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Well, I didn't see this coming....

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... but I'm as happy as a Hell Talon on the tail of a one-winged Marauder!

Assuming this will be a miniatures game (as opposed to computer or card, which are possibilities, I guess), I'm thinking this will be to scale with AT18, and there will be an initial plastics release. (I think a new A.I. would fall in a flaming spiral if it were all-resin miniatures, although Shapeways stores, et al, would rejoice...)

Imperial and either Chaos or Ork seem very likely candidates for launch plastics.

Personally hoping this isn't 'Aeronautica Imperialis: The Horus Heresy' ! Air fleets of identical aircraft seems a bad choice. (Titanicus got away with it because the background and original AT completely justifies that decision.)

Does anyone have more info yet?

What do you hope to see in new A.I?

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Magos Takatus Venerable Brother

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I, having not had the opportunity to play the original aeronautica Imperialis have a few things that I'd hope to see. I hope the setting is modern 40k rather than the Horus Heresy and I hope they produce models for some of the older designs as well as the new ones, so we see Eldar Nightwings and Phoenix bombers as well as Crimson Hunters for example. If they release Necron bakery fliers and Tau *anything other than the ugly plastic fliers* and so on it should be great. The Dark Eldar fliers look amazing and it would be a travesty not to see them produced because heresy.

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All good points, Takatus. Being an original player, I'd not yet considered all the new flying machines that now grace the skies over modern 40K tables. 

 

Yes, I think it would be a missed opportunity if the new AI is another 30K / Heresy game. The 41st millennium has much more to offer the air wargamer. 

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This was probably my favourite announcement of the weekend (okay, maybe this or the Skorpius). I was just recently thinking about the original and how I wished I’d collected and played it.

 

The context it was done in; SG preview seminar and the fact that all the modern SG’s since Blood Bowl have quarterly plastic releases supported with resin for addons and less common models, means this is likely to follow the same pattern. I’d also bet real money that it’s going to be the same scale as Adeptus Titanicus and this will help them build a range of models suitable for the rebirth of Epic, which I’m very excited about the potential of. They are even building a scenery range for use across these systems!

 

On that subject I find it interesting that the Q&A answer to ‘Can we have Epic?’ was ‘Maybe in the future’ rather than ‘No plans’. Anyway enough about Epic.

 

Like everyone though; I’m hoping for a 40k setting as Space Marine flyer vs Space Marine flyer doesn’t sound that appealing. But Imperial Navy vs Orks vs Tau? Oh yeah! I’d definitely collect an Imperial Navy and an Ork force.

 

Hoping it’ll be the 40k version of x-wing I’ve always wanted only without the need to buy a million cards...

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My preference is that this will be a redux of the original game, which was set in the current era and used Epic scale miniatures. Yes, plastic would be preferable to resin.

 

However, I could also see this as an electronic game, similar to the current electronic incarnation of Battlefleet Gothic (and similarly limiting itself to two dimensions rather than the three dimensions that aerospace combat allows). An electronic version would allow for quicker integration of all factions.

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My preference is that this will be a redux of the original game, which was set in the current era and used Epic scale miniatures. Yes, plastic would be preferable to resin.

 

However, I could also see this as an electronic game, similar to the current electronic incarnation of Battlefleet Gothic (and similarly limiting itself to two dimensions rather than the three dimensions that aerospace combat allows). An electronic version would allow for quicker integration of all factions.

Wasn’t it unveiled in the Specialist Games seminar though? If so it’s got to be a physical SG games surely? (I hope...)

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My preference is that this will be a redux of the original game, which was set in the current era and used Epic scale miniatures. Yes, plastic would be preferable to resin.

 

However, I could also see this as an electronic game, similar to the current electronic incarnation of Battlefleet Gothic (and similarly limiting itself to two dimensions rather than the three dimensions that aerospace combat allows). An electronic version would allow for quicker integration of all factions.

Wasn’t it unveiled in the Specialist Games seminar though? If so it’s got to be a physical SG games surely? (I hope...)

 

I understand it was revealed at the end of the Titanicus preview seminar, so I think it most likely that it's a physical miniatures game, and I'd speculate that's also reasonable grounds to suspect it'll be in the same scale as Titanicus. 

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Not yet-to-come A.I., but here's a Let's Play! Video of original A.I. from Guerrilla Miniature Games. 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvQ-GCSXTBA

 

I found this just this weekend, and with Battle of Britain on the TV, I'm inspired to revisit an A.I. campaign I sketched out a while ago; Da Battle ov Biffin'! 

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So stoked for this! As someone who has invested heavily into AI (far more than any other GW system), I've been hoping for a re-release for so long now. I hope that it will be 6mm still, so that I can still use all my current models, although shifting gears to 8mm I could live with provided its in plastic. That being said, a PC game or something like that would be a real kick in the teeth.

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