I still hope we will see some new platoons in the next expansions. After seeing Tina, Wilhelm and the French Foreign Legion Kill Team at Gencon i think those could well be themed around the North African war theater. Neues Deutsches Afrika Korps, Free French, British 8th Army… and looking at the Dust world map perhaps even SSU troops pushing into Southern Egypt. 

I still do not know what to make of the Autoblinda Laser vehicle Wilhelm is sitting in. Is it a kitbash? Dust Models has never done something like that before as far as i know. Please correct me if i am wrong. But some light dustified vehicles would get me exited.

And btw:

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Darn said:

Paolo stated on the Facebook group that it was a Tamiya model he had done for the photoshoot, modified obviously, but also that he was working on a set of dustified turrets that would fit a tamiya Panther.

 That is interesting.

Do you have a link?

 And after reading it again. He said Puma, not panther

http://www.facebook.com/groups/303941853917/permalink/10151027220343918/?comment_id=10151027514103918&offset=0&total_comments=23

A puma turret ? Ohhhhh man im in for that. Here are my none dust pumas so far:

Miah999 said:

I think you may be right about North Africa being next.  The new Marine units that were announced have box pictures that appear to be set in the desert.

Is Dust Studio considering putting out the Tamiya conversions for for the "fun of it," in their 1/48 line, or will this be an actual game product complete with AP? I am thinking the former only, as I cannot see FF passing on the full price they could make of the entire model. 

It would be cool though, especially if they had just card packs for vehicles complete with AP and weapon lines, so the entire lines of 1/48 conventional Tamiya/Hasegawa WWII models could be used like you can in S.O.T.R. 

I realize one could go ahead make cards in photo shop for conventional units, but it arguing/debating with players on whether they should be legal units, what the weapon lines should be, AP, etc., would not be worth it to me.

Fenton said:

Agreed, they should just keep them as a statline in the books and card, provide players with just the dustified components and allow players to get the rest of the vehicle themselves, it would allow them to add a considerable amount of new units to the game without having to produce that much.

They can even make it a conversion pack that will provide you with the parts for 2 to 3 vehicles, imagine an axis heavy armoured car platoon box with bits to create a dust puma with a new turret or a schwere laserkanone to mounted on the sdkfz 234/4 chassis

Kriegschatten said:

A bit off with your deductions I think.  More like U S  Marine Corp = Amphibious landings = beach = sand 

You both could be right USMC beach lading in North Africa, al la Operation Torch.

Miah999 said:

Could be but my guess is that as in the real history there were almost no USMC in the Europe theater (including Africa), this could be the start of the Pacific front, I thought that I heared they were going to release a new army early (?) next year, if that is the case it could be the Japs.