Okay! So, I learned about Operation Coldfront and it kind of broke my heart... as three of seven ALEPH minis inside are troops I have already assembled and painted. The Naga sniper? I have her. The Dakinis? I have two of them (old versions, of course) ready. Now, these two Dakinis will look strange next to the new ones... And the new Naga will look weird next to the old one, as she's (kind of) the same character. Aaagh. Anyway... questions! I see that CB is currently offering the 'Advanced Pack'... Could you guys help me out and explain it to me? Specifically: is the Asura from this pack a limited mini, or is it going to be released separately later? If she's going to be released later, then will it be the same mini, or another Asura with a different pose etc.? Also: what do we know about Dart? Is she worth of picking up? Finally: any other new ALEPH releases on the horizon? I see that Coldfront has a new Deva - so, maybe there is going to be a new Synchronized Devas box, or something like that? What are the news? The rumours? Help me out, please!
The advance pack Asura will be released separately later in the year, the Gencon bundle is just a way to get her early. Beasts of War have the profiles for the new troopers in a video, they are also in the Vedic speculation threat in this subforum. We know we're getting a Beyond Coldfront box with new Combat REM, a Cyber dancer, and Yadu character, we don't know their profiles. There's also a very high chance of a Dakini SWC box.
She will be released in the fall. Same mini. The profiles are posted in both the vedic thread, and the august speculation thread. There is a new beyond box coming for coldfront later this year that has a rem, and two others in it, again its being discussed in the vedic thread and the august release thread.
I will add here a note to what Wombat said. The old Aleph Starter included a Naga Hacker, 3 dakinis, Asura and Deva Functionary. The new one seems to be 3 Dakinis, Deva hacker, Naga sniper, and Sukra (the Yadu is the "extra model" for the box, the Ratnik is that for Ariadna, and the Wardriver is the preorder model). So no, no new Devas box in the horizon, and I wouldn't expect one, since those are quite nice. The Deva in the old Starter, however... she needed to go. As for the naga sniper, well... I already have all the nagas, so... let's hope for AVA4 XD
Yes, the naga. Cause the older one was the first aleph blister, they wanted to do something special with that miniature :) Enviado desde mi Redmi Note 4 mediante Tapatalk
You could always explain the difference in appearance between the two sets of dakinis as a version 1 and version 2. They're robots so it's less awkward than uniform changes in humanoid old vs new sculpts.
I've got a different question, about Dart - how likely is it that another Aleph-themed Dart will be released for Infinity at some point? Because I don't particularly want to buy an Aristeia expansion with three other models in it just for Dart, especially since that Dart is not especially Aleph in appearance. But at the same time, money's tight at the moment and shipping the con-exclusive Dart to my country is prohibitively expensive if I want to be able to afford to pre-order Coldfront at my FLGS. I could maybe just stretch to the con-Dart and Coldfront, but it would be tough. But if this is my only chance to get an Aleph-themed Dart, I definitely want her. And strangely enough, I prefer the Aristeia-Dart's head, with the hood and goggles, but the con-Dart's body. So if a non-con-Dart got released in the future in her own blister with an Aleph aesthetic but the hood up, I would prefer that, tbqh. But since I don't know if that will ever be a thing...? tl;dr, is this my only chance to get an Aleph Dart? Or a Dart at all without getting three Aristeia models I (currently, could always change, I could decide to pick up the game) have no use for?
Going off past exclusives I would say highly likely, although I wouldn't expect to see it even mentioned for at least 18 months.
Van Zandt, Unknown Ranger, and thr Grunt Spec OP all hade general release sculpt not too long after there Gencon limited sculpt. Most by December of that year IIRC.
They are quite literally this in the lore Dakinis V2.0. All sculpt changes have in the lore fluff explanations these are the new production line Dakinis.