You might be confusing people expectations based on what they did with Mage Knight for official announcements. After the "mass retirement" of Mage Knight, they went set-by-set for a set or two.

The current plan is to retire sets once a year, at the beginning of the year. Kevin's stated that Falcon's Prey will not be retired next year. That implies that Counterassault and Liao Incursion will be.

That makes sense, given WizKids has said you can expect about a 2 year tournament lifespan for expansions (and 2 1/2 years for a base set). Counterassault will be 2 years old in January.

Actually, David, I see it happening just a little differently...

In January, we will get a new st and retire LI and CA. That will leave us with FP, AoD, FiP, AN and the Jan set as legal. Then we will get the set again in May, bringing us up to 6 legal expansions. Then with the September set, we will see the retirement of FP which will be at that time 2 years and 1 month old. From that point on, you will get a set by set retirement, thereby always having 6 sets legal at any time AND not cutting the lifespan of FP short as well as giving us the "predictable" schedule of retirement that was mentioned in the initial chat. Unless you are privy to info that I don't have...

Tony

I'm 99% sure that Kevin has said that retirements will be done once a year, rather than once per set. It might have been mentioned previously in the Mage Knight variation of his thread. However, the context implied that it would apply to all lines (at least, all his lines).

I recall something similar to what David is saying. I can't remember whether it was on the ask draddog or ask kevinG thread.

Just some old tidbits, none of it supports either method of retirement.

First, I'd like to clarify this:

None of the 'Mech armies I fought just rolled over and died. Seriously, just because Tank Drop made it so high in the standings, doesn't mean that 'Mechs are underpowered. Actually, if it wasn't for PCCs, I'd think that 'Mechs would consistently win over Tank Drop (God knows I won two games just because I played Dust Storm). Most games with 'Mech vs. Tank Drop really do boil down to player skill and luck. I'm sorry, but that's how it is.

Secondly:

SUPER SECRET FORMAT?!?!?!?!??!

Bring 1000 pts of legal units, and an optional 500 pt sidebar...no max limit on how much you bring. You know what? I think they're going to do a Faction War on us, where your units, when killed, are permanently killed, and must be supplemented from your sidebar. God, this thing looks scary! And when will they announce it? On the spot? Man, that'll make for some fun army building, haha.

Actually, it sounds like fun!!

1500 min points suggested. I'm thinking I'll start laying out about 15,000 points, just to be safe LOL (Now what has me curious, if I have, for example, Arnis in my 500, can I have 2 more Arnis in my 1000+ and replace Arnis when/if he goes down?) Why no mention of the force being faction pure? And of course, what is the main part of the army going to consist of? (Something like last year where they hand everyone an identical box of figures, and then you supplement with what you brought???)

Of course, I'd much rather see the Constructed portion being 600 points and Faction pure (or aligned or merc) but that is highly doubtful to ever come to be.

I'm willing to bet that at least half the Constructed armies will have Mechs in them.

The lack of an upper limit on the sidebar is intriguing; I'm expecting to see more than a few people show up with suitcases filled to the brim with duplicates of the good pieces, yours truly included. :p

Marc

P.S. Mechs? Bah, who needs 'em?!

Spoken like a true min/maxer. :cheeky:

now I am really going to have to stress about what to bring to Worlds..


I really don't think I can bring 8,000 figures I have ;P

Am I going to pack clothes for the airplane? My usual plan for GenCon is to bring 1 empty suitcase. I usually have it full on the way home :)


IT is going to be tough to know what to bring!


baw

I know the feeling. I had a plan, but that plan went out the window Friday. Sure, the Constructed army is staying the same, but now, I am totally focused on that 1500+ point bringalong.

I'm bringing an empty duffle bag, inside the rigid suitcase. Then the suitcase contents get emptied into the duffle bag, clothes and so on, and the suitcase holds all the goodies I'll be buying LOL

The instructions for the "secret" event is pretty weak. How am I supposed to bring all my pieces? Can I bring all my retired units?

We need some more clarification on what to bring. If they said something like 1500 pts. faction pure, then I'll be ok with that.

As it stands now, I'll feel like I'll be screwed if I don't bring everything.

Alex

"Tournament Legal" would rule out the retired ones.

However, what about bringing 4 of the same unique figure, as part of your "sideboard", just in case you lose the one in your army?

And, what about some upper limit?

Faction requirements?

Anything?