Yup, it is pretty disheartening for an old Haqq hand like myself. I hoped "the next book" (turned out to be Hyperthermal) that was meant to cover Haqq, among other factions missed from the N5, will herald some new models, but so far it didn't became a reality. Well.
Yeah, it was supposed to be mainly Aleph and Haqq lore book. IIRC Haqq has the shortest entry among all factions in it xD
An alternate TB Arm for the Shanji would be nice, Maybe we see another one with siocast cover cube and another old yaozao ;-) Lunah is still good, if you ask me. But I did not understand why they give us sniper bao instead of brand new weapon and very useful TB Bao. Back in the past the provide alternate weapon options with resculpted miniatures, at least some - Wu Wing for example. Sun Tze is okay, only the sword is not necessary,
Hmm, just a thought, but what is CB's build up schedule look like timeline wise? Are they working on releases and boxes 6 months, 1 year, 2 years in advance? Maybe the haqq release window shifted due to an USariadna vs haqq box initial plan and it was reworked due to....well obvious reasons.
I'm positive they work well ahead of time and sometimes things change mid-way. That's why I think half of the team ops HI figures have helmets and the rest don't. I think the idea of doing Team Ops came after they had already started making figures for Spec Ops.
You might be right for Yadu, but I'd rather have something serious for Steel Phalanx which right now is suffering in terms of matches played
I don't see a problem with SP. Their entire range is represented, and they're perfectly strong on the table, even if they lost a few troopers that mostly never saw much use in-faction. They're not quite as braindead as they used to be (although you can certainly run some degenerate builds with them), but their versatility and cieling has mostly only improved over time.
I agree on that, the one caveat that I have is number of matchups: SP is falling behind, not even reaching 100 (81 matchups with OSS at 206 in 1st place). This is connected to some stagnancy of the lists. Honestly I don't see much of variability out of a myrmidon 4-men team (Machaon, Phoenix and Officer with maybe a chain rifle) and a Thora support team. This tends to become old quite quickly. Alternatively there's the Agamemnon/Dactyl duo that has been doing quite a lot of heavy lifting. Plus there is a matter of new toys obviously and a general update to current trends (disco to Alke is a bit useless IMO and hoplite needs a reason to be fielded and these are just a few). The missing troopers obviously need to be addressed for background purposes, it doesn't make much sense that the AI doesn't have a reaction to the defections. This could lead to 2 possible outcomes: either a betrayal punishment new sectorial or troopers to replace the missing ones. SP needs also a rethinking of the overall strategy due to the monochrome nature of the sectorial. The faction itself is very efficient at killing, but just killing gets you only so far.
