the wierd green thing in his shoulder looks to me like an ODD, but for a AD HI it look like a bit broken ( even in 70 point model). I belive IA will have some wierd way to get more orders efficacy, like remotes in link or some kind of new rule ( apart of the zhansi option). The terracota soldiers are find, with some mixted links with the new Shang-ji or with Zhansi to make it cheap can work pretty well.
ODD HI with AD. LoL soo horribly broken. Yeah the AD trooper looks like it's wearing a variant based on the Shang Ji armour (the name of which I can't remember). The updated design is common to Cranes and Sun Tzu. I'd expect REMs to be common in IA: the RPG fluff specifically refers to the fact that YJ is deliberately increasing the amount of REMs in their combat formations. Mixed SJ+1/2 REMs could work. Would allow us to avoid ZY + SJ mixed links. Allowing 3 cores: Zanshi, ZY and SJ+REMs... Actually I see no reason why you couldn't make '1 or 2 REMs in a link' allowed to all three. Would allow you to do like AVA3 Zanshi.
People think that's a Shooting Star. It's got the AD backpack that Tigers have but the armour is wrong for a Tiger, so the logical jump is Shooting Star.
I think we can look to the Yuandun special lists for an idea of what's to come with HI and links. One of the lists has a Imperial Agent Crane Rank + Zhanying Imperial Agents + Up to two Wu Ming + Hsien. I really like the Weibing+Su Jian Duo. What I'd really like to see is a Weibing+Guijia Duo.
I think it is a Tiger Soldier. Actually there are 17 or 14 free slots in Yu Jing. We must remember about the "3" Sectorial armies we miss (haaahjajajakakakaajjakak), I think we will get 4 or 5 new troops in IA, and WB another 4/5… and don't forget out lack of heroes ( we got Sun Tzu and Xi Zuang, and Xi Zuang is out till new orders… aaand Sun Tzu is freaking expensive to do varied list). Edit: and talking about sectorials. What is our fourth sectorial army? We got Military Police. We will get a Regular Army, a Forward Force... And a Spacial Navy Squadrons (Armada Land Forces)? Re Edit: not 14/17. There's 12 free slots for new troops. My bad.
Be careful about a entire HI list. IA will not have Guliangs, and I hope we can get a lone Ruishi. We will get a new troop whit MSV? Or will will have any troop with MSV in IA??
It's not a Tiger. The helmet, cuirass, gorget, leg armour is all wrong. Tigers also don't have a piece of plate protecting the groin either, this soldier does. On closer inspection it's both very different from a Tiger and much more heavily armoured, it's more than likely a heavy infantry soldier.