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Flipswitch posted:The one you like the most. Toni and the Cutter look like the only TAGs I might consider fielding at this point. Unless the new stat blocks for the Uhlans/Tiki/Seraph are Gecko-level pricing.
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Tiki and Seraph are poo poo and always have been, the rest are fine. Uhlan still has camo which makes it a motherfucker in NCA. If anything I'm curious to see if the new profiles do anything to address how bad the Shitbalang is.
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Flipswitch posted:Tiki and Seraph are poo poo and always have been, the rest are fine. Uhlan still has camo which makes it a motherfucker in NCA. Yeah, agreed. The Tiki and Seraph need to be more like Geckos in price if they are ever going to be attractive. The Uhlans is still 100 points, though, and that's a Jotum/Drago/Cutter territory, where its gonna get outclassed. Now that the Aquila is no longer a must-take in my head I may have some more room for something like that though, who knows.
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You can't take any of those in NCA which is where the TAG shines. It's suffers a bit in competition to the Cutter but it's still a point save and functions in a way where the Jotum and Dragoe can't.
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Flipswitch posted:The one you like the most. That's the thing. I know I don't want Adriana, Aliens or Aleph. I have no strong feelings about other factions. NCA looks fun, but playing it on low level is likely impossible of the costs, especially when the thread goes SPECIALISTS SPECIALISTS SPECIALISTS all the time. Plus, they have a power armored guy in a trenchcoat. That's awesome. QQ look fun, but i really dislike the one model. The new Corregidor starter hasn't dropped, and those guys were my favorites for a long time.
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JcDent posted:That's the thing. I know I don't want Adriana, Aliens or Aleph. I have no strong feelings about other factions. NCA looks fun, but playing it on low level is likely impossible of the costs, especially when the thread goes SPECIALISTS SPECIALISTS SPECIALISTS all the time. Plus, they have a power armored guy in a trenchcoat. That's awesome. QQ look fun, but i really dislike the one model. The new Corregidor starter hasn't dropped, and those guys were my favorites for a long time. When I was looking at getting into Infinity, I asked my buddy who plays a lot, "Which faction has the most sniper rifles and trenchcoats?" and he said "PanO!" and then hesitated and said "Well, maybe Haqqislam". So I bought a friends PanO, planning to expand to Haqq later. The Hexa Sniper is literally my favorite sculpt in any wargame ever. Then an Aleph army fell in my lap so Haqq has been backburnered. E: The thing about specialists is they are only important if you play ITS. My local playgroup exclusively plays ITS because a few of them are vocal YAMS haters, so for me its really important. If the people you are playing with don't care and just want to play Annihilation games, then specialists aren't a big deal. NCA does have some good cheap specialists, just not very varied ones. You're basically going to be fielding a lot of Auxilia FOs. JoshTheStampede fucked around with this message at 04:28 on Dec 15, 2014 |
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JcDent posted:That's the thing. I know I don't want Adriana, Aliens or Aleph. I have no strong feelings about other factions. NCA looks fun, but playing it on low level is likely impossible of the costs, especially when the thread goes SPECIALISTS SPECIALISTS SPECIALISTS all the time. Plus, they have a power armored guy in a trenchcoat. That's awesome. QQ look fun, but i really dislike the one model. The new Corregidor starter hasn't dropped, and those guys were my favorites for a long time. NCA's power level is roughly equivalent to how many Auxilia boxes you're willing to buy and assemble.  Seriously, Auxilia are really good, and that's before you realize that they're some of the best specialists in the game. The only thing they don't do is infiltrate (thank goodness). The main reason I'm not playing NCA is that I don't like the Auxilia sculpts.If you like trenchcoats though, then I'd advise taking a look at either Hassassins (especially the upcoming Govads) or generic PanO-into-later-Svalarheima sectorial when Acheron Falls comes out (Nisse are the original trenchcoat troops). Just consider this picture: 
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They could do with a facelift and two different boxes considering.how absurdly popular and good they are. Auxilia pretty nuts even if you take ITS out of the equation but being specialists just pushes them into overdrive. Long live the Auxbot HFT. E: in bed posting on my phone atm but when the book is out I'll update the op for n3, same thread or do we need a new one? Also need thread suggestions people! I think my robot zulu post is too old to use now. Flipswitch fucked around with this message at 04:54 on Dec 15, 2014 |
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Corbeau posted:NCA's power level is roughly equivalent to how many Auxilia boxes you're willing to buy and assemble. Well, Auxilia do seem to fit the bill of high tech operators a lot better than fusiliers ever would (I'd say new Alguaciles would probably be better if you painted them blue). It's just that their double mag rifles look a little stupid. And that's a pretty TAG. I like them chunky. For some reason, I don't want to play Assassins. I have no clear idea why. By the by, what's the background on NCA? I like the aggressive, fast, high speed future operator look that they have almost as much as I like the stylings of knightly Orders (though I doubt I could get them into melee, so that's why they don't figure into equation). Part of why why I wanted Corregidor was that they're almost a labor union wetwork team and QQ are fun with their merc access. What's so different about ITS from standart/YAMS?
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JcDent posted:Well, Auxilia do seem to fit the bill of high tech operators a lot better than fusiliers ever would (I'd say new Alguaciles would probably be better if you painted them blue). It's just that their double mag rifles look a little stupid. I would be using new Alguaciles as Auxilia in a heartbeat if I could source auxbots separately. I'm considering just finding some R2D2 minis or claptraps or something. NCA background is that they are the elite security force for Neoterra, the capital planet of PanO. They are the military of the brightest, shiniest, richest, ruthless-capitalistest cyberpunk planet imaginable. They include private corporate security forces as well, which is what the Hexas are. Standard games are literally just play until someone goes into retreat and loses all their models. YAMS has hidden objectives you draw out of a deck, most of which revolve around a civilian VIP model. ITS has several scenarios, but most rely on specialists, and all have a 3 turn limit. JoshTheStampede fucked around with this message at 05:03 on Dec 15, 2014 |
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JcDent posted:By the by, what's the background on NCA? I like the aggressive, fast, high speed future operator look that they have almost as much as I like the stylings of knightly Orders (though I doubt I could get them into melee, so that's why they don't figure into equation). Part of why why I wanted Corregidor was that they're almost a labor union wetwork team and QQ are fun with their merc access. NCA are the planetary army of the PanO capital planet. They get the best training, best equipment, and heaviest firepower. That also means that they're PanO taken to the extreme: tons of TO Camo, plenty of TAGs, and high BS skills for everybody. NCA shoots with overwhelming force, but they're not particularly known for maneuver or tricks. They're going to come straight at you and roll over you, flamethrowers and HMGs blazing. Flipswitch posted:E: in bed posting on my phone atm but when the book is out I'll update the op for n3, same thread or do we need a new one? Also need thread suggestions people! I think my robot zulu post is too old to use now. I suppose it's not necessary to start a new thread, but I'd be inclined towards a fresh start with N3.
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The thread title should have something to do with The Squatting Of The Exrah
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You may want to reread Hexas' background as they're the black ops foreign affairs of the PanO intel arm. Their job is to basically destabilize any threat to PanO, usually via abduction, assassination and covert paramilitary ops. E: lol I kind of like having a dig at the Exrah, I'll think it over. I don't think we need a new thread but I might just link to the first post on N3 when it's fully available or something? Flipswitch fucked around with this message at 05:14 on Dec 15, 2014 |
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Flipswitch posted:You may want to reread Hexas' background as they're the black ops foreign affairs of the PanO intel arm. Their job is to basically destabilize any threat to PanO, usually via abduction, assassination and covert paramilitary ops. Yeah, you are right, not sure where I got that conflated with the corporate stuff.
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To be fair though you're not entirely wrong, PanO is built of a conglomerate if MegaCorps so it's corporate security in a way.
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What I love about PanO fluff is two things: 1. It's so rare for the basic generic "good guys" faction in a game to be neither American nor British. Having it be a Australia/India/Philipines/Vatican mashup is just so unique. 2. They are the bad guys in every cyberpunk setting. They are the trillionaire capitalists clearing out the dirty poors to make room for a new pleasure garden.
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JoshTheStampede posted:What I love about PanO fluff is two things: Yeah, I wanted to ask about that, too. While I like the Space Catholic Church aspect of PanO, I wonder how Space Trickledown they are.How bad are Megacorps? All in all, CB seems to be doing good work in not making any faction the obvious favorites/bad guys, not at a glance. I also like ta note that while all cyberpunk shows corps way more evil than they are in Real Life, Syndicate remake really dropped the ball on that one, and eventually I see the protag's fight against corps doing more bad than good.
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In PanO if you're not born into at least a middle class family you are basically hosed. The bottom rung of society for PanO is quite literally ghettos and favelas all shoved out of the way so the rich don't have to remember they exist. It's not as in yourface in the setting as say YJ persecuting the Japanese or Koreans so it tends to get glossed over when people call PanO the goody goodies. Qe privileged few stamping the corporate boot down in those who aren't among us.
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As far as I can tell, Haqq is the actual good guy faction. They come across as hardcore moderates. They are all the muslims that looked at all the failed governments and social structures the middle east has been struggling with and were like: gently caress y'all, we are getting on a spaceship and leaving and we've got murder squads that will kill any of you crazy radicals that try and follow us with your horseshit. You have to be educated, you have to be reasonable, you have to be tolerant, you have to think about long term sustainability, because we will NOT suffer the ignorant bullshit anymore. A ton of their unit descriptions are about how one faction or another tried to be evil mustache twirlers who turned on the people and their military forces were like: Nope! and paid for peace and moderation with their blood. Obviously they are not all saints, but if the chips are down, you know criminals and rogues like the Kum are on team 'we might be assholes but we are not 100% dicks".
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Yeah, weirdly sexualized ladies aside, the fluff aspect is fresh as all hell. Americans are incredibly behind tech-wise, for example.
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JoshTheStampede posted:The thread title should have something to do with The Squatting Of The Exrah "The Exrah were eaten by squats"? You know since squats were eaten by the tyranids (insect army of 40k).
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Cyclomatic posted:Obviously they are not all saints, but if the chips are down, you know criminals and rogues like the Kum are on team 'we might be assholes but we are not 100% dicks". Uh clearly Adriana are the good guys because   
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Azran posted:Yeah, weirdly sexualized ladies aside, the fluff aspect is fresh as all hell. Americans are incredibly behind tech-wise, for example. It's hilarious how on the infinity forums in the USAriadna thread the guys are constantly asking for USAriadna to be come kind of "hoo-ah" impressive force with great equipment and weapons, stetson hats, dusters and higher tech than the rest of Ariadna. It's constantly pointed out that the US is no longer top dog and the best there is militarily, but there are some guys who just keep on wanting to be the best in the game, while being in the lowest tech faction there is.
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Not a viking posted:"The Exrah were eaten by squats"?
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The Dark Project posted:It's hilarious how on the infinity forums in the USAriadna thread the guys are constantly asking for USAriadna to be come kind of "hoo-ah" impressive force with great equipment and weapons, stetson hats, dusters and higher tech than the rest of Ariadna. It's constantly pointed out that the US is no longer top dog and the best there is militarily, but there are some guys who just keep on wanting to be the best in the game, while being in the lowest tech faction there is. I don't know what they want. I mean, they have all the best Tier I High Speed Low Drag Operators with the best toys of today... only fighting a battle X00 years in the future.
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Pierzak posted:The Exrah ate Squats and got lead poisoning.
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The Dark Project posted:It's hilarious how on the infinity forums in the USAriadna thread the guys are constantly asking for USAriadna to be come kind of "hoo-ah" impressive force with great equipment and weapons, stetson hats, dusters and higher tech than the rest of Ariadna. It's constantly pointed out that the US is no longer top dog and the best there is militarily, but there are some guys who just keep on wanting to be the best in the game, while being in the lowest tech faction there is. If you aren't playing Ariadna for the Russian bad asses, the insane Scots, and the French wolf men; I think you might be better off playing Ambush Alley.
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The Dark Project posted:It's hilarious how on the infinity forums in the USAriadna thread the guys are constantly asking for USAriadna to be come kind of "hoo-ah" impressive force with great equipment and weapons, stetson hats, dusters and higher tech than the rest of Ariadna. It's constantly pointed out that the US is no longer top dog and the best there is militarily, but there are some guys who just keep on wanting to be the best in the game, while being in the lowest tech faction there is. Actually, they hate stetson hats, that part is the rest of us trolling 'Muricans. And from what we've seen of the new book, CB already depicts USAriadna as the most culturally backward region, sort of an antropological curiosity for the whole human sphere
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Flipswitch posted:Guges Cried, Exrah Died. Infinity 3rd Edition Stomped On My Bug Army.
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Baron Snow posted:Infinity 3rd Edition Stomped On My Bug Army. Best post/title combo, seeing as EI's new Exrah contractor is the Exrah Commissariat 
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MCPeePants posted:Any word on how Reverend Custodiers are looking, or are they from a different book?
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Apparently the army lists are coming in the next couple of days. Crisis averted if so. Also, Flipswitch posted:Guges Cried, Exrah Died. This needs to be the thread title.
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Corbeau posted:Apparently the army lists are coming in the next couple of days. Crisis averted if so. Where are you hearing that? Also, new website with rules PDF just went live. \/\/\/ Hmm, there seems to be a bunch of confusion among the warcors over whether that meant this PDF that just went up, or the army lists one. CB just seems to have made this a lot more complicated than it needed to be. JoshTheStampede fucked around with this message at 18:11 on Dec 15, 2014 |
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JoshTheStampede posted:Where are you hearing that? The forums - supposedly there was an announcement made on the Spanish forums and a message sent out to WarCors. I have no direct confirmation.
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Luckily http://www.infinitythegame.com/archivo/[ENG]_Rules.pdf is up
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It's also been mirrored on Google Drive. Link shamelessly stolen from /tg/. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2BtySIRpv3uVU92NVc2YzZqZTQ/view Now, because I haven't been paying attention, can someone explain to me, how, say, my Aleph models work with this? I see they're conspicuously absent from the army lists. Deviant fucked around with this message at 19:00 on Dec 15, 2014 |
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Deviant posted:Now, because I haven't been paying attention, can someone explain to me, how, say, my Aleph models work with this? I see they're conspicuously absent from the army lists. Well, the full army lists are coming at some point. We're just not sure when. I'm still hoping for the .pdf army lists showing up within the new few weeks, but the only official date is for the new version of the official army builder... which is supposed to come out sometime in February.
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