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 Bladerunner2019 wrote:

 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.

Because otherwise how will you know they're from Svalarheim?!

It's not like the Nisse have anything to tie them to their home. They're correcting an error!


Anyways, preorders are up at The Warstore if anyone's interested. There's a coupon live on their Facebook page too.

Well they could always give them trench-coats.... to tie them in...

Yes, not that fond of the rocks, but not that bad either, I will see if I convert them.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 Bladerunner2019 wrote:

 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.

Because otherwise how will you know they're from Svalarheim?!

It's not like the Nisse have anything to tie them to their home. They're correcting an error!


Anyways, preorders are up at The Warstore if anyone's interested. There's a coupon live on their Facebook page too.

Putting snow on the bases used to be good enough...

They are starting to set up the seminar should be in the next 30-60 min. Depends on how long the next set of games last.


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24 character for aristeia by end of year.

Steampunk parvati is next metal aristeia alt figure.

Gencon le will be a figure that's useable in both games.


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5 new armies this year. Army packs and battle packs (ice storm style) this year as well. Druze doesn't count as part of the 5.


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More non aligned armies this year as well


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Outrage figs being added to non aligned


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New book in first half of 2018 with big surprises. Expect teaser before adepticon.


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Thinner book the past ones.


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New dire box. All profiles and missions for dire foes in new book.


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There's a story for the year. Starts at Rumble (big us tourny)

 Monkeysloth wrote:
New book in first half of 2018 with big surprises. Expect teaser before adepticon.

Thinner book the past ones.

About time. But 2 years to produce a book with less content? Guess those 'surprises' might be some gameplay shakeups that took extra time to develop.

Bostria did a pre recorded video seminar for Cancon (Australias biggest convention with its biggest Infinity tournament). So we should get some tidbits from there too.

Kurgat engineer
Power is represented by tatical rocks. Stronger the unit, more rocks\size.
De Fresen
New Orcs with varuna


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Australian seminar is same as the Vegas one.


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Sounds like they're going with smaller and more frequent books.

New blackjack with hmg.


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Expect more realistic weapon designs to come in and replace old ones.

New shikami with multiple heads and arms. Expect more modles to start comming with extra parts.

New asawira spitfire.


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New clockmakers

Sad tohaas. No no figs this year.


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Wardriver

Candy cloud dire foes 7 march release. Usariadna grunt speckop. Ca nexus spec op.


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The dire foes box has the start of the 2018 story.

 Monkeysloth wrote:
Expect more realistic weapon designs to come in and replace old ones.

Guess they need another reason to start resculpting everything again.

Asawira Spitfire. Good. No. Excellent.

I think the book took so long due to play-testing the new sectorials and the scenarios for Paradiso. Thin sounds good. It means not many new rules. Yay.

Official photos within the week.


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New army in may, march, gencon, Nov. One will be an ice storm style box.


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Exra aren't planned any time before 2022 if ever.


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Books is targeted for early summer. Maybe May.


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2018 goal is to get people to by new armies and move away from old ones. Don't read this as old armys bad, just something they think will show a success of what they're working on.

Female brawler, druze, is book preorder.


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Tohaa is taking a while since its a lot of new exalted creatues and they didn't have the band with for them and all new armies.


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No new manga as the artist is now too popular for them to schedule. Hopefully next year.


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That's it folks.

I'm not sure if you've posted the pictures and they just went blank, but I'm not seeing any images. Thankfully, I can see them in the WGCInfinity Facebook Group.

I didn't take any pics. My battery was near dead. I saw other taking them and new they would end up here shortly.

Upcoming releases Feb teasers/March release:

- Dire Foes 7: Grunt Spec Op v Nexus Spec Op
- Shikami with Contender
- Asawira with Spitfire
- Blackjack with AP HMG
- Kurgat with Boarding Shotgun
- Nisses repack. (The HMG and Hacker)

Some photos here, https://www.facebook.com/groups/WGCInfinity/ and a bit of the seminar.
Here's the Asawira. Nice. I wonder if it will be Janissary big.

Photo taken by Allen Emlet. Credit where due.

Damn, the thing I most wanted from that list and I like the old one better.


Sigh

Hey Monkeysloth, thanks for posting the details.

Really like that Asawira.

 Red Harvest wrote:
Hey Monkeysloth, thanks for posting the details.

You're welcome.

The two most applauded for sculpts where the new Alt sculpt for A! and the HMG blackjack. Though the dire foes box was a close third.

Those that hate tactical X in the sculpts will hate 2018.

Lets see, some other comments from it. There's very little, if anything, planned for existing armies this year so we'll probably see less resculpts unless they are part of a new sectorial release. They want releases to make sense narrative wise so if you follow the story you might be able to guess what's coming out. Almost everything coming out this year will be in the new book including all the new armies. They're wanting good amount of figures or each army this year as well as unaligned. But unaligned will be more of a mix of existing things.

We might see Hannibal from A! in Infinity.

2018 goal is to get people to by new armies and move away from old ones. Don't read this as old armys bad, just something they think will show a success of what they're working on.

I have no idea what this means.

They want you to buy the new models they're going to make, but he reassures you that it won't be because the old models will be bad in comparison but that the new stuff will be so cool it'll be successful?

I dunno seems pretty clear.

 Knight wrote:

2018 goal is to get people to by new armies and move away from old ones. Don't read this as old armys bad, just something they think will show a success of what they're working on.

I have no idea what this means.

It means they want you to buy into the new sectorials, thus making a few larger purchases, rather than sitting on your current army making a couple of small purchases. By only releasing things for the new sectorials, and not for existing sectorials, it means if you're someone who chases new releases (like, you have everything you currently want and are waiting on new releases to see if anything tickles you), you'll be tempted into starting a new sectorial and buying big.

They're not doing the GW thing where they're making these sectorials flat out better (even the idea of a thinner book means less rules, so less new abilities and weapons to spread around, so there will be little in the way of power creep because of new stuff), they're doing it by just not releasing new models for what you already have and are focusing almost completely on releasing models for the new sectorials.

So basically if you're getting a bit bored of your current collection and are hoping for something new this year, that something new will be a whole new sectorial rather than a few blisters/boxes to expand your current collection. Those sectorials are effectively 'done'.

Pretty much what loki said except that the existing armies are done done. More they want to focus on new things instead of updating old as the question poised to Carlos was will we see existing armies rebalanced and updated looks this year.

Weird direction.
I've replaced pretty much all my Haqq with new models, and all my Morats.
I've not picked up existing factions because they have 'old minis that I expected to be replaced sooner than later.
Revising an old and tired faction (from a mini perspective) is as likely to get my money as a new faction entirely.
I'd imagine this means that sales were down a bit this last year and they want to shake things up a bit?
The new book will kick start things again regardless of what they choose to do or not do with miniature releases.

Love that Zoe.

I didn't think they could make a Grunt Intel model I wouldn't like...but they did. Really not a fan of the whole "riot helmet" look. Pose is also a bit "meh".

Not sure how to feel about the Blackjack. Why couldn't he just have had the HMG up and leveled? Why did he need to have his pistol out and the barrel of the HMG in the dirt?

New Zoe & Pi-Well look nice.
Wardriver dossier is...interesting.


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 Monkeysloth wrote:
Pretty much what loki said except that the existing armies are done done. More they want to focus on new things instead of updating old as the question poised to Carlos was will we see existing armies rebalanced and updated looks this year.

This is something that has always concerned me with Infinity. With every new book that has come out, new skills and weapons came out--many of which never would get put into older units even if they made perfect sense.

So basically if you're getting a bit bored of your current collection and are hoping for something new this year, that something new will be a whole new sectorial rather than a few blisters/boxes to expand your current collection. Those sectorials are effectively 'done'.

That's nice. I had focused on other projects, while only keeping an eye on Infinity, should my current army get anything new. Thanks.

 Knight wrote:

So basically if you're getting a bit bored of your current collection and are hoping for something new this year, that something new will be a whole new sectorial rather than a few blisters/boxes to expand your current collection. Those sectorials are effectively 'done'.

That's nice. I had focused on other projects, while only keeping an eye on Infinity, should my current army get anything new. Thanks.

Pretty much the boat I'm in. I'm not going to branch out of Haqqislam to keep the collection manageable along with the other games I play. So if one of the 5 isn't Ramah Taskforce, then I guess I just concentrate on other games. If it is, I'll see what they bring to the table.

Actually this time the gun rests on the bipod, so not that bad, I really like the riot helmet, but I can see why people would not like it.

My main problem with the Female Spec Op is...that it looks entirely too much like the Male one. Just a lady with a different weapon.
You got the foot up on a box (or rock for the LE one) holding a gun.
I still like her but that is the only thing that stops me being over the moon.

So taking from that if your current army has gimpy rules feth you buy another one.
If your current army consists of midgets and naff sculpts then feth you buy another one.
You play Tohaa then double feth you.

CB are certainly making it easy not to buy stuff off them.

 PsychoticStorm wrote:
Actually this time the gun rests on the bipod, so not that bad

Bipods aren't for resting the barrel of a gun on the ground.
The more I think about it, the more it annoys me that we get a second Shikami with alternate arm+head options--but we can't even get a Blackjack, a model which is at least 2-3x the price of the Shikami, with alternate arm options?

Because if that were one of two arm options, with one set of arms firing the gun two handed and the other being him with the HMG and Heavy Pistol out--no beef. It's a Blackjack in a kind of weirdly questionable 'at rest' pose.

As it stands? We just get...this:

, I really like the riot helmet, but I can see why people would not like it.

Because it looks awful? Because it looks like a Merovingian model instead of USARF?

We have some cool helmet designs with USARF. The Marauder helmet would have been a better fit for the SpecOps if they wanted to do something that wasn't just the normal Grunt helmet. The Blackjack helmet could have been done as well.

Instead, we get reused Loup-Garou assets.

 Kanluwen wrote:
Bipods aren't for resting the barrel of a gun on the ground.
The more I think about it, the more it annoys me that we get a second Shikami with alternate arm+head options--but we can't even get a Blackjack, a model which is at least 2-3x the price of the Shikami, with alternate arm options?

Because if that were one of two arm options, with one set of arms firing the gun two handed and the other being him with the HMG and Heavy Pistol out--no beef. It's a Blackjack in a kind of weirdly questionable 'at rest' pose.

As it stands? We just get...this:

Spoiler:

To be fair, the Shikami (with arm/head options included) is going to be about 3/4 of the metal used for the Blackjack arm and HMG.

I am not expecting TAGs and TAG like things (the BJ is a HI but it is a mini-TAG deathtrap in my heart) to have alternate things, even if the Nomads got one recently.
Colour me happy if I get an extra head or two with a different arm option in a unit box. The Shikami has me spoilt for choice and while I hope this trend continues, I don't feel CB are obligated to do so.

Do I want more stuff in my boxes and blisters for no extra cost? Heck yeah.
Will I boycott if I don't get them? Nope.