So ignoring that ISS lost a troop. Lets focus on the additions. vYu Jing, IA, and WB gained Johnny Kao and vYJ gained also Racerbots. Racerbots, love em. Maybe we see figures someday but I can't help but feel they are the new TAG Pilot or RemRacer. You get rules for it but never see it. Johnny Kao. Right now all i can see the cost for him. That's a bit much in an already expensive army. In IA he can't join any fireteams like Kokram can. He has ok weapons. But he's essentially an un-hackable heavy, a specialist, and veteran character. But in WB he's a wildcard. This can be great. I'm already thinking of him in a haris with Liang kai and Shaolin.
Longwang gained an AP HMG. I think the Mk12 profile got reduced by a couple of points? Zhanying profiles got cheaper too. Not sure what changes they made to Jujak and Taisheng. I've never used them before.
Ah, I wish there's a changelog of what exactly got changed, rather than just "x, y, z troopers were updated".
Thanks for the link! Looks like Father Sforza got changed and I didn't even notice. He lost holomask which is too bad because I made a 5-Sun Tze joke list (Sun Tze, Sforza, Taowu) and didn't get to try it. Oh well.
With the release of OSS we gained Johnny Kao. He's a wildcard in vYJ, White Banner. No fireteam in IA. Not available in ISS. He seems great. A non-hackable MI with Vit2 and ARM3 and Mim-3. Fantastic ENG. Great weapons with plasma carbine or multi-rifle but with an X-Visor to make the over 16” a little better. Even a plasma turret available! Drawback is he’s expensive in expensive armies. I think he’s not expensive for all that he brings. I think he has an advantage in White Banner by being a wildcard. But it’s not bad in vanilla. He has great weapons, but he’s not meant for being a shooter so gaining a +1 SD is nice but not his true advantage. I think the synergy he has is being able to fix things in the team, like a Dokkaebi. In vanilla he can duo with one. He can also duo with a Gujia or Blue Wolf! But again, we come to an expense problem. But being able to re-roll ENG on your manned TAG might be worth it. Even with gizmo kit it’s +1B, and if you have TAG Pilot it’s a +1 to the PH. Has anyone used him yet?
