They can, but becomes unmanageable for game stores. Personally sectorials rotation is a great strategy, gives you time to paint the sectorials you already have and gives you something to wait for the future, it also allows more work to be done for the sectorial.
I do not view it as a codex, as it is evident even if minor work is done in inactive sectorials even if no models are produced.
We've had one army (Shas) returned to modern standards since this started years ago. Let's call it rotation if MRRF comes back, for now it's just stagnation and obsolescence.
Shasvastii and MRRF are an "exception" if you will, they are the first ones to go out of rotation, but they were out of rotation because the development team decided they could not do them justice and needed to fundamentally redesign them to make them work as they envisioned them, The return of Shasvastii is a testament on how drastic and impactful the redesign was and when MRRF comes back I would expect a similar treatment, I would count as proper rotation when a sectorial other than MRRF comes back.
You can make that distinction of course if you want to. It doesn't make a lot of sense to me though. Pretty much every sectorial that has gotten redesigns got comparatively "drastic" and definitely impactful changes, whether they were oop or not. Bakunin and MAF changed drastically. So did, to a lesser degree, Corregidor and MO. Apart from that, this doesn't change the fact that since sectorials and armies have started to go oop, none have returned. Shas doesn't even count, since it went out of rotation the same month Operation Wildfire released, and with it the redesign of the sectorial.
Sure, if you want to force players of the "rotated" sectorial out of the game unless they buy another sectorial - which could also get "rotated" out of the game soon.
Ok but sectorial remain playable. I would be pretty OK for Varuna, for example, to go out of rotation, and replaced by NCA or SAA. This means people like me, who hopped on too late, have now their playable VIRD sectorial, but also have the opportunity to start a new NCA/SAA Sectorial. If that is CB plan I’m totally onboard
That’s what they’ve described as being the thinking behind the plan. Sectorial goes into hibernation/off-rotation, minis go OOP, but sectorial remains supported in Army, still playable, etc. Is it ideal for a player of those armies? Not necessarily, but keeps those armies alive. And if you’re willing to make a project of them, an opportunity for some fun conversions/proxies!
Yeah, I’ve friends who’ve done it. One used USARF to make a GIGN-themed FRRM, another who used what Tohaa he could find, plus Spiral and Sygmaa, to make a Tohaa force.
We know pretty much everything coming until July, so the next big thing on the horizon is Endsong and the Reinforcements mechanic which will be debuting at Gen Con in early August. I expect we'll see more about them in July and then there will be Bostria's Seminar at Gen Con itself, which will have a studio update released after with much of the same info.
Sure, but studio update isn't only about new minis / outgoing miniatures until july. For example I'd really love to know more about Warcrow (edit: the tabletop wargame, not adventure). Also, nothing prevents from teasing a bit what is going to happen with Endsong and Reinforcements. Or new Yara Haddad miniature. Obviously we all prefer that they remain focused on delivering big time in August, but a couple of teases wouldn't hurt in my opinion :)
No one forces you. It is actually the very opposite, as CB is notoriously known to widely accept proxies. Stop whining.
As I look at this topic... CB, we need some new minis announcement, stat. Preferably with lots of pics. If the forum community doesn't get their fix for a too long time, the fanatic peat goes crazy, and we get that kind of threads. And exactly this kind of bile. We've been through this times and times again.
I am uneasy with the implication that forumites need a fix of new models and they are experiencing severe withdrawal syndromes...
