September>December 2024: Nuclear winter has struck, leaving room for the N5

And the background for Daofei has them in Invincible Army.

 

Even more confusing. Still not WB except Hac Tao will come for a long time visit to Svarlaheima and the cover motive shows the missing weapon loadout from the Hundun, which also not in the box according to the pictures.

Also it es - even for CB - unusual to release a new weapon loadout (or a new troop like the Silversnake) together with repacks ... at least not at the first relase.

So maybe this is a Yu Jing Expansion Beta with the cover of the WB Expansion Alpha containing a Silversnake, a Hunden MMR and say, a Hac Tao ML which is new to the secorial.

 

Maybe N5 will see Yu Jing swapping Hac Tao and Daofei between sectorials back to where the original lore had them.

I actually think both units would work better in those forces.

I can never find the points in Invincible Army for a Hac Tao without compromising the rest of the force in a way I am not happy with but I might find the points for a Doafei and they are a lot more useful than a Hulang or a Zhencha.

White banner has a lot more useful cheaper units so finding the points for a Hac Tao isn't too hard and they could do with some extra punch and armour 5 staying power.

 

I think it's actually a mistake and it's the Guilang hacker. It's the only other White Banner figure that's a single blister right now. Guilang, Ye Mao Hacker, and Hundun HRL.

 

In the new lore snipped of the video they say that Raidens usually take advanced positions before combat. Which implies they have some form of advancement deployment / infiltration that they did not have before.

 

The video lore is a slightly adjusted version of the already existing one from N3.

It is expected that the Raiden will dominate the art of camouflage, taking up hidden positions and ambushing the enemy, preventing counterattacks and replying to actions against the attacking Japanese forces.

 

That may be, but since the Raiden are apparently back as an unit, they may be getting into the niche again (and with skills updated to match N5 format).

How will that interact with Ryuken-9, well, that's yet to be seen.
Maybe each one will be in a separate sectorial? Though still - having two units filling the same niche (if with slight differences in skills / equipment / stats) - and requiring separate model lines - would be a waste of time and SKU space from CB's point of view.

Just thinking aloud.​

 

Yes, profil can change of course. I was just pointing the unchanged lore bit.

I can see one of them being sectorial only and the other one being in the other sectorial and in generic JSA.

 

Or the Ryuken-9 lore may change.

Certainly, I was merely pointng out it would be suboptimal from the CB's viewpoint (at least in my opinion).

 

Yes. And it doesn't have to change that much as the Ryuken-9 can still continue to recruite in the new Raiden Seibutai.
Anyway, we will see.

We currently have various SKU sharing identical miniatures, so I don't think optimisation is the priority

 

That would be weird however to have killed the Raiden, put the Ryuken in its spot, and then give back the spot to the Raiden by changing completely the Ryuken... But hey, it's CB, you never know! :p

 

Ryuken could lose the Camo variant and be finally the midfield specialist it should have always been...
And put back Raiden in their slot

BTW, the regiment assimilation was represented by the dual loadouts, so it is not even so impossible!

 

Probably raiden will have the same role that the ryuken, but only in the new sectorial and without being available in generic

 

And the Ryuken HRL mini would become a Raiden? Maybe.
But then, it would change absolutely nothing. Instead of having Ryuken with two loadouts, we'd have the same two loadouts split between two different profiles.

 

I keep forgetting to mention how much I like the Triphammer figure. Even the though the colors looks so Red Neck it's ridiculous. But it looks cool enough for me to want it even though I'm not sure I'd ever play it. If Ikari is still around, in a year or so when I move on to something else, it would be perfect for them.

 

Gotta be honest I am really not jiving with the AI voiceover.

I know CB is a small indie company but it's really throwing me off. And they've always managed to find someone in the office to do the voiceover before.

 

I still remember that female voiceover from beastofwar...

 

Agreed. This one was not very good. Boring honestly. The AI voices are terrible.

 

In the office, or in the player community. For teh lulz and bragging rights - sure it would require careful construction of the contract, but that's what the company lawyers are for (the point is - not paying professional voice actors big money, I get that CB is a small company and would prefer not to front cash for that).

The bonus would be having voices from all over the world, speaking in different accents (I honestly love the way the narrator / Hassashin Farzan speaks in the Infinity: Paradise Lost traier: imagine if a voice like that was describing Haqq units. And have someone with a separate, distinct Japanese accent describe JSA troops. And so on).