crow
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Post by crow on Nov 6, 2018 11:14:05 GMT
y would they stop wit teh mini factions when they said they was gonna release one every year indefinitely? where is infernals in ur schedule? expect ord, orgoth and zu in teh next 4 years in any order. novebber - mysterry cid (my wild guess is lalalese resistance) janyuary: steeheads feb- anyones guess. mine is strom division march -unfernaals Well because the way the system I posted works is that mini-factions would have one month to be reviewed, and with there already being 4 of them, it'd be to hard to review say... 7 or 8 mini factions in one month? I mean you could rotate, but then your odds of seeing a release as say, Grymkin or CoC becomes pretty much nill, and the power curve would be ridiculous until your next CID possibility. Add in that they still actually have to release the fourth mini-faction, and things get a little clunky to start. That being said, after Infernals drops, rotating and focusing on one of the (now) 4 mini factions would be easy to do, and would mean that each mini faction has a chance once every four years minimum to receive what would probably be a much needed update. The reason you'd only have "one month" is because, as without the mini factions, you have 11 "main-ish" factions (minions and Mercs included). That would mean that each faction could get it's own month with the limited release factions sharing Feb. Again it probably isn't going to happen this way, but was merely how I thought a tight, organized release schedule might work.
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shoe
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Post by shoe on Nov 6, 2018 13:46:42 GMT
teh release schedule now is designed to maek u have to go out and buy a theme box of skron or thran to get teh new themey force so iona can eat all ur opponents mans and den u gots to go and buy teh solos and caster attachments and spends ur moneys. and if u want the new faction u is gonna buy a starter box but dey know u also gonna have to get 3 trains and a vulcan plus everything else and spend a thousand dollars.
it is science
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Post by Charistoph on Nov 6, 2018 15:00:46 GMT
y would they stop wit teh mini factions when they said they was gonna release one every year indefinitely? where is infernals in ur schedule? expect ord, orgoth and zu in teh next 4 years in any order. novebber - mysterry cid (my wild guess is lalalese resistance) janyuary: steeheads feb- anyones guess. mine is strom division march -unfernaals Well because the way the system I posted works is that mini-factions would have one month to be reviewed, and with there already being 4 of them, it'd be to hard to review say... 7 or 8 mini factions in one month? I mean you could rotate, but then your odds of seeing a release as say, Grymkin or CoC becomes pretty much nill, and the power curve would be ridiculous until your next CID possibility. Add in that they still actually have to release the fourth mini-faction, and things get a little clunky to start. That being said, after Infernals drops, rotating and focusing on one of the (now) 4 mini factions would be easy to do, and would mean that each mini faction has a chance once every four years minimum to receive what would probably be a much needed update. The reason you'd only have "one month" is because, as without the mini factions, you have 11 "main-ish" factions (minions and Mercs included). That would mean that each faction could get it's own month with the limited release factions sharing Feb. Again it probably isn't going to happen this way, but was merely how I thought a tight, organized release schedule might work. I don't know, there is definitely room to split out Cephalyx in to being their own thing. Crucible Guard was something that could have been a sub-faction of Mercenaries, like Grymkin could have been for Minions. So one could (and possibly should) consider getting the Cephalyx on their own for no other reason than that they literally cannot be played in any Theme but their own making them a mini-faction already in everything but name.
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shoe
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Post by shoe on Nov 6, 2018 17:27:05 GMT
whale cephalicks should have been there own many faction when they came out, they mistaked it and made them mercenaries because it was before the miny faction blitz and now there is all this cefalyx packaging and promotional materials and balloons that say mercenaries on them so they can't change it
plus liek the 4 merc players who palay them woud whine
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Post by Charistoph on Nov 6, 2018 23:26:17 GMT
I rather disagree. Making them a mini-faction would lead to an expansion of options.
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shoe
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Post by shoe on Nov 7, 2018 1:53:16 GMT
I rather disagree. Making them a mini-faction would lead to an expansion of options. u've no idea the packaging debacle involved in such a thing. not happenin
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Post by Charistoph on Nov 7, 2018 2:34:03 GMT
Please define what you are referring to with "packaging".
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shoe
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Post by shoe on Nov 7, 2018 4:11:57 GMT
Please define what you are referring to with "packaging". u know that thing cocnifox cyphon comes in? its called a package. theres a warehouse full of em. an dey all have merc logos dat say "mercanary sefalix worcester' on the packages. u would has to rebox teh entire line at a hueg expanse
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Post by elladan52 on Nov 7, 2018 5:39:37 GMT
He's been doing this for over a month now, but it doesn't technically break any rules so I can't justify editing his posts without someone being bothered for legitimate reasons. I think it's endearing, it's like an adorable 2 year old is posting.
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Post by Charistoph on Nov 7, 2018 6:42:14 GMT
Please define what you are referring to with "packaging". u know that thing cocnifox cyphon comes in? its called a package. theres a warehouse full of em. an dey all have merc logos dat say "mercanary sefalix worcester' on the packages. u would has to rebox teh entire line at a hueg expanse Isn't he in a blister? The portion you speak of is a card. Those really aren't that hard to replace. Even from there, it's not like they did a whole lot of replacing of those same cards when they started packaging to the specific factions instead of just the general Warmachine and Hordes.
Going on from that, keep Cyphon and Thexus as Partisans and then you don't need to change the packaging, do you?
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shoe
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Post by shoe on Nov 7, 2018 6:44:18 GMT
the entire cephaltx line, sir!!!!
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shoe
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Post by shoe on Nov 7, 2018 6:57:35 GMT
and den u gots to pay somebody to change war room and teh website cards and the sku database and teh online store listing instead of paying them to do something dat will makes u teh monies
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Post by Gamingdevil on Nov 7, 2018 7:02:02 GMT
Making Cephalyx into their own faction would make them unavailable to Mercenary players in their pairings, I guess unless they're partisans. But Cephalyx as a faction wouldn't be tournament viable because they literally have 2 casters, so barely any options for a 2-list pairing.
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germanicus
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Post by germanicus on Nov 7, 2018 10:03:06 GMT
Cephalyx as their own faction would need sooooo much work. Only three battlegroup models, nothing on a medium base and a really limited unit roster. They would need three casters, at least four or five new Monstrosities, a couple of new solos, a handful of characters and 10-man units that do something more than shamble up the board and die (whether to getting FF blasted for gains or fried by enemy gunfire, makes no difference). They'd basically need a full mini-faction introit CID to get going and given that the product is already there, I don't think PP are inclined to do it. Unless there's massive power creep on their part, the players who have Cephalyx will only spend on the new toys, those who don't have Cephalyx will be largely meh about it (let's face it, we're mostly meh about them now, aren't we?), and would need to appeal to new players, but given how crappy their general stats are, it's a bit of a hard sell going 'look at how awesome these guys are' when the sort-of-awesome only comes out in seemingly complicated combos from a new player's perspective.
*shrug*
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Post by hocestbellum on Nov 7, 2018 10:20:30 GMT
We've had two CIDs that pulled entire factions out of thin air. I'm not sure why you think pulling half a faction out of thin air to bring the Cephalyx up to par is so far out of reach.
To bring Cephalyx up to Crucible Guard numbers they'd need three casters, three units, three light monstrosities and four solos. That's really not a lot by CID standards. The Black Fleet had 5 units and 4 solos just as new models, and also involved many more.
But personally I'd rather they got through all the existing themes before dropping more factions on us
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