holy hell make peace with your god(s) and tell your friends and family you love them the end times are here i agree with janzerker
So at this point I'm going to admit that I've completely forgotten what the timing was for when CB redid the Morat models. When were the old models discontinued?
Morats were done piecemeal, the new starter was late 2nd edition I think, but most SKUs didn't disappear until the resculpt came along.
Wow, I actually want to play Ramah now. Yeah, I'm not happy about this. I wish Zuyong had gotten the 1W+NWI+Shock/Bio treatment when all the new 'superlight HI' came out. And the Hackable trait *really* needs to give a discount! And that's a BIG problem. Probably going to discontinue all the old Shas when the new Starter releases. But the Shas models aren't anywhere near ready yet, so CB doesn't have a timeline for when Shas will be released. Baseline human troopers can't get 6-2MOV. LHosts can (Joan2), Metachemistry can, massively modified supersoldiers can.
I feel like you are the right person to point out how bullshit an argument it is that you can achieve this with drugs or bioengineering, while arguing that it's impossible to achieve with powered armour.
Just because the armour is capable of it doesn't mean the fleshy meatsack inside is. It's the old cyberpunk idiom "Even though your fancy robot arm is strong enough to lift up a car, remember that your organic legs and spine definitely can't hold the weight."
I understand that argument, and I literally just called it bullshit. Repeating it does not change my opinion on its value in this case.
So, you want part of the requirements to be a HI trooper is to have either an LHost or be on MetaChemistry?
No, I just want CB to stop pretending you can't make a human move faster than normal using power armour.