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2018/04/08 19:27:12
Subject: The Infinity News and Rumors Thread - The 2018 Edition
Bro Gecko, the Hakim are a sign from Nuestras Señorias that RTF is coming. Mid-November would be the time for it, if it is coming this year.
The next 'N's are GenCon and mid-November. Current thinking is the GenCon 'N' will be a battle box ( New term for 2 army box) with Ariadna v. ????
ALEPH will not be in the battle box. CB has stated that neither ALEPH nor Tohaa are going into a box like that. Vedic will get a new starter, like we are seeing with Tunguska. I doubt that CB would do a Vedic army box.
The Mid-November slot... I think it will be a book and an army box. The book will have the new sectorials. Tunguska, Vedic, Varuna, Tartary. One of the latter 3 could be the RTF. The box? Varuna or RTF, my wild guess.
We have this BoW campaign soon enough ( in 2 weeks?) Maybe there will be some clues in it. Doubted, but possible.
2018/04/08 20:12:45
Subject: The Infinity News and Rumors Thread - The 2018 Edition
Red Harvest wrote: Bro Gecko, the Hakim are a sign from Nuestras Señorias that RTF is coming. Mid-November would be the time for it, if it is coming this year.
The next 'N's are GenCon and mid-November. Current thinking is the GenCon 'N' will be a battle box ( New term for 2 army box) with Ariadna v. ????
ALEPH will not be in the battle box. CB has stated that neither ALEPH nor Tohaa are going into a box like that. Vedic will get a new starter, like we are seeing with Tunguska. I doubt that CB would do a Vedic army box.
The Mid-November slot... I think it will be a book and an army box. The book will have the new sectorials. Tunguska, Vedic, Varuna, Tartary. One of the latter 3 could be the RTF. The box? Varuna or RTF, my wild guess.
We have this BoW campaign soon enough ( in 2 weeks?) Maybe there will be some clues in it. Doubted, but possible.
I'm expecting the book and 2 player box for GenCon with them not coming out until at least late August or early September. Remember that the "event" preorders usually last a month or so and then it will be another month before delivery.
That would also then mean that from the time of that release, you would have about a month before the two remaining Sectorials (Vedic and Varuna) could be given their respective starter sets ala Tunguska.
2018/04/08 22:47:08
Subject: The Infinity News and Rumors Thread - The 2018 Edition
Then there would have been 0 reason for Bostria to make a mention of there being 3 left to go and one of them being a 2 for 1.
He was specifically saying there's 3 to be revealed, right after Tunguska were confirmed. On the other ones, no other sectorial has been outright confirmed, from Cancon to Rumble to Adepticon Bostria is name dropping different lists every time, so there's no way to know for sure. If I had to hazard a guess though, Aleph and Yu Jing are 100% out this year, so no Vedic. YJ getting closed battle lists for IA in the upcoming campaign, it can't be that soon, and 2 sectorials being in the starter pretty much locks out Aleph. Unless they repeat what's already been in a 2 player box (and assuming what comes in there is 2 new/possibly revamped sectorials) we won't be seeing Varuna in there (and they're one of the most heavily teased at this point) or Ramah (which is in Red Veil), plus the fact Bostria continually says Aleph won't have a 2 player box. Getting an NA2 starter in the 2 player box would be interesting, and I can see it happening, but it'll be far more Brawler focused than anything if it does happen IMO. Anything about what the 3 remaining army releases is just speculation at this point, and I'd guess it will be until right before Gencon
Getting an NA2 starter in the 2 player box would be interesting, and I can see it happening, but it'll be far more Brawler focused than anything if it does happen IMO. Anything about what the 3 remaining army releases is just speculation at this point, and I'd guess it will be until right before Gencon
See, I thought the same thing about Brawler focus as well at first.
But then I realized that with Brawlers? They've got a fairly consistent enough profile that they could reasonably see a box to cover most everything.
Rifle+LSG covers 3 profiles(one of which is LT and one is just the Haris profile) plus Engineers with D-Charges and Paramedics with Medical Kits.
Multi Sniper Rifle is its own profile with MSVL2.
Heavy Rocket has an Assault Pistol
Hacker has a SMG
So 8 profiles, 3 which would best be served by a generic Rifle+LSG, 2 with Rifle+LSG that could be given proxy status. A profile for the sniper, profile for HRL, and a Hacker. Brawlers also only see light, currently, in the 3 NA2 Merc outfits.
A Druze centric box with Bashi Bazouks on the other hand lets them put out, via a backdoor channel, a "new" Qapu Khalqi starter and a 'starter' for two of the 3 merc companies in one go.
Not saying this is exactly what they'll do, but if they have given it anywhere near the same amount of thought I have? They'd be mining solid gold there since Outrage and the Druze were apparently a Big Deal for bringing new folks in.
2018/04/09 05:41:56
Subject: The Infinity News and Rumors Thread - The 2018 Edition
I must have missed this. So there's a video where someone from CB confirms that Vedic is one of the remaining sectorials we'll see this year? Do you have a link?
2018/04/09 07:05:24
Subject: The Infinity News and Rumors Thread - The 2018 Edition
Red Harvest wrote: Bro Gecko, the Hakim are a sign from Nuestras Señorias that RTF is coming. Mid-November would be the time for it, if it is coming this year.
The next 'N's are GenCon and mid-November. Current thinking is the GenCon 'N' will be a battle box ( New term for 2 army box) with Ariadna v. ????
ALEPH will not be in the battle box. CB has stated that neither ALEPH nor Tohaa are going into a box like that. Vedic will get a new starter, like we are seeing with Tunguska. I doubt that CB would do a Vedic army box.
The Mid-November slot... I think it will be a book and an army box. The book will have the new sectorials. Tunguska, Vedic, Varuna, Tartary. One of the latter 3 could be the RTF. The box? Varuna or RTF, my wild guess.
We have this BoW campaign soon enough ( in 2 weeks?) Maybe there will be some clues in it. Doubted, but possible.
It has been 100% confirmed that Gencon will be a new battle box. What that will be is just speculation but most likely Vedict vs Ariadna, and if it is Ariadna it will be Tartary since the French would need an army box of its own to get them up to N3 standards since everything they have is really old.
The statement of ALEPH not being in a battlebox is really old, about 3 - 4 years old when. I think that has been thrown out the window since a couple of years ago after they did their "blatant market research" at Gencon some two years ago and one of the things was a box with ALEPH vs Combined and it was well received. I think it had a picture of an Avatar punching Achilles or the other way around.
And they have stated that the primary goal for this year is to try and get the people already playing Infinity to branch out into buying new armies and not necessarily getting new people into the game, thats just an added bonus.
That and it would be weird if they kept ALEPH in the bottom for nr of release slots/year for a third year in a row.
Personally i hope Vedict isn't in there because im not really sure of how im going to handle starting three new armies in one year since Vedict, Tartary(for both the sectorial and to play vanilla) and Varuna are things i have been looking forward to.
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2018/04/09 20:26:18
Subject: The Infinity News and Rumors Thread - The 2018 Edition
FINALLY CB are finally fixing Kusanagi. It is good to hear, I love the fluff and have the model but she is just too expensive for what she is to be of any real use.
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2018/04/09 23:56:59
Subject: The Infinity News and Rumors Thread - The 2018 Edition
master of ordinance wrote: FINALLY CB are finally fixing Kusanagi. It is good to hear, I love the fluff and have the model but she is just too expensive for what she is to be of any real use.
No they're not. They will get a small bonus for being missing for so long as part of the ongoing narrative, but they're not getting a profile rework or tweak.
The guy running the ITS narrative stuff @HellLois has confirmed on Facebook that they are NOT gone for the rest of the season.
They are also NOT getting profile changes or updates.
There WILL be some kind of bonus added for them when they do come back, as part of the next "stage" of the Season 9 narrative.
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2018/04/10 00:14:23
Subject: The Infinity News and Rumors Thread - The 2018 Edition
master of ordinance wrote: FINALLY CB are finally fixing Kusanagi. It is good to hear, I love the fluff and have the model but she is just too expensive for what she is to be of any real use.
No they're not. They will get a small bonus for being missing for so long as part of the ongoing narrative, but they're not getting a profile rework or tweak.
The guy running the ITS narrative stuff @HellLois has confirmed on Facebook that they are NOT gone for the rest of the season.
They are also NOT getting profile changes or updates.
There WILL be some kind of bonus added for them when they do come back, as part of the next "stage" of the Season 9 narrative.
Shame, she could *really* use a fresh miniature =/
So many games, so little time.
So many models, even less time.
Screw it, Netflix and chill.
2018/04/10 01:14:46
Subject: The Infinity News and Rumors Thread - The 2018 Edition
master of ordinance wrote: FINALLY CB are finally fixing Kusanagi. It is good to hear, I love the fluff and have the model but she is just too expensive for what she is to be of any real use.
No they're not. They will get a small bonus for being missing for so long as part of the ongoing narrative, but they're not getting a profile rework or tweak.
The guy running the ITS narrative stuff @HellLois has confirmed on Facebook that they are NOT gone for the rest of the season.
They are also NOT getting profile changes or updates.
There WILL be some kind of bonus added for them when they do come back, as part of the next "stage" of the Season 9 narrative.
Shame, she could *really* use a fresh miniature =/
Kusanagi might get a model but it's unlikely given that Bakunin is "done" for the time being and it wouldn't be tied to this event or anything. It just would be her getting a new model.
2018/04/10 02:05:10
Subject: The Infinity News and Rumors Thread - The 2018 Edition
master of ordinance wrote: FINALLY CB are finally fixing Kusanagi. It is good to hear, I love the fluff and have the model but she is just too expensive for what she is to be of any real use.
No they're not. They will get a small bonus for being missing for so long as part of the ongoing narrative, but they're not getting a profile rework or tweak.
The guy running the ITS narrative stuff @HellLois has confirmed on Facebook that they are NOT gone for the rest of the season.
They are also NOT getting profile changes or updates.
There WILL be some kind of bonus added for them when they do come back, as part of the next "stage" of the Season 9 narrative.
Shame, she could *really* use a fresh miniature =/
Kusanagi might get a model but it's unlikely given that Bakunin is "done" for the time being and it wouldn't be tied to this event or anything. It just would be her getting a new model.
That said, they just got new Morlocks, & fairly recently Riot Grrls.
If she’s a focus of this ITS season or whatever the heck is going on it would be nice if they did an update.
Is that a natural 21?
Nomads & Yu Jing
2018/04/10 04:34:54
Subject: The Infinity News and Rumors Thread - The 2018 Edition
Moderators march 17
Zero repack june 17
Riot Grrls july 17
Taskmaster october 17
Morlocks jan 18
Zoe next month, and prowlers repack
Kusanagi aside, there's plenty of room for the riot grrl spitfire, Bran, maybe even new uberfallkommando.
(tho really i wish they'd redo Zeroes and Prowlers)
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So many games, so little time.
So many models, even less time.
Screw it, Netflix and chill.
2018/04/10 13:29:31
Subject: The Infinity News and Rumors Thread - The 2018 Edition
Something to consider. We may just get the sectorial list, like we've had for the NAA sectorials, except the JSA.
I don't really understand why people think Vedic can't be in a two player box. The onlyreason I can think of is that Carlos said that Aleph wasn't a beginners army and wouldn't appear in two player boxes, but that was like 2 years ago and obviously things change. I think its totally possible ta this point.
Carlos said that the 5 new sectorials would all have models and not just be (to use his phrase) "paper armies". I guess that doesn't mean that they might not release a sectorial list for Vedic in addition to whatever the remaining 3 armies are. Persoanlly I still think there's a chance we'll see a new book later this year.
Absolutionis wrote: Aleph vs Combined makes sense storylinewise, but we already have a Steel Phalanx box.
I don't really think the 300 point army boxes are a consideration. They're just repacks of old models.
(tho really i wish they'd redo Zeroes and Prowlers)
The original Zero hasn't aged well, but Prowlers are really nice models and fit in well with the current Nomad designs and scale. Do they really need a redo?
2018/04/10 15:16:50
Subject: The Infinity News and Rumors Thread - The 2018 Edition
LunarSol wrote: I quite like my Zeros. The could be better, but they don't stand out as old models to me at all.
The hacker has aged really well. It also fits in with the newer models nicely. The original (the sneaky one with the knife) stands out a lot as one of CB's original style "single piece with dynamic pose" models. I've never loved that particular model, but I do miss that style sometimes. Especially since each model tended to look like an actual individual.
2018/04/10 15:53:06
Subject: The Infinity News and Rumors Thread - The 2018 Edition
LunarSol wrote: I quite like my Zeros. The could be better, but they don't stand out as old models to me at all.
The hacker has aged really well. It also fits in with the newer models nicely. The original (the sneaky one with the knife) stands out a lot as one of CB's original style "single piece with dynamic pose" models. I've never loved that particular model, but I do miss that style sometimes. Especially since each model tended to look like an actual individual.
Sneaky guy is actually my favorite. Compared to other older models I have he's a good size compared to the newer digital sculpts and he looks great for the role he serves on the table. The primary problem with him that's pretty common with models from that era are just that his gun is too large, though since its tucked in its not as comically obvious as it is for say, the Moran.
2018/04/10 18:15:47
Subject: The Infinity News and Rumors Thread - The 2018 Edition
LunarSol wrote: I quite like my Zeros. The could be better, but they don't stand out as old models to me at all.
The hacker has aged really well. It also fits in with the newer models nicely. The original (the sneaky one with the knife) stands out a lot as one of CB's original style "single piece with dynamic pose" models. I've never loved that particular model, but I do miss that style sometimes. Especially since each model tended to look like an actual individual.
Sneaky guy is actually my favorite. Compared to other older models I have he's a good size compared to the newer digital sculpts and he looks great for the role he serves on the table. The primary problem with him that's pretty common with models from that era are just that his gun is too large, though since its tucked in its not as comically obvious as it is for say, the Moran.
Yeah, I have a lot of the older models that I still like a lot, and the original line actually scales really well with the current models. But some of those weapons are pretty beefy. I finally went ahead and retired my Fusilier HMG. Her gun was just comically big.
2018/04/10 23:44:27
Subject: Re:The Infinity News and Rumors Thread - The 2018 Edition
Those hats are awful. They look like mascots for a poorly designed line of tupperware.
If they were the same it would help; the consistency would at least reinforce the idea that the silly hats were intentional. But now it looks like they designed one, realized how silly it was, tried again with a different design... hated that one and tried yet again.
The salad bowl is passable I guess. But Mayor McCheese and Starbucks Coffee Lid need to go.
I guess that future Japanese neo-bushido radicals are so gung-ho about embracing their cultural throwbacks that they turn things to eleven, raid the kitchen supply store, and dont even check themselves in the mirror.
So many games, so little time.
So many models, even less time.
Screw it, Netflix and chill.
2018/04/11 04:02:08
Subject: The Infinity News and Rumors Thread - The 2018 Edition
Another theory. These and the daikyoku are deliberately bad, so much so that Yu Jing players will be elated that the JSA and its fugly minis are no longer a part of the faction.
Yeah. That has to be it. Now all CB needs to do is release the IA for GenCon along with a few awesome new Yu zJing minis and all will be right for the Yujingalings, Yuchineros, Yutchiniers and the Yujingerydoos.
2018/04/11 04:05:24
Subject: The Infinity News and Rumors Thread - The 2018 Edition
Red Harvest wrote: Another theory. These and the daikyoku are deliberately bad, so much so that Yu Jing players will be elated that the JSA and its fugly minis are no longer a part of the faction.
Yeah. That has to be it. Now all CB needs to do is release the IA for GenCon along with a few awesome new Yu zJing minis and all will be right for the Yujingalings, Yuchineros, Yutchiniers and the Yujingerydoos.
Its true. The average level of yu jing HI visual coolness went up markedly after the uprising.
So many games, so little time.
So many models, even less time.
Screw it, Netflix and chill.
2018/04/11 04:08:08
Subject: The Infinity News and Rumors Thread - The 2018 Edition
