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CB confirmed to troll everyone by releasing the Seraph six months before the other Stingrays. I'm okay with it though.
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Mar 2, 2015 19:42
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Signal posted:WTF are those wings supposed to be, though? It's a Seraph, Seraphs are angels, so they had to stick some decorative future-wings on it.
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Mar 2, 2015 19:43
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Its Auxbot has to have baby-cherub wings instead of antennas.
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Mar 2, 2015 19:45
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Signal posted:WTF are those wings supposed to be, though? Unless they rework the profile, absolutely nothing. I'm converting mine to Hussar wings if at all possible. Pierzak posted:Its Auxbot has to have baby-cherub wings instead of antennas. This would be amazing, but it would also deny CB the chance to re-use an existing sculpt so it won't happen.
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Mar 2, 2015 19:49
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I know a few were having a spat over the head, but it does look a bit different from the one in the art? the eyepiece does at any rate but that might just be the tiny scale of the image.Signal posted:WTF are those wings supposed to be, though? Some other pics from that same thread:  
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Mar 2, 2015 19:55
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Bling happens on combat units. Again, Hussars: 
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Mar 2, 2015 20:05
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I like my space angel robots as much as the next guy, but I'm going to have to see how it looks without them. Or maybe just cut down a little. The helmet does seem to look different, but I'm not sure how much of that is the angle.
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Mar 2, 2015 20:06
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Do we have any idea when Acheron Falls is due?
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DJ Dizzy posted:Do we have any idea when Acheron Falls is due? A year or two away, at the earliest.
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Mar 2, 2015 20:52
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I actually wouldn't be surprised if CB announced it at GenCon, since they've been talking about having a big surprise to reveal there. But yeah, it won't be actually out for quite a while beyond that - just look at N3's schedule last year.
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Mar 2, 2015 21:02
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Corbeau posted:I actually wouldn't be surprised if CB announced it at GenCon, since they've been talking about having a big surprise to reveal there. But yeah, it won't be actually out for quite a while beyond that - just look at N3's schedule last year. Yeah, an announcment this year at GenCon that it will be out at next year's GenCon maybe. I think they are wary of giving dates that far out, though, so maybe just an announcement that they are actively working on it.
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Mar 2, 2015 21:04
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Do we have any word on Army 5 yet? Wasn't it supposed to be out in February?
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Mar 2, 2015 21:08
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Corbeau posted:Bling happens on combat units. Again, Hussars: Signal posted:Do we have any word on Army 5 yet? Wasn't it supposed to be out in February?
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Mar 2, 2015 21:13
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Signal posted:Do we have any word on Army 5 yet? Wasn't it supposed to be out in February? Technically they said it would be out before ITS2015. Which is true, since that isn't out yet either.
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Mar 2, 2015 21:18
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Flipswitch posted:Yup, I used to be attached to a dragoon regiment What's a dragoon regiment, in the context of modern military?
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Mar 2, 2015 22:20
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I don't know for sure, but the logical extension would be an armor unit. e: A quick glance at wikipedia suggest that mechanized infantry sometimes gets the dragoon label. Corbeau fucked around with this message at 22:25 on Mar 2, 2015 |
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Mar 2, 2015 22:23
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Pierzak posted:What's a dragoon regiment, in the context of modern military?
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Is that technically right? I thought it was mechanized infantry. Armor should mean cavalry where you fight from inside the vehicle, mostly, not deploy out of it.
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That article reads like light armor in a recon role. No idea how much infantry is attached.
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TheCosmicMuffet posted:Is that technically right? I thought it was mechanized infantry. Armor should mean cavalry where you fight from inside the vehicle, mostly, not deploy out of it. The word itself: quote:The word dragoon originally meant mounted infantry, who were trained in horse riding as well as infantry fighting skills. However, usage altered over time and during the 18th century, dragoons evolved into conventional light cavalry units and personnel. Flipswitch fucked around with this message at 22:51 on Mar 2, 2015 |
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MJ12 posted:Speaking of learning the ropes, what's the best way to make use of cheap HI like the Terracotta Soldiers? Cheap HI-heavy lists seem like a cool thing because Terracottas are cool but they're not good enough to Rambo and not cheap enough to cheerlead and have no fancy frills. I've only been playing casually for 9 months or so, but they seem like they would be brutal for laying down Suppressive Fire. AutoMedKit + HMG on your Lt. for one SWC seems pretty good too. To compare with something in my faction, they're priced a little bit more than Neoterra Bolts, but come with more armor and two wounds. Rambo + Cheerleaders isn't the only way to play the game. You could max out on those guys AVA and still have enough points left over to have a second combat group with a 60-70 point Rambo and a significant number of cheerleaders! 4-4 Kinematika FO's could be good too, since a successful dodge could move them way back into cover, increasing their survivability? Idk, that's a wild rear end guess. I'm currently testing an NCA list where my most expensive unit is 32 points, unless you want to count the Bolts as a "unit" since I run them as a 5 man link team. I have 15 orders. There isn't a single Rambo, but there is a significant amount of threat coming at you from all directions. This means that even if you pop some of my units, there is still threat coming at you. If someone gets a few lucky dice roll on your HAC TAO, you're done. If someone pops one of your Terra-cotta's, you probably have a couple more, or maybe something completely different, in reserve. Generally, after looking, I imagine something like a 5 Terra-Cotta + 3 Wu Ming + a doc + Engi would be irritating to fight against. (30*5+40*3+15*2, and probably some spare points. And there's probably some smarter way to build a similar list, but I don't play YJ.) Combi rifles would usually bounce off of you if you stayed in cover, and you could drop a bunch of Nimbus grenades to cover your advance. Cyberpunkey Monkey fucked around with this message at 23:21 on Mar 2, 2015 |
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Flipswitch posted:QGD itself is a line cavalry reg and under ARMY2020 will re-role as light cav. Currently it uses AFVs as force recce. I didn't realize that the term dragoon transitioned to mean light cavalry. Also, the picture of the dudes in a Coyote made me think there was a squad in the back of it. The sun was in my eyes. Also I think it's a little funny that the Queen got the Dragoons from the King. I guess it answers the question 'what do you get a woman who has everything'.
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Yeah it's an evolution of the word over time for the most part. When I first signed on I found it really interesting so I sat down and read about the regiments closest to me. The British Army is full of these little historical footnotes and the like. Worth mentioning though you do get a bunch of regiments in the army which don't use the historical names, such as Royal Tank Regiment (RTR). I think this is because they're more modern regiments without the historical context but bugger if I know!
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Hussars, Uhlans - Polish words for types of cavalry, both used in the 19th century for British light cavalry Dragoons - used throughout Europe originally as a term for mounted infantry, and by the 19th century cavalry (both light and heavy) Cuirassiers - any cavalry still wearing body armour by the time it was generally obsolete, most famously in Imperial France, although the British also had at least one regt which would fit the description Modern British designations (not much idea for other European countries) have sort of lost the plot in terms of any light/heavy correlation. Britain moved all the Cav regts to armoured vehicles in the 1920s-30s and they have all transitioned through various types of vehicles and roles since then as doctrine and technology developed. Fix, you are right in that the RTR dates from WW1 and was formed specifically to operate tanks while the cav were still trotting about. As far as I know the only regt in the Armoured Corps without a pre-modern name. Note for any non-Brits though, all those regiments have been amalgamated with others several times over the years. So the names often are smashed together from older names and each regt sort of claims the traditions of several 19th century regiments.
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Genghis Cohen posted:Fix, you are right in that the RTR dates from WW1 and was formed specifically to operate tanks while the cav were still trotting about. As far as I know the only regt in the Armoured Corps without a pre-modern name. Note for any non-Brits though, all those regiments have been amalgamated with others several times over the years. So the names often are smashed together from older names and each regt sort of claims the traditions of several 19th century regiments. 2) Gotcha. I served with some RTR gents on my last source and they were a god pair to give them credit, but I didn't ask them about their regiment naming over the other, it's fascinating stuff though.
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My buddy that plays ALEPH said I could use some of his stuff for games to get my Imperial Service up to 300 points. I have the starter, a Ninja hacker, and the Yaoxie box on the way. Here is the list I put together using what I will have available and the advice you guys gave me so far. IMPERIAL SERVICE────────────────────────────────────────────────── GROUP 1   10  0  0 CELESTIAL GUARD Combi Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (13)CELESTIAL GUARD Boarding Shotgun / Pistol, Knife. (12)CELESTIAL GUARD Hacker (Hacking Device) Combi Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 21) IMPERIAL AGENT (Chain of Command, X Visor) Combi Rifle + E/Mitter / Pistol, Monofilament CCW. (38) SOPHOTECT Combi Rifle, D-Charges / Pistol, Knife. (31) WU MÍNG Boarding Shotgun, Grenades / Pistol, CCW. (31) HSIEN Lieutenant MULTI Rifle / Pistol, AP CCW. (+1 | 57) NINJA Hacker (Hacking Device) Combi Rifle / Pistol, Shock CCW. (0.5 | 40) DAKINI Tacbot Paramedic (MediKit) Combi Rifle / Electric Pulse. (15) RUI SHI Spitfire / Electric Pulse. (1 | 21)GROUP 2 1 0 0RUI SHI Spitfire / Electric Pulse. (1 | 21)2 SWC | 300 Points Open with Army 5 After I play this a few times my first order of buisiness is picking up the ALEPH stuff instead of bumming it off my friend. Any suggestions on where to go after that? I was thinking Kuang Shi and Celestial guard box.
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My take on it: Imperial Service ────────────────────────────────────────────────── Group 1 HSIEN Lieutenant HMG, Nanopulser / Pistol, AP CCW. (2 | 61) CELESTIAL GUARD Combi Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (13) CELESTIAL GUARD Combi Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (13) IMPERIAL AGENT Hacker (Hacking Device) Combi Rifle / Pistol, Monofilament CCW. (0.5 | 34) WÚ MÍNG (Forward Observer) Boarding Shotgun / Pistol, Knife. (31) SOPHOTECT Combi Rifle, D-Charges / Pistol, Knife. (31) NINJA Hacker (Assault Hacking Device) Combi Rifle / Pistol, Shock CCW, Knife. (0.5 | 40) DAKINI Tacbot Paramedic (MediKit) Combi Rifle / Electric Pulse. (15) WÈIBĪNG Yaókòng Combi Rifle, Sniffer / Electric Pulse. (16) RUI SHI Spitfire / Electric Pulse. (1 | 21) Group 2 HÙSÒNG Yaókòng HMG / Electric Pulse. (1 | 25) 5 SWC | 300 Points Also, your changed link name is not fooling anyone  As for suggestions, what you said plus a Yaokong box. Pierzak fucked around with this message at 01:07 on Mar 3, 2015 |
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Pierzak posted:My take on it: I like it. Only thing limiting me would be not having a 3rd drone, guess I could proxy one of the ALEPH drones and give it a shot. Looking over the choices Imperial Service seems to love them some drones and I did not realize that the FO ones counted as specialists for missions. I'll definitely be picking up the Yaokong remote box when I can.
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Yeah the Pathfinder/Weibing equivalents for each faction are incredible pick ups as specialists because of their versatility, they're a pocket toolbox on a 6-4 chassis. The downside is they're fairly fragile and vulnerable to a few different attacking methods, but they're almost an auto include for every list I make across factions because of how good they are.
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In related news, I'm debating whether I really need that 7th Yaokong Might pick up a second Lu Duan instead.
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Bringing two lists tonight. One of them has a Seraph. Get hype.
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I tried my Seraph. We rolled River of Blood and Kill the Heroes in 20x20, so it was basically an annihilation mission. Unfortunately I forgot that Martial Arts grants stealth, so a Daofei Hacker absolutely ruined me. Immobilized my Magisters in ARO due to a deployable repeater dropped by a Guileng, made his armor saves and dodge rolls, and then possessed my TAG during his active turn. Said possessed TAG then shot all my immobilized Magisters in the back. gently caress. If I'd remembered stealth, I could have blown away the repeater and skirmisher pretty easily and then kept my TAG too far back to hack. e: The game table: 
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Need some advice on table set up. How does this look? Going by the book it seems we have enough but looking at other groups tables on the internet it seems extremely sparse. Any reccomendations on good scatter terrain providers? Bonus Shot Umbra hackers make fantastic objective grabbers and have secured me 3 wins alone by their actions. My opponent used all of his orders in his last turn in order to try and get the objective box off the Umbra but ran out of orders after moving into base contact. Along with my Charontid grabbing a box off a deceased FO Batroid and completing my Coup De Grace secret objective after marching said Charontid past Atalanta and taking her AROs to the face and murdering some passed out idiot in the street it ended 7-0 in my favor. Comrade Merf fucked around with this message at 11:56 on Mar 3, 2015 |
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Mar 3, 2015 11:46
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What does Daofei have to do with Martial Arts?
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Mar 3, 2015 12:48
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Comrade Merf posted:Need some advice on table set up. How does this look? Going by the book it seems we have enough but looking at other groups tables on the internet it seems extremely sparse. Any reccomendations on good scatter terrain providers? It's apparently common wisdom that Americans use too much terrain. Scatter some cars on the roadway if you're worried? I think it looks great.
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That table looks ok to me, as osiris as said, might be worth chucking down some small scale road barricades and cars to break up the central fire lanes but other than that the basics look fine! E: Looking it over I'd definitely do so on the central road. That might be a bitch to cross otherwise without smoke and the like. Flipswitch fucked around with this message at 14:57 on Mar 3, 2015 |
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I can't guesstimate the deployment zones, but does the closer half have enough terrain on deployment zone to hide most troops? Maybe add a container or something on top of the "Designed for Infinity" text.
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Comrade Merf posted:Need some advice on table set up. How does this look? Going by the book it seems we have enough but looking at other groups tables on the internet it seems extremely sparse. Any reccomendations on good scatter terrain providers? Im new so take my advice as a grain of salt. The wide open roadway might be a problem. You can deploy doods on the roof and pretty much lock down the roadway. Also that table looks amazing! Nice scenery and everything!
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I can't find anyone in America who sells the moto.tronica scenery pack. Anyone know something I don't?
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