I'd like to know what Classics are in it. I'm betting on the Valkyrie, Rifleman and Marauder myself
I don't think I want to answer that one just yet. So instead I'll say there are several unique mechwarriors with Valkyries. And at least one with a Rifleman and at least one with a Marauder. *
*Standard disclaimer on any not yet released product, Final results may vary.
Will the Triple-F franchise get its own sidebar? :)
The Triple-F franchise has it's own sidebar, in their stores. There's no sidebar for them in CM: Davion. The Federated Suns has not (yet) weaponized the Triple-F franchise (in the Combat Manual's time frame).
The writer for House Kurita mentioned they got to resolve the canon conflict on the Amphigean LAG regiments. Did you get to mKe any canon contributions like that?
The majority of the interesting writing (and overall word count) is done by Geoff Swift, for all the Combat Manauls so far (and for Davion). Usually my job, in addition to the rules writing, is to take Geoff's ideas and make sure they work rules wise and try to keep them balanced (against some sort of overall guidelines). For example, most of the new command abilities' are Geoff's ideas and sometimes he has the rules from the beginning, sometimes they need a bit of a tweak, and sometimes I make the rules for them. And then Ray keeps us in line and tweaks/fills in where he wants parts of it to go (along with all the non-writing work).
I worry I should have reigned in the Kestrel Grenadiers' unique mechwarrior, but you've still got to pay for that thing (82 PV!)
Oh, will there be a picture of Hanse Davion holding Max Liao in a headlock?
I haven't seen any of the CM: Davion artwork that everybody else hasn't already seen. So...maybe? :)
