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Design-wise, they look largely unchanged. I like that new Yu Jing boarding shotgun design. I hope we see some more units with it.

 Barzam wrote:
Design-wise, they look largely unchanged. I like that new Yu Jing boarding shotgun design. I hope we see some more units with it.

The new Garuda coming in Feb has a redesigned Aleph Boarding Shotgun too.

We'll see that Garuda preview soon enough.

I did not expect to see the Kuang Shi yet. They look functional. I have 300 points of Yu Jing -- the whole Red Veil conspiracy CB hatched. I have yet to play them as a full arm, just the bits an pieces for Red Veil starter scenarios. I cannot see ever using these, and they are not impressive enough to get 'just to paint'. They are a much needed resculpt. Then there are the Keisotsu...

And Kiss is holding the first ever seen Combined Army Adhesive Launcher.

 Kanluwen wrote:

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Oh the looks like the one on the right is going "I like to singa...... About the moona and the june-a and the springa...."

They look serviceable enough, not like the originals were anything amazing. They're fodder, so I'm not looking for much. I just hope the box comes with options so we aren't stuck with a boarding shotgun (or bit scrounging for a replacement).

But aside from that, it will be nice to have them in the right scale next to my CG again. Now they just need to drop a CG SWC box and we'll have the core units for IS in the new scale.

To be entirely honest I kinda like the BS as an option, though it is extremely rare they are used as a full offensive link.

it is still BS 20 attacks at 8" and they can blow up in their targets face if they fail.

Bit and Kiss from CB's facebook, with incorrect labels. Bigger images in spoiler.

Gotta say, the quality on Bit's face is not great.

Gotta agree. I think it is the paint job, which is adequate, and I'm being generous here. The hair looks terrible.

Kiss looks good. CB has done well with the EI aesthetic.

 .Mikes. wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:

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Oh the looks like the one on the right is going "I like to singa...... About the moona and the june-a and the springa...."

They are not under alien control.

It's really the eyes that mess it all up. With the 'tattooing' on her face, it looks like she's got super-thin sunglasses or a Geordie LaForge style visor pulled off her nose and riding low.

It does look like she's peering over reading glasses.
Painting looks like they didn't have the time they usually have, sculpt is decent though besides the above.

 plastictrees wrote:
Painting looks like they didn't have the time they usually have

This will happen more and more now that Angel has made his own studio and is freelance painting for basically the whole industry.

There are two painters painting, not sure if Angel painted this one.

 PsychoticStorm wrote:
There are two painters painting, not sure if Angel painted this one.

Sure, but there were 2 already since they also had Daf painting. But Angel wasn't being sent huge starterkits or promo armies from places like FFG or Wyrd like he is now. That sort of additional workload is going to mean they need to speed up their painting on everything even more, which means eventually there's a quality hit.

We've just seen one on Bit and Kiss. They're good, but they're not up to the usual standard.

 PsychoticStorm wrote:
To be entirely honest I kinda like the BS as an option, though it is extremely rare they are used as a full offensive link.

it is still BS 20 attacks at 8" and they can blow up in their targets face if they fail.

Which is fine if they make it one optional use of the bits, but when buying a box like this I tend to not want to feel like I need a second just to get the options I do use on the regular (or a third if I'm running eight of the blighters in a list). This was the nice thing about the old box, the shotgun was there, but optional. Hopefully this box continues the trend and gives me the choice.

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Hope this means we’re getting Celestial Guard box soon as well...

They are okay...old ones were kinda meh, this ones are a bit better but I kinda expected a bit more....too samey, just a bit of scale change more or less.

Since I didn't want to link from Bell of Lost Souls...

Irmandhino AND Garuda Tactbot double preview!

Irmandhinos have gained Stealth, hence the blurriness.

That irmandinho doesn't wow me, from that blurry pic it seems quite bland. I'm disappointed

Whereas I’m much more impressed with the Irmandinho than I expected.

 B0B MaRlEy wrote:
That irmandinho doesn't wow me, from that blurry pic it seems quite bland. I'm disappointed

All honesty: what's he supposed to do? It's a smugglin' dude.

A smuggling dude who cna't help but scream and charge headlong at the nearest enemy.

 .Mikes. wrote:
A smuggling dude who cna't help but scream and charge headlong at the nearest enemy.

That dude doesn't look like he's screaming and charging headlong at anything.

And the new Hospitallers don't look like they're wearing crampons, but here we are.

Eh? Hospitallers don't have Special Skills: Mountain Terrain. The Mighty Jotums do.

 Kanluwen wrote:

Since I didn't want to link from Bell of Lost Souls...)

You make the big bucks because of decisions like these

Seriously, good call. That malware infested, ad slinging... If it's true, it cannot violate rule #1?

Chain rifle Irmandiño? Garuda looks almost the mirror image of the Spitfire Garuda. The word one seeks is perezoso.

Still think it's stupid as hell that Irmandhinos aren't in all the Ariadnan Sectorials.

They're smugglers. It's known that they work with everyone.

Can see them being rolled into Kazaks, and FRRM when they get reworked.

It only took long enough for my group to basically migrate over to Malifaux, but the Infinity RPG LE arrived today.

These are some high quality books.

Modiphius is known for publishing very nice books. Their 2d20 system gets mixed reviews.

I forgot they were doing an rpg. We’d tslked about running one here. I wonder if that’s still got interest or if Starfinder will have already filled that niche.