Rifleman! Joy of Joys! rotary AC and jump jet goodness, as well as a possible AA 'mech!!!!
(and there was much rejoicing

You never saw the sneek peek for it did you? For some reason they felt the need to leave AA of this baby.....:(

It has been said dozen times already in the preview thread, but it seems people still aren't getting it. The reason it doesn't have AA is that it is a different configuration of the rifleman, it is the configuration with rotatory autocannons that aren't exactly known for their long range.

And on another topic, speculation about combat engineers, perhaps they have bypass.

I ordered half a case around Christmas, makes me happy I did (I play SC a LOT)!

HOODY HOO! WE GET THE UNIQUE MECH LOVIN! YESSSSS!

Well after missing a few sets I am glad I started to collect Liao figures... This set looks like it is going to be great for them... and I almost have all of the figures I need from Liao Incursion So I can't wait to get my case of figures in the middle of January....

So here is what we get:

001-004 Special Forces Team (SS/LI/MERC/HL) 11-14P
009-012 Combat Engineers (SC/SH/LI/BR) 10-12P
013-016 Scout ATV Squad (SH/LI/BR/DF) 8-14P
017-020 Infiltrator MkI Battle Armor (BR/LI/SW/SC) 12-18P
025-028 Inner Sphere Battle Armor (SC/LI/SS/HL) 14-18P
029-032 Purifier Battle Amor (Merc/LI/SC/SH) 13-19P
033-036 Anat APC (LI/SH/BR/SC) 23-29P
041-044 Pegasus Light Hovertank (LI/SC/SS/SW) 46-60P
045-048 Garrot Superheavy Transport (SS/BR/LI/DF) 27-33P
049-052 DI Towed Arrow IV (SC/LI/DF/BR) 23-34P
057-060 Fulcrum Heavy Hover Tank (Merc/LI/SC/SS) 46-60P
061-064 MHI Defense AA Vehicle (BR/SS/SW/LI) 49-63P
069-072 Arrow IV Assault Vehicle (LI/DF/SW/SS) 47-51P
073-076 JESII Missile Carrier (SC/LI/BR/SH) 70-90P
085-088 Raider (SS/LI/BR/DF) 103-134P
089-092 Raider MkII (SC/BR/SH/LI) 106-122P
097-100 Phoenix Hawk (SS/SH/LI/BR) 110-128P
101-104 Sun Cobra (BR/LI/SS/SC) 128-161P
105-108 Shockwave (SC/HL/LI/Merc) 173-193P
109-112 Rifleman (Merc/SW/SH/LI) 206-238P
118 (LI) Ti Ts'ang 182P
122 (LI) Yu Huang 271P

Plus any LE's we get this set... Man I can't wait... I wonder how many people are going to start playing Liao now...

I believe one of the uniques you put up is an LE because the DF MAD II is supposed to be on there.

But Combat Engineers, hmm...

My God... Liao gets 22 units of out 124. 18% of of all CA units you pull out of a booster will be Liao -- slightly more than one every other booster.

Good thing Liao is one of my side factions, or I'd find that annoying.

Ok, if the combat engineers dont repair, could they at least be 1 cap transports to schlep those autocannon, laser batteries, and srm teams into position?

Yet ANOTHER reason I won't be buying CA boosters.

Technically if you look at the unit number for the Bounty Hunter he is #151 so technically he is the LE. You just get one in each case.

What a great idea! So good I really dought WK thought of it that way..

And still no attack choppers. Oh well, at least we get decent artillery and cheap BA.

Well, except no one would do that. It is far more efficent to put them all in a transport.

Are you kidding? for a 10 point combat engineer - no attack, 5-6 move with infiltrate 1 cap transport. Buddy those up with the fixed gun infantry to take up advanced positions in hindering terain. For a SSw TAC, thats a 3 damage armor piercing gun with IT in hindering placed 12 in into the board with a 10 in range. Thats a huge comand of the battlefield for only 29 points. I'd take a couple of squads easy in a 450 point game.

Ive got an idea for the Combat Engineers...

if you leave them alone for 2 or 3 turns then all terrain in a 1 inch radius turns into hindering terrain until they move (to represent a foxhole that Combat Engineers are used for in real life)