It is indeed a Tactics mini-expansion, though it won't be all that mini...
To find out the rest, you'll just have to wait until next Monday!
If only we had an awesome individual (not Cursed Acolyte level awesome, but 2 steps below) that had access to a time machine... Perhaps in the form of a pirate ship? Where could we ever find such an individual?
eBay?
nononono
The Pirate Bay!
Big guy, huh?
Akash'bhuta perhaps?
A mini that isn't all that mini?
Tactics Sky-Scraper?!
Sky-Scraper is too small, I am guessing it is a sky-scraper. Unity turns the Fredom Tower into a mechanical golem or the RevoCorp ghostbusters uses pink slime.
Pydro, you are a genius!
What evidence do we have that Unity hasn't already done that in SotM? It's seems like something she'd do.
Wait guys, I got it. Clearly the Sentinels form a giant, super-sentai-esque combiner robot that will be the new character.
I thought the Freedom Five did that....thanks to Unity!
It started!
Totally called it.
As someone who cant access Twitch at work, I really hope this makes it on the youtube channel at some point
or if someone wants to post bullet point info on the forums....=D
So how did this go?
still going
It just finished!
Pyroclastic Flow was the third art name.
Spoilers for all kinds of stuff hereafter, you have been warned!
The character designed was Akash'Darsha, Akash'Bhuta reawakened by the Oblivion Shards. Argent Adept is confirmed as being on the background Art of {oneof the tactics cards I can't remember the name of}. Story wise Akash'B is an avatar of Creation and Destruction, she wants to destroy so that new things can come up in it's place. Akash'D just wants to destroy.
Argent Adept is the first Virtuoso of the Void to face Akash more than once, every other time Akash has need centuaries to regain her power and be up and active again, and in the last battle before AA she killed the VotV, so AA has no teachings and is the least of the VotVs, so this is new territory for both of them.
Mechanically we currently have A HUGE Akash'D and 3 small ones, the huge ones take up 7 hexes and the smaller ones only 1 hex. Her mechanics revolve around a slow build, gain new types of tokens and changing the environment, raising elevation, adding lava and adding cover. Her three smaller forms are Rock, Magma and Arboreal.
There's going to be a part 4 scenario, one for each of the smaller ones and then one with the large and 3 smaller ones at once. The arboreal one flips tiles from Megalopolis to Insula, the Magma one is trying to gain power by walking in lava, and the rock one... I don't think was nailed down. The powers are 3 general ones and then 1 for each form, also scenario powers. All character panals have 3 power 'slots'
The smaller versions of Akash'D will be tournamnet legal and see can swap between forms 'somehow'.
Akash'D is planned to be an expansion by itself, with 2 version, painted and unpainted minis, no token version. Probably not a pre-order similar to the last one, just a boring old regular pre-order.
There will be a character who can generate portals in Tactics!
Art was made for 3 of the power cards, Rock Armour featuring the (all new, all differnt) Ennead, "get whacked by a tree" (with a "new" character) and "lava power I can't remember the name of" with just Akash'D on it.
We saw Adam create a new character, The Naturalist, standing upright like a human but with all beastial features, as if his powers had warped and he had little control over it. Different parts of animals were all over his body. He is confirmed for tactics, but will not be called the Naturalist. Primary guess in the stream was Chimera, secondary the Unnaturalist. There were others and Christopher said we got the name, no confirmation on which.
The Prime Wardens will be in Tactics! No specific characters were talked about so the roster could change.
Taco Bell was eaten.
Setback and Tachyon love Taco Bell, Expat likes it but also likes MRE rations soooooo...
Legacy prefers hotdogs and cheeseburgers to taco Bell, but he really loves his wife's Meatloaf, or even better his mothers. His wife is not a fantastic cook, she is too busy (we do not know doing what). But we do know her name now, Nancy Parsons!
The first Letters' Page will be all about Legacy, it will be recorded at some point between 6 weeks from now and the end of the year, so yay!
Oblivion shards are important, but they are not the most important thing.
All the Atlanteans are dead, they will not feature anywhere except as the attached pic.
Writhe is wearing a domino mask, like the other Sentinels, you just can't see it!
More characters from the past will be seen (like GI Bunker but not from that era), maybe even from an alternative past!
A question was asked about when The Scholar would be in Tactics, Adam said "i can answer that one" and then there was laughter, so it would appear (to my mind) the answer is never.
The next big character payoff (like the emotional beat of Legacy building to Iron Legacy) will be... all of them. With some having bigger parts than others.
Luther did a Q&A in the chat while Taco Bell was being eaten but I forgot to grab it, the only thing I remember is that the characters he is most excited for next is Catastrophe and Verge.
Oh! Renegade is like Doctor Who with all his want for justice with none of his compunctions about violence. I could not want this character more now!
Sillyness!
Christopher fought some pirates!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50COiErRoTI
Craig is the oldest person in the GTG office (by a year).
Paul's spreadsheet balanced!
GloomWeaver is always dancing!
In the RPG Kregg played Legacy and Jodie played Fanatic
Christopher's tatoo is of Arberg's logo
Craig is spelled Kregg.
Christopher and Adam get up in the morning because they love to create, coming in and making stuff is what they love doing.
There is a board behind the camera where secret things were written, I must see this board!
Remember, all this is very early in the process and still subject to change.
There was more than this and watching the stream is recommended! Also, Adam will be streaming his drawing art now. Keep up with this twitter feed to find out when!