I'm super excited for the new and old Sentinels models to come out. I have the Affiliation Pack on pre order already, as the originally released boxes are absolutely impossible to get for an even semi sensible price tag in Germany. The combined packs price tag is more than fair. As a fun little exercise I'm going to predict what I think the four new members of the Affiliation will look like (not the full stat cards just some key parts):
1. Prime Sentinels (yeah that's not going to be confusing naming at all...) - 3 Threat
These are already confirmed to be 3 threats you can take two off. Which leads me to believe they won't be super competitive outside of the Affiliation. They could go down two roads here: make them slow and tanky (just like the MK4s but obviously way smaller) or make them fast and relatively easy to remove from the board. I think the latter would be better for the Affiliation but also more dangerous for the overall state of the game.
2. Omega Sentinel - 4 Threat
My gut says that the model out of the new three characters that is probably the least interesting to many players will end up seeing the table the most. I think she will be a reliable 4 threat option for the faction to not have to always rely on a MK4 or to support it with a faster, less tanky option. She'll have a long range gun and maybe a support superpower of some kind?
We also got confirmation that she has head options.
3. Bastion - 5 threat (leader)
Bastion has been confirmed to have a new Leadership for the Sentinels and I think it's going to have something to do with enhancing your own models. I could imagine something like pay 2 power for an additional attack die in the next Attack action or something like that. Or maybe more akin to Killmonger, Usurpers and Star-Lords leaderships where you hand out three enhancement tokens per round.
4. Nimrod - 7 Threat
Nimrod will be a Kaiju with good attacks and loads of stamina but most importantly I think he will have a very unique superpower. In the same way that Adam Warlock has Recalibration Matrix on his stat card, Nimrod will have the effect of Shhh... / No More Mutants as a reactive superpower.
(Probably shorter Range, like Range 3, for Nimrod)
What do you think?
No matter how wrong (or right) my predictions end up being I'm absolutely stoked about these new models and can't wait to get them on the painting desk and playing table.
Cheers from Germany 🍻
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