Well, there is a former FWL faction already with a toe in the Republic: the Oriente Protectorate received control of a couple of Worlds in Protectorate VI in return for military aid, IIRC. They may even have grabbed Palos from Prefecture V.

Speaking of which, are the border worlds that were mentioned as having been captured by Liao in the novels going to be updated on the wizkids map?

Karasu

I believe the INN mentioned that the MSC, the largest former FWL state, and the last of the old FWL central government and most powerful industrial worlds, are constantly raiding the republic, as the republic does the same to them... just something I remembered... lol

I would hope DF would not be absorbed in the Combine. House abilities would not work with them and the DC should have a new design paradigm.
All that said, I vote House Marik/FWL. When the House Kuritian Atlas comes I don't want it a chargemonkey w/ 10" max range. :(

Com Guard, They could save the Republic. By bringing all the "destroyed" mechs that were scrapped by Stone

I Put steiner.

It WOULD be interesting to see them show up, and of any of the different factions, I see them as the one's who are the most connected to their Splinter-Group Lackies. Marik, IMHO, is only good because Thomas (well, NOT Thomas, but Thomas) created the Knights of the InnerSphere...

the rest of the time they were so BLAITANTLY against eachother...

As for Davion, I Can't see them INVADING the ROTS (unless they breed another Hanse Wanna-Be), and if they did come in, it'd be in the roll the HL's are now...Protectors.

For the Kuritans, the last thing DF needs is faction abilities, they're QUITE powerfull enough w/o them...

Personally, Steiner is a good idea, partially because we're now there'll be a good ammount of fighting going on in "their" area of the republic (CJF comming in and all)

Allthough, I would also like to see the Com-Guards, that would be interesting...

mid :)

OH, and as for me, in the question of "How they'll get absorbed" (if the lasts THAT long) is this:

One of the Faction-Abilities for the respective groups is this:

Fealty (loyalty): All units of (House Faction Here) can form standard formations with (Sub-Faction here)'s units, as per the formations rules. However, (sub-faction here) does not gain the benefits of the other faction abilities.

Of course as my BM (Battlechimp, he rocks) pointed out, this is pretty much the exact opposite of what they did with MK2.0...

As per the design paradgim, for simplicity and Identity's sake, I'd say that the house armies would have pretty much the same design plan as the "faction's", but more expensive and with longer dials/more stability/quirks thrown in. IE: Perhapse all Kurlitan units would have Abedeo Misho's "Bezzerker Rage" thing going for them...

Just my .02...Not like I can claim to know what WK's plans are...other than to (try to) make $$$

mid :)

I myself would like to see marik return that was the house i played in CBT and i know this is a little off topic but i would much rather GhostBear return as they are the upgrade i went to from Marik when the clans were brought in . I love my Ghost bears .

I voted for House Kurtina since I love their samurai kind of style ( if I am thinking oif the same house I think I am that is....), but I would really like to see the GhostBears make a showing first. I mean we already have Dragon's Fury, so why not make something else instead. As for Marik, I am not quite familiar with them or maybe I would have voted for them instead. ;)

com guard or Word of blake..

com guard, able to move in formation with any faction, and word of blake... just cause they would be the enemy of everything and need a good pounding for starting the dark age!!

I don't think anyone would play WObbies, that'd be hard to play against, you need an opponent, lol.

I say this based on the fact, that everyone always says how they hate the WOB... it'd be so hard for WK to make people buy that product, lol.

to answr the question about Rashalauge, they were not absorbed, they merged into Clan Ghost Bear to create the Rashalauge Dominion.

Furthermore, I think it is interesting that people are voting for Marik. In the Faction War emails WK sent out, the Spirit Cat Orders mentioned Kev Rosse havng a vision involving an eagle with indigo feathers shrouding the Republic in darkness and consuming it. for those who do not know the Marik crest is an Indigo Eagle. Coincidence..... I think not

I really hope that no more Davion captacularness comes out. I am sick of Stackpole's candy coatings from the BT and his one DA novel.


NO MORE DAVION! PLEASE! NO MORE DAVION CHEESE!

I say no more for now.

the more factions/houses/cans we have in a set, the harder it becomes to get the factions you really wanna play

Hell yeah, bring on the Rasalhague Dominion, i'd drop almost any of the factions i'm playing now to play the bears.

With regards to Kev's vision, i think he was just zoning. #### those psychedelic visions....ooohhhh.....:::stoned:::
(aside: you do make a very interesting point however.)

WK used enlisted ranks 'cause they are the ones who do the real work. Anyhow I would play WOB because they are instagaters!