At AdeptiCon?!? That's a very unusual release timing for an Operation box. Those usually get announced at GenCon. AdeptiCon 2018 saw the Uprising (and JSA army pack), pretty sure AdeptiCon 2017 saw the USAriadna army pack...
Not sure if he meant an operation box, or he just called the whole campaign timeline advance "an operation". I guess we will find out soonish The exact quote is "we are planning a big operation". So I guess it is about the plot advance. At least an army box is confirmed and a book
The way the video is talking about it, it does sound more like three bullet points: a "big operation" (another event?) a "lovely box" with new miniatures a new book (That's from the first four minutes of the CanCon video, back in post 45.) I think we're more likely to see Illuminati Tohaa than an Operation:_____ box at Adepticon. Either that or it's going to be a Shaasvastii box and everyone's going to start making Skrull jokes as everyone in critical points of operation turn out to be Speculo operatives.
If Corvus continues with "narrative releases" as last year, we could think in a new book with a strikes back against CA after the 3rd offensive (including the sectorials that aren't in last book), so a Tohaa army box (with triumvirate as NA2 or other Tohaa sectorial) joining the war makes sense. Also an Operation box Tohaa Vs Shasvastii (Corvus said many times that this will be an alien year), it's true that aesthetically, these factions are not best-sellers but they have been in the bench for so long that any release will be pretty well received I guess.
if we look at the releases in the past month, I would bet it is a Ramah Task Force Box like the JSA Box in the last year at the same time.
I think that RTF has a lot of miniatures already in the catalogue, so I don't know if a big army box with new minis will be possible. Maybe a re-pack (ala MO 300 pts box), but it wouldn't be a new release for a big event.
Let's see, we've had a whole 0 CA or Tohaa releases within the first 2 months and the renders we've seen. Year of the Alien indeed.
Maybe when Corvus said "Alien year" they mean "The year when the aliens will die": Tohaa and Shasvastti removed from Army and fluff.
I doubt it. The Haqqislam starter box is also the RTF starter, so there's not that many models they need to add for RTM - most of them already exist.
@chaospanda_507 @Kakino you are both totally right, but we don't know, what new kind of Stuff Ramah will see. Yes I could be totally wrong and it's only my personal opinion.
RTF box would be possible miniatures wise...2 boxes and some blisters would make a fine Army Pack. A box of Zhayedan and another one with a new profile and 2-3 blisters with new profiles also are reasonable expectations. But since the plot revolves around the aliens presumeably, I think its going to be one of them.
In the Beasts of War Khawarijs sneak peek It says that Ramah is coming later in the year...it's hard to say how accurate is this. "This set of four miniatures will be available in February of this year and will be usable within a new Sectorial Force for Haqqislam which will be unlocked later in the year." https://www.beastsofwar.com/infinity/infinity-sneak-peek-haqqislam-khawarijs/
On the contrary, all TMNT issues by Mirage were released in B&W, up until and including Volume IV Issue #32 (the very last TMNT comic published by Mirage), but some of the early issues were colorized with later reprints. Even the image you posted comes from the very first issue, which was definitely released in B&W first. There's a kickstarter going on for a TMNT miniatures game which includes some extra turtle sculpts. I'd be very tempted to paint at least one set in the original grayscale if I could afford it :P
My guess would be an army box akin to JSA or USAriadna for that. If the book then is 3rdO part 2 Shashvasti could make sense, but we haven't seen anything teased yet.
RTF is more likely to get a 300pt box when they get released than they are an army pack. Army Packs tend to be built around the idea of "Army starter+one or two boxes/blisters+an exclusive model".
