Dakini. The feet match the resculpted Garuda. Sillhouette is similar though (I'm sure we'll have people now saying Nomads are working with Aleph, like when the Szalamandra had a tail and was painted black and red people said they were working with the Combined Army).
The outlines look kinda hollowman, but they are still just stripped down garuda (the actual main similarities are the arms lower thigh and both having very thin waist and broad shoulders. wonder if Nomads nicked some of the Dakini blue prints for the Hollow men chasis and improved it by giving them thicc-er thighs with 5 Aleph basic dudes shown and 4 for ariadna im leaning more towards Ariadna getting big russian robot as their extra member and aleph getting probably a s2 new vedic unit as their extra
Remotes on either end surely are the Dakini 2.0 that were teased. 2nd from left looks like the Danavas model. And then either dude-deva & Female-Asura or (and that would be unexpected) Female-Deva and dude-Asura.
I wonder if dakini will have CORE. It's nice to have a Shock HMG with effective BS17 ^^. With Mimetism.
I'm betting that CB will continue their experimentation with mixed fireteams and give you an option that has a Dakini in a link.
Special Fireteam: Core: Up to 4 Dakinis + 1 Danavas Special Fireteam: Haris: Up to 2 Devas + 1 Dakini or 1 Sophotect Special Fireteam: Duo: 1 Asura + 1 Deva Obviously Devas with bots can't link
I‘d even dare to hope for a more mixed fireteam: Special Fireteam: Core: Up to 3 Devas and up to 3 Dakinis with Asuras and Davanas counting as Devas for fireteam composition. But maybe thats just jealousy from looking at who can link with Securitate in Tunguska ;)
5 days ago, CB said on twitter they will stop the steel phalanx 300 pts pack in August (leaving only the nomads 300 pts pack available). Maybe it's a coincidence but maybe it's a sign that the GenCon release is not a 2 players box Aleph vs Ariadna but two 300 pts box (Vedic & Kazak) Regarding Vedic : Mixed FT : Deva and Devabot count as Daikini for FT composition Devabot count as independant trooper instead of G:Sync when in Daikini FT It would bring crazy cheap FT, so maybe too OP for reality but I love the idea
Given they accidentally left a note in the Deva profile that "devas with devabots can't be part of a fireteam" it's pretty safe to assume they'll be linked.
Looks less bulky than the Blackjack, possibly a CQB variant with Molotok/HSG/MK12? Would certainly help differentiate the 'jacks.
I cannot wait for more details, but for the moment (just to add some baseless speculation) I'm thinking another 2 player starter, most likely with new starters for vanilla Ariadna & Aleph. We've had a new Chasseur & as far as I can recall this was, in part, because the Ariadna starter needed a re-work. Similar could be said for the Aleph starter as well as both look a little dated now. I think 2 army packs (a la USAriadna & JSA) seems a lot to release at the same time & as for sectorials in "Operation ..........." packs? Well it hasn't been done previously, though there is a first time for everything of course.
I don't remember a 70 point human-sized TAG with MSV3 being able to count as a line troop in a 5 man link that already has 6-4 BS 17 shock mimetism B5 HMG's that ignore cover in Tunguska ;)
I'm not saying that's impossible, but I will say it's highly unlikely given the number of miniatures they'd have to crank out to accomplish such an ambitious goal. Also, I think they said that they're going to limit the 300-point boxes to two versions at any given time. Since the Nomad one is not going OOP yet, that also mitigates against the possibility of 2x300 pt boxes at GC. All my money is on a 2-player box (also, now that the Vedic teaser is out I'm going to enter super-smug mode for calling this back in February).
Whilst it's not a Sectorial yet, the Haqq half of Red Veil is intended to also function as a Ramah Task Force starter once it's rules are released.
