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

o.O

 

I'm Starmada now. Not a single GL in sight lol. There's one on Dakini in vanilla. So still no.

 

So this should be something pointed out early. The quickstart rules claim:

Meanwhile, this is the scale difference between Infinity and Warcrow, which are now both marketed as 35mm:



Unless CB is planning another size increase, which will definitely make any existing players walk on the walls and hiss with glee and excitement, the two games should not be both marketed as 35mm. Otherwise people buying one range for conversion purposes in the other range will be met with a nasty surprise.

I guess it is a mistake and it should have been 32mm, but it needs to be pointed out.

 

As far as I remember, Infinity was marketed as a 28mm game, and latest miniatures fell close to 32mm.
So yeah, first time 35mm are mentioned.

 

I feel the same about what is probable what will come... I´m afraid for Acontecimento, for example. :( I hope they pull the break in the last second... As they did in the past N3 to N4, in this particular. But community looks to be less reluctant now to the cut off than a few years ago, sadly for us. Good, I guess, for CB... However, what we need is more clarity on the topic. I think this will allow people to make peace with what is coming. We are more than one month into N5 and we don´t know nothing for real. That hurts us. Not even be able to get properly angry...

Maybe they were doing some test, if those models bring more profit than estimated taking in account active Ariadna, Kosmo players, with Caledonian being added to the equation they will bring back or not... But I´m only guessing or seeing a plan maybe is only in my head. Dunno.

We will have to wait to see what all the info truly means. About the Black AIR a linked Neurokinetics, guessing with N4 in mind, will be like a Kamau, Karhu... Will have as much +1BS +1Burst, plus SS (being this the harder thing to overpass). If weapon chart is right, multi snipper DA has only Burst 1, so in ARO will be only 2 shoots. So, same as now (N4). Shooting AP will be something better than we know in N4 for linked teams. However, we can have now pure linked fireteams with burst 3 like in SSO and Onix and usually you don´t see much as those as it could be expected. In the end will be something more like the sin eater mk12 with better range, but less than HMG Sineater, better "shooting", but vulnerable to White Noise. And if Neurokinetic rule don´t change it would be a snipper with burst 1 in active, no matter with he was around... So it would do nothing in active turn neither that profile, probably neither the others around. This is being said under N4 consideration... If they are saying Fireteams will be "less powerfull" (we will see what that means), what I said should be the worse case scenario we could have in N5.

And I´m happy to see they apply same formula as Kamau, Nisse but managed to give other flavor.

About the Nokizaru... We can have a Locust/Nokken case or we can have a Shujae one... It will be really dependant on whom is there with that guy. The problem about the Pano profiles is that usually you don´t have cheap or camo markers to give those profiles some support as we do in haqqislam. So... It could be a good profile or not, but we need to see his friends :)

 

Fennec Fusiliers are 10points as regular ones while gaining desert terrain. Senku troops should be 1 point cheaper compared to Zhanshi (change 1 arm into 3 bts costs the same, courage and dodge+1" are both <1point and -1 WIP is -1 points) and yet they are 9points. Either these 2 get some freebies or basic infantry is getting ~1point discount.

 

I guess that specialist terrain is priced at less than 1 point, so it can be slapped on for free for fluff reasons.
It is, after all, a very situational skill.

 

maybe regular fusileers go down to 9 point in N5...

 

Ah, the dark days of N1/N2, when basic Ghulam went for 14 points (if memory serves me. Could've been 13), then dropped to 12 in N3, and 11 in N4...

 

I did not find this a difficult rule to understand.

I think some players may have tried to tweak the angle of the template to cover enemies that were not in LoF, not as demonstrated here.
I liked the small teardrop template from the end of the silhouette. It seems many complained about that too. Hopefully, players can just accept the new rules using a circular template and leave it at that.
As @Stopia said, and in my head cannon, it is a small explosive round without spec. fire and farther range bands. Yes, it means making rolls again so more risk involved.

 

I've updated my new figure releases. O-12 still at the top. NA2 moved up with the Triphammer release. We now know of course more JSA and PanO is coming.

NEWS! I asked Warsenal about the Hac Tao being in the White Banner Pack. They said they would look into it. They responded that yes the Hac Tao will be in White Banner in N5!

2024 Figure Release up to October 2024
O-12: 6 Releases, 21 Figures (Torchlight Brigade, Gladius Team, Nightshade, Wreaker, TB Expansion Alpha, Raveneye)
Aleph: 6 Release, 17 Figures (Myrmidons, REF Pack, Regular release Maximus, Atalanta, Sophotech Support pack, Ajax)
Haqqislam: 5 Releases, 12 Figures (REF Pack Alpha, Azra’il, Hassasin pack Alpha, Mukhtar RF, Al-Djabel)
Ariadna: 4 Releases 9 Figures (Cateran, REF Pack Alpha, Jacques Bruant, Ratnik)
Nomads: 4 Releases, 7 Figures (Lizard, Zeros, Daemonist Observant, Moran Maasai)
NA2: 4 Releases, 4 Figures, (Digger, Liberto, Samsa, Triphammer TAG)
JSA: 3 Release, 8 Figures (Mechazoid, REF Pack, Takeshi Oyama)
Combined Army: 2 Release, 2 Figures (regular release Caskuda, Anathematic)
PanO: 2 Release, 2 Figures (Regular release Maximus, Tikbalang)
Yu Jing: 2 Release, 3 Figure (Guilang Hacker, Yaoxie remotes)
Special: (All Factions except CA & Tohaa): 1 Release, 1 Figure (Warcore)
Special: Dire Foes 14, 1 Nomad, 1 O-12, 1 HVT

 

Operation: Sandtrap and Essentials are available at Spiel Essen

 

I thought it was also planned to sell the books there.

 

Wait, so people can buy a box of a game that cannot be played until rules release in more than a month?
That's an outstanding move

 

you can play with the starter rules included in the box

 

Dammit. Nowhere near it. And yet I want one now. Stupid lack of control.

 

New unit video is out:


Looking at the point cost, MI might be getting a point tweak (comparing it to a Kaplan or a Rodok).

 

You think people don´t want that? In our WA group people asking who can buy it for them - they want it now.

And pratical: You have one month to paint them up!