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Haha very good

I'm looking forward to seeing what routes will be taken with N4 too, especially with trying to get some other players onboard.

Last studio update before N4 releases next Friday;


And this looks promising. Hacking simplified. I am most gruntled by this. Four devices and 11 programs. IIRC, N2 had 10 programs?

You're forgetting that they're doing the whole, (+/- Modifiers) in parenthesis now. So honestly, now that they've opened up that design space for themselves, they can have as many variations on programs that they want.

^^^Killjoy.

We'll find out Friday. if it is the case, it will still be an improvement over N3 hacking.

Let's talk about the sexy new Asura.

Ah, I'm not worried. Variations on a template are much easier to memorize and handle than dozens of differently named programs that kind of do the same thing, just in very specific ways.

What's changed with the Asura? I haven't played ALEPH in a long while, and even then not enough to tell the differences.

Basic 7-9 point drop in all prfiles, SWC drop in a few others, 4 point boost to CC, MM value changed to 6-2.

On the other hand, it doesn't look like Cybermask provides the -3 surprise shot it used to, but damn I'll take it.

That is quite a bump. Sadly I don't have my ALEPH army anymore, I gave them to a friend since they were focusing on the Greek sectorial at the time and I wasn't a fan.

But I should look into doing an elite O-12 + ALEPH army sometime now that there's a bunch of new sculpts.

I like those speedy Domaru......

 .Mikes. wrote:
Let's talk about the sexy new Asura.

For comparison:



I am going to miss the Lt L2 multi rifle hacker, but not by much with all the additional stuff and cost downgrades it's getting.

The Lt L2 profiles are OSS only, so they might still be in.

Good point. I always found ti funny how they were AVA 4 in OSS. Four Asuras, two netrod and a dakini sounds fun.

 Red Harvest wrote:
had repressed that. So now the Nomads have 2 of them. Bah! We'll see how the painted mini looks. I may change my mind.

She's really not very Harley. No pigtails or anything. She just has a bat. If anything, she looks like Karin from the Street Fighter games.

You may be correct. I don't play computer games so I would be unfamiliar with characters from them. I see the bat and I think of what's floating around in pop culture these days that uses a bat.

So, if I've heard correctly, Friday, 6 pm CET -- 12 noon Eastern Standard-- is the release time for N4.

The good news for all is that the Bolts will be in N4, and at release too. They're in ForCo. We may rejoice.

 Red Harvest wrote:
I see the bat and I think of what's floating around in pop culture these days that uses a bat.

Probably the wrong way to go about that since really only 2 of their references(Reign of Fire McConnaghy and Captain America) have the weapons they're known for, and even then, it's one one version of Cap. With Corvus Belli, it's the face/hairstyle combos that tell you the reference(some of the Morlocks being an exception).

Senore Massacre AKA Deadpool is armed exactly like his pop culture reference, Achilles has has always been the sci-fi version of Brad Pitt in Troy, the Clint Eastwood Desperado has a giant revolver, etc. Some people hate the references, I've always kinda liked them

Looking forward to the full release on friday, the leaks don't mean a whole lot without seeing the rest of the faction to gauge them against. Loving the Domaru profiles, might have to go back to JSA for a while

"Armed exactly like Deadpool" doesn't mean much considering everything is a weapon to Deadpool because he has a nonsense, chaotic fighting style(he's the only person that Taskmaster admits he can't beat because Taskmaster can't copy his lack of style).

Yojimbo, a Toshira Mifune reference, is using the weapon the character is known for. I suppose if we scour the minis we can find more.

I dislike the comic book references, but I do like most of the others, movies and TV. Loved the shout out to lost with the original ASA regulars. Was bummed that we never got a Hurley.

Some folks have already received the books, but they still lack the pdf for fireteams.

I'm not sure how much it matters to me when a character in a heavily anime inspired game is wielding a katana.

 Platuan4th wrote:
"Armed exactly like Deadpool" doesn't mean much considering everything is a weapon to Deadpool because he has a nonsense, chaotic fighting style(he's the only person that Taskmaster admits he can't beat because Taskmaster can't copy his lack of style).

"Twin Katanas and whatever guns you can draw" has been the weaponry that Deadpool has had from his comic origins.
Along with Massacre being the Spanish name for Deadpool, makes a pretty compelling case of the obvious nod.




I am still the biggest fan of the Scottish references in the Highlander box. Getting 4 awesome looking and recognizable people at 28mm scale.

2nd wave (late Nobember):

The rest of the armies (currently discontinued ones).

Well, that is pretty much what was expected with the discontinued skus. But feth you anyway Corvus Belli. You want me to not play your game and work hard to convince my friends not to play it also. Great I can do that.

Rules and Army have been out for 4 hours and no hot takes?

OK, I'll start. Ahem. WTF ARE THE UHLAN AND FARZAN?!

EDIT: NVM. I was using the old link.

Big winners for me are the TAGs I most often use:

Scarface going up 2 points in armour, getting buffs in CC (and PH for Pilot Joe) and getting 3 different loadouts that seem useful, MK12+HRL, AP HMG and AP Spitfire. Price goes up a little...but I consider it worth it, especially with the Crit changes.

Anaconda getting the speed modification to 6-2 which makes it far better than the old 4-2. A point of Armour and reduction in price.

Iguana stays the same, Operator gets +3 BTS...and goes down 10 points. Heck yeah.

A lot of TAG improvements in general. Excited to see if they finally got them right.

Overall really happy with how the skills are reorganized. There's a few things that feel kind of redundant (a lot of Shock Immunity) but its cleaner than having to remember what Shock works on I suppose.

Are the TAG improvements generally being done on an individual per TAG basis or is the entire category being improved? I've always been interested in all things robots (Robotech, Votoms, Heavy Gear, etc) but the general opinion I've seen online is that they're just not worth it compared with normal infantry. If I'm being honest, that was part of why I didn't get into N3.

Both. All TAGs look now have +1 damage and Tactical Awareness (+1 order) built-in as expected, and then they got further customized from there on an individual basis. Most just got a little cheaper, but some got pretty hefty reworks like the Geckos, which were exceedingly mediocre before. Added +1 armor for 6ARM, 6-2 MOV like heavy infantry, and they get +2 Damage on weapons instead of the standard +1. They also had their weapons loadouts upgraded, all while getting very slightly cheaper pointswise, but more SWC than they were before.

Pretty excited to see Sally dropped 18 points.

Anaconda showing as 4-4 to me...linking off of CB's site to Army - what am I missing?

Guijia got Martial Arts 2, Superjump and that gizmo-thingy!

BOING! BOING! BOING!