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 -Loki- wrote:
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.

Got mine too, they are lovely, I bought primarily for the fluff. Also the first and last time I get my name in a hobby book, I am sure

Now begins the wait for wave 2.

 Darkjim wrote:

 -Loki- wrote:
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.

Got mine too, they are lovely, I bought primarily for the fluff. Also the first and last time I get my name in a hobby book, I am sure

Now begins the wait for wave 2.

As someone that has backed Mutant Chronicle and Conan, the main bottleneck is always the core book since it has to cram such a wide variety of stuff in there. So long as the whole Gutier bottleneck conundrum is solved (and admittedly that one is a lot harder to get over than it is for Mutant Chronicles and Conan, who likely have dedicated staff on the licensing ends of things for approval) Wave 2 should start chugging along at a decent rate until the point where it feels like you start getting overwhelmed with releases.

Even with the line essentially finished I still haven't red my whole Mutant Chronicles collection and haven't even got past the first Conan supplement before I had another stack of material to pour through.

From the looks of things, the faction supplements are coming along nicely with Ariadna in the final pre-layout stages and another couple coming in right after. The pace on the smaller and more specialized books should be a lot more rapid, especially since they likely have a much better idea of what's going on in Gutier's brain after having to deal with it for so long with the main core book. But even still, chomping at the bit now for the Yu Jing book (even though characters are already written up and we're likely to start the campaign well before it comes around).

Well Gutier also greatly cares about Infinity background so, he would not let out stuff that are not right.

 PsychoticStorm wrote:
Well Gutier also greatly cares about Infinity background so, he would not let out stuff that are not right.

Which is all well and good, but when it comes to licensing stuff out, constantly springing new info on them instead of taking the time to write up a setting bible or giving them detailed notes (which is incredibly common for settings that get licensed out) leads to a lot of delays.

There were a few instances where re-writes were called for because of heretofore unknown information that Gutier only informed them about after the documents were sent in for approval.

This is the downside of having absolutely every bit of lore and background floating around in the head of one person and this is the reason that Infinity's delays ended up having it come out after games that started development later than it. It's telling that my Conan stuff arrived before my Infinity stuff, and the former had a pretty exacting pedigree for its background (i.e. no pastiche work, removing "helpful edits" that De Camp inserted, passing everything through Howard scholars for approval, etc.). I'm glad Gutier is being hands on enough that all of this stuff is considered canon, but there are certainly some organizational steps that can be taken to take some of the pressure of of Gutier being a single, massive bottleneck for the whole project.

Detailed setting notes, a setting bible, another person who has been versed in the setting that can do minor approvals. Any two of these would reduce the frequency and number of rewrites necessary when Gutier does an approval pass. Good documentation is really necessary when working with freelancers, they can write to spec, but if they don't have a clear grasp of what that is before writing then you're gonna have a bad time.

I am guessing it was a growing experience for the IP, a bible must have been formed out of it.

A world bible. This sort of thing is a living document. Especially since Gutier is still developing the Infinity milieu.

However, he does represent a single point of failure. CB would do well to get him some help. And make him accept it.

So, we're done for January previews. February brings us a preview for Dire Foes Mission Pack 7: Candy Cloud, with Kandi, er ,Candy, the stripper turned Maya reporter. A downward career move, really. and what else?

Hopefully one day Corvus Belli will get things to the point of giving the retailers the correct info from the start. Still a shame that they didn't do a resculpt on the Hacker to repack her with the Boarding Shotgun.

Irmandinhos looks pretty good there.

This month's releases are great but Spektr repack is bit of a dick move. Combining an old and a new model.

I think the pictures of the Irmandinho are from Facebook so apologies if it doesn't load for everyone...but yeah. Nice sculpt; shame about nobody but the stupid Russians and Vanilla being able to take it.

Hopefully one day retailers will not leak information ahead of time?

Nah.

Still not that fussed over the Spektr Hacker, love the sculpt despite the old style combi.

With proper pics, the irmandinhos doesn't seem so bland, it's growing on me

 PsychoticStorm wrote:
Hopefully one day retailers will not leak information ahead of time?

Nah.

Sure, that's the problem.

Not that Corvus Belli sent the wrong information out to begin with, clearly it's the fault of retailers posting preorders in advance!

Still not that fussed over the Spektr Hacker, love the sculpt despite the old style combi.

The old combi makes it pointless.

Time to buy a couple more Boarding Shotgun Spektrs before I get saddled with a crappy old model. I can make my own Hackers.


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New Snipershot.

It's a coat. And some Heavy Infantry arms.
Looks like it's something Yu Jing.

JSA. Possibly a Shikami, judging by the lack of shoulder pad/pauldron.

https://its.infinitythegame.com/challenge/b4ckd00r-crisis

Banning units? Not wise. not wise at all, even if temporary.

And the Rachel Deckard reference is a bit sad. And possibly an IP violation.

I wouldn't mind experimenting with the ban system, however only for generic armies.

 Red Harvest wrote:
JSA. Possibly a Shikami, judging by the lack of shoulder pad/pauldron.

https://its.infinitythegame.com/challenge/b4ckd00r-crisis

Banning units? Not wise. not wise at all, even if temporary.

And the Rachel Deckard reference is a bit sad. And possibly an IP violation.

The part that's funniest to me is that there are two factions which would suffer fairly heavily from this(Tohaa and Combined Army) are being made immune to its repercussions, but the Sectorials that would suffer just as much are being forced to tough it out.

So which is it CB? Do you want actual penalties or are you just wanting to penalize players for playing something other than the alien factions?


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 Knight wrote:
I wouldn't mind experimenting with the ban system, however only for generic armies.

The problem with that is that Corvus Belli is terrible at writing rules based on their "narrative".

If they banned a thing from generics, they'd ban it from Sectorials as well.

Oh, I don't expect much from them. I am interested in this possibility nonetheless.

As part of a narrative campaign, like one of the BoW events it would be intriguing so long as it only affected those who chose to participate, and only within the campaign. This is a part of the ITS, and affects everybody who plays ITS. There is no opt out for players who just want to play their armies in ITS without shenanigans.


Ha. Maybe TOs will not include the scenarios that affect Data Points in their tournaments. The scenarios are:
Decapitation
Transmission Matrix
The Grid
Comms Center
Rescue
Top Secret (coming soon)

I have no idea how popular any of these are ATM. If all factions end up with 0 data points, will all factions -- except tohaa and CA -- lose characters then?

Of late they seem to be trying to force narrative play, or trying to prove that narrative play can get along with competitive mindset.

Although I dislike forcing certain mentality on anyone, I can understand for certain rough approach. GW for instance has narrative play, yet almost everyone will choose to go for matched play with various restrictions. Personally, I think people just want to have more balanced games (or idea of them). Narrative games tend to raise an idea/feeling that certain conditions will simply be unfair for a certain side, or trigger an anxiety that someone will simply get left behind due to how the wins - rewards scale as the campaign goes on with each game played.

If all factions end up with 0 data points, will all factions -- except tohaa and CA -- lose characters then?

Amusing idea. If PanO loses Bipandra, will anyone notice or care?

 Knight wrote:
Of late they seem to be trying to force narrative play, or trying to prove that narrative play can get along with competitive mindset.

Although I dislike forcing certain mentality on anyone, I can understand for certain rough approach. GW for instance has narrative play, yet almost everyone will choose to go for matched play with various restrictions. Personally, I think people just want to have more balanced games (or idea of them). Narrative games tend to raise an idea/feeling that certain conditions will simply be unfair for a certain side, or trigger an anxiety that someone will simply get left behind due to how the wins - rewards scale as the campaign goes on with each game played.

The difference is that GW has Narrative(campaign), Open(no points used in AoS/Power levels used in 40k), and Matched (Points).

If all factions end up with 0 data points, will all factions -- except tohaa and CA -- lose characters then?

Amusing idea. If PanO loses Bipandra, will anyone notice or care?

Yeah, like they'd pull Bipandra...

More likely, it'd be losing Rao or Singh.

Lucky Garuda with its tactical junk.....

I hope the Shikami sniper shot means we’re getting a new JSA starter.

 ImAGeek wrote:
I hope the Shikami sniper shot means we’re getting a new JSA starter.

Seems unlikely, but we can dream, right?

They'd need to resculpt a few more dudes before they could do that.

Those keisotsu, a resculpt cannot come soon enough.

 Knight wrote:
If PanO loses Bipandra, will anyone notice or care?

Well, yes. Bipandra is part of the Holy Trinity of Pan-O disgruntlement, along with Bolts and no smoke.
I have the mini. It's been an Acontecimento Regular paramedic, an indigo spec op, and a trauma doc. It's never been Bipandra.

Kirpal Singh is not what he used to be. He used to be fan-frickin'-tastic. Now, he's merely good. His martial arts stuff is just weird. Rao was a cheap Lt and a way to get a 5 man Bagh Mari link. His WIP 14 is nice. Makes him the obvious Lt, but it's nice.

Just a heads up there will be Bostria presentation at the Las Vegas Open this Saturday evening. Not sure if it's being streamed but I'm planning on being there.

Excellent!

We'll look forward to your report too!

 Bladerunner2019 wrote:

 ImAGeek wrote:
I hope the Shikami sniper shot means we’re getting a new JSA starter.

Seems unlikely, but we can dream, right?

It doesn’t seem that unlikely, really. It’s one of the few that needs redoing now, and they do resculpt them fairly often (it wasn’t long ago we got the Hassassin and Caledonian ones, plus the Al Hawwa repack means we’re probably gonna get a Qapu Khalqi one at some point as the hacker one is in there).

I always used Bipandra as my paramedic for that base infantry unit whose name I’m drawing a blank on at the moment.

Those knights have stone stilts!

 Cannibal wrote:
Those knights have stone stilts!

It’s really a shame. They’re great minis. I don’t see why they need the elevator shoes. HI minis are already too big.