that it's out of scale. Even the smallest Infinity figure couldn't fit in it. The operator sub arms are closer to 1/72 scale than proper 28mm.

It came out in.. what... late 2013, early 2014? There's plenty of older TAGs.

 Micky wrote:

 Barzam wrote:
The Raicho is woefully obsolete and in dire need of a resculpt. The posing is super stiff and awkward, there's something weird going on with the rear skirt armor that makes it look like the hip armor is clipping through it, and the biggest problem of all is that it's out of scale. Even the smallest Infinity figure couldn't fit in it. The operator sub arms are closer to 1/72 scale than proper 28mm.

It came out in.. what... late 2013, early 2014? There's plenty of older TAGs.

They didn't say it was old, though, and I agree with them - I never liked the Raicho even when it was new, and now since the rest of the Morat line has been/is being updated, it doesn't fit.

Think they have binoculars 'just because'.

Think there is no other reason than that!

We know that the sculptors often just go with what they like the look of or if something is cool, think it's no more than that.

Could be the orange visors that give the MSV2 (as we all know, orange tinted visors can see through camo and smoke)

 Pacific wrote:
Think they have binoculars 'just because'.

Think there is no other reason than that!

We know that the sculptors often just go with what they like the look of or if something is cool, think it's no more than that.

Could be the orange visors that give the MSV2 (as we all know, orange tinted visors can see through camo and smoke)

Well, to be fair the HRL and the Sniper both have a scope and I think it's fairly safe to assume that they have some kind of advanced infrared/thermal scope which kindda' makes sense in the way that it isn't very effective versus TO Camo but it's still able to make out a target and you'd be able to detect a heat signature against ODD but the targeting imagery would be distorted, at least that's my guess.