She must have stole it from the Wu Ming... and decided to deploy the butt to make it even longer. Same goes to the Jinwei with their incredibly long and weird E/Mitter when anybody else would have it plugged on the main weapon (and I'm not talking about the Heavy Riotstopper taking the same design and thus looking nothing like the concept art, making me think we'll never see another HRS on a YJ mini). Don't expect anything for IA and White Banner apart from the odd things coming from other sectorials (Feiquan for WB and Sacha for IA). For IS, as the miniatures are no more in store, we could see a repack with a Kanren, Hsien HMG and Luna (unless they are waiting for her Hexadome Legend miniature to make a new one for Infinity too). It could even be a character pack with Adil, Sun Tzu and Luna, leaving another repack for both Kanren and the Hsien HMG (even if the Switcher Gruppa box shows we can have a Kanren rebox with both of them and two Madtraps). If there is a CG with SGL release, I bet it will be with two Kuang Shi. I don't expect other loadout as giving options to line troops is becoming a very rare occurrence lately (nothing for Fennecs or Senku yet), even if a box of two CG + Dragon Lord could make sens (but I don't expect another Dragon Lord either). Apart from a Bao + Pheasant (or Zhanying, or Pheasant... anything "Zhian" in fact) box they could make : - Koga, Quianfeng, Crane box (something akin to the Shindenbutai Gamma pack) - Shénji TB, Pheasant doc, 2 old Yaosao (even if I don't see another Shénji be done).
I had a fun idea they could do. If they have the ability. For Kanren; they could do one figure in metal like normal, then two others in clear plastic done with the siocast. They would be the decoys.
Look at the render picture. Its the Riotstopper with added E-Mitter. The Shenji has a E-Mitter Turret, so I think all others are too small - especialy the little knot on the Wu Ming SMG. Which would be great for CB because if you are new and want 4 Kuangs, you have to buy the box twice. Still provides you with two SGL, one for Kuang, one for CG. Not a good tendency. I would buy SWC Zhanshi just for the look. Nah. Best Decoy is a painted miniature. Markers are for Camo decoys.
I wouldn't hate a redesign of kanren if we do end up with a kanren and pair of bao at some point. The current models esthetics is a mismatch compared to its profile.
I wouldn't hate a re-desgin either but they seems to be avoiding re-designs. The have one hacker, that unfortunately has a gun that only the KHD has, the other is a CCW and pistol that can be just about anything else. They are technically still good. Sadly, they are just not great troops now. Well, they never were great, but they didn’t get better either. I might be negative today but I feel if the faction is not Nomads or Combined, we won't be seeing any new troops for a long time to come. We know now that this new CA sectoral is coming out this fall and next spring should be USARF. So don’t expect many new figures and probably a lot of re-packaging of old.
I'm sharing this just for the hell of it. Shaolin upgrade! The Sohei essentially are this. Regular, Frenzy, ARM3. But lower Wip and not very good weapon choices. They MUST have smoke. As I’ve said before I’d rather that Shaolin had Para CCW to keep in-line with being Buddhist. The main weapon of Shaolin was the staff. Yes they knew other weapons but that was more for training to fight AGAINST them rather than with them.
Sorry guys, i'm not on the ball here with the previews. As I’ve said elsewhere, I like the look of it a lot but the effectiveness of it feels the worse of the bunch. Only one disposable weapon good outside of 16” range. The rest 0-16” and the cost is a lot in comparison to others. .5 SWC? For a multi-rifle and ADHL? Even with +1 Burst it’s not worth taking up SWC. The X-Visor doesn’t help. MSV would make it worth it.
The rest il 0-24 thanks to the X-Visor that doesn't help... And a MULTI-Rifle B+1 with BS12 and Mim-6 is scary enough to be taken into account...
A MR is not that scary. For only 3pts more, the Go-Pod has an option with +1B MR, and an E/Mitter rather than a carbine. With better BS and then BS Attack -3 and Mim -3. The only troops that can get through are Govad, Bolts and a single Frontovik. But who takes that when for 33pts you have an +1B, SR-1, HRL? Oh and a Peripheral because...Nomads. Either Go-Pod needs to go up in price or the Feiquan needs to go down. But i'm talking out of my ass because I'm not buying it because it costs too much money Anyway, on to the Future! I’m guessing there will be new Bao, Celstial Guard hacker and/or SGL. I’m hoping for a different weapon Koga Ninja but mainly to be a proxy for Sulsa. The Kogo is ok. So far it’ hasn’t done much for me. After that, I sadly don’t foresee them coming out with much Yu Jing in the following years.
New Bao would be great. I didn't get the old ones because I think they look ass. I already have two versions of SGL so don't need another one of those.
