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 Casey's Law wrote:
Is this just new to me because I've been absent? Haven't seen it mentioned yet but it went up yesterday.

A teaser* went up for it.

It's something that we've known about for a long while but we haven't had any real solid info regarding release dates etc. They've been clamming up a lot more lately.

PS: Good to see you back, Casey.

Yeah I have to say I'm not a fan of how much they're closing up vocally. Before N3 they spoke a lot more outside of their convention shows. Sure it led to some conflicting information but it was all in good fun.

It seems the more they grow, the more they want to be like the 'big boys' of the hobby but stop doing what drew people to be their customers in the first place.

If they're going to call their comic Outrage then they'd better get Frank Cho to draw a variant cover for the first issue.

 Kanluwen wrote:
PS: Good to see you back, Casey.

Thanks, bud! Just easing myself back into the hobby but I'll be around more and more now.

What is the standard procedure with special releases like the volume 2 crane agent?

We've seen SOME limited releases come out in alternate standard releases (Van Zant & unknown ranger), but others never come out at all (vol 1 Joan).

 Bladerunner2019 wrote:
What is the standard procedure with special releases like the volume 2 crane agent?

We've seen SOME limited releases come out in alternate standard releases (Van Zant & unknown ranger), but others never come out at all (vol 1 Joan).

Joan is meant to at some point though, I'm pretty sure. The Crane Agent won't because there's a Crane available normally.

 ImAGeek wrote:

 Bladerunner2019 wrote:
What is the standard procedure with special releases like the volume 2 crane agent?

We've seen SOME limited releases come out in alternate standard releases (Van Zant & unknown ranger), but others never come out at all (vol 1 Joan).

Joan is meant to at some point though, I'm pretty sure. The Crane Agent won't because there's a Crane available normally.

If Joan was going to come out, she'd be out by now.


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 Bladerunner2019 wrote:
What is the standard procedure with special releases like the volume 2 crane agent?

We've seen SOME limited releases come out in alternate standard releases (Van Zant & unknown ranger), but others never come out at all (vol 1 Joan).

If it's something "super special", you'll never see it again.

Remember that The Unknown Ranger release? It wasn't just "alternate standard releases". It literally was a second profile that will NEVER be available to anyone who did not get one of the GenCon models.
The general release variant is Molotok while GenCon was the Rifle.

Not necessarily, look how long Miranda Ashcroft took.

 Kanluwen wrote:
If Joan was going to come out, she'd be out by now.

She's already "out", but only to her closest friends. She'll come out to her parents at the next Thanksgiving dinner.

Oh geez, we get that execrable Tech-Bee this month. Has there been any word if it comes with the Crabbot? Seems like it would.

 Red Harvest wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
If Joan was going to come out, she'd be out by now.

She's already "out", but only to her closest friends. She'll come out to her parents at the next Thanksgiving dinner.

Oh geez, we get that execrable Tech-Bee this month. Has there been any word if it comes with the Crabbot? Seems like it would.

Yep. Mayacast just announced that yesterday or so.

 ImAGeek wrote:
Not necessarily, look how long Miranda Ashcroft took.

They're not equal in terms of importance. I'd consider Joan to be rather high, considering her importance in the lore.

Joan currently has a readily-available and in-stock model: https://store.corvusbelli.com/products/panoceania/280213-0061-jeanne-d-arc-ap-ccw-multi-rifle

The general-release of the resculpted special edition isn't as high of a priority as other profiles that are outright missing a base model.

But then we get things like the Tuareg hacker, which is gorgeous but had a perfectly serviceable existing model, no older (I dont think?) than that Joan.

Ultimately CB 'Do What They Want' . You can either decide that those are savvy decisions based on customer and product knowledge or the whims of a small creative team whose interest in certain lines waxes and wanes.

She will come out eventually

Never mind all that. Where's my bloody Rasyat?

Indeed....

I'm just wishing for either a couple of Zhanyings (I've fallen in love with the hacker, mad traps and haris profile) or some new Celestial Guard SWC box... the current old models looks like skinny teenagers with peasant gear, compared to the current ones from the new ISS.

 Zewrath wrote:
I'm just wishing for either a couple of Zhanyings (I've fallen in love with the hacker, mad traps and haris profile) or some new Celestial Guard SWC box... the current old models looks like skinny teenagers with peasant gear, compared to the current ones from the new ISS.

We seriously need a new celestial guard box already

 Absolutionis wrote:
The general-release of the resculpted special edition isn't as high of a priority as other profiles that are outright missing a base model.

LE is much better quality, whatever organizational madness they have is their own problem, not customers. By your logic I'd expect some other models to be prioritised in the past, but we've seen other pattern of behaviour from them.

PsychoticStorm wrote:She will come out eventually

I simply question if it'll be in my lifetime and if their whimsy scheduled will result in a rushed project.

The note says it's "twofer" so there must be another preview coming?

I have been playing with them lately I thing I need a few.

It's weird, when they originally announced Tohaa I was super excited but I've really lost interest now. The aesthetic just isn't appealing to me.

Also it's not a Rasyat. :(

Why not the HMG version though? Isn't that what everyone and their cat is using?

 Zewrath wrote:
Why not the HMG version though? Isn't that what everyone and their cat is using?

Missile launcher!!

It says Twofer because there's new buildings from Banuda Wargames in the video too.

 Zewrath wrote:
Why not the HMG version though? Isn't that what everyone and their cat is using?

Agreed, though I use the stock FO profile frequently because specialist + K1 combi + better than aelis keesan + d-charges just in case + nulifier if you need it.

 ImAGeek wrote:
It says Twofer because there's new buildings from Banuda Wargames in the video too.

Thanks I had just woken up, haha.

Man, I need to get my current Tohaa stuff painted up so I can justify getting these new units. Do we have any ideas about how the Tohaa list will get divided up for the sectorals that are presumably coming in the future?

Just so we're clear as well, apparently the O-Yoroi pilot model is a Kickstarter exclusive for Luxumbra to hawk as a way to get money.

C'est la vie. Model sucked anyways. But it'll sell, because "scantily clad Asian chick".

If it really is a KS exclusive it would be a dick move, though I'm sure a white knight will be along shortly to explain it all away.

All I can say if KS exclusive only.. fething witches.