Tohaa, MRRF, QK, Acon & NCA will not be in N4, stuck in N3

There is some next level RP going on here and I can't say I'm not enjoying it.

 

Bagh Mari can be Kamau, Nagas can be either Croc or Zulus, Akals Echos. Unfortunately the Tik has no equivalent in PanO outside of the Uhlan which is also going away. Guarda can be Patsy or Orcs. Proxying isn't really an issue for that specific faction.

 

Come on mate bear with me for a sec.
In which universe would it make sense to cut both S6 TAGs? They're both fairly unique and shared between Sectorials. Grumpy reminder the Tik is in MO and might live because of that alone.

Even if their Sectorials go the way of the dodo. The Jotum has been sitting in Vanilla without a Sectorial for like 2 editions of the game?

TL:DR - TAGs have plot armor.

 

And destroy carefully planned production cycles and recordings just because a few people on the forums are going ballistic because of a rumour? No, mate. But they probably should lock the thread and say "stay tuned for next week when we will be providing new information that we hope will get you excited for N4"

 

If they are cutting NCA and Acontacimento and Dragao might be out because of that as well I'd say it's at least plausible.

 

Guarda = Teutons (yeah, as if someone actually uses them)
Tik and Uhlans= sucks ass, no other model with that S up to now in the same faction
But it's unknown if those units will be taken from vanilla to leave the new slots for the new units, design and SKU-wise.
I must say, IF those factions/sectorials are squatted, It would be an incredible let down. I have often vouched for CB, but that might be the worst single decision they have made and I would understand the anger of their players. And I agree with those that state that jumping into a wargame IS and investment, in time and money, and getting back to square one after collecting, painting and playing for years miniature from a faction is incredibly frustrating, even it you have other factions.
Getting a PDF with the new profiles for N4 for those factions should be a given, the minimum expected effort from a company, I'm actually surprised there are people thinking that cancelling whole factions/sectorials is ok, even if this might not be the case.

 

"Production of the Merovingian Sectorial Army will end in August. Afterwards, the entire line will be retired from our store. If you have been thinking of getting a Merovingian army, there is no better time than now to act.

Make your last and heroic stand with the Merovingians! You will have an exclusive collectible army unlike any other for years to come."

 

Do you even sleep

 

To be fair, we still haven't heard this confirmed from the horses mouth, lets wait a bit till we hear the whole story eh?

 

I disagree. Clarifying some things a few days earlier does precisely nothing to their plans; they can still release pre-planned teasers on schedule, and production cycle is a different beast altogether. But trust is fragile, and should be cared about.

I'm only minimally affected by the whole issue - assuming it'll come to pass exactly this way - and I can easily play with other sectorials. But people who focused on Tohaa, FRRM, or Acon? Those I feel sorry for.

 

That would suck, but we don't actually know if any units are going away, plus:

It's a lot easier to balance an AVA 1-3 unit that will only be available in vanilla, and thus won't have any interaction with the vast swathe of rules that only matter to a fireteam.

That doesn't mean that CB will do it, but it doesn't mean that they won't either.

We know that CB can take a while to respond to this sort of issue, in some cases we've been waiting years for the answer, and we're looking down the barrel of N4 wondering if it fired six shots or only intended to fire five...

So maybe let's not call each other names for expressing opinions?

 

Exactly, "years" to come", it has been years, 2 of them, looks good to me.