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I would like to add to my collection of weird GW freebies (buttons/pins/ wristbands/ etc). However I seriously doubt that my FLGS could sell 30+ copy's of "HH".

I hope some of the "Marine Pin's" are Word Bearers. I do not really want a Smurfy one.

 Nicorex wrote:
I would like to add to my collection of weird GW freebies (buttons/pins/ wristbands/ etc). However I seriously doubt that my FLGS could sell 30+ copy's of "HH".

I hope some of the "Marine Pin's" are Word Bearers. I do not really want a Smurfy one.

WB's one should be with decembers Warhammer Visions afaik^^

 Nicorex wrote:
I hope some of the "Marine Pin's" are Word Bearers. I do not really want a Smurfy one.

The WD says that the matching Word Bearers pin will be a freebie with the upcoming Warhammer Visions #23 on the 5th December.

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That is good to know..Thanks.
To bad it means I will have to buy a Visions though.....

How much is visions again? Ain't it real expensive? o.o

Badges, T-shirts, the Vision books. Exciting stuff.
But I'll rather stick to the game.

The only* (thus far, with the info we have*) dissapointment for me is that the UM character seems based upon exactly the same body as the Terminator Sgt. The Word Bearers get a full on unique character sculpt.

That's too bad about the pin. I thought for sure it would have been a free snap-fit model.

The game looks interesting at least. I'm still on the fence whether or not I'll buy it.

Thanks for the pics, Goatmoerser and Atia

 wuestenfux wrote:
The board game: Is it blue Marines vs. red Marines?

Red vs Blue is a classic match-up. My SM and CSMs are even painted up like that!

 Thraxas Of Turai wrote:
The only* (thus far, with the info we have*) dissapointment for me is that the UM character seems based upon exactly the same body as the Terminator Sgt. The Word Bearers get a full on unique character sculpt.

Good thing he also comes with ultra marine transfers.

What else do we know about the game?

 Thraxas Of Turai wrote:
The only* (thus far, with the info we have*) dissapointment for me is that the UM character seems based upon exactly the same body as the Terminator Sgt. The Word Bearers get a full on unique character sculpt.

I don't think it is, the armours all different, he has a cloak. The Terminators are a full kit, it just happens the sergeant has been built in a similar pose to the UM character.

@Warhams: You're very welcome.

I love the crisp paint job GW gave the Heresy Marines! A true benefit after the recent paint jobs from FW like the Mor Deythan f.e. Yet the Word Bearers' red could have been a little less Blood Angel like, more like a colder red but that's really complaining on a high level.

Got some more from the WD (more to come soon):

 BrookM wrote:

 wuestenfux wrote:

 BrookM wrote:
It's hard for a FLGS to buy in big when the overhead from a boxed set isn't all that big to begin with.

Players here seem to have a different view. Time to explain?

Interest varies from store to store, I'm sure yours can sell a few dozen no sweat. Around here, not so much.

GW is offering Net 60 terms on the release, so stores do not have to pay for their shipment until January.

Love the Cataphractii.

And here comes the second part of the WD-Pics:

Are the special/heavy weapons set or are there options? I ask for purposes of using them as 40k Marines.

There's some awesome bits in that Veteran Tactical Squad! Love that new power sword and plasma pistol, and the Heavy Bolter is awesome too!

I wonder how hard it would be to give the Terminator Preator the sword from the Terminator Sergeant....


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Requizen wrote:
Are the special/heavy weapons set or are there options? I ask for purposes of using them as 40k Marines.

In each Tactical Squad there's a modular Combi-weapon, and 1 each of Plasma, Melta, Flamer, Heavy Bolter and Missile Launcher (so 3 of each in the set in total).

Those game pics don't fill me with confidence, it all looks a bit crowded, not a claustrophobic Zone Mortalis way but in a 'How many Marines can we fit in one hex' way.

Now I just have to figure out if the SoH justarian weapons for the terminators will fit these models.

 conker249 wrote:
Now I just have to figure out if the SoH justarian weapons for the terminators will fit these models.

Looking at the sprue picture of the Termies we've seen, I think they will fit.

The contemptors not posable ehhhhh

Andredre wrote:
The contemptors not posable ehhhhh

It's not so much being monopose, as being in kind of a dorky pose that bums me out.

 Polonius wrote:

Andredre wrote:
The contemptors not posable ehhhhh

It's not so much being monopose, as being in kind of a dorky pose that bums me out.

Yeah agreed. I wouldn't mind it being monopose if the pose was actually half decent.

 Polonius wrote:

Andredre wrote:
The contemptors not posable ehhhhh

It's not so much being monopose, as being in kind of a dorky pose that bums me out.

Indeed. It wouldn't have been difficult to allow the legs to be poseable. Right now, it looks like a cardboard cutout

the infantry look great though. I'm torn between getting one box to add a MkIV full tactical squad to my EC, or buying two to get a full tactical squad, and enough specials/heavies for multiple six man support/devastator squads.

My only beef with the new set is how GW painted the WB. They look like Blood Angels. I wish they would have gone for the darker color FW used. Oh well, still very excited for this set!.

Marines look even more chubby ... totally the wrong direction :\

The tiles look like hard card, in the first pics they looked like foamboard to me. I have an idea to try making a city scape on them, a 1:1000(0) campaign map like the planetary empires but larger scale.

 Paradigm wrote:
There's some awesome bits in that Veteran Tactical Squad! Love that new power sword and plasma pistol, and the Heavy Bolter is awesome too!

I wonder how hard it would be to give the Terminator Preator the sword from the Terminator Sergeant....

not hard I should think, I don't see why he has a ... chain-[whatever those wrist blades from bloodrayne are], I'll probably just convert him to be a 6th member of the terminator squad.