Thank you Methuselah Yeah a greek hero would be very interesting, that's why I was fiddling around with the idea of Leonidas. Some sort of experiment to bring back Achilles that results in actually creating something of similar prowess, but different. Ulysses/Odysseus is another interesting choice and it should delve into the trickster kind of character, some sort of Impersonation that expands to a Duo/Haris making it look like a team of different things. Regarding the third sectorial I have been thinking about the fact that Aleph was betrayed. In order to find the treatment reserved to traitors one should read the Divine Comedy and so: why not a sectorial themed around Dante's Inferno for the names, designed for tracking down and eliminate rogue AI's, traitor operatives and the likes. At the end of the day a sectorial is a flavor of something, looking at the 3 ships of the Nomad nations they all have cheerleaders, they all have some sort of HI, their own TAG
Here's another item for the wishlist: Riksha and Dawon with Dakini keyword to join Dakini link teams without breaking purity
We lost a lot of characters, but guys we got back Thamyris! Amazing! I knew I had to trust CB! They know what they do! In CB we trust! ...I was ironic! Now all the CB fanboy here in the forum can start their toxic behavior and shut down every criticism.
So we lost Thamirys to get Pandora, who got no regular model, only the preorder one in Blackwind, and now that Pandora "defected" with the rest of Team Achilles (nowhere to be found in Onyx, so only for generic CA lists...) we get Thamirys back... Oh, and a single K2 auxiliar. Prolly in the same box with the new sculpt of a model we all old-timers already have anyways. Color me surprised at the foresight and preplanning behind this move.
Thamyris is not bad, but Aleph needs so much more love (pointing at you CB!!!) with the coming "Human Sphere" book, so better get starting on designing the new Sectorial!
Existing sectorials are being taken care of. One thing that Aleph needs is a way out of stagnation: either a dakini team/posthuman support or thorakiti/myrmidons... it's a "rinse and repeat" (which now is extended to Vanilla since they still have Dakini). OSS is the one with hacking options and ASS is the jackhammer... is that all that Aleph is about? Existing sectorials don't need much at the moment. Sure Achilles is gone... about time we get over it and we start looking at what Aleph can be. Also "Factions will have 3 sectorials plus Vanilla cap". Since N3 SB has done close to ziltch to Aleph except repack and resculpt. To me that screams for at least one release of Aleph per monthly release leading to Human Sphere which was already announced as the "big thing for Aleph and Haqq (in line with the series)". All the quoted lines are from Bostria, maybe paraphrased, but pretty much on point. Plus Benkei: do you have suggestions? This isn't a closed forum, you can post anything that pops into your head
The thing is that right now there's little space for a new Aleph sectorial, unless CB will come up with something completely out of the left field. Kosmoflot is an example that it can be done, even if I'm not a fan of the end result. Right now I don't have spare brains to try and figure it out :/
Honestly? REM sectorial. Everything is Rem.Presence. Aleph has enough units to do that. Fluff wise - disposable division that operates in the most hot of spots where the threat of cube curruption is too great. Big guns, cheap profiles, rems in spades, extremely expensive LT options like Marut and everything is hackable. Basically think bots with big guns and superhuman reflexes, but who lacks tactical awareness and need a direct guidance from the LT to perform well. Have hackers, evo hackers, FO, repeaters, engineers and paramedics, but lacks any camo, any impetsonation, any smoke, any holoecho, any holomask, any decoy. Has mimetism, albedo, and msv in spades. No CoC. Overwhelm the enemy with bigger guns and faster reflexes or throw in your super soldier LT but when it goes down, you are irregular forever. To me, sounds like fun.
I'm not the one saying a new sectorial will somehow rescue the dumpster fire that SP is at the moment, so I'm not the one having to suggest anything. And how are existing sectorials "being take care of"? SP got nerfed to the ground, OSS stayed more or less the same, vAleph might as well not exist, and meanwhile everything else in the game(except Ariadna) for pretty big buffs. Tell me again how that is "being taken care of" and how a new Sectorial is gonna change how OSS and SP work (or don't) And all that cope about Aleph somehow getting new releases every month is just laughable and totally made up. Haqqislam is not in the first book neither and still they got stronger, I guess they are getting releases every month too because reasons? Just to put this in perspective: vAleph has 39 profiles including a duplicated Maximus, White Banner has 45 and Bakunin has 47
Well I understand your frustrations, but you know they need to sell their new toys! ;-) I saw many times the Infinity fansbe proud that CB is different from a UK based company that produce a very important sci-fi game! Well in the end we see that there are many commonalities: - the fact there are some factions that get more "love" (to use the work of our ambassador) than others. Usually the ones that sell better - the fact that they squat/cancel or make so dated armies after few years they release them (Varuna, NA2). Just to give two examples
I have 2 questions here, just in case. First, what happened to the Posthumans? Proxy mk3 is absolutely absent from both the web and android army. The second one is quite simple... how is it possible that the whole of Aleph has THREE PITCHERS max, with the danavas (now ava 3 in OSS), 2 in SP (Thamirys and Scylla, and while you can make a Haris of Scylla FTO with Thamirys, you need either a Makhe or a Hoplite). And the only repeaters are the common remotes, the Rudras, and the Apsaras KHD has a deployable repeater (and doesn't link unless reinforcements... at least the danavas can link...)... sigh
Proxy Mk3 was most likely removed entirely. Which is a shame, I always liked it, but I think Mk4 squeezed it out.
