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Hecklers = Laughing Man?

Mocking man. Or W/e.

Shasvastii not coming this year. So, what will be the Battle Pack box? Not Tunguska. I doubt Varuna, Vedic or Ramah. Tartary/Ariadna and what?

Also, for the page roll:
May:
Hakims, Special medical assistance group,
Knight Hospitaller Gabriele de Farsen,
Caledonian Mormaers AP HMG,
Zoe and PiWell, special clockmakers team,
Tanko Zensenbutai,
Prowlers repack,
Kurage Station scenery pack

June:
Tunguska Jurisdictional Command
Keisotsu Butai,
Yu Jing support pack,
Veteran Kazak AP HMG,
Hassassin Ragik repack,
Aristeia Smoke and Mirrors

Looks like Aristeia! is taking a release slot. Or the Tunguska is an Army box.

ImAGeek wrote:That sculpt won’t. Whether they’ll be a standard release or not, dunno.

Kanluwen wrote:Specifically that sculpt will not see a separate release in all likelihood.

However, "preorder bonuses" with Corvus Belli are rarely a case of "If you don't order it by X, you won't get the shinee things". Be paying attention to the actual release date(April 27th is what the US is looking at, so sometime in that vicinity). If you can manage to snag a box by then, you'll likely get the Kaizoku as part of it.

Thanks guys, I'll keep this all in mind!

I made a thread with all the best images I can find in one place down in the Infinity thread.

 Red Harvest wrote:
Mocking man. Or W/e.

Shasvastii not coming this year. So, what will be the Battle Pack box? Not Tunguska. I doubt Varuna, Vedic or Ramah. Tartary/Ariadna and what?

Also, for the page roll:
May:
Hakims, Special medical assistance group,
Knight Hospitaller Gabriele de Farsen,
Caledonian Mormaers AP HMG,
Zoe and PiWell, special clockmakers team,
Tanko Zensenbutai,
Prowlers repack,
Kurage Station scenery pack

June:
Tunguska Jurisdictional Command
Keisotsu Butai,
Yu Jing support pack,
Veteran Kazak AP HMG,
Hassassin Ragik repack,
Aristeia Smoke and Mirrors

Looks like Aristeia! is taking a release slot. Or the Tunguska is an Army box.

Really disappointed Haqq isn’t getting something more. Been a long time since they got serious attention from CB.
Their personality is so dry in the fluff, they need something to juice it up a bit.

 Kanluwen wrote:
I made a thread with all the best images I can find in one place down in the Infinity thread.

Cheers mate!

Two things:

Magisters!

Also - With de Fersen, that makes it 100% of new Hospitallers that are standing on frikking tactical rocks.

Well, that ended up about as disappointing as some Yu Jing folks were expecting. Basically a confirmation of no IA this year (just some profiles) some kind of (likely disappointing) ad hoc CBL list that is unlikely to revolutionize the way we play and certainly wont make up for being down to one sectorial (especially not for the campaign), and a couple of re-sculpts I don't really care about.

*shrug*

Looks like CB had nothing prepared for JSA getting swapped out, not a smattering of replacement units (like what the CA got when Exrah were out for the release of N3 and they got some new units to fill the gaps), and not even a new sectorial to fill in the gap left (like what happened when Merovingians and Shas were replaced with USAriadna and Onyx). I wouldn't have called the previous examples ideal (because it still leaves people with useless models or glorified proxies in the former case, and doesn't help the people who liked the un-updated factions in the latter), but they were better than this. This is just the loss of Ko Dali writ large, we lose something and are unlikely to see actual replacements even beginning to trickle in until the end of this year or some time next year. It's like this reaction blind-sided CB and this was the best they could cobble together.

For all that talk years back about the Invincible Army being basically done, it sure feels odd that they've been keeping it under wraps for so bloody long. Even weirder now that YJ has lost a bunch of units and a whole Sectorial with no release on the horizon looking to actually rectify it.

Oh well, just means CB are offering nothing I want and wont be getting money from me this year. Considering I had been saving up cash for a splash release of IA this year, I guess that can go toward something else since CB don't seem to be interested in having it.



But hey, Tunguska look good, the Nomad player in our group should be happy.

Wow, no IA at all this year? That’s some serious bull. Guess it’s time to start the rumours that you Jing is being phased out as a faction.

 Ronin_eX wrote:
Well, that ended up about as disappointing as some Yu Jing folks were expecting. Basically a confirmation of no IA this year (just some profiles) some kind of (likely disappointing) ad hoc CBL list that is unlikely to revolutionize the way we play and certainly wont make up for being down to one sectorial (especially not for the campaign), and a couple of re-sculpts I don't really care about.

*shrug*

Looks like CB had nothing prepared for JSA getting swapped out, not a smattering of replacement units (like what the CA got when Exrah were out for the release of N3 and they got some new units to fill the gaps), and not even a new sectorial to fill in the gap left (like what happened when Merovingians and Shas were replaced with USAriadna and Onyx). I wouldn't have called the previous examples ideal (because it still leaves people with useless models or glorified proxies in the former case, and doesn't help the people who liked the un-updated factions in the latter), but they were better than this. This is just the loss of Ko Dali writ large, we lose something and are unlikely to see actual replacements even beginning to trickle in until the end of this year or some time next year. It's like this reaction blind-sided CB and this was the best they could cobble together.

For all that talk years back about the Invincible Army being basically done, it sure feels odd that they've been keeping it under wraps for so bloody long. Even weirder now that YJ has lost a bunch of units and a whole Sectorial with no release on the horizon looking to actually rectify it.

Oh well, just means CB are offering nothing I want and wont be getting money from me this year. Considering I had been saving up cash for a splash release of IA this year, I guess that can go toward something else since CB don't seem to be interested in having it.



But hey, Tunguska look good, the Nomad player in our group should be happy.

Unless they specifically said no IA this year I would save the outrage until the year is out.
They specifically said 4 new sectorials are dropping this year. Tunguska is the first.
IA is likely among the remaining three.

I'm just finding it hard to believe we'll see IA if we're getting a CBL and their tease for upcoming Invincible profiles is set some time after GenCon (and they said profiles, which unless they're being cute with wording, is not a whole sectorial). Combined with the whole "hard year for Yu Jing" thing, I'm seeing no real reason to remain optimistic for their release. Maybe they're trying to keep it a surprise, but I don't think I have the good will or patience left to give them the benefit of the doubt here. I'm kind of done with this "hold up and wait for them to disappoint you exactly like you surmised they would!" thing. If CB had a better plan than what they've revealed up to Adepticon, then it would have been in their best interest to communicate that instead of coy, coded messages and cryptic hints. I'll certainly be keeping tabs on their con appearances throughout the year, but I'm done getting my hopes up without hard proof or more solid details from them.

As a Nomad with a toe in JSA; Adepticon seems dedicated to breaking me this year. Tunguska and JSA would be bad enough, but then they just bashed me upside the head with StarCo while they were at it. Pretty crazy excited for Tunguska. Going to need to put my head down and seriously clear my paint queue.

I need those Hakims.....like real bad.

 Ronin_eX wrote:
I'm just finding it hard to believe we'll see IA if we're getting a CBL and their tease for upcoming Invincible profiles is set some time after GenCon (and they said profiles, which unless they're being cute with wording, is not a whole sectorial). Combined with the whole "hard year for Yu Jing" thing, I'm seeing no real reason to remain optimistic for their release. Maybe they're trying to keep it a surprise, but I don't think I have the good will or patience left to give them the benefit of the doubt here. I'm kind of done with this "hold up and wait for them to disappoint you exactly like you surmised they would!" thing. If CB had a better plan than what they've revealed up to Adepticon, then it would have been in their best interest to communicate that instead of coy, coded messages and cryptic hints. I'll certainly be keeping tabs on their con appearances throughout the year, but I'm done getting my hopes up without hard proof or more solid details from them.

From the Rumble video (https://www.facebook.com/riotgrrlpainting/videos/903298376519161/) YJ will be getting some closed army lists for the BoW event to make up for the loss and the Invincible profiles will arrive soon after.

If they follow the Gencon trend of releases we are going to se a new redveil/Istorm box with two new sectorials this summer.
With the reveal of Tunguaka in June then the box should contain Vedict vs Kazaks since the previus boxes are Pano/Nomad, YuJing/Haq and we already know Tohaa and Combined are not getting anything new of that size.

Which leaves Varuna for Q4 with maybe a box as there are currently only 3 models in N3 standard (If i remember right) out for the sectorial.

So no Invincible army in 2018.

I think the new Yujing sectorial will appear late this year or early next year (as JSA did this year.

Also, wasn't it implied awhile back that we'd see two books this year? One now and one in the Fall? A book that would presumably contain Tunguska and these other 3 sectorial armies?

Bubbalicious wrote:
If they follow the Gencon trend of releases we are going to se a new redveil/Istorm box with two new sectorials this summer.
With the reveal of Tunguaka in June then the box should contain Vedict vs Kazaks since the previus boxes are Pano/Nomad, YuJing/Haq and we already know Tohaa and Combined are not getting anything new of that size.

Which leaves Varuna for Q4 with maybe a box as there are currently only 3 models in N3 standard (If i remember right) out for the sectorial.

So no Invincible army in 2018.

Do we really know that Tohaa are "not getting anything new of that size"? We know they're not getting anything big or new--that doesn't mean they're not getting anything.

Right now, there's 3 'vanilla' starters that use hand sculpts and are kinda/sorta out of date.
Tohaa, Ariadna, and ALEPH.

Tohaa v. Ariadna is a perfect opportunity to do an "Operation" box around the lost ship that those meddling Tohaa diverted to Paradiso.

 Kanluwen wrote:

Bubbalicious wrote:
If they follow the Gencon trend of releases we are going to se a new redveil/Istorm box with two new sectorials this summer.
With the reveal of Tunguaka in June then the box should contain Vedict vs Kazaks since the previus boxes are Pano/Nomad, YuJing/Haq and we already know Tohaa and Combined are not getting anything new of that size.

Which leaves Varuna for Q4 with maybe a box as there are currently only 3 models in N3 standard (If i remember right) out for the sectorial.

So no Invincible army in 2018.

Do we really know that Tohaa are "not getting anything new of that size"?

Right now, there's 3 'vanilla' starters that use hand sculpts and are kinda/sorta out of date.
Tohaa, Ariadna, and ALEPH.

Tohaa v. Ariadna is a perfect opportunity to do an "Operation" box around the lost ship that those meddling Tohaa diverted to Paradiso.

We know Tohaa aren’t getting a sectorial this year though, and there needs to be 2 of the 3 sectorials at in one go (there’s 3 sectorials left this year but only 2 ‘N’s on the timeline). Vedic and Kazaks are the only combination for a 2 player box that fit, with the information we have and the timeline (only ones who haven’t been ruled out of a sectorial this year who aren’t already in a 2 player starter).

 ImAGeek wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:

Bubbalicious wrote:
If they follow the Gencon trend of releases we are going to se a new redveil/Istorm box with two new sectorials this summer.
With the reveal of Tunguaka in June then the box should contain Vedict vs Kazaks since the previus boxes are Pano/Nomad, YuJing/Haq and we already know Tohaa and Combined are not getting anything new of that size.

Which leaves Varuna for Q4 with maybe a box as there are currently only 3 models in N3 standard (If i remember right) out for the sectorial.

So no Invincible army in 2018.

Do we really know that Tohaa are "not getting anything new of that size"?

Right now, there's 3 'vanilla' starters that use hand sculpts and are kinda/sorta out of date.
Tohaa, Ariadna, and ALEPH.

Tohaa v. Ariadna is a perfect opportunity to do an "Operation" box around the lost ship that those meddling Tohaa diverted to Paradiso.

We know Tohaa aren’t getting a sectorial this year though, and there needs to be 2 of the 3 sectorials at in one go (there’s 3 sectorials left this year but only 2 ‘N’s on the timeline). Vedic and Kazaks are the only combination for a 2 player box that fit, with the information we have and the timeline (only ones who haven’t been ruled out of a sectorial this year who aren’t already in a 2 player starter).

Didn't say anything about Tohaa getting a Sectorial. I said there are 3 VANILLA starters that use hand sculpts and are kinda/sorta out of date.

Ariadna's starter being redone is most likely going to be like YJ and Haqqislam where it's a 'sectorial starter lite'. Apparently we're getting a new Chasseur blister this year which points to TAK being done in that regards(at least to me), with the Ariadna starter being a TAK starter in all but name.
Tunguska's starter being done as a starter rather than an Army Pack opens up the potential for Vedic(really ALEPH resculpt starter+ in all likelihood) to be done similarly. Bostria made a mention of them wanting Varuna to be held to go with IA so whether or not we see them this year is up in the air.

Call me crazy or whatnot, but it makes a kind of sense too. Since the Tohaa's Kamael Light Infantry box is no longer even legal(they don't have a Defensive Hacking Device anymore as a profile--White Hacking Device only) it means that box has to be redone at some point(sooner rather than later) and there were enough missing profiles to fill a redone/second starter set even before N3 dropped.

It doesn’t fit with the timeline though, especially with Bostria outright saying ‘there’s 5 sectorials but only 4 Ns on the timeline, so two of them will come in an ‘operation’ box’. So the 2 player box will be 2 new sectorials (presumably as ‘starter lite’ as you say) and Tohaa aren’t getting a sectorial this year, so they won’t be in the starter.

I said it before... I never really combined my JSA with standard Yu Jing. Just seemed logical that way.
I’m not really crying for more Yu Jing,

It would be nice for new IA stuff, but I am left asking myself: How would they be all that different from ISS?
They might need to cook up too many new profiles to just slap some garbage together now.

I wouldn’t lose hope. I don’t see why so many of you guys are pressing the Panic button on IA. We have 3 more sectorials dropping this year. Wait until it has been ruled out before cranking.

TBH, the game needs attention in other areas.
Another year of consolidating the catalog would be good. Ariadna & Haqq have many profiles that need new sculpts.
Beating a dead horse: new remotes would be nice.
I really wish they were using these releases to bring MRRF & Shas up to date.

 ImAGeek wrote:
It doesn’t fit with the timeline though, especially with Bostria outright saying ‘there’s 5 sectorials but only 4 Ns on the timeline, so two of them will come in an ‘operation’ box’. So the 2 player box will be 2 new sectorials (presumably as ‘starter lite’ as you say) and Tohaa aren’t getting a sectorial this year, so they won’t be in the starter.

Bostria is also a huge frigging troll and takes great enjoyment in doing so. This should be well known at this point.

So either the box is going to be Varuna and Invincible Army(because he said they wanted those two to come out together), TAK and Varuna(see statement surrounding "huge frigging troll"), or TAK and Vedic or TAK and Invincible Army.
Additionally since they've been super adamant that they don't ever want ALEPH in a starter box, it leaves one wondering just how much he's trolling and why.

Especially when one takes into account that Varuna and YJ both are already in starter sets.


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 Bladerunner2019 wrote:
I said it before... I never really combined my JSA with standard Yu Jing. Just seemed logical that way.
I’m not really crying for more Yu Jing,

It would be nice for new IA stuff, but I am left asking myself: How would they be all that different from ISS?
They might need to cook up too many new profiles to just slap some garbage together now.

I wouldn’t lose hope. I don’t see why so many of you guys are pressing the Panic button on IA. We have 3 more sectorials dropping this year. Wait until it has been ruled out before cranking.

You know that the Invincible Army(IA) is meant to be a Heavy Infantry aligned Sectorial, right?
It's meant to be the USARF of YJ, effectively.

I think i missed where he said he wanted IA and Varuna to come out together, where was that? I don't think they'd do a 2 player starter with a faction thats already in one either (I had thought maybe they'd do Icestorm Mk2 with Varuna and Tunguska, but thats obviously not happening).

In my mind, TAK and Vedic fits best with the info we have, but yeah Bostria is known to troll (or just be wrong), so I guess it's just a waiting game really.

 Bladerunner2019 wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:

 Bladerunner2019 wrote:
I said it before... I never really combined my JSA with standard Yu Jing. Just seemed logical that way.
I’m not really crying for more Yu Jing,

It would be nice for new IA stuff, but I am left asking myself: How would they be all that different from ISS?
They might need to cook up too many new profiles to just slap some garbage together now.

I wouldn’t lose hope. I don’t see why so many of you guys are pressing the Panic button on IA. We have 3 more sectorials dropping this year. Wait until it has been ruled out before cranking.

You know that the Invincible Army(IA) is meant to be a Heavy Infantry aligned Sectorial, right?
It's meant to be the USARF of YJ, effectively.

I understand. They just don’t excite me I suppose.
I know USARF are super popular, but there is nothing exciting there to me. The units are all indistinguishable troopers.
I believe IA will come later this year. If not, next year. Which is fine with me.

Again, I really wish CB would throw a bone to the guys the alienated by decommissioning Shas & MRRF. It would be new content and a cleanout of the older minis in their back catalogue. Sustaining a bloated catalogue is a dangerous proposition.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 ImAGeek wrote:
It doesn’t fit with the timeline though, especially with Bostria outright saying ‘there’s 5 sectorials but only 4 Ns on the timeline, so two of them will come in an ‘operation’ box’. So the 2 player box will be 2 new sectorials (presumably as ‘starter lite’ as you say) and Tohaa aren’t getting a sectorial this year, so they won’t be in the starter.

Bostria is also a huge frigging troll and takes great enjoyment in doing so. This should be well known at this point.

So either the box is going to be Varuna and Invincible Army(because he said they wanted those two to come out together), TAK and Varuna(see statement surrounding "huge frigging troll"), or TAK and Vedic or TAK and Invincible Army.
Additionally since they've been super adamant that they don't ever want ALEPH in a starter box, it leaves one wondering just how much he's trolling and why.

Especially when one takes into account that Varuna and YJ both are already in starter sets.

As we know there will be a Celestial guard SWC box after summer we can pretty much rule out IA as a Gencon release as they would wanth to release IA stuff after whatever form its "starter" will take is out. There is already precedence for this with the JSA.
Then we still have Magister knights that needs to be released for PanO, and if they are not released in July we can pretty much rule out Varuna for Gencon (Gencon releases are usually out in August or is it September?) . Then we also got the info about Acontecimento "exploding" which could mean a terrorist attack/uprising or Tunguska up to no good, and that is were Varuna comes in.
During the Q&A part of the Adepticon seminar when asked if we are ever going to se an ADHL Carlos said there would be a Tankhunter out later in the year. (If i remember correctly)

With all this info combined, it makes me think that TAK is guaranteed for Gencon with a Tankhunter ADHL in there and then Vedict as well. Vedict makes sense from a narrative point of view as well since Candy cloud takes place on Dawn and having the OSS there seem reasonable.

That and we know there will be no Tohaa this year.

But then again al this depends on if they don brake their trend for a two player starter every two years and instead release two army boxes all of a sudden.

 Bladerunner2019 wrote:

I understand. They just don’t excite me I suppose.
I know USARF are super popular, but there is nothing exciting there to me. The units are all indistinguishable troopers.

Feel the same way about USARF. They look fun to play but the models looks to boring to me.

Bubbalicious wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:

 ImAGeek wrote:
It doesn’t fit with the timeline though, especially with Bostria outright saying ‘there’s 5 sectorials but only 4 Ns on the timeline, so two of them will come in an ‘operation’ box’. So the 2 player box will be 2 new sectorials (presumably as ‘starter lite’ as you say) and Tohaa aren’t getting a sectorial this year, so they won’t be in the starter.

Bostria is also a huge frigging troll and takes great enjoyment in doing so. This should be well known at this point.

So either the box is going to be Varuna and Invincible Army(because he said they wanted those two to come out together), TAK and Varuna(see statement surrounding "huge frigging troll"), or TAK and Vedic or TAK and Invincible Army.
Additionally since they've been super adamant that they don't ever want ALEPH in a starter box, it leaves one wondering just how much he's trolling and why.

Especially when one takes into account that Varuna and YJ both are already in starter sets.

As we know there will be a Celestial guard SWC box after summer we can pretty much rule out IA as a Gencon release as they would wanth to release IA stuff after whatever form its "starter" will take is out. There is already precedence for this with the JSA.

And then there's "precedence" in the Celestial Guard SWC box being long overdue at this point, with the Imperial Service Starter resculpt being a 2016 release.

Then we still have Magister knights that needs to be released for PanO, and if they are not released in July we can pretty much rule out Varuna for Gencon (Gencon releases are usually out in August?) .

GenCon releases are out in August, yes, but that doesn't preclude Magister Knights being released later this year.

Then we also got the info about Acontecimento "exploding" which could mean a terrorist attack/uprising or Tunguska up to no good, and that is were Varuna comes in.

I'll need a direct quote on Acontecimento "exploding" because so far that's only been a thing mentioned by people wanting some kind of parity with Yu Jing losing the JSA.
Surprise surprise--it's more trollbait from Bostria.

The gist is that Aconticemento will be the basis for a campaign apparently and he used the description of it "exploding"...which could mean literally anything as you mentioned.

And don't start with the "TUNGUSKA HAS COMBINED ARMY TECH" nonsense.

During the Q&A part of the Adepticon seminar when asked if we are ever going to se an ADHL Carlos said there would be a Tankhunter out later in the year. (If i remember correctly)

It was before Adepticon that we got a mention of the ADHL Tankhunter, it was at "Rumble" or Dire States. There was a Bostria video thing.

With all this info combined, it makes me think that TAK is guaranteed for Gencon with a Tankhunter ADHL in there and then Vedict as well. Vedict makes sense from a narrative point of view as well since Candy cloud takes place on Dawn and having the OSS there seem reasonable.

TAK being guaranteed for GenCon is basically like saying candy is guaranteed to have sugar. GenCon's a US event and they've made a big show of featuring prominent Ariadnan news there.

Also Candy Cloud doesn't really have anything to do with anything. It's USARF versus Combined and the reason it exists is so that they could put out a crummy Dire Foes for USARF and a Nexus for Onyx.

That and we know there will be no Tohaa this year.

Yeah...except we don't. We have Bostria saying it, and as mentioned, Bostria's a fething troll.


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 Bladerunner2019 wrote:

I understand. They just don’t excite me I suppose.
I know USARF are super popular, but there is nothing exciting there to me. The units are all indistinguishable troopers.
I believe IA will come later this year. If not, next year. Which is fine with me.

We've been told we'll get Closed Battle Lists for Yu Jing this year, with no real notation as to how/what they're for. I'd suggest they'll be IA lists---and given that IA actually has quite a bit of what we're supposed to have within it available we might see the starter, an army pack, or just something like that.

Again, I really wish CB would throw a bone to the guys the alienated by decommissioning Shas & MRRF. It would be new content and a cleanout of the older minis in their back catalogue. Sustaining a bloated catalogue is a dangerous proposition.

I wouldn't. Shas are slated to get resources devoted to them as of the GenCon winddown.
MRRF is supposed to get a new Chasseur blister even.

All bickering aside, when will the TSF sectorial list drop?
Did anyone catch that detail?

When the starter set is available.

Wasnt implying anything about Combined army tech with Tunguska but more of them destabilizing things. But it doesent really matter with the whole Beasts of war campaign.

And the Celestial guard SWC box being overdue has no real bearing on what looks to be how CB is handling the sectorial releases this year. Its still to early to tell but the July/August releases (JSA/Tunguska) will confirm how they are going to handle things for the time being.

I still see the most likely sectorials for gencon as TAK, Vedict currently with the reveal of Tunguska in June.

And by the way, what more prominent Ariadnan news has come out of Gencon more than the USARF? I wouldn't call the limited edition Spec ops as prominent news, nor the black jack that had its render shown last year either.

Bubbalicious wrote:
Wasnt implying anything about Combined army tech with Tunguska but more of them destabilizing things. But it doesent really matter with the whole Beasts of war campaign.

And the Celestial guard SWC box being overdue has no real bearing on what looks to be how CB is handling the sectorial releases this year. Its still to early to tell but the July/August releases (JSA/Tunguska) will confirm how they are going to handle things for the time being.

The JSA starter releases in April(it's a March preorder), May will have the Tanko as a preorder(which means June release).

Do we know what April's releases are?

I still see the most likely sectorials for gencon as TAK, Vedict currently with the reveal of Tunguska in June.

Tunguska's getting a "light" launch though. It's the starter set and then we don't know anything more.

And by the way, what more prominent Ariadnan news has come out of Gencon more than the USARF? I wouldn't call the limited edition Spec ops as prominent news, nor the black jack that had its render shown last year either.

You're conflating "news" with "model releases".

1) The existence of USARF as an upcoming release was GenCon.
2) TAK has been GenCon news in the past.
3) The Blackjack getting a render after being one of the most sought after models was huge news.

I heard it mentioned that they were going to change the releases to when they say its May release they actually mean its out by the end of May, because nothing else has been said for April.

It fits in with the Infinitny "roadmap" for 2018 if you assume the N:s will be released the month after they are "revealed". On N is in March which is an April (JSA) release next one is in May which is a June release and Tunguska are June according to the news from Adepticon.

 Bladerunner2019 wrote:
I said it before... I never really combined my JSA with standard Yu Jing. Just seemed logical that way.
I’m not really crying for more Yu Jing,

It would be nice for new IA stuff....

Same here. I preferred the separation between YJ and JSA, so I’m not too bothered by the separation.

I am pissed off that I still can’t have a five man fire team for my YJ, despite buying two boxes for a total of seven zhanshis almost a year ago. It was the new sculpts of Tigers and Invincibles that got me back into this game, and thd promise of a sectoral for my favourite minis. But hey, I can start a new army instead of playing with what I’ve painted...?

This game has been put on indefinite hold for me.

Sat thru the whole seminar video.

Someone asked if IA will have a smaller tag, a la geckos.
Carlos said IA will have a new S5 HI choice.

Remaining sectorials look like / sound like they’ll be IA, TAK, & Varuna. Vedic aleph might be an outside possibility.

Yes Carlos is being coy etc... obviously we won’t know until it’s all announced.