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Sooo... just in case this is true. Anyone wanna split a box with yours truly? REALLY wanting this to go with my Curze lol
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well a mate of mine says that they have recieved new shirts and badges for the "special" day, and has offered to let me have his when its done, so im hoping its soon, he also siad they just recieved a load of dark angels bits and bobs (badges etc.) so hopefully thats a good sign
2015/05/07 00:21:06
Subject: Re:Horus Heresy Plastic Space Marines by GW
Originally Posted by BramGaunt
All the assassins being on seperate clampack-sized sprues basically confirms them being sold seperatly. Not that I doubted Hastings.
No idea WHEN though.
Same will go for H/H game contents. I did get some more info on contents, think it was 20 MKIV marines, then the cataphracts & contemptors, and I assume 2 characters/lords
JSF wrote:... this is really quite an audacious move by GW, throwing out any pretext that this is a game and that its customers exist to do anything other than buy their overpriced products for the sake of it. The naked arrogance, greed and contempt for their audience is shocking.
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2015/05/07 07:05:49
Subject: Re:Horus Heresy Plastic Space Marines by GW
Yes, releasing the models on their own afterwards is the idea. Multipart kits they look to be (according to older posts by him and Sad Panda). Also Hastings this morning:
Hastings - Warseer
Originally Posted by Spiney Norman
Is that 20 MkIVs in total, or 20 for each side?
I'm totally saving money for this, I hope the MkIV helmets look like the forgeworld MkIVs and not the ugly pig-snouted GW version that comes in the current SM stern/Vangard veteran kits (then again they would be fairly easy to replace since FW sell Legion specific heads for the majority of the legions now)
Also any clue which Legions will be represented in the box, I'm kind of hoping the bulk of the set will be versatile enough to be used as marine for any Legion, but I'm half expecting a box with half the models covered in wolf pelts and the other half in egyptian bling...
I "think" it's 20 in total purely because 40 marines sounds too many, especially if they're going to be repackaged and released at a later date after the standalone game as part of the main 30k range. As far as I know they're generic marines, not with chapter specific sculpting on them.
Could still be 20 Marines per side. 3-4 guys with special weapons, 1-2 sergants and about 15 regular bolter-tacticals. Two larger sprues that come in duplicate in the starter and are sold later on serperately. Still sounds fine with me.
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Warhams-77 wrote: No, highly unlikely. Not for the regular price of 100 EUR/125 US$
Depends on what's actually in the box. The starter kits usually offer quite decent value for the price (compared to gee-dubs usual pricing, at least) and somehow I have the impression that there's a tendency for rumors to blow up the ammount of non-infantry components of the starters. Let's do a quick & dirty calculation:
40 regular marines = 80 bucks. 2 Dreads = 60. That would would make 140€, with the starter pack discount --> 100. Doesn't look that far off the charts and become outright reasonable if you reduce it to 15 marines per side - 3x 5-guy-squads + dread or something = nice, interesting starter box.
ultimentra wrote: I don't know what I am looking at haha. I'm not a Marine person but I saw the pics on FB too, I can't really tell what this is supposed to be.
It's Mk IV Heresy Armor. and there's a Praetor SC and a SC in Cataphracii Terminator Armor.
Rihgu wrote: I thought that Legion Tactical Squads couldn't take special or heavy weapons? Why would this kit come with them?
You sir are correct. As for the why, well, I have two theories.
1. These aren't actually HH era marines. They are a new chaos kit, old armor loyalist tactical marines or some kind of "Lost Legion #2 come back from heresy era loyalist....thingy".
or
2. GW is ignoring all of Forgeworld's work and doing whatever they hell they want.....which seems likely.
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