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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #570 on: 22 March 2018, 20:01:40 »
Karlevski's back! :rockon:

And he'll be the first nuSeen in my Rolling Thunder company, since I sold off the Unseen 'Mechs from it a while back.
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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #571 on: 22 March 2018, 20:02:08 »
Correct.

SPAs are for both TW and AS, the TW text is listed on the cards, but they have the same SPAs/values in AS.

Cool thanx Adrain...silliness on my part aside, they look FANTASTIC, and really help to sell the Pilots of the Mechs.
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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #572 on: 22 March 2018, 20:05:54 »
LIES! They first Appeared in A TIME OF WAR pages 219 - 225  :P

Eh, I didn’t edit that one.
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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #573 on: 22 March 2018, 20:09:16 »
Those pilot cards just released on the fb page look pretty neat
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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #574 on: 22 March 2018, 20:18:01 »
What is the ability cost for? AS PV system?

Speaking of cost, do SPAs have any official balancing method for BV-balanced games? Like, do they have values or modifiers or anything?

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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #575 on: 22 March 2018, 20:20:28 »
It’s a separate point system independent of BV or PV.
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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #576 on: 22 March 2018, 20:30:36 »
And he'll be the first nuSeen in my Rolling Thunder company, since I sold off the Unseen 'Mechs from it a while back.

I've got Unseens for all of them(you know what I mean), and one of these centuries, I'll finish painting all of them...
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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #577 on: 22 March 2018, 20:41:27 »
I've got Unseens for all of them(you know what I mean), and one of these centuries, I'll finish painting all of them...

Luckily, they're just brown. I've got a very fast technique for that.
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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #578 on: 22 March 2018, 20:45:13 »
It’s a separate point system independent of BV or PV.

A new one or am i forgetting/missing something?

I remember campaign operations has SPAs for standard BT but i can't recall if it had costs associated with them.
Presumably this cost is not like that of Design Quirks though? (as that is mostly a recommendation and not exactly balanced even if i stretch the meaning of the word.)

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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #579 on: 22 March 2018, 20:47:11 »
Presumably this cost is not like that of Design Quirks though?

Nope--the SPA costs are only weighed against other SPAs.
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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #580 on: 22 March 2018, 21:21:22 »
Luckily, they're just brown. I've got a very fast technique for that.

1st Regulan are not brown, sorry to say...
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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #581 on: 22 March 2018, 22:51:40 »
1st Regulan are not brown, sorry to say...

http://camospecs.com/Unit/Details/107/1st-regulan-hussars

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So, brown. :-P
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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #582 on: 22 March 2018, 23:03:31 »
The very fact that one of them is a Rolling Thunder character makes me insanely disproportionately happy.
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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #583 on: 22 March 2018, 23:11:26 »
Those cards look great, and really do pack in a lot of information.

Those four pilots, in particular, seem kinda good. Are they typical examples of the 24, or top shelf material?

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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #584 on: 22 March 2018, 23:21:03 »
I grabbed a random sampling, but those appear to be mid- to upper-end.
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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #585 on: 23 March 2018, 00:18:42 »
I'm super pumped about these cards.
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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #586 on: 23 March 2018, 06:50:22 »
The numbers on  top of the cards are the Gunnery/Piloting skills?
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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #587 on: 23 March 2018, 07:29:41 »
Eh, I didn’t edit that one.

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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #588 on: 23 March 2018, 07:41:08 »
The numbers on  top of the cards are the Gunnery/Piloting skills?


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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #589 on: 23 March 2018, 07:49:37 »
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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #590 on: 23 March 2018, 08:21:02 »

Yup!
Thanks and Cubby too.  I came late into the conversation.  :P

I'm little disappointed that most of the previous materials in Coming Attractions were removed.  I'm glad their not cancelled but i can't say i like Golden Century and TRO Irregular Tech being yanked.  I was looking forward to those. *sigh*

Edit:  I just noticed the PDF only stuff includes, Brush Wars books are becoming their own series PDF series vs when they were part of Historical books?  I guess we'll find out when they come out. I wonder if they will be more a scenario / Chaos Campaign+Warchest product vs detailed Historical Series was. 
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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #591 on: 23 March 2018, 15:08:38 »
Cards look good!

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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #592 on: 23 March 2018, 18:03:19 »
Will the reprints  of the books keep the same covers?  I'd like my incomplete set of spine art to have matching volumes.

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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #593 on: 23 March 2018, 18:44:31 »
No, they will have retro covers and a retro art spine.
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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #594 on: 23 March 2018, 18:58:26 »
No, they will have retro covers and a retro art spine.


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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #595 on: 23 March 2018, 20:39:54 »
I enjoy the old art for the novels more than the Legends one.  Thanks for bring them back.
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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #596 on: 23 March 2018, 20:48:16 »
No, they will have retro covers and a retro art spine.
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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #597 on: 23 March 2018, 21:50:19 »
Any chance we'll ever see A Bonfire of Worlds in print?
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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #598 on: 23 March 2018, 21:55:49 »
Any chance we'll ever see A Bonfire of Worlds in print?
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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #599 on: 23 March 2018, 21:56:35 »
Likewise, will we ever get the 3150 NTNU record sheets? I know I'm still holding out hope for them.


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