Bummer, I would say I want Hulang in better position rather than current bag of borrowed barley. It IS a disappointment (while someone would deny it rigorously) unit, and it wages a lot more effort than other guys.
Losing smoke so they can link up with Liang Kai in PanO! Realistically though, I'd expect mostly culling the useless BS profiles to replace them with different CCW options. Maybe super jump to up the cost a bit and a regular FTO profile to fireteam with Liang Kai in WB, but that's more than I'd realistically expect here.
I really wouldn't mind a BSG Shaolin if they gave me good incentive to take them. Lets hope it's not like the Mutts and the smoke is only only on those profiles.
My hope is that they focus on making sure each profile works well. CCW "options" just never comes into play unless you're playing a mission with an AC2 or similar that rrequires anti-materiel CCWs. Hopefully they'll change the Combis to Light Shotguns or Assault Pistols (spray and pray, think spray and pray here!). Even more groovy would be if they got Core in Whire Banner, though that might require a more thorough redesign into a Regular unit. I think bottom line is that the smoke grenades have to remain. Yu Jing design relies on it quite significantly. P.s. of course, making the profiles with BS weapons carry more optimized BS weapons around also requires the profile without one to be retired.
This. They're a cute gimmick but they still bug me. I'm getting back into 3d modeling after a long hiatus, and one of my near-term projects is to model printable versions of some sketches I made based on a more utilitarian interpretation of fluff descriptions of the peripherals, plus mine markers with actual mines on them, and drop bear markers that match the fluff.
