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 Vain wrote:

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.

Have you built a Blackjack?

It's not solid metal. The main body is hollow. The arms are cast as single solid pieces.
All you'd need would be an alternate arm set.

SeanDrake wrote:
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.

Yeah, that's entirely not what's happening.

No Tohaaa at all this year? They could at least release a Taquel to finish the line.

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


Sigh

Pretty much sums up my thoughts on Zoe & Pi-Well.

 Kanluwen wrote:

It's not solid metal. The main body is hollow. The arms are cast as single solid pieces.
All you'd need would be an alternate arm set.

So yes, the solid pieces are the ones that would be alternative. You may have a sikami worth metal in each arm, a mould space definitely.

I don'r know her backstory it might be a loup garou helmet, it might not be who knows, definitely it is not a reused asset though, Loup Garous have not been sculpted digitally.

 .Mikes. wrote:

SeanDrake wrote:
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.

Yeah, that's entirely not what's happening.

Just C&P the following to avoid giant pyramid.

"Pretty much what loki said except that the existing armies are done done."

"2018 goal is to get people to by new armies and move away from old ones."

"There's very little, if anything, planned for existing armies this year"

"Almost everything coming out this year will be in the new book including all the new armies."

"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."

"By only releasing things for the new sectorials, and not for existing sectorials."

Not seeing any ambiguity there, other than saying to people with a current army " feth off peasant no more blisters for you free loaders buy a whole army or come back when you can" they could not be any clearer. If you want support and new stuff then buy a new army if not go play something else, there more or less even confirming they are ruling out all the current factions from the fluff."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."

So back to my first post is there anything CB themselves have said that refutes my comments?.

Also poor Tohaa they have been Sister of Battled which is a little like being squatted but the company not having the balls to say so.

"Tohaa is taking a while since its a lot of new exalted creatues and they didn't have the bandwith" That takes pretty big brass balls to say after announcing 5 totally new armies plus Druze and a load of Arrista stuff at the same time.

Nothing is happening with 'gimpy' rules. The new book is thinner, which implies it's got less new rules than we got in the core N3 rulebook and HSN3. It's also a lot of scenarios, as it includes reworked Paradiso scenarios. So expect new rules to be pretty light, just like the original Paradiso release.

The main issues are, again, Corvus Belli are pretty terrible at communicating this well and the fanatic peat is always happy to start complaining.

 -Loki- wrote:
Nothing is happening with 'gimpy' rules. The new book is thinner, which implies it's got less new rules than we got in the core N3 rulebook and HSN3. It's also a lot of scenarios, as it includes reworked Paradiso scenarios. So expect new rules to be pretty light, just like the original Paradiso release.

The main issues are, again, Corvus Belli are pretty terrible at communicating this well and the fanatic peat is always happy to start complaining.

To be fair, "the fanatic peat" has ample reason to be distrustful of CB. It's not just poor communication, it's also poor actions.

See any repacks of aged models with a new model to try to drive sales up.

 Kanluwen wrote:

To be fair, "the fanatic peat" has ample reason to be distrustful of CB. It's not just poor communication, it's also poor actions.

See any repacks of aged models with a new model to try to drive sales up.

This is by far the most monstrous action of a minis company in the last 30 years.

Indeed. Monstrous. Someone should write a letter to the Times.

That new army box, well "battle pack" that Bostria mentioned will be Ariadna versus a Combined Army faction. These are the only factions left for "battle pack"s. So, we will get a new starter for Ariadna, and it will probably double as the Kazak starter ( like the Haqq starter doubles as the Ramah starter) and the only CA faction left in need of a resculpt is the Shasvastii, so that must be the starter for the CA.

So much for no new sculpts for old armies

The lack of any Tohaa releases is not good.

So with the Paradiso book coming, are the Merovingians still going to be in it, or have they been postponed. Clearly, the Shasvastii will make an appearance.

The Loup-Garou helmet is silly on that Spec-OP.

Five new armies-- Varuna, Tunguska, something Non-Aligned -- maybe O-12? --, and Vedic? Invincible Army? Ramah? Kazak? Were there any hints?

 Red Harvest wrote:

That new army box, well "battle pack" that Bostria mentioned will be Ariadna versus a Combined Army faction. These are the only factions left for "battle pack"s.

Uh.. Aleph and Tohaa would like a word with you out back.

CB has said that they consider those two factions 'advanced' and they won't be in a battle pack. That what I meant when I said only factions left for the battle pack. I could have been clearer. Ah well.

It gets a little awkward here because if they were going to do a Combined force in a two player pack like that it would need to not be Onyx given that comes in its own box (and i don't see them doubling up).

So that means it would likely be a new CA force? Or at least, a generic CA force that will eventually be the core of a new sectorial?


Ariadna one obviously would be Kazaks.

 Micky wrote:
It gets a little awkward here because if they were going to do a Combined force in a two player pack like that it would need to not be Onyx given that comes in its own box (and i don't see them doubling up).

So that means it would likely be a new CA force? Or at least, a generic CA force that will eventually be the core of a new sectorial?


Ariadna one obviously would be Kazaks.

Kazak vs Shasvastii would be neat.

Am I the only one who doesn't want a Kazak sectorial? Well, not *not* want, but I can field an viable Kazak force as is. I'd rather MRRF get some love first.

SeanDrake wrote:

 .Mikes. wrote:

SeanDrake wrote:
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.

Yeah, that's entirely not what's happening.

Just C&P the following to avoid giant pyramid.

"Pretty much what loki said except that the existing armies are done done."

This, out of context looks, bad and want to point that out. The existing armies aren't done, just not being updated this year. As with Tohaa they don't have the manpower to release the unaligned stuff + 5 new armies as well as keep all 9 factions and existing sectorial up with new stuff. And they really want to get those 5 out (I suspect because of the long delay for them).

The comments of wanting people to move on to new armies, if you watch the video, is more CB really wanting people to love the new armies and get excited. Yes Loki nailed a lots of the other stuff around that with his previous post but it's not anything nefarious. They've already got USAriadna stuf coming out this year. To be honest I'm kind of glad as I'm tired of so many resculpts even though there are some in my main army (JSA) that could use it. Sure they could have a better balance but it is what it is.

 Micky wrote:

 Red Harvest wrote:

That new army box, well "battle pack" that Bostria mentioned will be Ariadna versus a Combined Army faction. These are the only factions left for "battle pack"s.

I don't know if they've ever stated they wouldn't reuse factions in battle packs so it may not be CA vs Ariadna.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 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.

Agreed, it's something that should have been a follow up question in the Q&A, what they really feel their responsibility to rebalance figures should be, and I didn't think of it until after it was over (I didn't ask the original question)


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 -Loki- wrote:
Nothing is happening with 'gimpy' rules. The new book is thinner, which implies it's got less new rules than we got in the core N3 rulebook and HSN3. It's also a lot of scenarios, as it includes reworked Paradiso scenarios. So expect new rules to be pretty light, just like the original Paradiso release.

The main issues are, again, Corvus Belli are pretty terrible at communicating this well and the fanatic peat is always happy to start complaining.

I'm going to point out we don't know if this is the Paridisio rework. All we have confirmed is 5 new armies, unaligned armies, outrage box (in unaligned) and all the Dire Foes missions and units. It would make sense due to the spec ops in Dire foes but nothing relating to Paradisio or the campaign system was mentioned (nor was it asked by anyone),

I still don't get how they decide to resculpt stuff, some models are still 1st gen, while other ones are 3rd gen. So instead of focusing to resculpt like really old stuff, they decide, well, let's resculpt something that looks good AGAIN.

So glad I only got starter for USAriadna and didn't venture deeper into it, man, talking about boring sectorial&models...

shikami options are nice, but then again, it's price is not really that nice for single model. around 22pounds for 2 models...yea, call me not excited. Suddenly those new knight for 29pounds(which is a lot for a box of only 4 models) are not that expensive.

Customization is nice, but if you are gonna charge arm and leg for it...I would have rather bough new 2 model pack for few pounds more and get extra model rather than extra head tbh...

Cancon seminar video:

https://www.facebook.com/benandmarty/videos/1869420413349985/

Surprised no one has posted this yet:

Would you like a prettier version?



Here is Rosie as well

Rosies helmet is meh. Not thrilled with this design at all, not sure why she has 'motorcycle' helmet.

Also, not sure why go with hand held hmg blackjack when previous one has shoulder mounted sniper. Why this HMG has bipod? Makes no sense. You don't give bipod to hand held hmg, which you would want to have, but at same time, you give bipod to exo skeleton who doesn't care much about recoil

I think that's a riot helmet.

Just finished watching the Cancon video.
Bostria claims that the Grunt Intel is 'based off of Rosie the Riveter'...meeeeeeeeeh.

There was also a lot of questions about Australian based units to which he said there will be a new Varunan unit that "has its history in Australian military history". Also makes a mention of an Australian themed/fluffed mercenary unit at some point.

Soooooo, a merc / unit with large knives, bush hats and a special rule called "Ooooooooooooi witch!"

 BrookM wrote:
Soooooo, a merc / unit with large knives, bush hats and a special rule called "Ooooooooooooi witch!"

If I had to guess, it'll be something to do with Gallipoli.
The hinting was that the PanO unit would have something to do with "Australia's military history" and I just can't think of too much aside from Gallipoli that really tickles that box.

The mercenary unit, I'm guessing here, is going to be part of "Van Orton Military Contracts"--which is an entity we've had in the fluff for awhile but no gameplay representation.
Guessing there it would be some kind of unit of ex-Neoterran military types(Bolts are based in Darwin on Neoterra IIRC) as a private military corp.

Think Kokoda Trail. It, as a jungle campaign fits better with Paradiso.

And yes, Aussies, General MacArthur was a piece of crap.

 Red Harvest wrote:
Think Kokoda pass It, as a jungle campaign fits better with Paradiso.

And yes, Aussies, General MacArthur was a piece of crap..

It's important to remember that whether it "fits" or not, it's a way for CB to show off they know your country's history better than you do.

Are there any pics of the Kurgat render? The shotty Kurgat is a profile I've been wanting a model of for a while.

There is but it's on the official forums and you have to sign in to view it full-size; so I can't just snag it like I used to.

Here:

It would appear that he is pounding something. Perhaps replace that sword with a femur bone.