I must say anyway, even with the profile disparity the YJ half seems much cooler than the "here, have some more space mari... Knights" PanO selection
So, does that mean it's initially a convention only release like the advance boxes, but the df gets a general release later?
Mentioned this over in the PanO sub-forum. The Kunai Solutions ninja might be a tad different than your usual run of the mill ninja based on the RPG text in the YJ Sourcebook: Since everything goes by, is provided, and/or is cleared by Gutier for the RPG an actual long range focused ninja might be coming.
I do see it as more that ninja, samurai, knight weeb stuff sells really well. So lets cram it into PanO because why not. I'm not the biggest fan of it either and there's some doubt he'll slot well into PanO's already packed long range killer selection.
I'd be okay with this, too. God knows they could use a proper long range gunfighter. Hell, just cut the cord already, use WB as an opportunity to give YJ a new TO infiltrator and give the ninja over entirely to JSA. I just don't like the idea of PanO getting all the toys.
After playing through the latter half of N2, and N3 up until the release of Varuna, I still find PanO getting nice things to be a relative novelty!
I can understand Janzerker’s frustration but it is still too early to get that angry. I’m excited for the new troops. I’m hoping the Jujak is combat jump but it could be something else entirely. They are called shock infantry so they are all about attack. For the Hùndùn, I looked it up and It means “chaos” and the name of a “legendary faceless mythological being”. He’s all about creating chaos. He’s also called an Ambush Unit. So I’m guessing Camo of some sort or Impersonation! Maye with mines and ambush camouflage. Etc., and multi-terrain. It will need to be different from the Guilang though. I am a bit disappointed in Zhanshi instead of Shaolin but I guess it’s okay. Most of my old Zhanshi own have gone over to Dahshat to become Ghulam or Ikari Keisotsu. The artwork looks cool! But yes, the Daofei is going to taken apart by the knight I'm guessing the Orc and Knight are the equivalent to the Varuna Division ORCs. Same thing but with some extra only they can take. Like Mountain/Arctic terrain. Not that big of a deal.
No visor or hack armband on the Dao Fei artwork. My money is on spitfire, to spite all those chopped up starter box cranes out there. Oh shit, what if it's the shotgun. They've been putting that new shotgun on everything.
Remember that we don't know what adjustments will N4 bring (and for which C1 will be the harbringer). We've heard that some units will be going away, and it might very well be that PanO will lose some of the bloat. I'd gladly welcome reduction in unit count and increase in remaining units' fun factor. From fluff point renegade ninja clan make for perfect mercenaries working for pretty much every army which can accomodate the unit balance-wise. I'd understand the outrage if it were Imperial Agents, or other unit core to YJ identity, but Ninjas? Doing dirty work for CA is the only thing that raises my eyebrows, but even this might turn out to be fun. From my side I'd really like to see more PanO units available elsewhere, especially in NA2.
I could see the Yu jing half of this box easily replace the red veil starter as the "vanilla" yu jing starter. I hope the models aren't pretty enough that I want to buy it and add another 3 zhanshi to my bits box.
I hope WB is for YJ what Varuna was for PanO. But honestly, I'm not holding my breath knowing CB's record where YJ is concerned.
